Distant Viewing Toolkit: A Python Package for the Analysis of Visual Culture

Authors

Taylor B. Arnold, Mathematics and Computer ScienceFollow
Lauren Tilton, University of RichmondFollow

DOI

10.21105/joss.01800

Abstract

The Distant Viewing Toolkit is a Python package for the computational analysis of visual culture. It addresses the challenges of working with moving images through the automated extraction and visualization of metadata summarizing the content (e.g., people/actors, dia- logue, scenes, objects) and style (e.g., shot angle, shot length, lighting, framing, sound) of time-based media. This toolkit is optimized for two purposes: (1) scholarly inquiry of visual culture from the humanities and social sciences, and (2) search and discovery of collections within libraries, archives, and museums.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-20-2020

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01800

Recommended Citation

Arnold, Taylor, and Lauren Tilton. “Distant Viewing Toolkit: A Python Package for the Analysis of Visual Culture.” Journal of Open Source Software 5, no. 45 (2020): 1800. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01800.