Speakers biographies
Jan Kok
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Jan Kok studied social history and obtained his PhD at the Free University of Amsterdam. Since 1993, he has worked as a researcher at the International Institute of Social History, where he helped to build the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN). His various research projects were also based on the HSN. In 2006, he joined the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences and in 2008 he became a visiting professor at KU Leuven (Sociology). Recently, Jan was appointed as professor in the Comparative History of the Life Course at Radboud University Nijmegen. Jan is a member of the e-Humanities Group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also involved in the construction of CLIO-INFRA, a web facility integrating historical data on global development and inequality. Finally, he is co-editor- in-chief of the journal History of the Family. An International Quarterly.
Charles van den Heuvel
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Charles van den Heuvel is Head of Research into the History of Science at Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands,(KNAW). He is involved in various research projects on annotation and visualization in the history of science and on concept extraction from correspondences of 17th-century Dutch scholars. He is also a member of the e-humanities research group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He studied Art History at Groningen University (PhD 1991). He has worked as a librarian at the Institute of Dutch History of Art in Florence; as an Inspector of Cultural Heritage (OCenW); and as the map curator of the cartographical collections of Leiden University Library. He publishes regularly on the history of architecture, fortification, town planning, cartography, science and information science. Themes in the history of library and information science that he has explored include the history of classification, the history of the WWW, and the history of visualizations of knowledge. Currently, he is writing a book entitled Imagining Interfaces to Universal Knowledge: The visualizations of Paul Otlet (1868-1944) in which he discusses the importance to present world wide web applications of hundreds of visualizations produced by Otlet's pioneering knowledge organization.