Output

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

Publications

Articles

• 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.

• 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

• Wissen, Leon van. (6 November 2023). Old Maps, New Discoveries: A Datasprint’s Digital Exploration. https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/old-maps-new-discoveries-a-datasprints-digital-exploration/.

• Vellinga, Henrike. (5 April 2023). Textile Taxonomies – GLOBALISE’s efforts in defining traded textiles in the Indian Ocean Region. https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/textile-taxonomies-globalises-efforts-in-defining-traded-textiles-in-the-indian-ocean-region/.

• Tosun, Merve. (1 March 2023). Aligning GLOBALISE with Researchers’ Needs. https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/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. https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/the-ground-truth-is-out-there-an-introduction-to-globalises-use-of-handwritten-text-recognition/.

• Verkijk, Stella. (4 October 2022). Automatic Event Detection in Early Modern Dutch (VOC) documents: the Annotation Phase. https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/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. https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/rediscovering-early-modern-polities-first-thoughts-on-dataset-creation/.

• Tosun, Merve. (23 May 2022). Looking back on a successful kickoff meeting. https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/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.

• Pepping, K.; Vellinga, H.; Kuruppath, M.; Van Wissen, L.; Van Rossum, M. (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

• Verkijk, Stella, & Vossen, Piek. (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.

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

• 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.

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

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

• 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). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7973694.

• Petram, Lodewijk, & Wissen, Leon van. (1 June 2023). GLOBALISE: A Plurivocal Approach to Unlocking Colonial Sources. DHBenelux 2023 (poster). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7989679.

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

• 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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Guest lectures

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

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

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Events

• 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.