News & events

News

05 Dec

Researchers-in-residence Melvin Wevers & Thomas Smits bij Universiteit van Nederland

'Hoe gaat jouw Instagram post geschiedenis schrijven?' en 'Waar is de stoere, rokende Marlboro man heen?'. Thomas Smits en Melvin Wevers beantwoorden deze vragen in hun 15 minuten durende college...

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...

Events

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Mar

VOGIN-IP-Lezing: Cynthia Liem

Researcher-in-residence Cynthia Liem spreekt tijdens de VOGIN-IP-Lezing over haar onderzoek bij het KB Lab. " Lezing: “Verborgen schatten langs de digitale snelweg” Dankzij de snel toenemende digitalisering hebben we tegenwoordig toegang tot veel meer—en veel diversere—informatie dan in vorige decennia...

27

Mar

Workshop: Computer Vision in Book History

Computer vision is making rapid progress in its ability to extract information from documents. Libraries, academic digital humanists and publishers are now moving from experimenting with computer vision to considering how to implement it in their search platforms or research...

3

Apr

Delpher: veelzijdig digitaal krantenonderzoek

Steven Claeyssens will present in the Digitizing the Humanities lecture series at Ghent University with a lecture titled "Delpher: veelzijdig digitaal krantenonderzoek".

Past events

13

Dec

Smart Humanity 2018

De volgende sessies worden (mede-)georganiseerd door het KB Lab-team Smart Collecties in de Digital Humanities (14:45 - 15:45) - Steven Claeyssens & Sara Veldhoen Nieuwsgierig naar wat de Digital Humanities betekenen voor het werk van bibliotheken? In deze sessie laten...

15

Nov

IIPC Web Archiving Conference

Curator of Digital Collections Kees Teszelszky will be presenting on the KB Web Archive and our special collection of post-truth websites at the IIPC Web Archiving conference. Please find his abstract here.

11

Oct

Studiedag 'Het web gearchiveerd'

Is uw organisatie bezig met webarchivering, of wilt u er in de toekomst mee aan de slag? En wilt u weten hoe webarchieven gebruikt kunnen worden? Reserveer dan donderdag 11 oktober in uw agenda voor de studiedag ‘Het web gearchiveerd?’...