Digital Humanities
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Inquiries into culture, meaning, and human value meet emerging technologies and cutting-edge skills at Pratt Institute's School of Information

Author: Heather Lember

Heather Lember works as an assistant archivist at the New York Civil Liberties Union. She is a musician, co-founder of the youth empowerment nonprofit organization, Girls Rock! Chicago, and holds a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts.

“HiPSTAS, What?: Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Visualizations with Sound” with Tanya Clement (CUNY Graduate Center, March 5, 2014)

There is a tendency when discussing, analyzing, and archiving audio recordings to consider their significance in terms of textual output and transcription availability. However, there is much non-text based information that can be collected from audio recordings that falls outside traditional research methodologies. Considering audio within the context of visualization and pattern recognition offers the potential for the discovery of…