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Giles Bergel

Dr

Giles Bergel

Senior Researcher, Digital Humanities

Biography

Giles Bergel is Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities in the Visual Geometry Group, and a member of the Oxford e-Research Centre. Trained originally in the humanities as a book historian, his research focuses on the computational analysis of books and other cultural heritage collections. At VGG, he serves as a Research Ambassador for the Visual AI project, in which capacity he engages with digital humanities researchers and teaches computer vision. He is a regular instructor at the Digital Humanities as Oxford Summer School.

Most Recent Publications

Visual analysis of chapbooks printed in Scotland

Visual analysis of chapbooks printed in Scotland

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Broadside Ballads Online: RDF metadata

Broadside Ballads Online: RDF metadata

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Lines of succession in an English ballad tradition: The publishing history and textual descent of The Wandering Jew’s Chronicle

Lines of succession in an English ballad tradition: The publishing history and textual descent of The Wandering Jew’s Chronicle

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Re-presentations of Art Collections

Re-presentations of Art Collections

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Re-presentations of Art Collections

Re-presentations of Art Collections

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Research Interests

  • Book history
  • Digital humanities
  • Computer vision
  • Textual scholarship

Current Projects

EPSRC-funded Visual AI project, aiming to create next-generation multimodal AI systems and to transfer this knowledge to other academic disciplines and to industry.

AHRC-funded Envisioning Dante (c.1472-c.1630): this project is applying computer vision to over a hundred early printed editions of one of the iconic works of European literature, with the goal of creating an actionable machine-learning model of the illustrated European printed page, encoding its meaning embodied in the spatial relationships of page-elements such as the text, commentary, illustrations and annotations.

Research Groups

Most Recent Publications

Visual analysis of chapbooks printed in Scotland

Visual analysis of chapbooks printed in Scotland

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Broadside Ballads Online: RDF metadata

Broadside Ballads Online: RDF metadata

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Lines of succession in an English ballad tradition: The publishing history and textual descent of The Wandering Jew’s Chronicle

Lines of succession in an English ballad tradition: The publishing history and textual descent of The Wandering Jew’s Chronicle

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Re-presentations of Art Collections

Re-presentations of Art Collections

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Re-presentations of Art Collections

Re-presentations of Art Collections

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