Visualizing Faith

Exploring the role of visual communication during the Protestant Reformation with AI and Computer Vision • PI @DrewBThomas • @ornamentobooks • @UCDHistory

[Drew Thomas @DrewBThomas]

Looking forward to speaking in Trento in April on Visual and multimodal AI. It’s a hybrid event for those interested in tuning in from afar!

[Dr Elise Watson @elisewatson_]

A rare and remarkable occurrence of two female printer-publishers not only working together but using their given names: Yolande Bonhomme's imprint and Charlotte Guillard's colophon in an edition of Augustine published in Paris in 1541 (USTC 204524)! https://t.co/CzrfIl8GvL

[Andrew Pettegree @APettegree]

This really is a tremendous book. A great read and exceptionally thoughtful.

[Visualizing Faith @VisualFaithAI]

🤖🖼️ Did you know Reformation Bibles included provocative woodcuts that enraged Catholics? Learn how historians use AI to study these images today. https://t.co/LeUtzT8uiG

[Drew Thomas @DrewBThomas]

📖✨ Multi-spectral imaging unveils the erased history of the Rylands Gutenberg Bible! Traced back to the Colmar Convent of St. Augustine, this discovery enriches our understanding of its past. 🕵️‍♂️🔎 #GutenbergBible #BookHistory #LibrarySecrets

[TCD Centre for the Book @TCDtheBook]

TCB Director Dr. Mark Faulkner and other project members will launch ‘Searobend: Linked Metadata for English Language Texts, 1000-1300’ today @IMC_Leeds — check out https://t.co/TiYWGbb3r5 for more

[Drew Thomas @DrewBThomas]

Great to be at Oxford today speaking about @VisualFaithAI, AI and Book History with the @Oxford_VGG

[DH_Potsdam @[email protected] @DH_Potsdam]

How to do #TEI annotation with #GPT-4: prompt engineering advice & examples from @LurchPollin at @DHdKonferenz
#DHd2024

[DH_Potsdam @[email protected] @DH_Potsdam]

The entire pipeline of #TEI annotation with #GPT:
- initial markup with a custom GPT-based model
- a loop of validation against the TEI-schema
- a TEI verification LLM
- a human editor in the loop
- a fully encoded TEI/XML
demonstrated by @LurchPollin at @DHdKonferenz
#DHd2024

[Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs]

🚨New AI for Humanists tutorials just dropped!🚨

We have code notebooks for using LLMs to:
- measure document similarity
- classify texts with zero-shot prompting

We explore narrativity in texts, historical & ChatGPT poetry, and book reviews.

Tutorial effort led by @gyauney!

[Drew Thomas @DrewBThomas]

"Divine or not, mom's going to be mad about the footprints." (Augsburg, 1476)

[Visualizing Faith @VisualFaithAI]

@PhdNatale Yes! They’ve been rolling out the new features. Just got access yesterday.

[Visualizing Faith @VisualFaithAI]

Really impressed with ChatGPT's multi-modal prompts!

[SHARP (@[email protected]) @SHARPorg]

Job Alert! Are you or do you know a PhD student or recent grad who would excel at being SHARP's Executive Assistant?

Send a short CV (3 pages), and a 200 word statement about why you're applying to [email protected] by midnight on September 8th!

[Kristof Selleslach @kristofselle]

Curious what early modern printers earned? In 1693, printers at the #PlantinPress earned up to 6 florins weekly. Compositors’ wage fluctuated between 5 and 8 fl. a week. Collators earned only 3 fl. 12 st. weekly. At the time, 1 florin was enough to buy about 30 dried herrings.

[Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) 📖🔍 @universalstc]

Extension update! Read all about our continued efforts to expand the USTC to 1700 with books from the Holy Roman Empire and Prussia: https://t.co/AWpSyA4h09

[Visualizing Faith @VisualFaithAI]

The crowning of Mary in the presence of the Trinity. (Munich, 1581)

[Visualizing Faith @VisualFaithAI]

Why does it look like God is puking all over the Garden of Eden? (Augsburg, 1507)

[Visualizing Faith @VisualFaithAI]

The Assumption of Mary (Munich, 1581)

[Malcolm Walsby @lankian]

A washed out inscription from a book from the library of @ChalonsAgglo can be digitally enhanced ... and then transcribed ⬇️

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