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From: Oliver Haugen <oliver@swissnexboston.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:44 AM
Subject: INVITATION: April 10 – Round table with Frederic Kaplan: “Toward a
New York Time Machine”
To: “mattgold@gmail.com” <mattgold@gmail.com>
swissnex in New York
cordially invites you to a special round table discussion and presentation
by:
Frédéric Kaplan
Holder of the Digital Humanities Chair at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL):
“Towards a New York Time Machine”
Tuesday, April 10, 4:00pm – 5:30pm
@ Breather
594 Broadway (SoHo), 7th Floor, Suite 704
New York, NY 10012
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New York could get its own time machine.
Over the past six years, the Venice Time Machine project (now expanded to
the “European Time Machine”) has demonstrated that it is possible to
produce extremely detailed representations of the evolution of a city and
its inhabitants, developing a processing pipeline for transforming the
immense Venetian archives into Big Data of the past.
In 2018, the concept is expanding to a European level with the launch of
new Time Machines in several cities inducing Paris, Amsterdam, Budapest,
Antwerp, Nuremberg, and Jerusalem – and the submission of a 1-billion Euro
Time Machine FET Flagship European project (www.timemachine.eu). Given the
global interest in the program, a selection of cities in America and Asia
will be included as pilot projects. Frederic Kaplan will discuss what has
been done in Venice, and what is currently on going. The round table will
also open a discussion on the initial steps towards the selection of New
York as one the first US cities to join the Time Machine program.
Arguably one of the most ambitious archival projects ever undertaken, the
Venice Time Machine is a fascinating new development in the digital
humanities, and one which will find relevance for historians, archivists,
city planners, and data visualization experts.
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