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Project Collaborator

Laura Ring

Metadata Librarian and Librarian for Southern Asia and Anthropology The University of Chicago Library

Biography

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Laura Ring is a Subject Specialist in South and Southeast Asian Studies and Anthropology. For more information about her work, please visit her staff profile.

Featured Project

Interwoven: Sonic and Visual Histories of the Indian Ocean World

2017 – 2021

Projects

Audio Cultures of India: New Approaches to the Performance Archive

Audio Cultures of India: New Approaches to the Performance Archive

Deploying data-mining and pattern-analysis techniques common to the physical and biological sciences, an interdisciplinary group of investigators from across the University worked to produce a sonic history of modern India.
An exploration of how the methods of “big science” might elucidate and facilitate the humanistic understanding of music, speech, and other audio expressions, the one-year Audio Cultures of India project deployed data mining and computational pattern analysis techniques common to the physical and ...