Join us for the GLOBALISE Roundtable online! 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 Tuesday, 2 December, 10:00-12:00 CET. Register on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-changi...

On 4 September, participants in the 𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗘 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 worked with 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗸𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘀 to create new ground truth for VOC records with lists and tables. 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗸𝗲𝗿 spoke about gifts and gift-giving, 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘁 𝗡𝗶𝗷𝗺𝗮𝗻 discussed shipping lists, while 𝗧𝗼𝗺 𝗛𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 shared about food in the archives.

CfP: GLOBALISE Conference. Colonial Pasts, New Approaches and Historiographical Futures: Explorations of GLOBALISE, the Dutch East India Company Archives and the Writing of New Histories. 4-6 March 2026, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/call-for-pap...

GLOBALISE Webinar: Exploring digital methods for writing new histories, Tuesday 30 September, 13:30-16:00 CEST. Register on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/globalise-... GLOBALISE Conference, 4-6 March 2026. A call for papers will be published soon.

𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲! Join us for our upcoming events: GLOBALISE Datasprint on Lists and Tables, Thursday 4 September, 13:30-16:00 CEST. Register on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/globalise-...

New blog post! 'Incognito Royalty on the Princes Roijael'. Serendipitous finds in the #archives can lead us to unexpected new stories... globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/incognito-ro...

The summer edition of GLOBALISE newsletter is here! Featuring: New datasets, blogposts, introductions to guest researchers, TANAP resources, future events, and GloBERTise, a new language model trained on VOC materials by Stella Verkijk. Read it here: huygens.email-provider.eu/web/2i18x2fc...

New blog post! 'Yes okay – but what were they doing? How a lexical approach to event extraction can provide some first answers' by Stella Verkijk: globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/yes-okay-but...

2/2: Our lightning talk speakers Li Yichao, Bart van Duijvenbode, Rosalie Oudshoorn and Satrio Dwicahyo shared meaningful insights about researching the Dutch East India Company archives, highlighting both the opportunities and challenges of digitisation. Q&A moderated by Pichayapat Naisupap.

1/2: On Tuesday, colleagues from GLOBALISE, Necessary Reunions and @combattingbias.bsky.social presented in a lunchtime webinar, with fruitful discussions amongst speakers and the audience. Speakers: Lodewijk Petram, Manjusha Kuruppath, Leon van Wissen, Amber Zijlma, and Mrinalini Luthra.

📣 Join us for the webinar ‘From Scribe to Screen’ on Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 12-1.30 PM CET, co-organized with Leiden University’s COGLOSS series. This event explores the digitization and accessibility of archives alongside new approaches to global history. More info: edu.nl/c4my3 #DH #Archives

Our latest newsletter is out. A few highlights: • Upcoming webinar on March 18th, exploring digital approaches to global history • New project, 'Necessary Reunions', on historical maps from Kerala • More: huygens.email-provider.eu/web/2i18x2fc... #DH #Archives

If you are interested in joining one of these panels, get in touch! Anyone - really, all skill levels - working with VOC documents, or on early modern (colonial) history of the Indian Ocean region, or with affinity to digital humanities is welcome!

Our first user panel meeting: ✅ We discussed research methods & dealing with the language, context and structure of an early modern colonial archive. We also got to play with markers to manually annotate events and entities in a 1674 missive!

New blog post! Stella Verkijk writes about the takeaways of our first experiments with events and frames annotation in VOC texts: https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/automatic-event-detection-in-early-modern-dutch-voc-documents-the-annotation-phase/

Lodewijk Petram & @MatthiasRossum illustrate how different processes within GLOBALISE come together with an example query in their latest article: "Transforming historical research practices – a digital infrastructure for the VOC archives (GLOBALISE)" https://doi.org/10.1177/08438714221112873

Want to know more about why we create reference datasets in the GLOBALISE project and how we go about that? New blog post by Manjusha Kuruppath is up: https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/rediscovering-early-modern-polities-first-thoughts-on-dataset-creation/

Presentation by @gerharddekok during our first (pilot) seminar on entity linking & historical data yesterday. Up next: "Entity Modelling and Historical Observations" with @Bondage_Asia and Leon van Wissen on 27 June 2022. Register via https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/347053565557.

Our four work package leaders presenting the lessons and conclusions from the very inspiring breakout discussion sessions. Thank you to everyone who contributed!

After a delicious lunch, @MatthiasRossum and Lodewijk explained the aim of the project and showed the first results of the project after four months.

We will keep you posted on the events of the day here on Twitter and a report of the day will be circulated afterwards! If you want to receive updates on the project, you can register for the newsletter at our website: https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/#news

Today, we have the GLOBALISE kick off for those associated with the project at the @IISG_Amsterdam!

Interested in helping us create computer-readable text from c.5 mio scans? Our colleagues at the Digital Infrastructure department are looking for a Computer Vision Engineer... https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterdam-Computer-Vision-Engineer/846071355/

Job opening at the GLOBALISE project! We're hiring a 'Team Lead Semantic Contextualisation'. Apply before 31 October. @HuygensING @MatthiasRossum @CLTLVU @PiekVossen @merpeltje https://www.academictransfer.com/en/304808/postdocteam-leader-semantic-contextualisation-huygens-ing-knaw-amsterdam/

Job opening at the GLOBALISE project! We're hiring a 'Team Lead Historical Contextualisation'. https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/303808/postdocteamleider-historische-contextualisatie-huygens-ing-knaw-amsterdam/

NOS: GLOBALISE will enable researchers to easily retrieve details about the amounts of sugar, porcelain and enslaved persons transported by the VOC. https://nos.nl/artikel/2381681-computer-gaat-priegelige-handschriften-mega-archief-voc-lezen

Dutch daily @trouw on GLOBALISE: doing research on the VOC archives of @NLNatArchief in minutes instead of years. https://www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/voc-onderzoek-kost-door-dit-project-straks-nog-slechts-minuten-niet-jaren~bcabf31a/

Watch this short video to learn more about the GLOBALISE project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLwlWgjdN04