KB LAB

Join us and explore the KB’s digital treasure trove

The KB Lab hosts all experimental tools and data sets based on the KB's digitised collection.

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56.330 MB files
30 events

Datasets

CHRONIC

The CHRONIC dataset consists of metadata for 313K classified newspaper images using computer vision techniques.
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Tools

CanOT

CanOT shows the canonicity curves of publications related to 21 selected authors or texts/figures.

Narralyzer

Narralyzer finds and visualises characters in texts and the relationships between them.
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News

07 Sep

Wanted: Participants for ICT with Industry workshop on automated metadata

12 Jun

Call for proposals KB Researcher-in-residence 2019 - closed

06 Jun

KB Lab history

30 May

New blog post: Looking for cities in historical newspapers

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Events

15

Nov

IIPC Web Archiving Conference

13

Dec

KNVI-congres

21

Jan

ICT with Industry workshop on automated metadata

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Twitter

KB NL research

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This test portal developed by gives access to the enriched collections of and is available at… https://t.co/cLdDljbKnL
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During yesterday's study day on a register was launched that combines all metadata from Dutch webarch… https://t.co/VCx5DYRMXn
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Participants of the workshop by and presenting their outcomes. Most of them wi… https://t.co/tV0oGmOesO
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Congratulations with the launch of this wonderful resource! https://t.co/gXQkDF6A6R
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In the KB Lab you can find experimental tools and data built for and from the digital collection of the KB, National Library of the Netherlands.