CATCH Meeting HiTiME: Capturing History & Time

Friday 26 March, 2010
IISG – International Institute of Social History

In collaboration with the International Institute of Social History (IISG) and the project team of HITIME we would like to invite you to the CATCH Meeting to be held on Friday, 26 March 2010 in Amsterdam. This meeting starts at 12.00 and is open to any interested party. The location is the IISG at Cruquiusweg 31 in Amsterdam (http://www.iisg.nl).

Download the programme and flyer!!!

Invited speakers:
• Maarten Marx (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
"Political Mashup, connecting promises and deeds of politicians, and how the society reacts on those "

• Viorel Milea (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
“Temporal Representations on the Semantic Web”

CATCH Projects presentations:
• AGORA: Creating the historic fabric for & providing web-enabled access to objects in dynamic historical sequences
• BRIDGE: Building Rich Links to Enable Television History Research
• HiTiME: Historical Timeline Mining & Extraction
• LINKS: Linking system for historical family reconstruction

Activities:
• Flash of Times Past at IISG (IISG documentary)
• Guided tour at IISG & Press Museum
• Changing Times in Times of Change (exhibition of IISG material)
• Lunch, Coffee & Cocktail reception

Background HITIME
Historical Timeline Mining and Extraction
There is a wealth of information in different forms about the labour movement during the period 1850-1940, which includes biographies, letters and other personal material. HITIME aims to provide a software tool kit for historical research. This will enable a large-scale analysis of the links between people, professions, locations, events and schools of thought in order to create a clear picture of the labour movement’s social network. The tool kit shall also be made suitable for generic historical text mining.

HITIME is a project of the Tilburg University and the International Institute of Social History.