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Proposal for a Teach and Talk session: The creation of 3/4D models as integral part of historical research.

Loes Opgenhaffen (UVA) & Madelon Simons (UVA) Like archaeologists, with whom in the last two decades or so 3D modelling became more embedded in research, arthistorians and historians could benefit too by integrating innovative 3D technology in their research, since it may be a valuable visual and contextual aid in the interpretative process. In several […]

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Proposal for a Teach and Talk session: The role of Crowdsourcing in humanities scholarship

Oana Inel and Liliana Melgar In this session we will discuss what the role of crowdsourced annotations is in humanities research. We will divide the discussion in different sections, starting with a presentation of a real case in each part, followed by a discussion about each case. The sections include: a definition of crowdsourcing, the […]

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Proposal for a Teach session: Linked Historical Data, Big and Small – use case tbd

Claartje Rasterhoff (UvA) & Auke Rijpma (UU; IISG (CLARIAH) Just as more and more historians are getting used to working with Excel or Access, a new type of datamodel is taking over the world: graph databases. Increasingly, digital history projects use RDF-based linked data models,and specific languages with which query this data (such as SPARQL). […]

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Proposal for a Teach session: Cinema Context workshop

Cinema Context workshop: reconstructing cinema networks Julia Noordegraaf, Kathleen Lotze and Karel Dibbets The database Cinema Context provides a wealth of data on the films, cinemas, people and companies that made up the Dutch landscape of cinema distribution and exhibition from 1896 until the present. This workshop aims to test the research affordances of the […]

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