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Paul & Brendan Rowe are cool yk

[thedigitalmuseum]

Paul Rowe - R2-D2 analysed your collection images and here's what he found National Digital Forum 2017

Techniques for the automated review of images continue to improve. Analysis of colours and patterns within your collection images can provide new connections between collection items. Artificial intelligence can work out the subject of an image with increasing accuracy, sometimes rivalling the descriptions created manually by cataloguers. This presentation looks at some of the emerging tools in this field and how they might be applied to your image collections. 

Paul Rowe is CEO of Vernon Systems, an Auckland-based collections management software company. Vernon Systems develops software that helps organisations record, interpret and share their collections. Paul is particularly interested in the use of web-based systems within museums and increasing public access to museum collection information. He is occasionally seen caving. 

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Author Bios #4

Paul Rowe is a Canadian actor and writer living in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

His first novel, The Silent Time, published in 2007 by Creative Book Publishing was inspired by his mother’s experience as a deaf child growing up and being educated in early 20th century Newfoundland. The Silent Time was shortlisted for the Winterset Award, the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage and History Award, and long-listed for the Re-Lit Awards.

His first feature-length drama To Dare Mighty Things was produced by Rising Tide Theatre in 2003. During the summer of 2010 Paul performed in his own stage adaptation of The Silent Time at Rising Tide Theatre’s Trinity Festival.

He was also a founding member of Teatro, Newfoundland’s only French language theatre company. He has performed with the Resource Centre for the Arts, Tramore Theatre Company, Perchance, Artistic Fraud and, in 2015, with the Stratford Festival of Canada.

His latest book, The Last Half of the Year, explores the age-old interplay between innocence and experience in a dramatic new way. Rowe will be presenting it at Fog Lit Festival 2017.

The Last Half of the Year (summary):

Jason Dade, a deeply sensitive and strangely ambitious young man, leaves home in July on a mock-heroic quest to find himself and become the man he is meant to be. The novel moves forward through a series of interconnecting narratives linking Jason's childhood and early adolescence to this quixotic present-day journey. Jason's untainted idealism and reckless innocence lead him into a series of humorous and sometimes harrowing situations. Past and present life experiences of Saul Dade, Jason's father, are also deftly woven into the intricate narrative. The son, frantically on the road, the father, meditatively at home, seem mystically connected through space and time as each in his own way stumbles blindly toward a conception of happiness and fulfillment.

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The Last Half of the Year by Paul Rowe

... from Killick Press ...

Jason Dade, quixotic hero of this 1970s coming-of-age novel, is on a quest. He must decipher cryptic signs on his journey to meet an elusive figure known only as The Man. His father, Saul Dade, broods restlessly at hope, helpless to intervene. Their interwoven narratives include idyllic descriptions of rural childhood, the grim spectre of war, the harsh realities of leaving the nest ... and finding the way back home.The Last Half of the Year renews the age-old configuration of innocence and experience in this, at times, darkly humourous story of a father and son whose lives cast shadows over one another across time.It is a book about generations, the passage of time, and the reckless and resilience of youth.

Published in 2016.

[thedigitalmuseum]

Paul Rowe (Vernon Systems) - See the forest, not the trees: free data visualisation tools National Digital Forum 2016

Cultural heritage collections often total in the tens of thousands of items. As the volumes of data increase it can become harder to spot trends and gaps in the information. The options for visualising your data have never been better. Tools available include the chart features built in Microsoft Excel, interactive options for graphing data in Watson Analytics and Tableau, and map generators such as Google Earth. This presentation shows how you can use free tools to interpret your data. This presentation will use real examples of collection data from organisations across Australia and New Zealand.

Working with collections data can be challenging. Reporting on collections data can be complicated by factors such as inconsistent record keeping, evolving data standards, and multiple eras of cataloguing staff. Data visualisation can help you see your data clearly and put the key facts at your fingertips. Is your organisation collecting different types of items over time? Are particular keywords only sparsely used? Do specimen records show up in unexpected locations on a map, indicating problems with the original data? Data visualisations can be used to guide project decisions, improve the presentation of annual reports, and share knowledge with the heritage community.

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Paul Rowe

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Paul Rowe