Nathaniel Deines
Project Manager
Getty Digital
Getty Research Institute
Nathaniel Deines, a project manager focusing on large-scale digital projects at Getty Digital, will provide an overview of their methods for mass metadata generation, including artificial intelligence (computer vision, specifically), GIS tools, and crowdsourcing. Getty Digital at the J. Paul Getty Trust, through engagement and collaboration, enables the programs of The Getty and the broader cultural heritage community to create, manage, and publish high-quality, interoperable, and easy-to-use digital content in a coherent and sustainable platform. Major new areas of concentration are digitization, linked open data, enabling computational art history research, and building a shared, distributed data environment.
Nathaniel Deines is an IT Project Manager in Getty Digital at the J. Paul Getty Trust. Prior to joining Getty Digital, he was a project manager in the Digital Art History department of the Getty Research Institute. Nathaniel received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington in the Comparative History of Ideas and his M.A. in Aesthetics and Politics from CalArts where he focused on a critical theory of technology.