News & events

News

05 Dec

Call for contributions iPRES 2019

The international conference of digital preservation is looking for submissions for their 2019 conference in Amsterdam. This is the full Call for Contributions for the 16th International Conference on Digital...

07 Sep

Wanted: Participants for ICT with Industry workshop on automated metadata

Are you an academic researcher and into a week of researching and coding on our challenge of creating automated metadata? Please join us during the ICT With Industry workshop in...

12 Jun

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

Are you an early career social scientist, data scientist, computer scientist, humanities scholar, or more simply put, a researcher working with or interested in our digital collections, such as the...

30 May

New blog post: Looking for cities in historical newspapers

Written by Antoine Peris, KB Researcher-in-residence As a geographer working at the KB thanks to the researcher-in-residence program, I am currently investigating how the image of Dutch cities changed in...

21 Mar

New: Classified Historical Newspaper Images (CHRONIC) & CHRONReader

We are happy to announce the latest addition to this KB Lab are now available: the dataset Classified Historical Newspaper Images (CHRONIC) and its counterpart CHRONReader. CHRONIC CHRONIC is a...

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...

Events

Currently there are no events planned

Past events

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Apr

Annif users meet-up

On April 2nd the KB (National Library) will be hosting a meet-up with Annif users. Due to the corona outbreak, the meet-up will take place online via Teams. Annif is a tool for automated subject indexing and classification, developed at...

22

Sep

ICDAR2019 Competition on Digitised Magazine Article Segmentation

The results of the ICDAR2019 Competition on Digitised Magazine Article Segmentation will be presented during the ICDAR2019 conference. For more information about the conference, please see http://icdar2019.org/

12

Sep

KB Lab at DHBenelux 2019

This year's DHBenelux conference takes place in Liège Belgium. Steven Claeyssens and Sara Veldhoen will be representing the KB Lab and researchers-in-residence Annemieke Romein and Kaspar Beelen will also be presenting. The following presentations are in collaboration with the KB...