ATGthePodcast 327 - A Conversation with Ben Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Information School
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The episode features a conversation between Michael Upshall and Ben Lee about digital humanities, Holocaust documentation, and the intersection of technology and history.
Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Ben Lee , Assistant Professor, University of Washington Information School. Ben initially trained as an astrophysicist with a PhD in Human Computer Interaction, but he isn't out there looking for asteroids these days. He is currently an editor for Digital Humanities Quarterly and teaches an MLIS course. He says moving from telescope pipelines and understanding all the questions around how astronomers make catalogs of stars and celestial objects out of images isn't too dissimilar from questions around OCRing large-scale document collections. Ben also talks with Michael about how his grandmother survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and the time he spent after college in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and in their archive, and digital questions led him to apply for a computer science program. He also talks with Michael about creating Newspaper Magazine , an archive of documentation of hundreds of millions of pages pertaining to survivors and victims of the Holocaust. Michael presented at the CNI Fall Conference on AI and Libraries, and says he believes…
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