Are you an academic researcher and into a week of researching and coding on our challenge of creating automated metadata?

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

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

Written by Antoine Peris, KB Researcher-in-residence

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.

'Hoe gaat jouw Instagram post geschiedenis schrijven?' en 'Waar is de stoere, rokende Marlboro man heen?'.

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 ...

As KB Lab we also hope to provide a platform for the community working with the digitised collection of the KB.

 

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The KB Lab Bot is a working prototype of a Facebook Messenger Bot that allows you to retrieve Dutch cultural heritage masterpieces. The bot is a showcase of an open source content management...

The xportal tool has been updated. It is now possible to search the Delpher collections in this experimental portal using a Wikidata SPARQL query. ...