A new interface to visualize and explore data from the Amsterdam address book 1907
This project focuses on data from the Amsterdam Address book of 1907. Names of persons and companies, their professions and addresses were extracted using regular expressions. The addresses were aligned with Adamlink streets and HisGis location points. In the alignment process, streets that were notREAD MORE
UvA is hiring 3 Humanities Data Scientists
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, together with the Data Science Center and CREATE Lab, is currently hiring data scientists in the field of Cultural Analytics, Ethical Data Science and Cultural Data Collection and Linking– all permanent positions (deadline Monday 28 June,READ MORE
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