UvA Create Digital History Workshop Wednesday May 25, 2016, 13-15h E-lab Mediastudies, room 0.16 BG 1, Turfdraagsterpad 9, Amsterdam At the next session of the Digital History Workshop, participants will gain practical, hands-on experience with digital techniques for labelling and annotating media files. Christian Oleson (UvA)READ 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
The Dutch Research Council NWO has awarded a grant of 3.6 million euros for the development of a large scale research infrastructure for data on creative industries in the Dutch Golden Age. The grant was applied for by prof. dr. Charles van den Heuvel andREAD 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
19/06/2015 – 10:00-17:00 UvA University Theater Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18 room 1.04A Historical network research is a dynamic and lively field. The concepts and methods of social network analysis are increasingly being applied in the historical research practice, but their analytical potential and limitations deserve furtherREAD MORE
Digitizing Visual Memories in Architecture: Rome and Amsterdam The usage of 3D reconstructions during the research into built environments offers new insights and a new approach for analyzing data. The many perspectives on the actual building itself, i.e. the spatial context, and the possibility ofREAD MORE
Historical Network Research (http://historicalnetworkresearch.org) Historical Network Research 2015 International Conference Call for papers The Historical Network Research is pleased to announce its 3rd Annual conference. Having been held in Hamburg in 2013 and Ghent in 2014, this year it will be held in Lisbon, onREAD MORE
Interesting workshop on tool criticism for digital humanities on May 22nd, co-organized Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, the eHumanities group of KNAW and the Amsterdam Data Science Center. More information and registration here.READ MORE