Join Dr. Katherine McDonough for a conversation about how machine vision technology can change the way we find and understand maps, co-hosted by BPL Digital Services and the Leventhal Map & Education Center.
With examples from collections in the US and the UK, she will walk through how collaborations between librarians, historians, and AI researchers are reshaping what we can do with maps once they are digitized.
Katherine McDonough is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Humanities at Lancaster University. Trained as a historian of eighteenth-century France, she now works on the histories of information and infrastructure in France and Britain. Her computational work has led to projects on the history of cartography and British environmental and social history. She directs the MapReader software project, which you can learn more about here and here.
