November 2014

Three new vacancies in CREATE: apply before December 11th 2014!

Student-assistant in Dutch Design History Data Pre-PhD fellow in Music Criticism and Cultural Capitals Pre-PhD fellow in Historical Networks ResearchREAD MORE

Federico Sangati – 1 December 2014: Analysis of Language and Content In a Digital Environment

Coming Monday 1 December, Federico Sangati (FBK, Trento) will give an overview of his work in Digital Humanities at the Institute of Language, Logic, and Computation. PLACE: ILLC, Science Park 107, Room F.115 TIME: 13.00-14.30h, 1 December 2014 TITLE: Analysis of Language and Content In a DigitalREAD MORE

Connected Data: 2 december in Lab111

Publiek, bedrijfsleven, onderzoekers, overheden en erfgoedinstellingen verbinden zich steeds vaker met elkaar door informatie te delen. Doordat veel van die informatie als open data beschikbaar komt, ontstaan er vruchtbare samenwerkingen tussen diverse partijen. Tijdens het eerste CLICKNL Connected Data Event wordt ingegaan op de kansen van zulkeREAD MORE

My Creativity Sweatshop: 20-21 November 2014

Do you also think it is time for a reality check on the creative industries? Come check out talks, discussions, art & design lab, workshops and performances during My Creativity Sweatshop, 20-21 November 2014 at Trouw Amsterdam. READ MORE

CREATE researcher Claartje Rasterhoff wins Utrecht Prize for her PhD research

Dr. Claartje Rasterhoff is de winnaar van de PUG-prijs 2014 van het Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen. Ze krijgt de prijs voor haar proefschrift The Fabric of Creativity in the Dutch Republic: Painting and Publishing as Cultural Industries, 1580-1800. Zij verdedigde dit proefschrift opREAD MORE

CreAtive Nodes in Amsterdam’s Artefact-actor Networks (CANAAN)

Linking data from Ecartico (actors) & Amsterdam Museum (artefacts). Check out progress and comments: www.canaan.humanities.uva.nlREAD MORE

CREATE Salon 27 November: New Research Tools

Dr. Paul Dijstelberge will present Metabotnik. Metabotnik allows scholars to gather a selection of high-resolution image files, add metadata and contextual information, and render a Seadragon compatible gigapixel image ready for use, all while doing so from a web-based tool. Dieuwke Hupkes will discuss part-of-speech tagging of 17th centuryREAD MORE

CREATE Salon #2: virtual reality, romantic reconstructions, and sensory sources

How did 40 maidens and 40 men fit in the 16th-century Amsterdam home of Pompeius Occo? And how could the Kerkplein in Hoorn have housed the medieval Grote Kerk until its demise in the 19th century? To answer these and many other questions, we should turnREAD MORE