News & events

News

04 Dec

Introducing the KB Researchers-in-residence 2018

Antoine Peris and dr. Cynthia Liem are the new researchers-in-residence at the KB. Both researchers work at the TU Delft and will be working together with the Digital Humanities team...

22 Nov

Project partners wanted for two projects using KB data

As KB Lab we also hope to provide a platform for the community working with the digitised collection of the KB. We cannot help everyone ourselves, but we can hopefully...

10 Nov

DH Clinics wins Victorine Iniative prize

We are happy to announce that the DH Clinics , co-organised by KB Lab member Lotte Wilms , together with Ben Companjen from Leiden University Libraries and Michiel Cock of...

10 Nov

KBK-1M Dataset available via DANS

We are happy to announce that as of today, access to the KBK-1M Dataset can be obtained through the Easy system of DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services), the Netherlands...

11 Oct

Find visual trends in newspaper advertisements with SIAMESE

Over the past few months, Melvin Wevers joined the KB Lab as Researcher-in-residence. During his stay, he did not only manage to defend his PhD succesfully, but together with Juliette...

13 Sep

Interview with researcher-in-residence Melvin Wevers at NWO.nl

Researcher-in-residence Melvin Wevers will defend his PhD on Friday 15 September 2017 at Utrecht University. His research was funded by the Dutch organisation NWO, who have interviewed him about his...

Events

13

Dec

KNVI-congres

Martijn Kleppe, Steven Claeyssens en Lotte Wilms zullen tijdens het KNVI-congres een sessie organiseren met het thema ‘Smart collecties in de digital humanities’. Meer informatie volgt.

21

Jan

ICT with Industry workshop on automated metadata

(Semi-) Automatic Cataloguing of Textual Cultural Heritage Objects Juliette Lonij en Martijn Kleppe In collaboration with Iris Hendrickx, Radboud University The KB | National Library of the Netherlands has been digitizing its collections at a rapid pace for a number...

Past events

20

Sep

Language technologies & digital humanities 2018

Martijn Kleppe will present a keynote at the Language Technologies & digital humanities 2018 conference in Ljubljana. The Slovenian Language Technologies Society ( SDJT ), the Centre for Language Resources and Technologies at the University of Ljubljana ( CJVT ),...

13

Sep

Building Library Labs

The British Library Labs is hosting an event for all libraries with (a wish) for a library lab. The KB Lab will be visiting with Willem Jan Faber, Steven Claeyssens and Lotte Wilms, who will be presenting on the KB...

6

Aug

KB Researcher-in-residence consultation

If you are interested in applying to the KB Researcher-in-residence programme for 2019 we strongly advise you to talk to us before submitting. We can help you shape your proposal in a way that it fits the programme best, ensuring...