text and data mining at the royal library in the netherlands
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Data for Reseachers at the Koninklijke BibliotheekLotte Wilms (Research department) @lottewilms
The dataMostly machine readable, structured or semi-structured data.
The result of:-More than 200 years of collecting -Over 30 years of digitisation-Almost 10 years of collecting born-digital
KB Data: examples
•Staten Generaal Digitaal, KB newspapers & ANP Radio bulletins
•Developed in CLARIN project at TU Delft, EUR, VU, Sound & Vision
www.polimedia.nl
• Developed at University of Amsterdam
• Digitised newspaper collection 1840 - 1995
• Transferred to KB Research Lab & freely available
Lab.kbresearch.nl/find/ngrams
KB Newspapers Ngramviewer
PoliticalMashup• Developed by University of
Amsterdam
• Speeches of statengeneraaldigitaal.nl and overheid.nl (1814 – now)
• Enriched content
• Visualisation tools (graphs & word clouds)
www.search.politicalmashup.nl
Lessons learned/benefits•Researchers use our data in more ways than we imagined
•Collaborations provide us with good insights into our data & users
•Opening up our data created opportunities for other users
• Strong connections with the research community
•New funding opportunities in research projects