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Elevator Annotator: Local Crowdsourcing on Audio Annotation

July 24th, 2017

[This post is based on Anggarda Prameswari’s Information Sciences MSc. Thesis] For her M.Sc. Project, conducted at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV), Information Sciences student Anggarda Prameswari (pictured right) investigated a local crowdsourcing application [Read More...]
Events panel at DHBenelux2017

July 5th, 2017

At the Digital Humanities Benelux 2017 conference, the e-humanities Events working group organized a panel with the titel “A Pragmatic Approach to Understanding and Utilizing Events in Cultural Heritage”. In this panel, researchers from  Vrije Universiteit [Read More...]
DIVE+ receives the Grand Prize at the LODLAM Summit in Venice

June 29th, 2017

We are excited to announce that DIVE+ has been awarded the Grand Prize at the LODLAM Summit, held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini this week. The summit brought together ~100 experts in the vibrant and [Read More...]
Getting down with LOD tools at the 2nd CLARIAH Linked Data workshop

June 29th, 2017

[cross-post from clariah.nl] On Tuesday 13 June 2017, the second CLARIAH Linked Data workshop took place. After the first workshop in September which was very much an introduction to Linked Data to the CLARIAH community, we [Read More...]
Trip Report: Language, Data and Knowledge 2017

June 28th, 2017

Last week, I was the first Language, Data and Knowledge Conference (LDK 2017) hosted in Galway, Ireland. If you show up at a natural language processing conference (especially someplace like LREC) you’ll find a group [Read More...]
Collective Intelligence 2017 – Trip Report

June 23rd, 2017

On June 15-16 the Collective Intelligence conference took place at New York University. The CrowdTruth team was present with Lora Aroyo, Chris Welty and Benjamin Timmermans. Together with Anca Dumitrache and Oana Inel we published [Read More...]
ESWC 2017 – Trip Report

June 14th, 2017

Between 28th of May and 1st of June 2016 the 14th Extended Semantic Web Conference took place in Portorož, Slovenia. As part of the CrowdTruth team and project, Oana Inel presented her paper [Read More...]
Kickoff meeting Mixed Methods in the Humanities projects

June 7th, 2017

Last week, the Volkswagen Stiftung-funded “Mixed Methods’ in the Humanities?” programme had its kickoff meeting for all funded projects in in Hannover, Germany. Our ArchiMediaL project on enriching and linking historical architectural and urban image collections was [Read More...]
EVENTS2017 workshop at SEMANTiCS

June 7th, 2017

An important role in the interpretation of cultural heritage collections is played by ‘historic events’. In the SEMANTiCS workshop Events2017: Understanding Events Semantics in Cultural Heritage, to be held on 11 Sept 2017, we will [Read More...]
Harnessing Diversity in Crowds and Machines for Better NER Performance

May 30th, 2017

Today, I presented in the Research Track of ESWC 2017 my work entitled “Harnessing Diversity in Crowds and Machines for Better NER Performance”. Following, you can check the abstract of the paper and the slides [Read More...]