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Principal researcher at NL-Lab, Inger Leemans is nominated for the Huibregtsen Prize 2024 with the research project Historical olfactory heritage: the role of smell in ou…

Anthropologist of science Marianne de Laet has been appointed new director of the Meertens Institute as of 1 June 2024. De Laet is Professor of Anthropology and Science,…

On November 28, 2023, researchers from the international project Odeuropa will highlight the value of contacting cultural heritage through the sense of smell at the Smell…

Amsterdam, The Hague – The KNAW Humanities Cluster in Amsterdam is making the transcription software Loghi available open source with immediate effect. The software was d…

DHLab of the KNAW Humanities Cluster in Amsterdam is improving AI technologies to enable advanced and innovative research based on humanities big data. Dr. Marieke van Er…

This edition includes an article on the Couranten Corpus, for which the Institute for the Dutch Language, the Meertens Institute and the Royal Library previously received…

The project ‘COLLaiTE: An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Comparing Text Versions’ of Elli Bleeker and Ronald Haentjens Dekker of the DHLab has been awarded the Open…

* Nederlands onder de Engelse tekst * Interview with Menno Rasch Menno Rasch has now been director of the KNAW Humanities Cluster’s Digital Infrastructure department for…

The REPUBLIC team, consisting of employees of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and our Department of Digital Infrastructure, has launched a web ed…

Out now: E-data & Research (June 2021), Magazine about data and research in the humanities and social sciences

We are pleased to announce that on June 1st, 2021, Menno Rasch has started at the KNAW Humanities Cluster as the new director of Digital Infrastructure.

Amsterdam, 21 May 2021 – KNAW Humanities Cluster is part of a consortium that receives 3.8 million euro from the Dutch Research Council for the GLOBALISE project to provi…

A new, €2.8M international research project, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme, will capture the smells of Europe as part of our cultural heritage: ODEUROPA.

Heritage institutions and research and knowledge organizations are starting collaboration on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Cultural AI Lab.

Ton van Kalmthout new professor of special appointment of Dutch Literature

October 2020 issue E-data & Research focuses on our research

On 1 July 2020, the KNAW Humanities Cluster started building and setting up an Open Access magazine platform openjournals.nl. The platform wants to offer a solution for i…

You have got to love the ICT with Industry-workshops. It allows us to break the boundaries of traditional fields and disciplines. And best of all: it allows us to break s…

Humanities Cluster and the Fryske Akademy have started a collaboration around the HisGIS project,

His Majesty the King visited the KNAW Humanities Cluster on Wednesday, August 29, 2018. August 29 2018, Amsterdam – The king was welcomed by Wim van Saarloos, president o…

The European Commission has chosen Time Machine as one of the six proposals retained for preparing large scale research initiatives to be strategically developed in the n…

The very first HuC LIVE! was a success. The KNAW Humanities Cluster presented its research, products and plans for the coming years to an international audience at the Co…

Scholars and software engineers have long been finding it difficult to collaborate effectively. Now it is time to switch gears.