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Extrablatt! Final Report Europeana Newspapers published!

Reblogged from http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/final-report/

All things must come to an end eventually – even the Europeana Newspapers project. The good news is that in every end, there is also a new beginning. But more on this later.

After 38 months of hard, but also very fun and rewarding work with our network, the project has officially come to a close in March 2015. But as usual with such endeavours, there are still many activities which go on beyond the lifetime of the project, such as reporting and reviewing, disseminating and spreading the results as well as fostering takeup and new initiatives around the use and exploitation of said outcomes.

Digitale objecten en hun context

August 19, 2015 / barbarasierman2013 / 0 Comments

Deze post is geschreven door Barbara Sierman

Al enkele jaren praten we over “Verrijkte publicaties” in een poging greep te krijgen op publicaties die vergezeld worden van datasets, websites, audio, video etc. Er is indertijd binnen het Europese project Driver een datamodel ontworpen en enkele universitaire repositories in Nederland hebben dit geïmplementeerd. In het kader van de NCDD is vorig jaar een werkgroep gestart om te kijken hoe het in de praktijk staat met de duurzame toegang tot deze digitale objecten met bijbehorende context. Veelal wordt het object gescheiden van de context bewaard, namelijk bij een andere collectiehouder.
Een rapport met bevindingen is zojuist verschenen en te vinden op de website van de NCDD. Deze blog is een samenvatting van het rapport.

Preparations for getting the certificate

August 11, 2015 / barbarasierman2013 / 0 Comments

This post was written bij Barbara Sierman

Recently I blogged about the NCDD work package on Certification, a Dutch initiative in which 5 major memory institutions will get certified according to either DSA, or DIN (and in the future ISO 16363). One of the organizations participating is the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The NISV is the production archive for the Dutch public broadcasters (without a legal deposit law in The Netherlands this material is not collected in the National Library but we have shared responsibilities for collecting our national heritage).

DH2015 – Researchers, librarians and a lot of information

July 13, 2015 / lottewilms / 0 Comments

Two weeks ago I just arrived in Sydney, Australia after a quite comfortable, but long flight for DH2015, thé conference on Digital Humanities. We had the good fortune to be able to present our Researcher-in-residence program there, during the poster presentations. But that meant, of course, that we (my colleague Steven Claeyssens and I) could also enjoy the rest of the conference. And enjoy it, we did! Of course, there is too much to capture in one blog post, so I’ll just highlight a few that you might be seeing some more of here or in our Lab.

Why PDF/A validation matters – Part 2

July 8, 2015 / Johan van der Knijff / 0 Comments

This is the second and final instalment of a 2-part blog on the use of PDF/A validators for identifying preservation risks in PDF. You can read the first part here. In Part 1 I showed how PDF/A validators can be used to identify preservation risks in a PDF. I illustrated this with an example that uses the PDF/A validator component of Adobe Acrobat’s Preflight tool. Needless to say, Acrobat is not scalabe to situations where you need to verify large volumes of PDFs. Luckily, several stand-alone PDF/A validators exist that are designed especially to do just that.

Why PDF/A validation matters, even if you don’t have PDF/A

July 7, 2015 / Johan van der Knijff / 5 Comments

This is the first installment of a 2-part blog (part 2 is here). It was prompted by the upcoming Digital Preservation Coalition briefing When is a PDF not a PDF?, for which I was asked to prepare a presentation. My initial idea was to give an overview of the work we did on PDF preservation risk assessment using a PDF/A validator in the SCAPE project. Most of this has already been covered by a series of earlier blog posts. Those blogs very much represent different stages of a work in progress, and I think this makes them somewhat challenging for readers who are new to the subject.

PoliMedia project with KB data wins LODLAM Open Data Prize

July 3, 2015 / lottewilms / 1 Comment

This post is written by Martijn Kleppe and adapted for the blog by Lotte Wilms

During the LODLAM Challenge in Sydney this summer, CLARIN-NL project PoliMedia has won the Open Data Prize. PoliMedia assists researchers in analysing the media coverage of debates in the Dutch Parliament. The system automatically generates links between the debates and coverage about those debates in newspapers and radio bulletins, which have been provided by the KB. Out of 39 entries, the jury judged PoliMedia to be the most innovative project because of its optimal use of semantic techniques and transparent process in opening up the generated links to other researchers.

Woehoe! We've won the #lodlam Challenge Open Data Prize with http://t.co/h63ClzcNJd!

— Martijn Kleppe (@MartijnKleppe) June 30, 2015

Previously, PoliMedia won the Veni LinkedUp Challenge and was finalist of the Semantic Web Challenge. The project was a joined effort of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, TU Delft, Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands and has been financed by CLARIN-NL.

For more information, please visit www.polimedia.nl or see the video at http://polimedia.nl/about. Do you also want to use a KB data set for a project? Leave a comment below or contact us at dh @ kb . nl.

“Towards Open Science” Liber conferentie, 24-26 juni in Londen

July 2, 2015 / barbarasierman2013 / 1 Comment

“Towards Open Science” was het thema van de Liber conferentie en het lijkt op een nieuw buzzword na jaren van “Open Access”. Maar waar Open Access zich richt op de eindresultaten, dus de artikelen in tijdschriften, richt Open Science zich op transparantie van het hele wetenschappelijke proces. En bibliotheken kunnen daar een grote rol in spelen, volgens Dr Jean-Claude Burgelman, hoofd van unit Science Policy and Foresight van de Europese Commissie (zie ook http://scienceintransition.eu/ ). “Libraries are the knowledge brokers for Open Science”, luidde het in zijn lezing. Open Science is een grote verandering in denken (paradigm shift) maar biedt ook mogelijkheden, als meer transparantie, meer waar voor je geld en een betere relatie tussen wetenschap en de gemeenschap (society). Het thema Open Science staat hoog op de agenda van de Europese Commissie en we zullen dat in Nederland merken als we volgend jaar voorzitter van de EU worden. Ook Sir Mark Walport (chief Scientific Advisor van HM Government in de UK) zag ‘electronic publishing’ als de “second Gutenberg”, omdat het zoveel kansen biedt, betere indexering, betere vindbaarheid en ‘evoluerende’ artikelen doordat zowel positieve als negatieve feedback in nieuwe versies verwerkt wordt (ik denk dan, hoe bewáren we dat?). De impact van wetenschap kan groter worden als er meer gedeeld wordt via Open Science. Continue reading

Digital Humanities at the KB

June 18, 2015 / lottewilms / 0 Comments

As promised, a blog about our poster at DHBenelux, but I didn’t want to simply publish the poster, so here is the explanation that goes with in. The abstract we submitted was a very general story about what happens in the KB with regards to Digital Humanities and the poster we developed out of this is one we hope you’ll see more often, because we love talking to you and promoting our stuff! But what was on this poster and what is actually happening with DH in the KB? In our strategic plan for 2015-2018 we refer to the Digital Humanists as the top layer of our user pyramid:

The top layer is formed by a relatively small, but growing group. They are researchers and developers who use the large textual data sets that the KB has built up with its partners during the past few years. More and more humanities researchers use tools to extract information and visualize data, to get a grip on data sets that can no longer be analyzed in the traditional way (big data). The KB actively supports this form of Humanities, Digital Humanities. (p. 10)

DH Benelux 2015: Tools, research, reflection

June 15, 2015 / lottewilms / 0 Comments

This blog post was written by Adeline van den Berg and Lotte Wilms

On 8 and 9 June 2015, the second DH Benelux conference took place, bringing approx. 150 Digital Humanists together in the beautiful building of the University of Antwerp. Apart from great lunches, conversations and a poster reception alongside penguins and flamingos, a few things stood out for us. Below we sum up what we think were common threads, with the help of some tweets.

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