About
Dimitri Müller is responsible for the data transfer, management, modeling and processing for Digital Benin. His crucial role in the project is to make it the data accessible first to the researchers in the project and ultimately for the presentation on the platform. He worked collaboratively with the technical team and researchers on all archival materials, photographs, updated object data and research presented on Digital Benin.
Dimitri Müller is a Data Scientist and Engineer, specializing in the fields of digital humanities and computational social sciences. He holds a Mathematics degree from Sorbonne University. Dimitri worked at the Sciences Po médialab, where he contributed to research projects that merged technology and social sciences. His work involved the collection and management of datasets, training and applying machine learning models, conducting statistical and network analysis, and performing data visualization for various research projects across the domains of sociology, political science and art history.
Digital Benin collates digital material from institutions, and some of this material is inherently colonial and contains words, terms and phrases that are inaccurate, derogatory and harmful towards African and African diasporic communities. Catalogue transcriptions, book titles, exhibition titles and museum titles may contain harmful terms. We recognise the potential for the material to cause physical and mental distress as well as evoke strong emotions. Owing to the scale of the collection’s data, a process to implement sensitive-content warnings in the displayed data is still incomplete. The material within the catalogue does not represent Digital Benin’s views. Digital Benin maintains a strong anti-colonial, anti-racist position and affirms its support for centring the humanity of historically marginalised and disenfranchised communities. Read more about the background of this statement here