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
Cinema Context Virtual Datasprint
CREATE invites you to a virtual datasprint on Thursday 28 May. Challenged by the corona-crisis, we want to take the opportunity to experiment with new ways for hands-on collaborative work on digital data in humanities research. In this dataprint, we will focus on Dutch filmREAD MORE
UvA researchers document how citizens experience corona times
Tobias Blanke (professor of Humanities and AI) and Julia Noordegraaf (CREATE, professor of Digital Heritage) have taken the initiative to collect sources related to the COVID-19 crisis. This mainly involves collecting and archiving ephemeral sources that document how individuals and communities experience the corona crisis. The aim is to quickly develop anREAD MORE
NWO has awarded a ‘Corona: fast-track data’ grant to Giovanni Colavizza (UvA, CREATE)
The call ‘Corona: fast-track data’ is developed by the NWO domains, Applied and Engineering Sciences, Science and Social Sciences and Humanities to collect data that can only be conducted now, during the COVID-19 crisis, and specifically research into issues that arise in society during theREAD MORE
Melvin Wevers, the new assistant professor ‘Urban History and Digital Methods’
On August 1, Melvin Wevers will take up the position as assistant professor ‘Urban History and Digital Methods’. Currently, he is working as a postdoc in the DHLab of the KNAW Humanities Cluster. Melvin has a background in American Studies and Psychology and his current researchREAD MORE
Updates on coronavirus
Dear colleagues, On Monday, 23 March, the government took additional measures to tackle the coronavirus. In line with these extra measures, there will be no CREATE activities until further notice. The CREATE staff continues working virtually, so we continue the research support by the Lab team toREAD MORE
Recap Urban Studies Network Day 30 January 2020
On the 30th of January, we hosted the fourth edition of the Urban Studies Network Day at the Lloyd Hotel. CREATE co-hosted this networking event for urban scholars with The Centre for Urban Studies (CUS), the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History (ACUH), and the AmsterdamREAD MORE
ACUH Seminar: Dangerous cities: Mapping crime in 19th-century Leiden and Amsterdam (20 Feb)
Marion Pluskota (Leiden University) Thursday 20 February, 15:30-17:00, BH/OIH E1.02 Marion Pluskota will discuss the mapping of crime in the past and what it tells us about the gendered use of urban space. Criminologists have only rarely tested the relationship between urban space and criminalREAD MORE
DANS has awarded a grant to convert Cinema Context into Linked Open Data
By Thunnis van Oort In December 2019, DANS has awarded a grant to convert the Cinema Context dataset into Linked Open Data (LOD). Cinema Context is an online database containing places, persons and companies involved in more than 100,000 film screenings in the Netherlands since 1895. It providesREAD MORE
Digital History Workshop: Network Analysis in Humanities (28 Nov)
On Thursday 28 November, Giovanni Colavizza, recently appointed assistant professor of digital humanities at UvA, will host a Digital History Workshop (12.00-14.45) on historical network analysis in the form of a lab session, where participants can bring their own data and their own specific questions. In preparing suchREAD MORE