By Norbert Bakker On Thursday the fifteenth of January, exactly fourteen years after the launch of Wikipedia, the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen has the honour of hosting a mini-conference called ‘Wikipedia as a Research Tool’. While this title, at least for my generation, mayREAD MORE
This app, produced by journalist Christel Sunter, brings you the cultural history of the Kalverstraat by means of ten different stories (only available in Dutch). Listen from your couch or while walking through the Kalverstraat!READ MORE
Wikipedia as a research tool Date: 15 January 2015Venue: KNAW, Trippenhuis Building, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JV AmsterdamProgramme: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Symposium Most people use Wikipedia as an encyclopedia – a digital reference work for looking up facts and information about people, issues andREAD MORE
By Joanna Rozendaal Last year, some new developments in book historical research caught the eye of many. Fragments of texts, ornamental initials and images in early modern books were made freely available on a website on typography. Normally, book history is a relatively little knownREAD MORE
by Leonor Álvarez Francés The public research sector is increasingly interested in financing the development of generic software for the digital humanities. An example is the joint enterprise of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the National Endowment for Humanities called Bilateral Digital Humanities Program, designed toREAD MORE
by Dieuwke Hupkes When someone asks me what my field of research is, I usually tell them I am a computational linguist. Nowadays, many people use technologies invented in this field of research, such as Google Translate, a speech recognition system on a computer, aREAD MORE
Today, in the UvA Urban History Seminar, prof. dr. Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto) introduced the DECIMA GIS project on 16th century Florence, showing how one could go about mapping social, economic and sensory life in the early modern city. How can we use GIS methods toREAD MORE
CREATE Salon #3: Tags, tools and transparency On the day that 30 enormous 17th-century Dutch group portraits were brought together for the first time in the exhibition Hollanders van de Gouden Eeuw, the CREATE Salon took place in the historical Vondelzaal at the Singel. InREAD MORE
Student-assistant in Dutch Design History Data Pre-PhD fellow in Music Criticism and Cultural Capitals Pre-PhD fellow in Historical Networks ResearchREAD MORE
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