Continuous Access To Cultural Heritage

Webcast of the symposium 'How to CATCH the future', 13 November 2009

On 13 November 2009, NWO presented a full-day symposium ‘How to CATCH the Future’ at De Bazel in Amsterdam. The international (keynote) speakers shared their research results and vision on multidisciplinary collaboration between computer science, humanities and cultural heritage. Below, all presentations can be watched independently. 

Each will be shown in a new window on Vimeo:

 

welcome by Ellen Fleurbaay, deputy director of the Amsterdam City Archives, host of the symposium   

 

introduction by Louis Vertegaal, director of Physical and Chemical Sciences, NWO  

 

presentation on CHIP: Cultural Heritage Information Personalization, by Lora Aroyo

 

presentation on SCRATCH: Script Analysis Tools for the Cultural Heritage, by Lambert Schomaker

 

key note by Valentijn Byvanck, director of the Dutch Nationaal Historisch Museum

 

key note by Chad Gaffield, president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

 

presentation on STITCH: Semantic Interoperability to Access Cultural Heritage, by Shenghui Wang

 

presentation on CHOICE: Charting the Information Landscape Employing Context Information, by Luit Gazendam

 

presentation on MITCH: Mining for Information in Texts from the Cultural Heritage, by Marieke van Erp

 

presentation on RICH: Reading Images in the Cultural Heritage, by Laurens van der Maaten