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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · 2d

Join us for the GLOBALISE Roundtable online!
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱
Tuesday, 2 December, 10:00-12:00 CET.

Register on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-changi...

GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · 19d

Participants in the 𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗘 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 on 30 September explored the Transcriptions Viewer, Word2Vec model, and datasets, and shared their findings on the interactive board Miro. With thanks to 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗻, 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹, 𝗣𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗽𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗮𝗽 and other contributors who wish to remain unnamed.

Project leader Matthias van Rossum introducing the GLOBALISE project.

Thùy Dung Phạm sharing about the dataset Ethnicities, Religious Groups and Castes in the Archives of the Dutch East India Company.

Participants contributing to an interactive board during the webinar.

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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · 19d

𝗟𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗷𝗸 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗺, 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗷𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗮 𝗞𝘂𝗿𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵 and 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼 contributed a poster presentation and led a workshop at the 𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗨𝗚𝗛 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 in Växjö, Sweden (10-12 September). They shared how 𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗘 and the Dutch East India Company archives can open up new avenues for global and transnational histories.

Presenters in front of the GLOBALISE presentation during the ENIUGH congress.

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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · 19d

On 4 September, participants in the 𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗘 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 worked with 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗸𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘀 to create new ground truth for VOC records with lists and tables. 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗸𝗲𝗿 spoke about gifts and gift-giving, 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘁 𝗡𝗶𝗷𝗺𝗮𝗻 discussed shipping lists, while 𝗧𝗼𝗺 𝗛𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 shared about food in the archives.

Participants during the datasprint, listening to Kay Pepping presenting on tabular data.

Participants during the datasprint, with speakers Alicia Schrikker, Brecht Nijman and Tom Hoogervorst answering questions during the Q&A.

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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Jul 25

CfP: GLOBALISE Conference.
Colonial Pasts, New Approaches and Historiographical Futures: Explorations of GLOBALISE, the Dutch East India Company Archives and the Writing of New Histories.
4-6 March 2026, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/call-for-pap...

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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Jul 22

GLOBALISE Webinar: Exploring digital methods for writing new histories, Tuesday 30 September, 13:30-16:00 CEST.
Register on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/globalise-...

GLOBALISE Conference, 4-6 March 2026.
A call for papers will be published soon.

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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Jul 22

𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲! Join us for our upcoming events:

GLOBALISE Datasprint on Lists and Tables, Thursday 4 September, 13:30-16:00 CEST.
Register on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/globalise-...

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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Jul 16

New blog post! 'Incognito Royalty on the Princes Roijael'.

Serendipitous finds in the #archives can lead us to unexpected new stories...
globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/incognito-ro...

Incognito Royalty on the Princes Roijael - GLOBALISE

Blog about using GLOBALISE to find new insights into Dutch Formosa, gender history, and a mysterious incognito nobleman.

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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Jul 16

The summer edition of GLOBALISE newsletter is here!

Featuring: New datasets, blogposts, introductions to guest researchers, TANAP resources, future events, and GloBERTise, a new language model trained on VOC materials by Stella Verkijk.

Read it here: huygens.email-provider.eu/web/2i18x2fc...

GLOBALISE newsletter July 2025

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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Apr 11

New blog post! 'Yes okay – but what were they doing? How a lexical approach to event extraction can provide some first answers' by Stella Verkijk:
globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/yes-okay-but...

Yes okay – but what were they doing? - GLOBALISE

Discover how a lexical approach to event extraction helps identify over 1.8 million historical events in the VOC corpus.

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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Mar 20

2/2: Our lightning talk speakers Li Yichao, Bart van Duijvenbode, Rosalie Oudshoorn and Satrio Dwicahyo shared meaningful insights about researching the Dutch East India Company archives, highlighting both the opportunities and challenges of digitisation. Q&A moderated by Pichayapat Naisupap.

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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Mar 20

1/2: On Tuesday, colleagues from GLOBALISE, Necessary Reunions and @combattingbias.bsky.social presented in a lunchtime webinar, with fruitful discussions amongst speakers and the audience. Speakers: Lodewijk Petram, Manjusha Kuruppath, Leon van Wissen, Amber Zijlma, and Mrinalini Luthra.

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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Mar 5

📣 Join us for the webinar ‘From Scribe to Screen’ on Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 12-1.30 PM CET, co-organized with Leiden University’s COGLOSS series. This event explores the digitization and accessibility of archives alongside new approaches to global history.

More info: edu.nl/c4my3

#DH #Archives

Webinar: from Scribe to Screen - GLOBALISE

Digital humanities and the digitisation of archives are ever-growing trends in academia. How will digitisation open up new opportunities and yet present new challenges to historical research? Co-organ...

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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Mar 5

Our latest newsletter is out. A few highlights:

• Upcoming webinar on March 18th, exploring digital approaches to global history
• New project, 'Necessary Reunions', on historical maps from Kerala
• More: huygens.email-provider.eu/web/2i18x2fc...

#DH #Archives

GLOBALISE newsletter March 2025

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GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Feb 6

If you are interested in joining one of these panels, get in touch!
Anyone - really, all skill levels - working with VOC documents, or on early modern (colonial) history of the Indian Ocean region, or with affinity to digital humanities is welcome!

GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Feb 6

Our first user panel meeting: ✅
We discussed research methods & dealing with the language, context and structure of an early modern colonial archive.
We also got to play with markers to manually annotate events and entities in a 1674 missive!

GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Feb 6

New blog post! Stella Verkijk writes about the takeaways of our first experiments with events and frames annotation in VOC texts: https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/automatic-event-detection-in-early-modern-dutch-voc-documents-the-annotation-phase/

GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Feb 6

Lodewijk Petram & @MatthiasRossum illustrate how different processes within GLOBALISE come together with an example query in their latest article:

"Transforming historical research practices – a digital infrastructure for the VOC archives (GLOBALISE)"

https://doi.org/10.1177/08438714221112873

GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Feb 6

Want to know more about why we create reference datasets in the GLOBALISE project and how we go about that? New blog post by Manjusha Kuruppath is up: https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/rediscovering-early-modern-polities-first-thoughts-on-dataset-creation/

GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Feb 6

Presentation by @gerharddekok during our first (pilot) seminar on entity linking & historical data yesterday. Up next: "Entity Modelling and Historical Observations" with @Bondage_Asia and Leon van Wissen on 27 June 2022. Register via https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/347053565557.

GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Feb 6

Our four work package leaders presenting the lessons and conclusions from the very inspiring breakout discussion sessions. Thank you to everyone who contributed!

GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Feb 6

After a delicious lunch, @MatthiasRossum and Lodewijk explained the aim of the project and showed the first results of the project after four months.

GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Feb 6

We will keep you posted on the events of the day here on Twitter and a report of the day will be circulated afterwards! If you want to receive updates on the project, you can register for the newsletter at our website: https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/#news

GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Feb 6

Today, we have the GLOBALISE kick off for those associated with the project at the @IISG_Amsterdam!

GLOBALISE project @globalise.bsky.social · Feb 6

Interested in helping us create computer-readable text from c.5 mio scans? Our colleagues at the Digital Infrastructure department are looking for a Computer Vision Engineer... https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterdam-Computer-Vision-Engineer/846071355/