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Revolutionary AI app: Greifswald's digital journey to ancient Palestine!
The University of Greifswald presents the AI app “Tin Gustaf” for digitally indexing the Dalman collection and communicating ancient artifacts.
Revolutionary AI app: Greifswald's digital journey to ancient Palestine!
An innovative web app called “Tin Gustaf – Your Holy Land AI Pocket Museum” was released today, offering new digital insights into the evidence of the cultural landscape of Palestine around 1900. The app was developed at the University of Greifswald and enables the evaluation of over 14,000 data sets from the Gustaf Dalman collection. Loud uni-greifswald.de The development is based on a collaboration between the Institute for Data Science, the data center and the Dalman Institute. In addition to providing access to historical artifacts, the app shows connections between various objects that are often overlooked, such as ancient coins and oil lamps.
By clicking on a photo, users can view information such as the subject, age and photographer. To enable this feature, two AI models are used: one to convert images into text and another to convert text into numerical vectors. These innovations help to summarize the results in a playful way and create new cross-references.
Planned applications and teaching
The app is used not only for research, but also in teaching. In particular, the app will be featured in the Dalman Institute's next exhibition. The Gustaf Dalman Collection, which has been accessed at the University of Greifswald for over 100 years, includes around 20,000 photographs that document the cultural landscape of Palestine before the First World War.
In addition, the Dalman Institute is planning a course in the summer semester of 2025 with the title “Antiquity in 50 objects from the Greifswald scientific collections”. Here the focus is on the history of antiquity from a new perspective. The event is open to interested theology students and takes place on Tuesdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Rubenowstrasse 2b theologie.uni-greifswald.de reported.
Role of scientific collections
Despite the fact that there are no longer any archaeological institutes at the University of Greifswald, the scientific collections remain important. Historians and theologians typically focus on the written word, while archaeological disciplines deal with material cultures. The cooperation between the Historical Institute and the Gustaf Dalman Collection aims to make the cultural landscape of Palestine tangible.
Project groups will work on various research questions, select ancient exhibits and write exhibition texts. The creation of digital object photographs and the presentation in showcases will also be part of this project.
For information or to register for the course, interested parties can contact Dr. Christian Barthel at the email address christian.barthel@uni-greifswald.de or by phone at +49 (0)3834 420 3103.