ICDAR2019 Competition on Digitised Magazine Article Segmentation

We've launched a competition together with the PRImA Research Lab of the University of Salford, which is part of a research track within the library to enrich our digitised material with new...

Call for contributions iPRES 2019

The international conference of digital preservation is looking for submissions for their 2019 conference in Amsterdam.

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?

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

The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), National Library of the Netherlands is seeking proposals for its fully paid Researcher-in-residence program in 2019.

KB Lab history

We regularly get requests of colleagues asking how we set up our Lab within the KB.

New blog post: Looking for cities in historical newspapers

Written by Antoine Peris, KB Researcher-in-residence

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.

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?'.

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 of the ...

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.

 

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 Institute for...

DH Clinics wins Victorine Iniative prize

Victorine Initiatiefprijs 2017 voor Lotte Wilms, Ben Companjen en Michiel Cock

Find visual trends in newspaper advertisements with SIAMESE

An advertisement browsing tool using an underlying dataset of almost 430.000 advertisements is available for research

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 a...

New blog post: Kick-off Workshop for LIBER’s Newest Working Group Digital Humanities

Reblogged from http://libereurope.eu/  ...

Registratie DH Clinics geopend

Het is zover: de inschrijvingen voor de Digital Humanities Clinics zijn geopend!

KB Lab at DH2017

This week the international Digital Humanities community will gather in Montreal, Canada for the annual Digital Humanities Conference. ...

Call Researcher-In-Residence program 2018 online

We are happy to announce that we opened the call for submissions for our researcher-in-residence-program 2018. 

Report: Library Carpentry Sprint in KB

On Thursday 1 & Friday 2 June, about 12 Dutch librarians and experts gathered in the KB to join the Library Carpentry Sprint. ...

Report: First Cultural Heritage Developers Meetup

To bring together developers who work at cultural heritage institutes, we took the initiative to organise a ‘Cultural Heritage Developers Meetup’.