Recordings CREATE salons on YouTube channel
The recordings of this year’s CREATE Salons and the Masterclasses we co-organized with Europeana are all available on our YouTube ChannelREAD MORE
Salon: Accessing Dutch Colonial Archives
We are most pleased to welcome you to our upcoming CREATE Salon on accessibility of VOC Archives. Date: Tuesday, 7th of December, 2021 Time: 15:00 – 16:30 Location: zoom link Language: English Given the new regulations, this event will be entirely virtual now.We look forward to seeing you! This salonREAD MORE
Giovanni Colavizza and Jill Hilditch receive NWO Open Science Fund grants
We are thrilled to congratulate CREATE and ACASA researchers for receiving the NWO Open Science Fund! WikipediaCitations: A FAIR dataset of Wikipedia’s citations to its sources Giovanni Colavizza (CREATE, Media Studies): Wikipedia is an essential component of the open science ecosystem, yet it is poorlyREAD MORE
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