GLOBALISE: From Text to Context in the Dutch East India Company Archives

Join us online on Thursday 13 February for ‘GLOBALISE: From Text to Context in the Dutch East India Company Archives’ with Kay Pepping, the latest talk in the Bodleian Bytes series, hosted by the Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian Libraries.

GLOBALISE uses digital tools such as Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Named Entity Recognition (NER) to make the Dutch East India Company (VOC)‘s archives accessible and researchable on an unprecedented scale. In this talk, Kay Pepping demonstrates how opening up archival texts allows for contextualizing entities such as loanwords, people, and places to support new inquiries into colonial and global histories.

Free online event. Registration required.