PhD Research Position: Innovating Cross-Media Research on Public Debates
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam is looking for an interdisciplinary PhD researcher in the area of innovating cross media research on public debates! The PhD candidate will part of the TwiXL. TwiXL is an interdisciplinary project which aims to develop anREAD MORE
Microscopic Views on a Global Pandemic
The COVID-19 has had significant social and cultural effects: lockdowns broke social and cultural networks and habits and gave rise to new forms of communication, contact and inspiration. This paper analyses two citizen generated collections of experiences of the pandemic: the ‘Corona in the City’ collection, assembled by theREAD MORE
A Digital Toolkit to Detect Cinema Audiences of the Silent Era
Cinema audiences have remained notoriously elusive despite their obvious centrality to the medium’s history. This paper demonstrates that a way to acquire a better sense of cinema going in the silent film era is to investigate the relations between cinema locations, the socio-economic and demographicREAD MORE
4th Intercontinental Academia (ICA 4) on “Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence”
Melvin Wevers, coordinator of the Amsterdam Time Machine (ATM), has been selected as a fellow for the 4th edition of Intercontinental Academia (ICA) on “Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence”. During the program, a group of fellows and mentors explores fundamental interdisciplinary questions at the intersection ofREAD MORE
A new interface to visualize and explore data from the Amsterdam address book 1907
This project focuses on data from the Amsterdam Address book of 1907. Names of persons and companies, their professions and addresses were extracted using regular expressions. The addresses were aligned with Adamlink streets and HisGis location points. In the alignment process, streets that were notREAD MORE
UvA is hiring 3 Humanities Data Scientists
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, together with the Data Science Center and CREATE Lab, is currently hiring data scientists in the field of Cultural Analytics, Ethical Data Science and Cultural Data Collection and Linking– all permanent positions (deadline Monday 28 June,READ MORE
An intern’s look at Google’s Re.City
Hi, I’m Daan, an interdisciplinary master-student of urban and architectural history. These last few months, I worked as an intern for the Amsterdam Time Machine. As part of my internship, supervised by Melvin Wevers and Chiara Piccoli, I evaluated Google’s new tool Rǝ. It’s pronouncedREAD MORE
Masterclasses for Open Digital Cultural Heritage
Please join us for a webinar on masterclasses as an event format new to the GLAM sector. It will be also the opportunity to present a plan for three masterclasses that will take place in Spring 2022 with the support of Europeana Research. Program andREAD MORE
Is your OCR good enough? Results from a research residency at the National Library (KB)
Is an average OCR quality of 70% enough for my study? What OCR quality should we ask from external suppliers? Should we re-do the OCR of our collections to bring it from 80% to 85%? Libraries and researchers alike face the same dilemma in ourREAD MORE
Dutch Time Machine workshop
On March 4th, 2021 the Amsterdam Time Machine hosted the ‘Dutch Time Machines workshop’: an online event to share updates from, and foster exchanges among Local Time Machines (LTMs) in the Netherlands. LTM projects are one of the main pillars of Time Machine’s ambition to develop the Big Data of theREAD MORE