Paul Dijstelberge’s typography website receives more than 1 million views
Vijf jaar geleden begon UD boekwetenschap Paul Dijstelberge met een website die gewijd was aan typografisch materiaal. Het idee was eenvoudig. Onderzoek naar de manier waarop boeken werden versierd in de zestiende en zeventiende eeuw kan interessante resultaten opleveren. Zo werd zeer recent en voorREAD MORE
NWO KIEM-Grant for the project Metabotnik
CREATE has been awarded a new KIEM-grant: “METABOTNIK”. Is the Medium really the Message? Het internet met zijn hyperlinks lijkt informatie te bevrijden van de beperkingen van traditionele media zoals het boek. In werkelijkheid werken de hyperlinks als een nieuw keurslijf dat de gebruiker keuzesREAD MORE
NWO KIEM-Grant for the project CreAtive Nodes in Amsterdam’s Artefact-actor Networks (CANAAN)
CREATE has been awarded a new KIEM-grant for ‘CANAAN: CreAtive Nodes in Amsterdam’s Artefact-actor Networks’. The aim of the proposed project is to mashup data from two (and eventually more) distributed cultural heritage resources in a single research tool. The resources in question are the digital collectionREAD MORE
NWO KIEM-Grant for the project Data-Driven Film History
CREATE has been awarded a new KIEM-grant: “Data-Driven Film History: a demonstrator of EYE’s Jean Desmet collection”. The project’s aim is to develop a demonstrator tool which will allow for the visualization of links between four unique collections associated with film distributor and exhibitor JeanREAD MORE
NWO awards 12 million euros for Digital Humanities Research Infrastructure
On 1 July the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded 12 million euros to CLARIAH, a consortium of Humanities research institutes. CLARIAH intends to develop a digital infrastructure that combines diverse data sets and software tools from various humanities’ disciplines. Three disciplines formREAD MORE
Digital History
Over the last two decades, text-mining became part and parcel of many academic disciplines, but largely failed to have a fundamental scholarly impact on History. Admittedly, Digital History (and its methods) is gaining traction, but the historical mainstream remains overall unimpressed by the enthusiasm ofREAD MORE
Amsterdam Time Machine
“High time for time travel!” Between all the data on historical Amsterdam that is digitally available and the expertise of researchers, computer and information scientists, and heritage professionals, it must be possible to develop a time machine with which we can walk the streets ofREAD MORE
European Performing Arts Dataverse
Studying Performing Arts Across Borders: Towards a European Performing Arts Dataverse (EPAD). A network of scholars investigating the history of European performing arts (theatre, music, cinema) using digital methods and datasets. The aim of international cooperation is driven by two interconnected aims: a technical-infrastructural purpose, facilitatingREAD MORE