September 6th 2020
CLaaS... and Nico for friends
This blog is based on a vision document I wrote with Jauco Noordzij on a classification system for SSH infrastructure in the Netherlands in CLARIAH PLUS.
January 24th 2020
Impact on Changing Societies
As we grow closer and more dependent on our technology. It is essential for our changing society that we do not forget to explain and train our machines that they are dealing with humans in all their complexity. The biggest impact social scientists and humanities scholars can have on our future is to help the computational sciences to build a more human AI.
January 24th 2020
CLARIAH and ODISSEI
A strong social science infrastructure is very much in the best interest of the humanities as well. ODISSEI and CLARIAH are complementary. We are partners and competitors.
January 24th 2020
ICT with Industry
OCR is a solved problem, right? Right, if you don't count variety in gothic type, hundreds of years of paper/parchment deterioration, complex layout, bleed-through, several (historical) languages and crooked or warped lines - then yes, I think it is a solved problem.