A major part of the focus for this year’s Association for Medical Humanities conference in Truro (10–12 July) will be to examine the perspective of the artist within medical humanities. In part, this is being raised because it is felt that individual artists can become invisible in our field; it is their work that is displayed, discussed, made example of, often without attribution. One of us re...

In this paper, we describe a novel Internet radio recommendation system called MeUse. We use the Shoutcast API to collect historical data about the artists that are played on a large set of Internet radio stations. This data is used to populate an artist-station index that is similar to the term-document matrix of a traditional text-based information retrieval system. When a user wants to find ...

Amidst an unprecedented diversity of artistic modes brought forward by a massive influx of information and communication technology, the notion of interface, the connection between the person and the object, between the real and the virtual, assumes a role of paramount significance. Where once the object, the medium, and the roles of its creator and audience were securely defined, now nothing c...

This paper takes as its focus one of the Edwardian period's most dramatic and little-understood paintings of a medical examination: George Washington Lambert's Chesham Street (1910). The painting shows an upper-class male patient lifting his shirt to reveal a muscular torso for examination by the doctor in the scene and the viewers outside it. The subject of a medical examination, I argue, legi...

Spotify is a music streaming service whose ambition is to offer everyone easy access to all of the world’s music. Maintaining metadata quality is a a nontrivial challenge considering that the catalogue size rules out the possibility for manual curation and that the number of content providers and different delivery formats is large. An interesting problem that involves metadata is to have a one...