By Norbert Bakker On Thursday the fifteenth of January, exactly fourteen years after the launch of Wikipedia, the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen has the honour of hosting a mini-conference called ‘Wikipedia as a Research Tool’. While this title, at least for my generation, mayREAD MORE
Wikipedia as a research tool Date: 15 January 2015Venue: KNAW, Trippenhuis Building, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JV AmsterdamProgramme: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Symposium Most people use Wikipedia as an encyclopedia – a digital reference work for looking up facts and information about people, issues andREAD MORE
by Leonor Álvarez Francés The public research sector is increasingly interested in financing the development of generic software for the digital humanities. An example is the joint enterprise of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the National Endowment for Humanities called Bilateral Digital Humanities Program, designed toREAD MORE
by Dieuwke Hupkes When someone asks me what my field of research is, I usually tell them I am a computational linguist. Nowadays, many people use technologies invented in this field of research, such as Google Translate, a speech recognition system on a computer, aREAD MORE
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
Student-assistant in Dutch Design History Data Pre-PhD fellow in Music Criticism and Cultural Capitals Pre-PhD fellow in Historical Networks ResearchREAD MORE
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
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
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
Linking data from Ecartico (actors) & Amsterdam Museum (artefacts). Check out progress and comments: www.canaan.humanities.uva.nlREAD MORE