Toganoo Collection of Esoteric Buddhism

A case study exploring the description and presentation of Japanese classical texts in a TEI / IIIF ecosystem

Below are the slides and text of a short paper co-presented by Dawn Childress, Tomoko Bialock, Hiroyuki Ikuua, and Kiyonori Nagasaki at the Japanese Association of Digital Humanities (JADH) Conference in Tokyo, September 11, 2018

Book Annotation Classification Engine update

The Collections Lab / BuildUCLA students presented their progress on the Book Annotation Classification Engine project this week. Check out the slides and their amazing progress :)

UC DLF: Participatory Digital Collections

Below are the slides and speaking notes for our Collections Lab presentation on “Participatory Digital Collections: Opportunities for Enhancement, Experimentation, and Transformation,” presented at the 2018 UC DLF at UC Riverside.

Neural Networks: Kabuki Ezukushi

A few experiments with neural networks on a collection of Japanese woodcut playbills.

A zoomable visualization of thumbnails in the Kabuki playbills collection, clustered by image similarity as determined by a neural network: http://babylon.library.ucla.edu/~broadwell/ehon_banzuke/zoomified/