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What kind of projects are we looking for?
We’re open to all kinds of projects that use our data and benefit your research and other users of the KB and/or the KB Lab. We encourage you to define your project by:
Who are we looking for?
We’re looking for talented early career researchers of any nationality who are:
We wish to specifically invite researchers from underrepresented communities to submit a proposal.
What can we offer you?
The KB and opening up our digital collections
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), National Library of the Netherlands, is a research library with a broad collection in the fields of Dutch history, culture and society. As a national library we aim to collect and store all (digital) publications that appear in the Netherlands, as well as a part of the international publications about the Netherlands. The KB has planned to have digitised and OCRed its entire collection of books, periodicals and newspapers from 1470 onward by the year 2030. Over 100 million book, newspaper and magazine pages are currently available via the search portal delpher.nl and dbnl.org, but we also offer born digital collections, such as our web archive, which contains 38 TB of data and consist of more than 16.000 websites.
The KB has formulated a Research Agenda for the period 2018 – 2022 in which we indicate five themes that we wish to focus our efforts on such as our role in the shaping of the information society, as well as the quality, availability, and breadth of representation in our digital collections. The KB is also one of the co-founders of the Cultural AI Lab, which aims to accelerate excellent research on the intersection of humanities and artificial intelligence. For this venture, four research themes have been described, which include topics such as trust, bias, and a focus on using advanced technologies to uncover hidden collections and/or address the colonial history of our collections.
The Researcher-in-residence project will be carried out in the Research department of the KB and there will be two consecutive placements in 2021.
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