This Summer, Giovanni Colavizza, coordinator of CREATE’s research theme ‘AI for Cultural Heritage’, has been awarded funding from NWO in the Idea Generator scheme of the Dutch Research Agenda NWA for his project “Improving the accessibility of textual historical collections via transfer learning.” Abstract: DigitizedREAD MORE
In June, the Digital Heritage Netherlands foundation organizes a workshop on the use of 3D visualization in cultural heritage, both for research and dissemination. Daniel Pletinckx will lead a workshop on 3D, demonstrating his reconstruction of the Ename 1290 educational game and tour. For a limitedREAD MORE
Recently, Julia Noordegraaf, on behalf of the CREATE project, received a grant from the Amsterdam University Fund (Stichting Amsterdams Universiteitsfonds) for the project ‘Cinema Context in revisie.’ This project aims to improve the Cinema Context database, a historical data collection for cinema culture that hasREAD MORE
On Monday 25 April, Julia Noordegraaf presented ACHI’s CREATE project at the Europeana/National Library of the Netherlands Research Policy meeting ‘Using Digital Heritage for Research: Policy Challenges and Opportunities’ (The Hague, 25-26 April 2016). The project was presented as one of the practical use cases ofREAD MORE
Eighty years of war against the arch enemy Spain eventually brought freedom and autonomy for the Netherlands in 1648. Peace between the nations garanteed a new era of traffic, trade and exchange. This was the moment when another Spanish Armada went out to conquer Europe:READ MORE
In February of this year I became one of CREATE’s pre-PhD students. My focus was on Historical Network Analysis for which I analysed correspondences between the Dutch Republic and Italy in the early modern period. This project allowed me not only to delve into dataREAD MORE