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Patterns, Collaboration, Practice: Algorithms As Editing For Historic Periodicals, Elizabeth Lorang
Patterns, Collaboration, Practice: Algorithms As Editing For Historic Periodicals, Elizabeth Lorang
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
This presentation positions my recent work on the algorithmic “discovery” of poetic material in historic newspapers within the contexts of my various roles as an editor of periodical literature and also consider how duplicative processes and algorithms encode principles and values and function as editorial acts. Ultimately, I hope to pose a range of questions to prompt discussion around the place (or not) of machine learning in identifying and selecting texts and bodies of work; what ideas we’re actually exploring/are able to explore when we enlist technology in stages of this work; and the stakes of these activities, whether human …