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Prof. T. (Tobias) Blanke

Tobias Blanke is University Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Humanities at the University of Amsterdam and based at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation.
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  • Turfdraagsterpad 9
  • Room number: 2.11
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  • Postbus 94550
    1090 GN Amsterdam
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  • About

    Tobias Blanke is University Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Humanities at the University of Amsterdam and the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation. He is also affiliated with King’s College London as Professor of Social and Cultural Informatics. His academic background is in computer science and political philosophy. Tobias's principal research interests lie in artificial intelligence and big data devices for research, particularly in the human sciences. He has also published extensively on ethical questions of Artificial Intelligence such as predictive policing and algorithmic otherings, as well as critical digital practices, and the critique of digital platforms.

  • Publications

    2024

    • Blanke, T. (2024). Reassembling digital archives—strategies for counter-archiving. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 1-12.
    • Blanke, T. (2024). Using deep learning to analyse the times of the UN Security Council. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, fqae009.
    • Luitse, D., Blanke, T., & Poell, T. (2024). AI competitions as infrastructures of power in medical imaging. Information, Communication & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2334393

    2023

    • Aradau, C., Blanke, T., & Hussain, I. (2023). Making Data Visualizations, Contesting Security: Digital Humanities Meet International Relations. Global Studies Quarterly, 3(4), Article ksad061. https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksad061 [details]
    • Blanke, T., Venturini, T., & De Pryck, K. (2023). A peek inside two black boxes-an experiment with explainable artificial intelligence and IPCC leadership. International Journal of Digital Humanities, 1-25. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-023-00080-z
    • Graziani, M., Dutkiewicz, L., Calvaresi, D., Pereira Amorim, J., Yordanova, K., Vered, M., Nair, R., Henriques Abreu, P., Blanke, T., Pulignano, V., Prior, J. O., Lauwaert, L., Reijers, W., Depeursinge, A., Andrearczyk, V., & Müller, H. (2023). A global taxonomy of interpretable AI: unifying the terminology for the technical and social sciences. Artificial Intelligence Review, 56(4), 3473–3504. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10256-8 [details]

    2022

    • Aradau, C., & Blanke, T. (2022). Algorithmic reason: The new government of self and other. Oxford University Press.
    • Blanke, T., & Venturini, T. (2022). A network view on reliability: using machine learning to understand how we assess news websites. Journal of Computational Social Science, 5(1), 69-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-021-00116-w [details]
    • Colavizza, G., Blanke, T., Jeurgens, C., & Noordegraaf, J. (2022). Archives and AI: An Overview of Current Debates and Future Perspectives. ACM journal on computing and cultural heritage : JOCCH, 15(1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3479010 [details]
    • Valdivia, A., Aradau, C., Blanke, T., & Perret, S. (2022). Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders. Big Data and Society, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221124586 [details]

    2021

    2020

    2019

    • Aradau, C., Blanke, T., & Greenway, G. (2019). Acts of digital parasitism: Hacking, humanitarian apps and platformisation. New Media and Society, 21(11-12), 2548-2565. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819852589

    2018

    2017

    • Aradau, C., & Blanke, T. (2017). Politics of prediction: Security and the time/space of governmentality in the age of big data. European Journal of Social Theory, 20(3), 373-391. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431016667623
    • Blanke, T., & Wilson, J. (2017). Identifying epochs in text archives. In J.-Y. Nie, Z. Obradovic, T. Suzumura, R. Ghosh, R. Nambiar, C. Wang, H. Zang, R. Baeza-Yates, R. Baeza-Yates, X. Hu, J. Kepner, A. Cuzzocrea, J. Tang, & M. Toyoda (Eds.), Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017 (pp. 2219-2224). (Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017; Vol. 2018-January). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData.2017.8258172
    • Blanke, T., Bryant, M., Frankl, M., Kristel, C., Speck, R., Vanden Daelen, V., & Van Horik, R. (2017). The European holocaust research infrastructure portal. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 10(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1145/3004457
    • Blanke, T., Kristel, C., & Romary, L. (2017). Crowds for clouds: Recent trends in humanities research infrastructures. In Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities (pp. 48-62). Taylor and Francis Inc.. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315575278
    • Gill, A. J., Hinrichs-Krapels, S., Blanke, T., Grant, J., Hedges, M., & Tanner, S. (2017). Insight workflow: Systematically combining human and computational methods to explore textual data. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(7), 1671-1686. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23767

    2016

    • Blanke, T., & Prescott, A. (2016). Dealing with big data. In Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities (pp. 184-205). Edinburgh University Press.

    2015

    • Anderson, S., & Blanke, T. (2015). Infrastructure as intermeditation – from archives to research infrastructures. Journal of Documentation, 71(6), 1183-1202. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2014-0095
    • Aradau, C., & Blanke, T. (2015). The (Big) Data-security assemblage: Knowledge and critique. Big Data and Society, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715609066
    • Aradau, C., & Blanke, T. (2015). The (big) data--security assemblage: theses on post--surveillance and critique. Big Data & Society.
    • Blanke, T., Bryant, M., & Speck, R. (2015). Developing the collection graph. Library Hi Tech, 33(4), 610-623. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-07-2015-0070
    • Bryant, M., Reijnhoudt, L., Speck, R., Clerice, T., & Blanke, T. (2015). The EHRI project - virtual collections revisited. In D. McFarland, & L. M. Aiello (Eds.), Social Informatics - SocInfo 2014 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 294-303). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8852). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15168-7_37
    • Bryant, M., Reijnhoudt, L., Speck, R., Clerice, T., & Blanke, T. (2015). The ehri project-virtual collections revisited. In Social Informatics: SocInfo 2014 International Workshops, Barcelona, Spain, November 11, 2014, Revised Selected Papers 6 (pp. 294-303)
    • Echeverria, M., Stuart, D., & Blanke, T. (2015). Medical theses and derivative articles: Dissemination of contents and publication patterns. Scientometrics, 102(1), 559-586. Article A030. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-014-1442-0
    • Pybus, J., Coté, M., & Blanke, T. (2015). Hacking the social life of Big Data. Big Data and Society, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715616649

    2014

    • Blanke, T. (2014). Digital Asset Ecosystems: Rethinking crowds and cloud. Elsevier Inc. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2013-0-16939-5
    • Blanke, T., Greenway, G., Pybus, J., & Cote, M. (2014). Mining mobile youth cultures. In J. Lin, J. Pei, X. T. Hu, W. Chang, R. Nambiar, C. Aggarwal, N. Cercone, V. Honavar, J. Huan, B. Mobasher, & S. Pyne (Eds.), Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE Big Data 2014 (pp. 14-17). Article 7004447 (Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE Big Data 2014). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData.2014.7004447
    • Blanke, T., Pierazzo, E., & Stokes, P. A. (2014). Digital Publishing Seen from the Digital Humanities. Logos (Netherlands), 25(2), 16-27. https://doi.org/10.1163/1878-4712-11112041

    2013

    • Blanke, T., & Hedges, M. (2013). Scholarly primitives: Building institutional infrastructure for humanities e-Science. Future Generation Computer Systems, 29(2), 654-661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2011.06.006
    • Blanke, T., Bryant, M., & Hedges, M. (2013). Back to our data - Experiments with NoSQL technologies in the Humanities. In Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2013 (pp. 17-20). Article 6691664 (Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2013). IEEE Computer Society Press. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData.2013.6691664

    2012

    • Anderson, S., & Blanke, T. (2012). Taking the long view: From e-Science humanities to humanities digital ecosystems. Historical Social Research, 37(3), 147-164.
    • Blanke, T., Bodard, G., Bryant, M., Dunn, S., Hedges, M., Jackson, M., & Scott, D. (2012). Linked data for humanities research - The SPQR experiment. In Proceedings of the 2012 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies: Complex Environment Engineering, DEST 2012 Article 6227932 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2012.6227932
    • Blanke, T., Bryant, M., & Hedges, M. (2012). Ocropodium: Open source OCR for small-scale historical archives. Journal of Information Science, 38(1), 76-86. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551511429418
    • Blanke, T., Bryant, M., & Hedges, M. (2012). Open source optical character recognition for historical research. Journal of Documentation, 68(5), 659-683. https://doi.org/10.1108/00220411211256021
    • Blanke, T., Lalmas, M., & Huibers, T. (2012). A framework for the theoretical evaluation of XML retrieval. Journal of the American Society for information Science and Technology, 63(12), 2463-2473. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.22674
    • Rodriquez, K. J., Bryant, M., Blanke, T., & Luszczynska, M. (2012). Comparison of Named Entity Recognition tools for raw OCR text. In 11th Conference on Natural Language Processing, KONVENS 2012: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Processing 2012 (pp. 410-414). (11th Conference on Natural Language Processing, KONVENS 2012: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Processing 2012; Vol. 5).

    2011

    2010

    • Anderson, S., Blanke, T., & Dunn, S. (2010). Methodological commons: Arts and humanities e-science fundamentals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 368(1925), 3779-3796. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0156
    • Aradau, C., & Blanke, T. (2010). Governing circulation: A critique of the biopolitics of security. In Security and Global Governmentality: Globalization, Governance and the State (pp. 44-58). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203865736
    • Aradau, C., & Blanke, T. (2010). Governing circulation: A critique of the biopolitics of security. In Security and Global Governmentality: Globalization, Governance and the State (pp. 44-58). Taylor and Francis Inc.. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203865736-10
    • Aschenbrenner, A., Küster, M. W., Blanke, T., & Pempe, W. (2010). Towards an open repository environment. Journal of Digital Information, 11(1).
    • Blanke, T., & Hedges, M. (2010). Humanities e-Science: From systematic investigations to institutional infrastructures. In Proceedings - 2010 6th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, eScience 2010 (pp. 25-32). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2010.34
    • Blanke, T., Candela, L., Hedges, M., Priddy, M., & Simeoni, F. (2010). Deploying general-purpose virtual research environments for humanities research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 368(1925), 3813-3828. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0167
    • Bryant, M., Blanke, T., Hedges, M., & Palmer, R. (2010). Open source historical OCR: The OCRopodium project. In Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010, Proceedings (pp. 522-525). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 6273). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_72

    2009

    • Blanke, T., Hedges, M., & Dunn, S. (2009). Arts and humanities e-science-Current practices and future challenges. Future Generation Computer Systems, 25(4), 474-480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2008.10.004
    • Hedges, M., Blanke, T., & Hasan, A. (2009). Rule-based curation and preservation of data: A data grid approach using iRODS. Future Generation Computer Systems, 25(4), 446-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2008.10.003
    • Jackson, M., Antonioletti, M., Hume, A., Blanke, T., Bodard, G., Hedges, M., & Rajbhandari, S. (2009). Building bridges between islands of data - An investigation into distributed data management in the humanities. In e-Science 2009 - 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (pp. 33-39). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Science.2009.13

    2023

    2022

    2022

    Prize / grant

    Talk / presentation

    • Wevers, M. (speaker), Blanke, T. (speaker) & van Noord, N. (speaker) (9-6-2022). Cultural Analytics in Amsterdam, Fudan University.

    2021

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