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We are delighted to have talks from researchers on the project including @kmcdono and @danielwilson so far, as well as keynotes from Chris Fleet (NLS) and Nicole Coleman (Stanford) (tomorrow). Explore initial MapReader outputs on this nifty viewer maps.nls.uk/projects/mapreader

maps.nls.ukMapReader - Railspace and Buildings Datasets Viewer - Further information - National Library of Scotland
Living with Machines

@kmcdono @danielwilson Kaspar Beelen and Jon Lawrence discuss spatial historical research in 'Beyond the Tracks', a teaser for our forthcoming project book; Kasra Hosseini on computer vision; @kallewesterling on community; Andy Smith and Rosie Wood explain the engineering all before lunch!

We're back for day 2 of the launch at the Turing
with LwM alumnus Kasra Hosseini
talking through the CV classifier we use to explore large historical map collections
See our latest documentation: mapreader.readthedocs.io/en/la

Our second Keynote now underway with Nicole Colemann of Stanford discussing 'The Role of the Humanities in AI Project Design' versus