Anna Foka is Professor in Digital Humanities at the Department of ALM (Archive and Information Science, Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies) and the Director of the Centre for Digital Humanities and social sciences at Uppsala University. Her humanities’ expertise lies in the history and culture of the ancient world as well as its international reception, and as of recent, digital methods and tools used for the curation and dissemination of cultural heritage collections (eg AI). Her latest work includes an in-depth study of AI and Heritage organisations in Sweden for AI and Society, as well as Visualising Pausanias’s Greece with contemporary GIS. She is the PI of the project Digital Periegesis, as well as the PI of the project Quantifying Culture: AI and Cultural Heritage Collections. When not formally advocating for the need of digital development skills for professionals in Sweden, Anna coordinates the Swedish National Research School in Data Culture and Society that is financed by the Swedish Research council.
Anna Foka
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