Living with Machines Final Report
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ATI007_Living-With-Machines_FINAL-Fixed.pdf
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Resource type
Research report
Date published
July 17, 2023
Abstract
It is with great pride that I write this end of project report, as well as some sadness. When the other investigators and I set out the vision for this project in 2017, we had some big dreams. Living with Machines was imagined at once as a data-driven history project, and a historically-informed data science project. Our object of interest was an earlier moment of huge technological upheaval: the coming of the machine age in the nineteenth century. One consequence of industrialisation in Great Britain was an explosion in the creation and collection of information. Our aim was to show how, thanks to decades of digitisation, we were now in a position to leverage this information as data through computational means. We proposed to develop innovative computational approaches to facilitate a new kind of history that would allow us to tell the stories of the impact of mechanisation on the lives of ordinary people. We believe we have shown that library, arts and humanities scholars not only deserve a place at the table with those designing the future of AI and data science, but also have skills and knowledge that are vitally needed.
Contributor (person)
da Silva, Marina
Contributor (organisation)
Living with Machines
Project(s)
Living with Machines
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
Arts and Humanities Research Council | AH/S01179X/1 |
Publisher
The Alan Turing Institute
Place of publication
London, UK
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