Category: News & Updates
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Civil War Bluejackets Conference Report
Civil War Bluejackets held a successful project conference January 30-February 1 at the Fluegel US Naval Academy Alumni Center in Annapolis, Maryland. Over fifty people attended presenting research and discussing the roles of common sailors across the world from the 1780s to the 1920s. The Bluejackets team also, for the first time, showcased a demo
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Press Release: Groundbreaking Research Using AI to Explore American Civil War History
We have a new Civil War Bluejackets Press Release that highlights some of the groundbreaking work that everyone who has supported and contributed to the project has helped to realise. You can read the Press Release in full below, and also on the Northumbria University website here and Newsroom here. Northumbria Contributes to Groundbreaking Research
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Civil War Bluejackets Conference Programme
We are excited to be heading to Annapolis for the Civil War Bluejackets Conference, The Common Navy Sailor in the Long Nineteenth Century, taking place from January 30-February 1 next. The conference will share the work of Civil War Bluejackets and showcase some of the leading American and international research currently being undertaken by scholars
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Civil War Bluejackets Features in Muster
We were very pleased that a piece we recently prepared on the project has been published in Muster, the digital blog of The Journal of the Civil War Era. Entitled “Civil War Bluejackets: Citizen Science, Machine Learning, and the US Navy Common Sailor” we explore both some of our aims with the project and some
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Civil War Bluejackets Visit The Mississippi
Sharing both the findings and the methodologies of the Civil War Bluejackets Project on an ongoing basis is a major goal of our work. To that end, we have just completed a series of talks, together with some research during a whirlwind few days along the Mississippi River. ‘Ol Man River plays an important role
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Civil War Bluejackets Moving to Phase 2!
We have major (and exciting!) news to share with our Bluejackets Zooniverse Community. The data our Zooniverse volunteers has collected so far has paid enormous dividends, and is now allowing us to move into Phase 2 of the project. The transcriptions have now successfully trained our computer model to digitally read the wartime muster sheets—a
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Touring the Flagships of the Civil War U.S. Navy – In Letterheads…
Things have been a bit quiet on the Bluejackets blog of late as we were away in the Archives, seeking out historical detail to compliment the work being undertaken by our Citizen Science community over on Zooniverse. While there we uncovered lots of fantastic information that will help us add further context to what you
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Video: Machine Learning & Your Transcriptions
Have you been wondering why we are asking our Zooniverse Citizen Scientists to draw boxes around Muster Roll transcriptions? To answer that question- and to give you an insight into the exciting machine learning software we are developing as part of Civil War Bluejackets- team member Dr Morgan Harvey explains all in our new video!
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Video: Civil War Bluejackets at The American Civil War Museum
Not long ago Bluejackets team member Professor Wayne Hsieh discussed the Civil War Bluejackets Project in a talk for the American Civil War Museum. Wayne’s talk is a great introduction to what we are doing and what we hope the results will be. It is now available on YouTube, so if you would like to
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Transcription Tuesday is Here! (And So Are Some New Vessels…)
The Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine Transcription Tuesday event has arrived! We are delighted to welcome today’s transcribers to our maritime community! To mark the occasion, we have added some new vessels to those currently available for transcription. Up to know, the ship’s musters we have been working on were all related to
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