Beth Fischer

Digital medieval art history (pick 2+ at any given moment). Digital Humanities Postdoc at Williams College Museum of Art. Writing:

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

@leoba @ctschroeder I’m working on parts of this focusing on page flex and lighting effects on different manuscript components. It’s going slowly because I’m not great at model rendering but it’s been great for thinking materially.

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

Can confirm that @kringelberg and co are lovely to work with and be humans with, and that your pedagogy will change for the better when you teach alongside them.

[@arthistoryelon.bsky.social @ArtHistoryElon]

Art History @elonuniversity has opened a search for a 1-year limited term faculty member w/ a preference for expertise in the Global South or/and ancient art/archeology. ARH@Elon challenges canonical art history and imagines a better way forward! Join us! https://t.co/OXQvTdUdM1

[David Newbury @workergnome]

This is a lot, so we asked the amazing @johnrladd to develop tutorials on how to use these APIs, and he wrote three @observablehq notebooks showing what's possible—from basic tombstone data to machine learning:

https://t.co/B8yaBAobTE

[Anna Kijas @anna_kijas]

Join me for a virtual data rescue session focused on music collections at cultural heritage institutions in Ukraine which may be at risk during the attack by Russia. For more info & to participate go to https://t.co/LPLU6lMAnO (@achdotorg
@aseeestudies) Share widely!

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

I am so appreciative of DaliaRuth Halperin's color-coded diagrams of the Masoretic texts here — a great quick data visualization that makes the patterns and structures so clear. #OTST22

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

This is why we've got students in a fresco-making class this semester using RTI as a way to take a different look at their own use of a specific medium.

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

Processing RTI models of manuscripts while listening to @BillEndres talk at #OTST22 feels so appropriate. He's not talking about RTI (yet?) but I think the process of making this sort of model changes the way you approach looking in general.

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

Curious about why the Wikipedia NFT sale is listed as a “digital sculpture” as opposed to, say, a “digital architectural fragment” or something. https://t.co/NX3iMvmEdC

[Digital Humanities Centre | Lancaster University @LancsDigHum]

We're looking forward to welcoming @hannahljnc & @scribeth at our next #DHangout, speaking about 'Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook'🧩🧑‍🤝‍🧑📖

🗓️24/11, 3pm GMT
🗒️Details: https://t.co/xGmS05htUA
🔗Join: https://t.co/m04i31FHQd
#DigitalHumanities

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

This tweet inspired by the great chat at the Digital Medieval Manuscript Expert Meeting, where it does help that we got all the presentations ahead of time.

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

Coming to the conclusion that the best aspect of online conferences is the side chat during presentations. A good one is like the best combination of questions, rebuttals, and live footnotes.

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

The theme of the Digital Medieval Manuscript expert meeting could be "the human in the digital manuscript." We've moved from crediting collaborators to interfaces that highlight physical experience to how to help students use digital models in a rich way. https://t.co/wGRF1KEs4g

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

Just a reminder that Williams is hiring a data science librarian — apply ASAP for full consideration! Master's degree required but paths outside the MLIS are warmly welcomed. https://t.co/ZAdaC6608Y

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

.@thomasgpadilla calls on us to recognize maintenance as a critical form of innovation, and to prioritize the amount of time/labor going into maintenance, not just scaling up all the time. #AEOLIAN_Network

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

@BillEndres 100% would use this so much in research/teaching (not to mention supporting anything that helps sustain WebRTIViewer).

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

Good to hear from @thomasgpadilla, who questions the values that appear in papers about machine learning and AI and advocates for NON-scalability as a need in ethical approaches. #AEOLIAN_Network

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

Love the output, including lesson plans, browsable law texts, code and extensive workflow details (and looking forward to the workshops on the process). @gislibrarian's presentation was a master class in talking about the expertise needed to create training sets. #Aeolian_network

[Beth Fischer @scribeth]

Very active Q&A at #Aeolian_Network. Love the question in the chat about how close we are to making machine learning projects accessible to non-digital-expert staff for day to day use.