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
Virtual datasprint Connecting Performing Arts Data
On March 18, 3-5 PM, CREATE hosts a virtual datasprint to find connections across open data on musical, theatrical and cinema performances. This event marks the launch of the special issue on Performing Arts Data of the Research Data Journal for the Humanities and SocialREAD MORE
CREATE Symposium: Computational Turns in the Humanities
On 18 February (3-5PM) CREATE hosts a symposium on Computational Turns in the Humanities, with presentations by Yann Ryan, Sebastian Ahnert and Ruth Ahnert, who will speak about Networking Archives: Quantitative History and the Contingent Archive, and Richard Marciano, who will speak about Advancing ArchivalREAD MORE
CREATE Salon Impact Humanities
The Humanities contribute to society in many different ways; most of them are indirect and thus hard to measure. While there are good reasons for this state of affairs, at CREATE we are investigating whether we can quantify and qualify a specific form of impact:READ MORE
Recruiting Postdoc AI for Cultural Heritage
Exciting job opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher working on AI for Cultural Heritage: one year of paid research, 9 months embedded with us at the University of Amsterdam-CREATE and the company Picturae to collaborate on the Iceberg project (automatically digitizing handwritten documents) of the NationalREAD MORE
Unlocking Rouen’s Theatre History
The “Théâtre des Arts de Rouen (1882-1940)” dossier is now fully completed more than seven years after its opening in June 2013. This is the third of the four parts of the vast project that Joann Élart and Yannick Simon are devoting to Dezède toREAD MORE
Report on Hackalod 2020: The poster wall
On November’s Friday the 13th, a virtual Hackalod was held: a meeting of Linked (heritage) Data enthusiasts working together on team projects. Because of the covid crisis, the physical meeting that was originally planned could not happen. The purpose of this online meeting was toREAD MORE