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The KB, National Library of the Netherlands is seeking proposals for its fully paid Researcher-in-Residence program in 2022. This program offers a unique chance for early career researchers of all disciplines to work in the library with the Digital Scholarship team and KB data. In return, we learn how researchers use the data of the KB, what kinds of possibilities it offers and how we can improve our services.
You will be assisted by one of our research software engineers, an advisor, and collection and data specialists. The output of the project will be incorporated in the experimental platform of the KB, the
and is ideally beneficial for a larger (scholarly) community.
We also accept applications for a remote residency and can offer short-term fixed contracts for researchers currently not affiliated with a university or research institute!
The KB and opening up our digital collections
The KB, National Library of the Netherlands, is a research library with a broad collection in the fields of Dutch history, culture and society. As a national library we aim to collect and store all (digital) publications that appear in the Netherlands, as well as a part of the international publications about the Netherlands. The KB has planned to have digitised and OCRed its entire collection of books, periodicals and newspapers from 1470 onward by the year 2030. Over 100 million book, newspaper and magazine pages are currently available via the search portalsand
, and we also offer born digital collections, such as our web archive, which contains 47 TB of data and consists of more than 21.000 websites.
The KB has formulated a
for the period 2018 – 2022 in which we indicate five themes that we wish to focus our efforts on such as our role in the shaping of the information society, as well as the quality, availability, and breadth of representation in our digital collections. The KB is also one of the co-founders of the
, which aims to accelerate excellent research on the intersection of humanities and artificial intelligence. For this venture, four research themes have been described, which include topics such as trust, bias, and a focus on using advanced technologies to uncover hidden collections and/or address the colonial history of our collections.
The Researcher-in-Residence project will be carried out in the Research department of the KB and there will be one placement in 2022.
What kind of projects are we looking for?
We’re open to all kinds of projects that use our data and benefit your research and other users of the KB and/or the. We encourage you to define your project by:
- Formulating a fundamental research question that stems from your field of expertise, and can be linked to the KB Research Agenda or the Cultural AI Lab in any way.
- Formulating a project that preferably (but not necessarily) uses one (or more) of the following collections:
. For more information about other possible collections, see our Data services website. We also offer derived datasets on our
and you can browse through our collection of newspapers,
, radio bulletins and books on
and
. Within the above collections we prefer projects with a focus on our digital born datasets or datasets that haven’t been used a lot, like the
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