Explore 16th-century Florence: DECIMA: The Digitally Encoded Census Information and Mapping Archive
Today, in the UvA Urban History Seminar, prof. dr. Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto) introduced the DECIMA GIS project on 16th century Florence, showing how one could go about mapping social, economic and sensory life in the early modern city. How can we use GIS methods toREAD MORE
CREATE Salon #3: Tags, tools, and transparency
CREATE Salon #3: Tags, tools and transparency On the day that 30 enormous 17th-century Dutch group portraits were brought together for the first time in the exhibition Hollanders van de Gouden Eeuw, the CREATE Salon took place in the historical Vondelzaal at the Singel. InREAD MORE
Three new vacancies in CREATE: apply before December 11th 2014!
Student-assistant in Dutch Design History Data Pre-PhD fellow in Music Criticism and Cultural Capitals Pre-PhD fellow in Historical Networks ResearchREAD MORE
Federico Sangati – 1 December 2014: Analysis of Language and Content In a Digital Environment
Coming Monday 1 December, Federico Sangati (FBK, Trento) will give an overview of his work in Digital Humanities at the Institute of Language, Logic, and Computation. PLACE: ILLC, Science Park 107, Room F.115 TIME: 13.00-14.30h, 1 December 2014 TITLE: Analysis of Language and Content In a DigitalREAD MORE
Connected Data: 2 december in Lab111
Publiek, bedrijfsleven, onderzoekers, overheden en erfgoedinstellingen verbinden zich steeds vaker met elkaar door informatie te delen. Doordat veel van die informatie als open data beschikbaar komt, ontstaan er vruchtbare samenwerkingen tussen diverse partijen. Tijdens het eerste CLICKNL Connected Data Event wordt ingegaan op de kansen van zulkeREAD MORE
My Creativity Sweatshop: 20-21 November 2014
Do you also think it is time for a reality check on the creative industries? Come check out talks, discussions, art & design lab, workshops and performances during My Creativity Sweatshop, 20-21 November 2014 at Trouw Amsterdam. READ MORE
CREATE researcher Claartje Rasterhoff wins Utrecht Prize for her PhD research
Dr. Claartje Rasterhoff is de winnaar van de PUG-prijs 2014 van het Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen. Ze krijgt de prijs voor haar proefschrift The Fabric of Creativity in the Dutch Republic: Painting and Publishing as Cultural Industries, 1580-1800. Zij verdedigde dit proefschrift opREAD MORE
CreAtive Nodes in Amsterdam’s Artefact-actor Networks (CANAAN)
Linking data from Ecartico (actors) & Amsterdam Museum (artefacts). Check out progress and comments: www.canaan.humanities.uva.nlREAD MORE
CREATE Salon 27 November: New Research Tools
Dr. Paul Dijstelberge will present Metabotnik. Metabotnik allows scholars to gather a selection of high-resolution image files, add metadata and contextual information, and render a Seadragon compatible gigapixel image ready for use, all while doing so from a web-based tool. Dieuwke Hupkes will discuss part-of-speech tagging of 17th centuryREAD MORE
CREATE Salon #2: virtual reality, romantic reconstructions, and sensory sources
How did 40 maidens and 40 men fit in the 16th-century Amsterdam home of Pompeius Occo? And how could the Kerkplein in Hoorn have housed the medieval Grote Kerk until its demise in the 19th century? To answer these and many other questions, we should turnREAD MORE