Alfalab and the e-Humanities Group

Present and future

of the microtoponym pilot

Rob ZeemanMeertens Instituut (KNAW)

Amsterdam, The Netherlandsrob.zeeman@meertens.knaw.nl

Douwe ZeldenrustMeertens Institute (KNAW)

Amsterdam, The Netherlandsdouwe.zeldenrust@meertens.knaw.nl

Alfalab is being created by Anne Beaulieu • Joris van Zundert • Douwe Zeldenrust • Rob Zeeman • Maarten Hoogerwerf • Charles van den Heuvel

• Smiljana Antonijevic • Ruud Bronmans • Dirk Roorda • Leen Breure • Karina van Dalen • Ronald Dekker • Arjen Versloot • Sander Strating •

Derk Drukker • Kees Mandemakers • Henk Wals • Paul Wouters • Peter Doorn • Reinier Salverda • Melle de Vries • Hans Bennis • Suzanne van

Kaam • Bas Doppen • and a growing number of others cooperating...

Spheres of Alfalab*

* D.A. Zeldenrust (2010) ‘Spheres of Alfalab, Virtual Research Environments between research questions and infrastructure’ (Vienna: SDH 2010).

Microptoponym pilot: ‘Tools and datasets tailored to facilitate a specific

research workflow over a distributed digital infrastructure that transcends institutional borders.’*

CLARIN

Dataset MI

Dataset

Database

GEO tools

RIP

Viewer FA

Annotation-Demo

*Zundert, Joris van, Smiljana Antonijevic, Anne Beaulieu, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Douwe Zeldenrust, and Tara Andrews. Under Review. "Cultures of Formalization: Towards an encounter between humanities and computing." In: David M. Berry (ed.) Understanding Digital Humanities: The Computational Turn and New Technology. (Palgrave Macmillan, London 2011) pp 12.

GISpilot Home

GEOreferencer

GEOreferencer

GEOreferencer

GEOtagger

GEOtagger

Additional results

publications:

• Zundert, Joris van, Antonijevic, Smiljana, Beaulieu, Anne, Dalen-Oskam, Karina van, Zeldenrust, Douwe and Andrews, Tara, "Cultures of Formalization Towards an encounter between humanities and computing" in: Computational Turn workshop (Swansea, 2010).

• Zundert, Joris van, Zeldenrust, Douwe and Beaulieu, Anne, “Alfalab: Construction and Deconstruction of a Digital Humanities Experiment” in: e-Science 2009, Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science (Oxford, 2009), pp 1-5.

Presentations:

• D.A. Zeldenrust, Spheres of Alfalab, Virtual Research Environments between research questions and infrastructure, poster presentation with abstract at SDH 2010 (Supporting Digital Humanities conference), Vienna, Austria, 18-21 Oktober 2010.

• D.A. Zeldenrust, De microtoponiemen databank van Alfalab. Eerste Alfalab Microtoponiemen Expertmeeting, Amsterdam 08-04-2010.

• D.A. Zeldenrust, Over de 'Bloemweide' en de microtoponiemen pilot van Alfalab. ICTDelta2010, Rotterdam, 18-03-2010.

• J. van Zundert & D.A. Zeldenrust, Alfalab, Construction and Deconstruction of a Digital Humanities Experiment. IEEE conference Oxford 2009, Oxford, 09-12-2009.

• D.A. Zeldenrust, Micotoponiemen en Alfalab, Microtoponymie in Nederland, Amsterdam, 26-06-2009.

Future of the microtoponym pilot

Knowledge about VREs

GISLab Tools

Spatial Humanities

Douwe ZeldenrustMeertens Institute (KNAW)Amsterdam, The Netherlandsdouwe.zeldenrust@meertens.knaw.nlwww.meertens.knaw.nl www.douwezeldenrust.nl

Thank you for the attention!