Distant Viewing Toolkit: A Python Package for the Analysis of Visual Culture
Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2020
The Distant Viewing Toolkit is a Python package for the computational analysis of visual culture.It addresses the challenges of working with moving images through the automated extraction and visualization of metadata summarizing the content (e.g., people/actors, dialogue, scenes, objects) and style (e.g., shot angle, shot length, lighting, framing, sound) of time-based media.This toolkit is optimized for two purposes: (1) scholarly inquiry of visual culture from the humanities and social sciences, and (2) search and discovery of collections within libraries, archives, and museums.