Our first workshop!

We will be holding our first workshop in cooperation with the diggr project at the Leipzig University Library on July 2-3rd 2019. Participants include community-driven initiatives and fansites from North-America and Europe, along with more data-focused initiatives.

The first day of the workshop is open to the public, schedule is as follows:

Time

Presenter(s)

Theme

10.00

JVMG Project Group/diggr Project Group

Workshop Introduction

10.15

diggr Project Group

Project introduction and overview, project members introductions

11.00

JVMG Project Group

Project introduction, overview, aims and project members introductions

11.45

Coffee break

12.00

Stephen Goral (Anime Characters Database)

12.20

Jean-Frédéric Berthelot (Wikidata – Video Game Taskforce)

12.40

Lunch break

14.30

Yoran Heling (The Visual Novel Database)

14.50

Jerome Richer (IGDB)

15.10

Maria Pino (Animeclick.it)

15.30

Coffee break

15.50

Winfried Bergmeyer (Stifftung Digitale Spielekultur)

16.05

Marc Schuler (Animexx)

16.25

Jens Mildner (Oregami)

16.45

Coffee break

17.05

Round Table Discussion

Some new hardware

As our project is data-driven, it can use the resources of the Stuttgart Media University Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence. Those resources have recently been upgraded. Meet the deep learning servers, each with four nvidia GPUs:

Offices are getting prepared

The project members will work in the new lab room of the Stuttgart Media University Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence. The lab room is currently being furnished, and I have prepared a suitable decorative piece 🙂

Project team grows

We have found two excellent young researchers who are interested in working on the project. As soon as the contracts are finalized, we will introduce the new team members here on the project website.

Grant application approved

We have been informed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) that our grant application has passed peer review and the program board has deceided to approve our application. The research plan will be fully funded with no cuts.

The project can start in 2019.