This year’s edition of the VU Digital Humanities in Practice course was of course a virtual one. In this course, students of the Minor Digital Humanities and Social Analytics put everything that they have learned in that minor in practice,…

At this year’s Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR2020), I just presented our work on Linked Data Scopes: an ontology to describe data manipulation steps. The paper was co-authored with Ivette Bonestroo, one of our Digital Humanities minor students as…

[This blog post is based on the Master thesis Information Sciences of Bram Schmidt, which he conducted at the KNAW Humanities cluster and IISG. It reuses text from his thesis] Place names (toponyms) are very ambiguous and may change over…

[This blog post is based on the Master thesis Information Sciences of Bram Schmidt, conducted at the KNAW Humanities cluster and IISG. It reuses text from his thesis] Place names (toponyms) are very ambiguous and may change over time. This…

From November 1 2020, we are collaborating on connecting tangible and intangible heritage through knowledge graphs in the new Horizon2020 project “InTaVia“. To facilitate access to rich repositories of tangible and intangible asset, new technologies are needed to enable their…

[This blog post was written by Nizar Hirzalla and describes his VU Master AI project conducted at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), co-supervised by Sara Veldhoen] Authorship attribution is the process of correctly attributing a publication to its corresponding author, which…

This year’s SEMANTiCS conference was a weird one. As so many other conferences, we had to improvise to deal with the COVID-19 restrictions around travel and event organization. With the help of many people behind the scenes -including the wonderful…

Last week, I attended the second workshop of the ARIAS working group of AI and the Arts. ARIAS is a platform for research on Arts and Sciences and as such seeks to build a bridge between these disciplines. The new…

It is so nice when two often very distinct research lines come together. In my case, Digital Humanities and ICT for Development rarely meet directly. But they sure did come together when Gossa Lô started with her Master AI thesis.…

[This post is based on Enya Nieland‘s Msc Thesis “Generating Earcons from Knowledge Graphs” ] Three earcons with varying pitch, rythm and both pitch and rythm Knowledge Graphs are becoming enormously popular, which means that users interacting with such complex…