Googling in historical handwritten archives
Lambert Schomaker’s research group has developed the Monk system, which enables computers to recognize characters and pictures in historical texts. In this way historical texts from the National Archives, including handwritten ones, are being made available to the wider public.
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29 October 2020
400 years of Groningen and Oldenburg: virtual exhibition
Today, Thursday 29 October, the UG celebrates 40 years of cooperation with the Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität in Oldenburg, Germany.
The Special Collections department made a virtual exhibition about 400 (!) years of Groningen and Oldenburg .
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19 October 2020
Photo report: Wonders of the film archive
At the University's Film Archive, you can feast your eyes on row after row of film cans offering old and unique footage, camera and projection equipment used in the distant past, including magic lanterns, stereoscopes, cameras and projectors dating...
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14 October 2020
Archaeological remains reveal history of the Noordoostpolder
The Noordoostpolder contains more traces of its own medieval past than previously thought. According to maritime archaeologist Yftinus van Popta, many settlement remains that disappeared into the Zuiderzee bay and were later found in the fields of...