The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, together with the Data Science Center and CREATE Lab, is currently hiring data scientists in the field of Cultural Analytics, Ethical Data Science and Cultural Data Collection and Linking– all permanent positions (deadline Monday 28 June,READ MORE
Please join us for a webinar on masterclasses as an event format new to the GLAM sector. It will be also the opportunity to present a plan for three masterclasses that will take place in Spring 2022 with the support of Europeana Research. Program andREAD MORE
Is an average OCR quality of 70% enough for my study? What OCR quality should we ask from external suppliers? Should we re-do the OCR of our collections to bring it from 80% to 85%? Libraries and researchers alike face the same dilemma in ourREAD MORE
On March 4th, 2021 the Amsterdam Time Machine hosted the ‘Dutch Time Machines workshop’: an online event to share updates from, and foster exchanges among Local Time Machines (LTMs) in the Netherlands. LTM projects are one of the main pillars of Time Machine’s ambition to develop the Big Data of theREAD MORE
On March 18, 3-5 PM, CREATE hosts a virtual datasprint to find connections across open data on musical, theatrical and cinema performances. This event marks the launch of the special issue on Performing Arts Data of the Research Data Journal for the Humanities and SocialREAD MORE
On 18 February (3-5PM) CREATE hosts a symposium on Computational Turns in the Humanities, with presentations by Yann Ryan, Sebastian Ahnert and Ruth Ahnert, who will speak about Networking Archives: Quantitative History and the Contingent Archive, and Richard Marciano, who will speak about Advancing ArchivalREAD MORE
The Humanities contribute to society in many different ways; most of them are indirect and thus hard to measure. While there are good reasons for this state of affairs, at CREATE we are investigating whether we can quantify and qualify a specific form of impact:READ MORE
Exciting job opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher working on AI for Cultural Heritage: one year of paid research, 9 months embedded with us at the University of Amsterdam-CREATE and the company Picturae to collaborate on the Iceberg project (automatically digitizing handwritten documents) of the NationalREAD MORE
The “Théâtre des Arts de Rouen (1882-1940)” dossier is now fully completed more than seven years after its opening in June 2013. This is the third of the four parts of the vast project that Joann Élart and Yannick Simon are devoting to Dezède toREAD MORE
On November’s Friday the 13th, a virtual Hackalod was held: a meeting of Linked (heritage) Data enthusiasts working together on team projects. Because of the covid crisis, the physical meeting that was originally planned could not happen. The purpose of this online meeting was toREAD MORE