Recruiting Postdoc AI for Cultural Heritage
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
Unlocking Rouen’s Theatre History
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
Report on Hackalod 2020: The poster wall
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
Report Movie Theaters at Wartime symposium
This online event was a follow-up to the workshop “Film Distribution, Exhibition and Consumption during the Second World War” (Leuven, 2018) and the “Movie Theatres in Wartime” symposium (June 2020, scheduled to take place in Amsterdam, but due to Covid-19 downsized into an online event).READ MORE
Crowdsourcing Rotterdam Cinema Listings
Before we relied on the Internet, newspapers published the local film listings on Wednesdays or Thursdays. As part of our ongoing collaboration with Cinema Context, Rotterdams Publiek would like you to take part in our latest crowdsourcing project to bring these listings to life. WeREAD MORE
CREATE Salon on COVID-19 Research projects
The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply impacted all areas of society. In the Netherlands, the first lockdown in March has brought life almost to a standstill. For many, that period of isolation was a moment of reflection. It has also generated a lot of new initiatives,READ MORE
Movie Theatres in Wartime (WWII)
Film Distribution and Exhibition During World War II Online convention: Nov 19-20, 2020 This online event is a follow-up to the workshop “Film Distribution, Exhibition and Consumption during the Second World War” (Leuven, 2018) and the “Movie Theatres in Wartime” symposium (June 2020, scheduled toREAD MORE
NWA Idea Generator Grant Giovanni Colavizza for improved access to historical texts
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
Save the dates! CREATE events 2020-2021
The next academic semester brings new and inspiring CREATE events. Please save the dates for our 2020-2021 Salon and Masterclass serie. More information on topics and speakers will be available soon! Wednesday 23 September 15:00-17:00 (digital)Virtual Interiors Thursday 22 October 15:00-17:00Virtual Teaching and Digital MethodsREAD MORE
Report: Cinema Context datasprint
On Thursday 28 May, a group of enthusiasts gathered on Zoom for a Cinema Context datasprint, aimed at cleaning and enriching programming data obtained via automatic extraction from digitised newspapers. For the occasion, a ‘Digifil Editor’ was created, a tool structuring the information that participantsREAD MORE