frederic kaplan
[lausanne, switzerland]
Professor in Digital Humanities at EPFL, head of DHLAB, co-local organiser of DH2014 in Lausanne ..
intro’d to Frederic here:
How I built an information time machine
jun 2013
Imagine if you could surf Facebook … from the Middle Ages. Well, it may not be as far off as it sounds. In a fun and interesting talk, researcher and engineer Frederic Kaplan shows off the Venice Time Machine, a project to digitize 80 kilometers of books to create a historical and geographical simulation of Venice across 1000 years.(Filmed at TEDxCaFoscariU.)
Frederic Kaplan seeks to digitize vast archives of historical information to make maps that move — through time.
can we build a google map of the past.. a time machine..?
need – large archives and excellent specialists..
another domain – speech recognition..
divide into smaller subsets.. where smaller subsets share features..
ginormous small ness
7 min – the central scientific challenge of a project like this.. is qualifying, quantifying and representing uncertainty and inconsistency at each step of this process – there are errors everywhere..
beyond what any single team can do…
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find/follow Frederic:
Frederic is head of DHLAB:
contact page:
and co-local organiser of DH2014 in Lausanne – 2014 conference in july:
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connections…?
Alex..
be you. 