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Fotocredit: NRC In the Netherlands, the abolition of slavery is remembered and freedom celebrated every year on 1 July. About 150 years ago, slavery ended in Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles, which were then colonies of the Netherlands. Celebrating Keti Koti is important for society because it reminds us of …
Read moreState Secretary Gunay Uslu will sign the Faro Convention before the end of the year. This commits the Netherlands to the treaty’s agreements on the social value of cultural heritage. She reported this at the end of April in the parliamentary letter she sent, ‘Faro Convention: heritage is the work …
Read moreOpening Digitisation Street Suriname, with Rita Tjien Fooh, director Nationaal Archief Suriname, on left, and Beeld & Geluid director Eppo van Nispen tot Sevenaer on right At the Nationaal Archief van Suriname (NAS) a so-called digitisation street has been opened in cooperation with Sound & Vision. This system ensures …
Read moreWant to quickly provide heritage data with the right terms (with a unique identifier)? It’s now possible! Shannon van Muijden, data manager at the Zuiderzee Museum, wrote a manual for the open source program OpenRefine. This manual explains step-by-step what you can do as a collection manager to enrich your …
Read moreIn the oral history field, there are an awful lot of committed volunteers: from interviewers to transcribers, people who help with communication or with ICT. There are many enthusiasts who ensure that an oral history project can grow. This month, we speak to two volunteers about the project The Voice …
Read moreWhat do silences mean during oral history interviews? What does oral history do for people who remained silent for years? Do you silence your own voice by staying silent? Read more about silences, silence and oral history on the new theme page. The page is divided into three sub-themes: 1. …
Read more‘Linked Data sounds like something magical, but what does it mean in concrete terms?’: said a visitor to a presentation on Linked Data in spring 2022 at the Stadsarchief Amsterdam. Linked Data seems to be something of a magic word in heritage land: the idea that data can be linked …
Read more‘Sprekende geschiedenis’ is now one year underway. December is a good time to reflect on this. In conversation with initiator Saskia Moerbeek, we share the main highlights and look ahead to 2023. Kick – off at Sound and Vision in Hilversum On 28 January 2022, the Kick-off meeting of …
Read moreProject: ‘Embracing diversity’: Experiences of first-generation Dutch-Moroccan and Dutch-Turkish students at the VU VU University Amsterdam is known as a diverse university, and many students have a ‘non-western’ background. But the backgrounds of this diversity and the experiences of those involved have hardly been researched from a historical perspective. …
Read moreA nice project by the Cultural Heritage Agency on using oral history in Cold War heritage. The National Cultural Heritage Agency wants to increase knowledge about this period in order to preserve this fragile heritage for the next generation. To this end, the RCE partnered with the Reinwardt Academy …
Read moreVOOROORLOGS JOODS STRAATLEVEN – IN WOORD EN BEELD – SELMA LEYDESDORFF EN HARRY MOCK De mensen achter het Namenmonument | Het joodse proletariaat van Amsterdam | 1900-1940 en de werken van G.J. Staller In 1987, We lived as human beings: The Jewish proletariat of Amsterdam 1900-1940. In it, professor …
Read moreFor a history project after the summer, the Oral History Working Group of Numaga and the Regional Archives Nijmegen are looking for people with a heart for the history of Nijmegen. People who would like to know more about the history of the lower town and about the history of …
Read moreGet answers to all your questions at the Open Hour for the SGW community. A live Q&A every Monday. Join us for the weekly Open Hour from 10:00 to 11:00 (CEST) for the Social Sciences and Humanities community. The Open Hour is a live Q&A about Open Science, data …
Read moreSince this week, our country has an Islamic archive institution: the Netherlands Muslim Archive. It is an initiative that not only wants to preserve heritage, but also create more awareness of the cultural contribution of Muslims and Islam. The memory of Dutch Muslims The mission of the Netherlands Muslim …
Read moreThe Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has a vacancy for a Researcher Inventory Oral History Collections Indian Community – NIOD-KNAW. More information and application via link.
Read moreWomen’s stories 1920-1960 For a project about women from Boekel in the 1920s and 1960s, Martha van Eerdt is looking for women who recognise themselves in the class photo from 1964/1965. “I grew up in a Catholic village and in my time there were still separate boys’ and girls’ …
Read moreWhat is Freedom for you? On Thursday, May 19, the kick-off took place of the project ‘Freedom as a theme’ with ten young people from the Stagehuis Schilderswijk together with adult (ex) refugees at “Kwetu bij ons” in The Hague. The coming period they will work together on digital presentations …
Read moreOn the Faro platform , everyone involved with cultural heritage can discuss and contribute to the realisation of the Faro implementation agenda. An agenda with which we make proposals on how to translate the Faro Convention (Council of Europe) into concrete action in the Netherlands. Think about subjects such as …
Read moreOH-SMArt curator interview Foto: © Marjon Gemmeke Museums have unique recordings of spoken stories about artworks in their archives, but this ‘oral history’ is often difficult to access. In the Oral History – Stories at the Museum around Artworks (OH-SMArt) project, researchers from various Dutch institutions will greatly improve …
Read moreThe book Oral History – The People and Their Stories by our steering committee member Selma Leydesdorff (historian and emeritus professor at the University of Amsterdam) is on the longlist of the most important (non-fiction) books of 2021! A beautiful and deserved nomination! The longlist of the Prize for …
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