Yale's Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage - West Campus
West Haven, CT, USA
Joined September 2014
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In April, I published a longform essay about the use of large language models in humanistic research. In that corner of academia, there are many skeptics, and in fact, many view LLMs as riskier tech than their prelinguistic predecessors (trad ML). I argue the opposite is true
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This talk is now up on YouTube. Check it out!
youtu.be/fcqT0dNllB4?si=zQee…
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SoCal folks! The lab's lead scientist, Damon Crockett, will be giving at a lecture, hosted by the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, on Tuesday, May 20. Details and RSVP in the link below.
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Harvard folks! The lab's lead scientist, Damon Crockett, is giving a talk at 11a today at the Center for Astrophysics. He'll demonstrate how to use Paperbase to explore our reference collection of photographic paper. The talk is open to the Harvard community. Details in link ⬇️
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After 10 years in business, the LML is closing up shop. There is a lovely piece on the @IPCH_Yale website about the lab's achievements and legacy: ipch.yale.edu/posts/2025-04-…
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This (client side!) experiment is now live. Explore 260k public domain objects from @metmuseum across different visual feature spaces and 2D projections. Multimodal queries using @nomic_ai embedders and transformers.js from @xenovacom. Here I search for saturated coats:
Our very own Lens Media Lab, and their Paperbase platform, was featured in a new article in Nightingale, the magazine of the Data Visualization Society!
Want to explore the technical history of photography through data visualization?
Natalia Kiseleva delves into Paperbase, an interactive platform and its incredible journey to analyze the world's largest collection of gelatin silver photographic papers.
nightingaledvs.com/paperbase…
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For those who missed this right before the holiday: if you're using vision-language models, check out our blog post!
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New blog post: "Image Captioning in Hostile Conditions". Our lab ranked 10 large VLMs (3 closed, 7 open) by human-judged pairwise contests. GPT-4o won by a large margin. Molmo and Qwen, both open models, shared the next tier with Gemini and Claude. Short 🧵+🔗:
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The Classic has published a story about Paperbase, our new public platform for exploring the world's largest collection of photo paper! 🔗⬇️
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The Lens Media Lab @IPCH_Yale has unveiled Paperbase, a visual platform for studying its unrivaled collection of photographic papers. Read more: bit.ly/lens-lab
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Our "Darkroom To Data" symposium on August 12 was a smashing success! Videos to be released soon. Here are some photos to tide you over (credit to Jon Atherton). The event was also covered by Yale News! Link below ⬇️
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Come to our August symposium, Darkroom to Data! We will discuss the past 6 years of lab research and launch Paperbase, a web platform for exploring the world’s largest collection of photographic paper.
And because it’s funded by a @googlearts grant, it’s free!
Link below ⬇️
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ALT Flower corsage
ALT Leah Palmer makes flowers
ALT Making flowers for International Women's Day
ALT Kappy Minty makes a flower for International Women's Day
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Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage has partnered with scientific instrument giant Bruker to increase access to major tech advances in the art world bit.ly/IPCH-Bruker @Yale @BrukerNanoGmbH
Meet Monica Argumedo Rendon, post-baccalaureate research fellow in the Technical Studies Lab! Monica talks about her current research project, what drew her to conservation science, and a mentor who inspired her during her undergraduate career.
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Testing Handsome Dans!
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¡Analizando Handsome Dans!
@yalepeabody @Yale @IPCH_Yale @YaleWestCampus @HandsomeDanYale