Onderzoek naar doorwerking slavernij op Curaçao van start
Onderzoek naar doorwerking slavernij op Curaçao van start

Historical Database Suriname and the Caribbean receives NWO Open Science Fund

The Historical Database Suriname and the Caribbean (HDSC) project team receives an NWO Open Science Fund grant to improve the automatic process of turning scans of archival records into structured data.

In the funded project titled Handwritten Archival Data Structuring with Regex Recognition (HANDS-RX) the focus lies on the automatic generation of datasets from colonial Civil Registry, but the goal is to make these techniques as widely applicable as possible.

HANDS-RX will kick off in autumn 2023 and the project duration is approximately 12 months. The Open Science Fund is worth 50.000€.

About the Open Science Fund grant

The Open Science Fund grants are intended to support projects specifically designed to implement and stimulate open-science practices. NWO wants to stimulate open science by incentivizing and rewarding researchers who are, or would like to be, at the forefront of this movement.

Contact information

For more information, please do not hesitate to contact lead applicant Coen van Galen.

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