This talk outlines theoretical and methodological approaches of digital gazetteers, and highlights the increasing use and importance of Linked Open Data (LOD) in the practice of digital spatial humanities. It explores how a wide variety of research projects and pedagogi...

The paper reports on transcription as a means to increase usability and access to specialized audio collections in the library. We discuss the complexity of transcriptions as a both a political and linguistic process rather than a neutral one. Two audiovisual collection...

This presentation includes a brief overview of UCLA's Digital Humanities Program, introduces projects and methods as well as local people (Wendy, Anthony, and Ashley) and their expertise(s). The methods covered: text analysis/text-mining, mapping, 3D modeling -- and, pe...

This project is a study of the commemoration of Classical Greek battles from a landscape biography perspective, approaching monuments and other practices as vital elements in the creation and curation of memories. It analyzes the diachronic development of battlefield, s...

This paper explores the social and political environment surrounding rape culture and the Me Too Movement, focusing primarily on portraits of major political and social figures that have contributed to disrupting rape culture in recent years. Positive representation of ...

NLP has yielded results that were unimaginable only a few years ago on a wide range of real-world tasks, thanks to deep neural networks and the availability of large-scale labeled training datasets. However, the critical assumption of existing supervised methods that la...

The following dissertation, Alternative Abstractions: Art and Science in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles investigates how the histories of astronomy and modern physics impacted the production of abstract artwork in Southern California. In the artistic practices of Helen L...

This research examines images of adolescents made in late 19th and early 20th century America, the same time that “adolescence” as a concept was coined and codified. Many of these first images of adolescence were forged in marginal and experimental visual media, particu...

The rapid development of software has led to the existence of a number of large, complex and swiftly growing codebases consisting of thousands of source code lines. Therefore, the process of searching for code that performs a particular function has become an inherent p...

The Early Postclassic (900-1150 A.D.) metropolis of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, arose from the ashes of the Classic Maya collapse and ushered in a new era that synthesized the old and new with the local and foreign. One of the many unique things about Chichen Itza wa...