Project Name | Start Date | End Date |
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2TBI | 2017 | - |
- Description
- 2wards a Transnational Biographical Infrastructure
2TBI has three main goals:
- Enriching and linking data on the life courses of transnationally mobile persons, starting out from a sample of Dutch social reformers in the period 1840-1914 and their participation in international congresses;
- Integrating (meta-)data on international organisations in the period 1914-1940, exploring the involvement of Dutch(wo)men;
- Feasibility study for the enlargement of the CLARIAH-person-entity portal towards the study of transnational cultural mobility in Europe and beyond.
The research pilot tests infrastructural improvements of Clariah components (in particular WP2), results in scientific output (one article on the infrastructural component and one on connections across borders), and advances the community of researchers into transnational biographies.
- Disciplines
- History
- Institutions
Universiteit Maastricht CLARIAH (Financier) - Persons
Dr. N. Randeraad
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‘Databases for young historians’: a practice - based crash course | 2016 | - |
- Description
- In January 2016 we organized a course to support young historians who were willing to builddatabases for historical
research but lacked the education and basic practice to undertake the project. The course was sponsored by the Posthumus Institute, the Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity (ACHI, UvA), the Huizinga Institute and the Huygens-ING. Because of the overwhelming interest we consider organizing a new edition and/or a follow up of the course and we wish to bring this to the attention of the DH Benelux participants. We hope to generate discussion about didactics in digital humanities in order to further develop the course and help enhance future projects.
Little by little, the Digital Humanities are being introduced in history curricula at Dutch universities in the
past few years. Even though the Netherlands is one of the leading countries in research and education in
this quickly evolving digital area, most young historians who already have formally completed their
educational phase miss necessary knowledge to participate in this promising field of research. This is not
the result of a lack of interest from junior scholars, but due to the fact they stand be
tween the generation that did not grow up during the current rise of computational humanities and the generation
presently following a Bachelor or Master program. Furthermore, requirements for recent vacancies show that digital skills are not only important for young historians’ current research, but also more
generally for their future academic life.
- Disciplines
- History
- Institutions
Universiteit van Leiden - Persons
MA L. Alvarez Francés MA F. Smitskamp MA P. van Bree MA T. Delpeut MA G. Kessels
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AAM-LR - Automatic Annotation of Multi-modal Language Resources | 2010 | - |
- Description
- The AAM-LR project aims at building a demonstrator of a web service that will help filed researchers to annotate audio- and video-recordings. At the top level the service will mark the time intervals at which specific persons in the recording are speaking. In addition, the service will provide a global phonetic annotation, using language independent phone models and phonetic features. Speech will be separated from speaker noises such as laughing. The output of the web service will be fed into the ELAN/ANNEX editor, to facilitate further manual annotation. Integration in the ELAN/ANNEX framework will reduce the need for extensive user interface development. The annotations will conform to ISOCat and potential new categories will be added to ISOCat. The AAM-LR project is completely based on open domain software.
- Disciplines
- Speech technology
Media Studies
- Institutions
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen - Persons
Prof.dr. L.W.J. Boves
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ACAD - Automatic Coherence Analysis of Dutch | 2017 | - |
- Description
- The goal of the present proposal is to develop an environment in which computationally naive discourse analysts can carry out an automatic analysis of causal coherence in discourse.
The project specifically aims at developing a linguists-oriented search interface for which the case of causal coherence serves as a point-of-proof.
The research question of the project is: To what extent do the results of causal coherence analysis in different genres in terms of subjectivity based on small-scale studies hold for large datasets?
The project will make use of several Clariah components. A linguist-oriented web interface will be added to CorpusStudio, that does not immediately force the researcher to write searches in a programming language but will allow him/her to focus on the syntactic definition of the searches.
- Disciplines
- History
- Institutions
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen CLARIAH (Financier) - Persons
Prof.dr. W. Spooren
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Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN) | 2011-03-01 | 2014-02-01 |
- Description
- Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN) addresses the current discrepancy between the broader social and economic functions of scientific and scholarly research in all fields of the sciences, social sciences and the humanities and the dominant criteria for evaluating performance by researchers. The assessment of the performance of individual researchers is the cornerstone of the scientific and scholarly workforce. Evaluation of individual scholars happens at different careers stages and comes in different forms, among others: job interviews, annual performance assessments, journal peer review of researchers? manuscripts, and reviews of grant applications. These evaluations have a tremendous influence on all aspects of knowledge production. Moreover, the very criteria of what counts as excellent and relevant research for the next generation of researchers will be strongly influenced by their current experiences in the regular evaluation exercises to which they are subjected. It is therefore urgent that the criteria used in evaluations at the individual level have a clear and well-understood relationship with the requirements that scientists and scholars will need to meet in the near future. ACUMEN is a European research collaboration aimed at understanding the ways in which researchers are evaluated by their peers and institutions, and at assessing how the science system can be improved and enhanced. This FP7 project is a cooperation among several European research institutes with Professor Paul Wouters (CWTS ? Leiden University) as the principal investigator.
- Disciplines
- Social Sciences
- Institutions
European Commission (Financier) Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences - KNAW (Commissioner) Centre for Science and Technology Studies (Secretariat) - Persons
Drs. C.C. Tatum (Contact person) Dr. A. Scharnhorst (Researcher) Prof.dr. S. Wyatt (Researcher) Dr. F.V. van der Most (Researcher) Prof.dr. P.F. Wouters (Project leader)
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Accents of European English – An online experiment | 2014 | - |
- Description
- This project aims to explore the various ways of communication in English in Europe, specifically focusing on the accents of English of various Europeans.
- Disciplines
- Linguistics
Linguistics
- Institutions
Universiteit Utrecht (Collaboration) - Persons
Dr. R. van den Doel (Project leader)
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Access to and sharing of research data from public funding - Global Research Village OECD | 2003-12-01 | - |
- Description
- This project includes a variety of activities aimed at supporting the work of the OECD / CSTP Working Group on Access to and Sharing of Research Data from Public Funding. This international group is chaired by Prof. Peter Arzberger (Executive Director of the US National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure and University of California San Diego) and has the task of presenting a report supported by research on data sharing on the fourth Global Research Village Conference in Poland in 2002. NIWI-KNAW in this context comprise: - a scan of the existing rules of the most important research organizations in the US (including the NSF, NIH, NASA, NRC, AAAS, National Archives, National Endowment for Humanities, Library of Congress, and the data archives of the ICPSR); - A survey by e-mail to the members of the European Science Foundation and research organizations in Japan, Canada and Australia; - On the basis of these results, preparation of a research proposal will be made concerning data sharing for the Working Plan of the OECD / CSTP Working Group; - Organizing international expert meetings.
- Disciplines
- -
- Institutions
The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences VKS (Secretariat) - Persons
Dr. J.A. Beaulieu (Researcher) Drs. C. Reddy (Researcher) Prof.dr. P.F. Wouters (Researcher)
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ACT: The Amsterdam City Theatre Database (1774-2016) | 2016 | 2017 |
- Description
- The database will contain information of the repertoire of the City Theatre of Amsterdam since the new building at the Leidseplein in 1774. By collecting information from advertisements, yearbooks, programme books, etc. dates of performances, writers and directors will be brought together in an online database. In combination with new digital analysing tools we will be able to get information about the taste of the audience, the coming and going of plays, canonization, fixed plays on fixed days in the year, European networks, and the identity of Amsterdam as a creative city. The project complements the data collected in ONSTAGEÂ on the Amsterdam City Theatre for the period 1637-1772.
- Disciplines
- -
- Institutions
Universiteit van Amsterdam - Persons
J. Vos (Student Assistant ) Dr. F.R.E. Blom Dr. R.G.C. van der Zalm
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Adelheid - A Distributed Lemmatizer for Historical Dutch | 2010 | - |
- Description
- This project aims at providing a web-application with which an end user can have historical Dutch text tokenized, lemmatized and part-of-speech tagged, using the most appropriate resources (such as lexica) for the text in question. The need to consistently use appropriate resources leads to the intuitively obvious strategy of placing this service in the Clarin infrastructure. For each specific text, the user can then select the best resources from those available in Clarin, wherever they might reside, and where necessary supplemented by own lexica. During the project a demonstrator for the distributed automatic lemmatization will be created, with some 14th century charters as test texts as well as corresponding resources.
- Disciplines
- Literary Studies
History Computer Science
- Institutions
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen - Persons
H. van Halteren
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ADEPT - Assaying Differences via Edit-Distance of Pronunciation Transcriptions | 2010 | - |
- Description
- The goal of the project is to provide a web application capable of measuring the differences in sets of phonetic (or phonemic) transcriptions via edit distance. The C-based software on which the application is to be based has existed since about 2001, has been freely distributed since 2004, and is used modestly but profitably outside of Groningen (about 20 users). But it is too complex for many potential users, esp. dialectologists and second-language learning specialists. The goal of the proposed work is to develop and implement a graphical user interface and to make the string comparison facility available as a web application. This should enable wider experimentation with the techniques. We will consult with and collaborate with specialists for the expertise needed in establishing the application, to ensure that conforms to emerging standards, and also to attempt to use the needs of the application as a test case for formulating more general infrastructure requirements for CLARIN and CLARIN-NL
- Disciplines
- Linguistics
Phonetics Language studies
- Institutions
Rijks Universiteit Groningen - Persons
C. Gooskens
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