The Sound Image History speaker series took place on August 24 and 25, 2021, to celebrate the conclusion of a year-long Collections-as-Data grant funded project aimed at building a text-based data set from the archival AV materials in the UWM Archives. The UWM Libraries house the largest collection of LGBTQ+ historical and contemporary materials in Wisconsin, providing a rich record of Milwaukee’s LGBTQ+ communities. This project will make the AV materials in those collections – a format that is traditionally underutilized – much more discoverable and usable, and open pathways to new research. The LGBTQ+ AV Archive Mining Project, and this speaker series, are made possible by a grant from the Mellon-funded Collections as Data: Part to Whole initiative.
August 24, 2021
Labeling This Thing Called Life: Using Machine Learning to Automatically Generate Metadata for Oral History Collections
Tanya Clement, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin; Maria Esteva, Research Scientist; Weijia Xu, Research Scientist, Data Intensive Computing Team, Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Collections As Data, Images As Data
Taylor Arnold, Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Richmond; Lauren Tilton, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Richmond
August 25, 2021
Accessing LGBTQ+ Resources with Digital Archives and Linked Data
K.J. Rawson, Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Northeastern University
The LGBTQ+ AV Archives Mining Project: Using Technology to Unearth the Spoken Archive of Queer History
Ann Hanlon, Digital Collections & Initiatives, UWM Libraries; Dan Siercks, Director L&S Web and Data, UWM; Cary Costello, Associate Professor & Director, LGBT Studies Program, UWM