13 positions for PhD students (Doctoral candidates) in the field of digital history and hermeneutics (m/f) The Historical Institute / Center for Contemporary and Digital History University of Luxembourg has obtained a large grant from the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg in the frameworkREAD MORE
Workshop Kaarten en Data. Digitale kaartapplicaties voor erfgoedbeheerders en onderzoekers Arie van Steensel (Department Geschiedenis, Amsterdam Centre for Urban History) organizes a workshop on digital historical maps and GIS. Please find the abstract and program (in Dutch) below. Digitale kaartapplicaties zijn niet meer weg teREAD MORE
Come and see us @DHBenelux on 8 and 9 June in Belval, just south of the city of Luxemburg. Julia will be discussing 3D Visualization as a Tool for Studying the History of Cinema-going Claartje will discuss the Stedelijk Museum Textmining Project, together with JeroenREAD 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
Links Rijksmuseum Linked Data (via Chris Dijkshoorn): Article: The Rijksmuseum Collection as Linked Data Dataset: https://datahub.io/dataset/rijksmuseum Repository: https://github.com/rijksmuseumREAD MORE
Check this out: Matthew Lincoln developed an excellent walkthrough for visualizing early modern depictions of Amsterdam. These data describe almost 1,000 objects from the Rijksmuseum made between 1500 and 1750 that depict some location in the city of Amsterdam, as labeled by curatorial teams atREAD 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
Woensdag 11 mei 2016, start lezingenreeks over De Stad als kennisknooppunt binnen het programma De Maakbaarheid van onze Kennissamenleving. 19:00 tot 21:00 uur, KNAW, Het Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JV Amsterdam. Aanmelden kan hier. Wat maakte steden tot de bakermat van de kennissamenleving in de GoudenREAD MORE