##  [KB Lab at DH2017](/news/kb-lab-dh2017) 

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This week the international Digital Humanities community will gather in Montreal, Canada for the annual [Digital Humanities Conference](https://dh2017.adho.org/). The KB will be represented by [Steven Claeyssens](/person/dr-steven-claeyssens "Dr Steven Claeyssens") & [Martijn Kleppe](/person/dr-martijn-kleppe "Dr Martijn Kleppe"). Also our current researchers-in-residence [Thomas Smits](/person/thomas-smits "Thomas Smits") and [Melvin Wevers](/person/melvin-wevers "Melvin Wevers") will be at the conference. Our former researcher-in-residence [Frank Harbers](/person/dr-frank-harbers "Dr Frank Harbers") will give a virtual presentation together with [Juliette Lonij](/person/juliette-lonij "Juliette Lonij"). [Lotte Wilms](/person/lotte-wilms "Lotte Wilms") is co-author of a poster.  
  
  
  
Please find an overview of all presentations below:

- Steven will present the experiences of KB’s Dataservices when providing datasets to scholars during the workshop ‘[Shaping Humanities Data: Use, Reuse, and Paths Toward Computationally Amenable Cultural Heritage Collections](https://collectionsasdata.github.io/dh2017/)’.
- Martijn, Melvin and Thomas organise the workshop ‘[Computer Vision in Digital Humanities](https://avindhsig.wordpress.com/workshop-2017-montreal/)’ together with collegeaus of the Getty Research Institute, Dartmouth College and EPFL from Lausanne, Swiss.
- During the workshop Melvin and Juliette will present the paper [‘Visual Trends in Dutch Newspaper Advertisements’](https://avindhsig.wordpress.com/visual-trends-in-dutch-newspaper-advertisements/). Thomas will give a lightning talk titled ‘: How can Caffe be used to segment historical images into different categories?’
- During the conference, Thomas will also present a paper on his [researcher-in-residence project](/about-us/blog/can-computer-vision-find-illustrations-nineteenth-century-railway-crashes "Can computer vision find illustrations of nineteenth-century railway crashes?"), titled ‘Illustrations to Photographs: Using computer vision to analyse news pictures in Dutch newspapers, 1860-1940’. ([abstract](https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/010/010.pdf) in pdf)
- Frank Harbers and Juliette Lonij will present a virtual paper titled ‘Distinguishing Newspaper Genres. Exploring Automated Classification of Journalism’s Modes of Expression’. ([abstract](https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/206/206.pdf) in pdf)
- Lotte Wilms is 2nd author of the poster ‘Digital Humanities Clinics – Leading Dutch Librarians into DH’. The poster will be presented by Vrije Universiteit colleague Michiel Cock. ([abstract](https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/455/455.pdf) in pdf)