The Euclidean Error in Temporal Reconstructions of Cultural Heritage -- Event Detection and Description in the Danish Golden Age

--- tags: application --- --- # The Euclidean Error in Temporal Reconstructions of Cultural Heritage -- Event Detection and Description in the Danish Golden Age # ## Abstract ## Historically, the Danish Golden Age signifies the large-scale socio-cultural state change from a regional and kin-related group identity to a national group identity. This event abstraction however is formally flawed, because it depicts complex historical processes as point-like events , that is, as a collaction of Euclidean primitives with exact temporal and spatial coordinates but without extension. Most historians would agree with this observation, but argue that the abstraction is useful as a temporal reconstruction of past events, we argue however that representations of events as points (i.e., the Euclidean Error) make us blind/inattentive to the underlying dynamics of history, and, in the case of the Danish Golden Age, prone to biased and erronous inferences. In this project, we propose to reconstruct and assess developmental trajectories of the Danish Golden Age and its impact on Denmark using all\* available textual and pictorial cultural heritage data. Cultural and societal history is characterized by changes between more or less stable states of group organization. Some state changes are well-known and have distinct event signatures (i.e., they constitiue _History_), other state changes are harder to describe (i.e., the have been lost in _history_) due to noisy event signatures, their embedded nature, and classification errors. To reconstruct the dynamics of such complex event hierarchies, we combine new deep learning techniques for multimodel representation learning with recent advances in information theory and fractal geometry. More specifically, we are able to _detect_ when and where an event evolves in the event hierarchy of history, and _describe_ its dynamic signature in terms of its novel, transient and resonant dynamic properties. Beyond development in our understanding of Danish history, specifically the cultural heritage of the Danish Golden Age, the project will develop a FAIR and open database of event representation that will allow researchers and cultural heritage institutions to reproduce and explore Danish history without obtaining data licenses and training compute-intensive representations. Furthermore, the entire codebase is provided under an open source license (OSI approved MIT), and, to ensure wide usage and application of the insights, tools for event detection and description are provided as web applications that allow for interactive exploration without code. For the general public the project will in collaboration with the data providers create part of an physical exhibition at SMK and an online Golden Age experimentarium. Applicants: * Co-PIs: Katrine F. Baunvig & Kristoffer L. Nielbo * AU Centres: Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus & Grundtvig Center * Data providers * SMK: National Gallery of Denmark * KB: The Royal Danish Library * DSL: Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab * GV: Grundtvigs Værker Needs: * 1-2 PhDs * 1 Postdoc * approx. 500K for data providers, licenses, compute &c --- Cultural and societal history is characterized by changes between more or less stable states of group organization. Some state changes are well-known and have distinct event signatures (i.e., they constitiue _History_), other state changes are harder to describe (i.e., the have been lost in _history_) due to noisy event signatures and classification errors. _The Euclidean Error_ will detect and describe state changes a) during the Danish Golden Age (DGA) and b) DGA+ (>DGA). The Golden Age is perhaps the ideal era of Danish history for developing and bench marking the Euclidean Error Euclidean design: golden age provides the reference, the golden truth if you like The impact of the __Golden Age__ for today, and why we need a better understanding * denmark as a communinuty that is commited to a shared cultural heritage * the emergence and distribution of national community (national bevidsthed) * ex. emergence of the museum movement, poetic/lyric tradition on the national langauge (ballads to national heros, middelalderism), * construction of nationality, rooting new movements in national past * Danish cultural - a national community * alphabetize --> written media is a pre-requiste for ... * images --> change in representation of the landscape (burial mound), danish landscape representation __Change__ * GLOBAL STATE CHANGE: local/kin indentification --> national identification (enevælde til nationalstat) * LOCAL STATE CHANGES: 1807 Napolean Wars --> 1813 statebankerot --> afstålse af Norge 1814, ...; 1848-51 1. Slesvig krig (-> deaths, but status quo) & 1864 2. Slesvig krig (sønderjylland) * stænderforsamling 1834, Grundlov (1848-49) * MICRO STATES: example, Covid-19 community and trust Cultural and societal history is characterized by changes between more or less stable states of community being. Some states are well-known and have distinct event signatures (ex. 2nd Schleswig War), other states are less apparent (ex. ) and we therefore lack signatures. This however may not have been the case in the past, less apparent states may have been very apparent to pariticpants, and the apparent states may have been perceived at composite abstract events consiting of a multitude of (from today) less apparent events. This is because there is history and History the Euclidean error is an artifact of History, that is temporal reconstructions of history. In this project, we propose to reconstruct the complex event hierarchies of history in order to re-evalurate History of the Golden Age specifically, and of modern Denamrk more generally. We do so by combining new techniques for multimodel representation learning with recent advances in information theory and fractal geometry. ## Consortium ## ADL * Melvin Wevers * Tim Tangherlini ## Notes ## Golden age --> Modern breakthrough --> Today ### H/history ### * history is the set of objects/events leading to now, but History is also the retelling of history from persons implicated in it. * History is a ball rolling in a landscape characterized smooth hills, history revelas itself under a zoom-lense, it is gnarly, fractal ... * tension between history and History (presentation and representation) --- Document embedding techniques * https://towardsdatascience.com/document-embedding-techniques-fed3e7a6a25d Image embedding techniques * https://towardsdatascience.com/extracting-rich-embedding-features-from-coco-pictures-using-pytorch-and-resnext-wsl-vademecum-of-6fdbdbe876a8 --- ## Indhold i ansøgningen Udfyldes på ansøgningsportalen: * En kort, præcis projekttitel, der indeholder en beskrivelse af projektet. Projekttitel skal skrives på dansk. * Et kortfattet resumé af projektbeskrivelsen, der dækker de væsentligste pointer i projektet, og er skrevet i letforståeligt lægmandssprog på dansk (maksimalt 1.000 anslag inkl. mellemrum). * Information om ansøger * Information om institution (hvor forskningsprojektet udføres) * Information om eventuelle samarbejdspartnere * Dato for forventet projektstart og projektafslutning * Overordnede budgettal. Vedlægges ansøgningen som pdf-filer: * Projektbeskrivelse / forskningsansøgning (skal skrives på dansk eller engelsk). Maksimalt omfang: 20,000 anslag inkl. mellemrum og referencer samt op til 3 figurer (dvs. omk. 8-10 sider). - Figure 1: Project Flow Chart; Figure 2: Methods Example; Figure 3: Gantt Chart * CV på ansøger (højst 4 sider inkl. publikationsliste med markering af de 10 mest relevante publikationer) * Korte CV’er på øvrige medlemmer af forskningsgruppen, samlet i en PDF-fil (maks. én A4-side pr. person), inkl. de 5 mest relevante publikationer for hver projektpartner. * Tilkendegivelser fra samarbejdspartnere medsendes, såfremt disse er afgørende for projektets gennemførelse. * Strategierklæring fra øverste institutionsledelse (f.eks. museumsdirektør/institutleder eller lign.), der bakker op om ansøgningen og viser at projektet er strategisk centralt for institutionen. * Budget med følgende punkter: - Udgifter, Herunder de forskellige udgiftsposter og det samlede udgiftsbeløb. Udgiftsposter kan være løn (evt. frikøb), transport, formidling, håndværkerudgifter, apparatur, konservering, konsulenthjælp m.m. - Indtægter: Herunder egen medfinansiering, andre fondsmidler etc. - Finansieringsplan: ansøgte offentlige midler, ansøgte fonde mm. – også selvom der endnu ikke foreligger svar på ansøgningerne --- ## Project Description * Introduction - State-of-the-Art * Methods - Research design - FAIR data management * Expected Results and Outcomes * Relevance and Feasibility * Consortium * Work packages