Output

• Publications
  • Articles
  • Blog posts
• Datasets
• Presentations
• Events

Publications

Articles

• Wissen, Leon van, Kuruppath, Manjusha, & Petram, Lodewijk. (2025). Unlocking the Research Potential of Early Modern Dutch Maps. European Journal of Geography, s12–s17. https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.si.spat.hum.l.wis.12.17

• Schnober, Carsten, Smit, Renate, Kuruppath, Manjusha, Pepping, Kay, van Wissen, Leon & Petram, Lodewijk. (2024). Page Embeddings: Extracting and Classifying Historical Documents with Generic Vector Representations. Proceedings of the CHR 2024: Computational Humanities Research Conference, December 4–6, 2024, Aarhus, Denmark, 999–1011. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/paper73.pdf

• Luthra, Mrinalini, & Nijman, Brecht. (2024). Lost in Translation? Approaches to Gender Representation in Multilingual Archives. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies, pages 42–55, Sheffield, United Kingdom. European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT). https://aclanthology.org/2024.gitt-1.5.

• Verkijk, Stella, Sommerauer, Pia, & Vossen, Piek. (2024). Studying Language Variation Considering the Re-Usability of Modern Theories, Tools and Resources for Annotating Explicit and Implicit Events in Centuries Old Text. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024), Mexico City, Mexico, 174–187. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.15.

• Eskevich, Maria, & Luthra, Mrinalini. (2024). Data-Envelopes for Cultural Heritage: Going beyond Datasheets. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies @ LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italia, 52–65. https://aclanthology.org/2024.legal-1.9.

• Pepping, Kay. (2024). Reflections on Encoding Languages in Historical Data: Working With the Multilingual Dimension of the Dutch East India Company Archives. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10(29). https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.176.

• Verkijk, Stella, & Vossen, Piek. (2023). Sunken Ships Shan’t Sail: Ontology Design for Reconstructing Events in the Dutch East India Company Archives. Proceedings of the CHR 2023: Computational Humanities Research Conference, December 6-8, 2023, Paris, France, 320-332. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/paper3332.pdf.

• Verkijk, Stella, Roothaert, Ritten, Pernisch, Romana, & Schlobach, Stefan. (2023). Do you catch my drift? On the usage of embedding methods to measure concept shift in knowledge graphs. In Knowledge Capture Conference 2023 (K-CAP ’23), December 05-07, 2023, Pensacola, FL, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3587259.3627555.

• Petram, Lodewijk, & Rossum, Matthias van. (2022). Transforming historical research practices – a digital infrastructure for the VOC archives (GLOBALISE). International Journal of Maritime History, 34(3), 494-502. https://doi.org/10.1177/08438714221112873.

• Petram, Lodewijk, & Rossum, Matthias van. (2022). GLOBALISE: een onderzoeksrevolutie voor het VOC-archief. Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis, 41(1), 104-107.

• (pre-GLOBALISE) Arnoult, Sophie, Petram, Lodewijk & Vossen, Piek. Batavia asked for advice. Pretrained language models for Named Entity Recognition in historical texts. Proceedings of LaTeCH-CLfL 2021, 21-30. https://aclanthology.org/2021.latechclfl-1.3.pdf.

Blog posts

• Smit, Renate. (20 June 2024). From ABC to VOC Volume: Utilizing Traditional Finding Aids for the GLOBALISE Infrastructure.

• Pepping, Kay. (2 April 2024). Unearthing Insights at the GLOBALISE Commodity Data Sprint.

• Pepping, Kay. (15 February 2024). Thesaurus Treasures: Why We’re Creating a Hierarchical Lexicon of Commodities.

• Bosse, Arno. (29 January 2024). An interactive design collaboration with the University of Utrecht.

• Wissen, Leon van. (6 November 2023). Old Maps, New Discoveries: A Datasprint’s Digital Exploration.

• Vellinga, Henrike. (5 April 2023). Textile Taxonomies – GLOBALISE’s efforts in defining traded textiles in the Indian Ocean Region.

• Tosun, Merve. (1 March 2023). Aligning GLOBALISE with Researchers’ Needs.

• Hids, Maartje, & Pepping, Kay. (13 December 2022). The (Ground) Truth is out there: an introduction to GLOBALISE’s use of Handwritten Text Recognition.

• Verkijk, Stella. (4 October 2022). Automatic Event Detection in Early Modern Dutch (VOC) documents: the Annotation Phase.

• Kuruppath, Manjusha. (30 June 2022). Rediscovering Early Modern Polities: First Thoughts on Dataset Creation.

• Tosun, Merve. (23 May 2022). Looking back on a successful kickoff meeting.

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Datasets

The list below shows datasets produced within the project. These are published on Dataverse, along with external datasets that we receive and process within the project.

• Maillard, Philippe; Pepping, Kay; Kuruppath, Manjusha; Land, Ruben (18 December 2024). GLOBALISE – Namebooks of the Dutch East India Company (1730-1794). https://hdl.handle.net/10622/DITM0Z.

• Hids, Maartje; Brink, Femke; Berentzen, Sterre; Berg, Tanne van den; Pham, Thuy Dung; Nijman, Brecht; Wissen, Leon van; Rossum, Matthias van; Kuruppath, Manjusha (9 July 2024). GLOBALISE – Early Modern Polities in the Dutch East India Company Archives (1600-1815). https://hdl.handle.net/10622/SOS0KC.

• Vellinga, Henrike; Nijman, Brecht; Kuruppath, Manjusha (23 May 2024). GLOBALISE – Weights and Measures in the 18th-Century Indian Ocean World. https://hdl.handle.net/10622/MDNVH5.

• Pepping, Kay; Hids, Maartje; Tosun, Merve; Brink, Femke; Swüste, Marja; GLOBALISE project (2 May 2024). GLOBALISE Ground Truth for Handwritten Text and Layout Recognition. https://hdl.handle.net/10622/QJZKZ2.

• Klut, Stefan; Koert, Rutger van; Maas, Martijn (15 April 2024). GLOBALISE Laypa Baseline Model – August 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/10622/VMSCBR.

• Klut, Stefan; Koert, Rutger van; Maas, Martijn (11 April 2024). GLOBALISE Laypa Region Model – August 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/10622/DMAS2T.

• Koert, Rutger van; Klut, Stefan; Maas, Martijn (11 April 2024). GLOBALISE Loghi Handwritten Text Recognition Model – August 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/10622/X2JZYY.

• Nijman, Brecht (11 April 2024). GLOBALISE Geographical Indices of the RGP General Missives, https://hdl.handle.net/10622/75DURG.

• GLOBALISE project. (15 March 2024). VOC transcriptions v2 – GLOBALISE, https://hdl.handle.net/10622/LVXSBW.

• Pepping, Kay; Vellinga, Henrike; Kuruppath, Manjusha; Wissen, Leon van; Rossum, Matthias van (28 November 2023). GLOBALISE Thesaurus – Commodities. https://hdl.handle.net/10622/YAWDOV.

• GLOBALISE project. (7 July 2023). VOC transcriptions – GLOBALISE. https://hdl.handle.net/10622/JCTCJ2.

• Pepping, Kay (5 April 2023). Overzicht van Generale Missiven in het archief van de VOC, 1.04.02. https://hdl.handle.net/10622/BHKMWE.

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Presentations

• Petram, Lodewijk. (18 December 2024). Leveraging GLOBALISE and digital maps for new histories of the VOC in Taiwan. Workshop Since 1624: Studying the Impact of the VOC in Taiwan, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

• Verkijk, Stella. (17 October 2024). Automatic Event Detection in Early Modern Dutch (VOC) documents. Natural Language Processing (NLP) SIG, eScience Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Invited.

• Wissen, Leon van, & Petram, Lodewijk (25 September 2024). Click, See, Explore: A Multimodal Approach to Better Understand the Early Modern Colonial World through Old Maps. Spatial Humanities 2024, Bamberg, Germany.

• Pepping, Kay, Konings, Pascal, & Huber, Philipp (21 August 2024). The Potential of Digital Methods for Colonial, Maritime, and Slave Trade History in Asia. Round table. 9th IMHA International Conference of Maritime History, Busan, South Korea.

• Kuruppath, Manjusha. (29 June 2024). Plotting Places: The Globalise Project, the Dutch East India Company Archives and Places in the Early Modern World. Conference of the World History Association 2024: Currents, San Francisco, USA.

• Verkijk, Stella. (21 June 2024). Studying Language Variation Considering the Re-Usability of Modern Theories, Tools and Resources for Annotating Explicit and Implicit Events in Centuries Old Text. VarDial 2024 : Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, Mexico City, Mexico.

• Pepping, Kay. (7 June 2024). Not something to gloss over: identifying foreign loanwords and their understood meaning in the corpus of the Dutch East India Company. DH Benelux 2024, Leuven, Belgium.

• Wissen, Leon van. (5 June 2024). Bridging Text and Space: Leveraging the IIIF Presentation Standard for a Better Understanding of Early Modern Archival Material. IIIF Annual Conference and Showcase 2024, Los Angeles, USA.

• Kuruppath, Manjusha. (1 June 2024). GLOBALISE: Unveiling the Dutch East India Company Archives, Uncovering Taiwanese History. 13th International Symposium on Taiwan Culture: Global Interactions in the Sinophone World: Reflecting on Coast, Compagnie and Cultural Commemoration, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Nijman, Brecht, & Kuruppath, Manjusha. (12 December 2023). How can authoritative vocabularies be more inclusive of non-Western concepts? Ninth Linked Pasts symposium, online.

• Verkijk, Stella. (6 December 2023). Sunken Ships Shan’t Sail: Ontology Design for Reconstructing Events in the Dutch East India Company Archives. Fourth Conference on Computational Humanities Research, Paris, France.

• Petram, Lodewijk. (24 November 2023). GLOBALISE: Het VOC-archief toegankelijk maken voor de wereld. Vijftiende symposium van het Maritiem Portal, Vlissingen, the Netherlands.

• Wissen, Leon van, & Brugman, Hennie. (18 October 2023). GLOBALISE. IIIF community call. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL0_n_X8VtM.

• Schnober, Carsten, Pepping, Kay, Hids, Maartje, & Petram, Lodewijk. (22 September 2023). Classifying the Quality of Digitized VOC Documents. CLIN33, Antwerp, Belgium.

• Petram, Lodewijk, & Wissen, Leon van. (30 June 2023). GLOBALISE. Vlootschouw 2023 (poster), Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• Petram, Lodewijk. (30 June 2023). GLOBALISE. Vlootschouw 2023, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• Pepping, Kay, & Nijman, Brecht. (1 June 2023). Building a VOCabulary: the uses and challenges of thesauri for working with early modern recognized entities. DHBenelux 2023 (short paper), Brussels, Belgium. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7973694.

• Rossum, Matthias van. (16 May 2023). Digital infrastructure for colonial archives, court records and global histories. Workshop Gender and Work Group, IISH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• Verkijk, Stella. (28 November 2022). Towards Automatic Event Detection in VOC Documents. GLOBALISE seminar.

• Verkijk, Stella. (10 November 2022).

• Nijman, Brecht, Petram, Lodewijk, & Wissen, Leon van. (10 November 2022). GLOBALISE – The practice of data model interoperability, Golden Agents/Data for History, Amsterdam.

• Pepping, Kay. (31 October 2022). Creating a commodity classification for the Indian Ocean World. GLOBALISE seminar.

• Wissen, Leon van. (13 October 2022). Understanding the History of Early Globalisation and Colonialism, Data Science Day 2022, Amsterdam.

• Kuruppath, Manjusha. (26 September 2022). From VOC archives to datasets and back. GLOBALISE seminar.

• Rossum, Matthias van. (16 September 2022). Globalise. Mogelijkheden van onderzoeksinfrastructuur koloniale en gerechtelijke bronnen. Workshop ‘Social Hotspots: Artificiële intelligentie en burgerwetenschap in gerechtelijk archief uit het ancien régime‘, Rijksarchief, Brussel.

• Wissen, Leon van. (27 June 2022). Data modelling at the start of the GLOBALISE project (pilot), GLOBALISE seminar.

• Kok, Gerhard de. (30 May 2022). Entity Linking in Structured and Linked Data on VOC Ships. GLOBALISE seminar.

• Petram, Lodewijk. (14 April 2022). Project GLOBALISE, Symposium ‘De waarde van open data’, Nationaal Archief, The Hague.

• Rossum, Matthias van. (23 March 2022). Globalise. Mogelijkheden van onderzoeksinfrastructuur, koloniale en gerechtelijke bronnen, HUF Congres, Tresoar, Leeuwarden.

• Petram, Lodewijk, & Rossum, Matthias van. (7 December 2021). GLOBALISE, CREATE Salon, Amsterdam.

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Classes / Guest lectures

• Verkijk, Stella. (November 2024). Co-teacher (2 classes) ‘Advanced Linguistics‘. VU University Amsterdam.

• Rossum, Matthias van. (25 September 2024). Guestlecture at the class ‘In de schaduw van de VOC: Aziatische ondernemers en koloniale factorijen‘, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

• Verkijk, Stella. (November 2023). Co-teacher (4 classes) ‘Advanced Linguistics‘. VU University Amsterdam.

• Nijman, Brecht, & Petram, Lodewijk. (27 and 28 November 2023). Guest lecture at the class ‘Kernvak 2 Master Geschiedenis‘, University of Amsterdam.

• Verkijk, Stella. (13 April 2023). Guest lecture at the class ‘Digital Humanities (Master)‘, VU University Amsterdam.

• Petram, Lodewijk. (22 April 2022). Guest lecture at the class ‘Nederlandse bronnen als venster op de wereld‘, Leiden University.

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Events

• GLOBALISE meets Nationaal Archief. (15 October 2024). The Hague, the Netherlands.

• GLOBALISE seminar: CAPASIA, The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism. (21 May 2024). Amsterdam.

• GLOBALISE data sprint: What on Earth is This? Defining, Labeling and Classifying Early Modern Commodities. (4 December 2023). Amsterdam.

• GLOBALISE HTR launch. (4 October 2023). Amsterdam.

• GLOBALISE data sprint: Mapping Places in the Indian Ocean World. (15 May 2023). Amsterdam.

• GLOBALISE user panel, first meeting for researchers from outside the Netherlands. (10 May 2023). Online.

• GLOBALISE user panel, third meeting. (8 May 2023). Amsterdam.

• GLOBALISE user panel, second meeting. (19 December 2022). Amsterdam.

• GLOBALISE seminar: Historical Events and Frames Annotation Processes. (28 November 2022). Amsterdam.

• GLOBALISE user panel, first meeting. (8 November 2022). Amsterdam.

• GLOBALISE seminar: Classification of Historical Data and Collections. (31 October 2022). Amsterdam.

• GLOBALISE seminar: Writing Global Histories with the VOC Archives. (26 September 2022). Amsterdam.

• GLOBALISE seminar: Entity Modelling and Historical Observations. (27 June 2022). Amsterdam.

• GLOBALISE seminar: Entity Linking and (the Trouble of) Historical Data. (30 May 2022). Amsterdam.

• GLOBALISE kick-off meeting. (11 May 2022). Amsterdam.