Distant Viewing Toolkit: Software for the Analysis of Visual Culture

poster / demo / art installation
Authorship
  1. 1. Lauren Tilton

    University of Richmond

  2. 2. Taylor Arnold

    University of Richmond

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The poster will introduce the Distant Viewing Toolkit (DVT), a Python package for the computational analysis of visual culture. The toolkit addresses the challenges of working with moving images through the automated extraction and visualization of metadata summarizing the content (e.g., people/actors, dialogue, scenes, objects) and style (e.g., shot angle, shot length, lighting, framing, sound) of time-based media. DVT is optimized for two purposes: scholarly inquiry of visual culture from the humanities and social sciences, and search and discovery of collections within libraries, archives, and museums.

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Conference Info

In review

ADHO - 2020
"carrefours / intersections"

Hosted at Carleton University, Université d'Ottawa (University of Ottawa)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

July 20, 2020 - July 25, 2020

475 works by 1078 authors indexed

Conference cancelled due to coronavirus. Online conference held at https://hcommons.org/groups/dh2020/. Data for this conference were initially prepared and cleaned by May Ning.

Conference website: https://dh2020.adho.org/

References: https://dh2020.adho.org/abstracts/

Series: ADHO (15)

Organizers: ADHO

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