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• Use cases for working photos of material culture researchers

  This project investigates how working photographs collected by material culture researchers can be used to automatically identify objects and assess their condition, and how such a large collection can be published under FAIR principles in a user-friendly way. Researchers of material culture may take thousands of photos of objects within the scope of each research topic, but in most cases, the use of photos is limited to typological identification

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• Making (Meta)Data of Musical Works Accessible as a Thematic–Bibliographic Catalogue

  Currently, information on Estonian musical works is fragmented across several platforms: general information on works is available on the website of the Estonian Music Information Centre, data on manuscripts in the Museums Public Portal, and bibliographic records of printed scores as well as audio and video recordings in the shared catalogue of ESTERFurthermore, data in these systems is structured according to quite differing principles. For example, the MARC21

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• Pattern Analysis of Striped Skirts

  This workflow describes how image-based patterns are compared using machine learning methods. The aim is to investigate the pattern logic that characterised Estonian striped skirts of the 18th–19th centuries and to examine how these patterns relate to striped, glazed-surface woollen callimanco fabrics produced at the Norwich factory in England. The workflow combines digital humanities approaches with machine learning. For analysing large image datasets, we use machine learning models designed for visual pattern recognition

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