Papers
Corpus Creation and Automatic alignment of historical Dutch dialect speech
Bentum, M., Sanders, E., Van den Bosch, A., Zeldenrust, D. & Van den Heuvel, H. (2024). Corpus Creation and Automatic Alignment of Historical Dutch Dialect Speech. Paper presented at the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).
The Dutch Dialect Database (also known as the ‘Nederlandse Dialectenbank’) contains dialectal variations of Dutch that were recorded all over the Netherlands in the second half of the twentieth century. A subset of these recordings of about 300 hours were enriched with manual orthographic transcriptions, using non-standard approximations of dialectal speech. In this paper we describe the creation of a corpus containing both the audio recordings and their corresponding transcriptions and focus on our method for aligning the recordings with the transcriptions and the metadata.
The Records Continuum Model and the Collections of the Meertens Institute
Zeldenrust, Douwe (2023). Managing Digital Humanities Data and Collections: The Records Continuum Model and the Collections of the Meertens Institute. Paper presented at the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference 2023 (DHNB 2023).
Access to data and collections is one of the most fundamental starting points for every humanities researcher. Traditionally, resources are managed by archivists using the ‘Life Cycle Model’ (LCM). The growing need to work with digital records began to highlight key conceptual deficiencies in this paper-orientated model. Consequently, the alternative ‘Records Continuum Model’ (RCM) was development. The RCM is more flexible and offers insight into the complex contexts in which documents are created and managed . This paper will reflect on the potential and the issues of using the RCM as a concept for managing data and collections.
The sound of Time
Zeldenrust, Douwe, ‘t Hart, Elise & Van Zundert, Joris (2021). The sound of time, an experimental perspective on Digital Humanities resources and research. Paper presented at the The Making of the Humanities IX Conference.
Elise ‘t Hart, artist and founder of the Instituut of Domestic Sounds, started in October 2018 as the first ‘Artist in Residence’ of the Meertens Instituut. Her project is called ‘What does time sounds like?’ The aim is, beside making works of art, to explore experimental ways of questioning and researching digital data. The (re)introduction of an artist’s creations in a scientific environment raises the methodological question what the scientific significance of the artist’s work is. This paper investigates the affordances this new approach produces.
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