In this session we would like to set up a basic GIS of Amsterdam together, in order for historians to have a basic GIS with commonly used data available as a basis for spatial research. We have a few spatial data sets available (cinemas, shops, theatres from the last few centuries and some maps), but […]

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 […]

Proposal for a Talk (and Discuss) Session: Digital Humanities and Libraries Michiel Cock (VU) & Steven Claeyssens (KB) We believe that research libraries can play a pivotal role in the uptake of Digital Humanities research and teaching, but would like to ask the campers for advice. Inspired by some international examples, we are working on a […]

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 […]

I am currently a Marie Curie researcher at UvA, and at the same time have started to develop a new project. I would like to have a talk/brainstorming session in connection with my new idea. My current Marie Curie project is titled „Trauma Studies in the Digital Age: The Impact of Social Media on Trauma […]

Session by Pim van Bree & Geert Kessels. In this session we plan to continue on the session proposed by Claartje Rasterhoff and Auke Rijpma. The inspiration for this session comes from this topic on the nodegoat forum where the OP states: “Graph databases and SPARQL are useless unless you […] have several weeks of […]

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). […]

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 […]