Digilogue X SALT: New Approaches to Data

Digilogue, contributes to the work carried out in a three-year collaboration with SALT as a digital infrastructure and system development partner to transfer the Istanbul Encyclopedia Archive, which is run by Kadir Has University, to the digital environment.

Interviews and workshops entitled ''New Approaches to Data" will be held free of charge.

Digilogue will contribute to the process to produce the necessary approaches and solutions based on the “Istanbul Encyclopedia” project and a global community of experts in the field will be involved in determining the roadmap for the digitization of the project.

Digilogue will invite researchers, artists and designers from different experiences and training that can open minds and contribute to the project efficiently while adding the know-how and network it has gained so far to the project. Digilogue aims to make sure Reşad Ekrem Koçu’s Istanbul Encyclopedia’s digital archiving process was designed in the most ideal and efficient way, to solve existing technical problems and support the development of a new system, vision.

The experts invited by Digilogue and the SALT and KHAS team will exchange ideas for the development of the project in special workshop programs. Rashad Ekrem’s Istanbul Encyclopedia project, in which many professionals, artists and researchers, who created important projects in machine learning, AI, information systems design and archive navigation will join and brainstorm is aimed to make great contributions to the studies of digital humanities in Turkey.