Two birds, one stone: Bridging cultural heritage collections with crowds and niches Crowdsourcing is a valuable source of data and metadata in cultural heritage. In this workshop speakers from Naturalis, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the Rijksmuseum will provide their insights onREAD MORE
Combining the old and the new: that is what CREATE does. It stands in the present by developing new research tools and opening a whole field of questions that could not be asked, let alone be answered. It also looks to the past and showsREAD MORE
It has been two weeks since I started my research at CREATE and still the irony strikes me sometimes that I, of all people, am specialising in digital text analysis. As a bibliophile and – among friends – an infamous luddite, I kept a safeREAD MORE
The third annual Digital Humanities Day (DHD) will take place on the 28 October 2016 in Groningen. The aim of the DHD is to bring together researchers of various humanities disciplines and offer a platform to discuss ongoing or new research in the field ofREAD MORE
In recent years the toolkit of humanities scholars has been expanded with powerful software that allows for the creation of beautiful network visualizations (see for instance the websites of Kindred Britain or ePistolarium and the teaser below) However, few scholars are aware of the methodological assumptions implicitREAD MORE
One of the longer running projects that is maintained within the CREATE program is ECARTICO, a comprehensive collection of structured biographical data concerning painters, engravers, printers, book sellers, gold- and silversmiths and others involved in the ‘cultural industries’ of the Low Countries in the sixteenthREAD MORE
At this session of the Digital History Workshop we will practice and discuss the use of digital annotating tools for humanities scholarship. We will experiment with Atlas.ti, one of the so-called CAQDAS (Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software), which provides scholars with an integrated interfaceREAD MORE
Come and see us @DHBenelux on 8 and 9 June in Belval, just south of the city of Luxemburg. Julia will be discussing 3D Visualization as a Tool for Studying the History of Cinema-going Claartje will discuss the Stedelijk Museum Textmining Project, together with JeroenREAD MORE
In June, the Digital Heritage Netherlands foundation organizes a workshop on the use of 3D visualization in cultural heritage, both for research and dissemination. Daniel Pletinckx will lead a workshop on 3D, demonstrating his reconstruction of the Ename 1290 educational game and tour. For a limitedREAD MORE
UvA Create Digital History Workshop Wednesday May 25, 2016, 13-15h E-lab Mediastudies, room 0.16 BG 1, Turfdraagsterpad 9, Amsterdam At the next session of the Digital History Workshop, participants will gain practical, hands-on experience with digital techniques for labelling and annotating media files. Christian Oleson (UvA)READ MORE