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Agora Project Review

Posted on December 13, 2012 by mvanerp

Today, Agora is presenting the project results to the International Scientific Advisory Board of the CATCH program. The slides give a comprehensive overview of the project so far. AGORA Project: Final Review 2012 from Lora Aroyo

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Studiedag Digitale Geschiedenis

Posted on December 6, 2012 by chielvdakker

On Januari 7 2013, Chiel van den Akker will be presenting a paper at the Studiedag Digitale Geschiedenis (Worskshop Digital History), organised by the Royal Dutch History Society (KNHG) and Huygens ING. The program and abstracts of the papers can … Continue reading →

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Agora User Studies Part 2: Secondary School Pupils

Posted on May 24, 2012 by mvanerp

One of the hypotheses we are investigating in Agora is whether enriching museum collections with event and narrative information aids the understanding and interpretation of museum objects and their historical context. One user group who could benefit from this is … Continue reading →

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Agora project at CMN’12

Posted on May 21, 2012 by mvanerp

Chiel will be presenting the Agora paper “Understanding Objects in Online Museum Collections by Means of Narrative” at the Computational Models of Narrative workshop in Istanbul, May 26-27. This workshop is co-located with LREC 2012. The program and list of … Continue reading →

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Agora User Studies Part 1: Eyewitnesses and Interested Lay People

Posted on May 7, 2012 by mvanerp

As Agora is going into its last year soon, we are working towards turning our current demo into the social platform that we envision in order to facilitate digitally mediated public history. To gain better insights into the social aspects … Continue reading →

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LDL2012 Recap

Posted on March 12, 2012 by mvanerp

Although there have been language processing tracks at semantic web conferences. The LDL2012 workshop was the first workshop at a linguistics venue in which linked data was specifically addressed, so it was a bit of a surprise how it would … Continue reading →

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Ardjan van Nuland Thesis Proposal Presentation

Posted on February 26, 2012 by laroyo

View more presentations from Agora Project This presentation is part of a series of student presentations on their MSc thesis design. This is part of the joint VU and UvA Information Systems MSc program.

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Trip report CLIN 2012, Tilburg

Posted on January 25, 2012 by rsegers

Last Friday Roxane and Marieke visited the 22 Annual Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) in Tilburg to find out about the latest work. Here’s an account of the talks that we thought most relevant to Agora. Towards … Continue reading →

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Digital Hermeneutics nominated

Posted on June 15, 2011 by laroyo

‎”Digital Hermeneutics: Online Understanding of Cultural Heritage” paper by the Agora project team has been nominated today for best paper at the WebSci 2011 conference.

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User Involvement in Linked Cultural Data Symposium

Posted on January 28, 2011 by laroyo

on 7 February 2011 at 15:00 the Web&Media group at the VU University Amsterdam is organizing a mini-symposium on the topic of “User Involvement in Linked Cultural Data Symposium“. Three prominent speakers will talk about their experiences with users and … Continue reading →

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