Check this out: Matthew Lincoln developed an excellent walkthrough for visualizing early modern depictions of Amsterdam. These data describe almost 1,000 objects from the Rijksmuseum made between 1500 and 1750 that depict some location in the city of Amsterdam, as labeled by curatorial teams atREAD MORE

Recently, Julia Noordegraaf, on behalf of the CREATE project, received a grant from the Amsterdam University Fund (Stichting Amsterdams Universiteitsfonds) for the project ‘Cinema Context in revisie.’ This project aims to improve the Cinema Context database, a historical data collection for cinema culture that hasREAD MORE

On Monday 25 April, Julia Noordegraaf presented ACHI’s CREATE project at the Europeana/National Library of the Netherlands Research Policy meeting ‘Using Digital Heritage for Research: Policy Challenges and Opportunities’ (The Hague, 25-26 April 2016). The project was presented as one of the practical use cases ofREAD MORE

Woensdag 11 mei 2016, start lezingenreeks over De Stad als kennisknooppunt binnen het programma De Maakbaarheid van onze Kennissamenleving. 19:00 tot 21:00 uur, KNAW, Het Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JV Amsterdam. Aanmelden kan hier. Wat maakte steden tot de bakermat van de kennissamenleving in de GoudenREAD MORE

Affiliate member dr. Bert van de Roemer was invited to give a lecture at the British Library on his digital historical research and the CREATE project.READ MORE

Data Visualization: Excel and beyond UvA Create Digital History Workshop Wednesday April 20, 2016, 13-15h E-lab Mediastudies, room 0.16 BG 1, Turfdraagsterpad 9, Amsterdam Most humanities scholars will agree that to understand their research object means to visualize it to some extent. This session ofREAD MORE

Eighty years of war against the arch enemy Spain eventually brought freedom and autonomy for the Netherlands in 1648. Peace between the nations garanteed a new era of traffic, trade and exchange. This was the moment when another Spanish Armada went out to conquer Europe:READ MORE