Thousands of neglected images dating back to the eighteenth century will soon be available for the public to search online and find out more about how they have shaped our culture.
‘Lost Visions: retrieving the visual element of printed books from the nineteenth century’ led by Professor Julia Thomas, School of English, Communication & Philosophy is one of 21 new research projects, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to address the challenges of working with big data and making the information more accessible and easier to interpret by a lay audience.
In collaboration with experts at Cardiff’s School of Computer Sciences & Informatics, Professor Thomas will work on more than a million illustrations from books in the British Library's collection. Although many historical texts have been digitally stored, the illustrations in these texts are frequently without the information needed to help people understand them.
‘Lost Visions: retrieving the visual element of printed books from the nineteenth century’ led by Professor Julia Thomas, School of English, Communication & Philosophy is one of 21 new research projects, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to address the challenges of working with big data and making the information more accessible and easier to interpret by a lay audience.
In collaboration with experts at Cardiff’s School of Computer Sciences & Informatics, Professor Thomas will work on more than a million illustrations from books in the British Library's collection. Although many historical texts have been digitally stored, the illustrations in these texts are frequently without the information needed to help people understand them.
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