Supervisory board
Prof. Dr. Julia Noordegraaf | Chair of the Supervisory Board
Represents The humanities faculties
Email: J.J.Noordegraaf@uva.nl
Julia Noordegraaf is professor of Digital Heritage in the department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She is director of the Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity (ACHI), one of the university’s research priority areas, where she leads the digital humanities research program Creative Amsterdam (CREATE) that studies the history of urban creativity using digital data and methods. She also participates as Steering Committee member in the newly established RPA Human(e) AI, which studies the societal implications of AI technology. Noordegraaf’s research focuses on the preservation and reuse of audiovisual and digital heritage. She has published, amongst others, the monograph Strategies of Display (2004/2012) and, as principal editor, Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art (2013) and acts as principal editor of the Cinema Context database on Dutch film culture. She currently leads research projects on the conservation of digital art (in the Horizon 2020 Marie Curie ITN project NACCA) and on the reuse of digital heritage in data-driven historical research (besides CREATE in the NWO funded project Virtual Interiors as Interfaces for Big Historical Data Research). She is a former fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and acts as board member for Media Studies in CLARIAH, the national infrastructure for digital humanities research, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NWO. Noordegraaf currently coordinates the realization of the Amsterdam Time Machine and participates as Steering Committee member in the European Time Machine project that aims to build a simulator for 5.000 years of European history and that recently received Horizon 2020 funding for a Preparatory Action for a Large Scale Research Initiative.
Prof. Dr. Gijsbert Rutten
Represents The humanities faculties
Role: Professor of Historical Sociolinguistics of Dutch, Leiden University • National Coordinator CLARIN, CLARIN EU
Email: g.j.rutten@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Prof. Dr. Dirk van Miert
Represents KNAW and NWO research institutes
Dirk van Miert is director of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Early Modern Cultural History. He specializes in the history of knowledge. He supervises a large research ERC Consolidator project about the Republic of Letters. Profile: intellectual history of (early) modern Europa, History of Knowledge, science, universities, education, scholarship, philology, biblical scholarship, gender relations in the world of learning, humanism, and the long social history of the Republic of Letters (Respublica litteraria or Respublica litterarum/République des Lettres/Gelehrtenrepublik). Van Miert was editor in chief of Lias. Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources, and president of Gewina (Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Science and Universities).Dr. Henk van den Heuvel
Represents European Research Infrastructures (DARIAH-EU and CLARIN ERIC)
Director & Senior Researcher Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Radboud University • Senior researcher Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University • Head of the Humanities Lab Faculty of Arts, Radboud University
Email: h.vandenheuvel@let.ru.nl
Henk van den Heuvel is an expert on production and curation of language and speech databases, transcription of speech (orthographical and phonetic); and automatic speech recognition and language learning. Research group Language and Speech Technology He is director of the Centre for Language and Speech Technology (CLST) and Head of the Humanities Lab at the Faculty of Arts. He is also Research Data Manager (data steward) for the Faculty of Arts.
2015 – 2023 CLARIAH: Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and HumanitiesMore information
2019 – 2022 SSHOC will create the social sciences and humanities area of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) thereby facilitating access to flexible, scalable research data and related services streamlined to the precise needs of the SSH community.
2020 – 2023 The HoMed project (Homo Medicinalis) will implement a SSH research infrastructure with an enormous potential for automatic transcription of sensitive audio-visual (AV) recordings. Its use case will focus on AV-recordings of medical consultations on the use of pharmaceuticals (henceforth ‘MedPharm’). MedPharm in practice shows situations where patients often appear not to be able to understand proper medicine use. To overcome unintentional medicine use we need to better understand the attribution of meaning to medicines. Therefore, recordings and transcriptions of patient consultations are needed. In HoMed a standard automatic speech recogniser (ASR) for Dutch will be adapted to MedPharm discourses, since essential jargon is not part of the vocabulary of the current generic ASR. The ASR will be retrained on existing radio and tv data and on highly sensitive AV-recordings of patient consultations at Nivel. 2021 – 2023 ST.CART develops speech technology applications and two Artificial Intelligence products: a care assistant ( the Care Assistant), and a Reading Tutor (the Digi Juf). The Digi Juf motivates children to learn to read in a fun way and adapts adaptively to the level of the student. The Care Assistant is a new module based on an existing Virtual Assistant (Anne) – which, for example, helps elderly people with dementia to remain independent for longer – which can diagnose specific diseases (Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s) based on speech characteristics.Dr. Martijn Kleppe
Represents The Dutch Digital Heritage Network
Director & Senior Researcher Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Radboud University • Senior researcher Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University • Head of the Humanities Lab Faculty of Arts, Radboud University
Email: martijn.kleppe@kb.nl
Martijn Kleppe is Head of the Research Department of the KB, National Library of the Netherlands. Trained as historian, he wrote a dissertation on photographic iconic images by building and applying computational techniques. Before moving to the KB, he was a researcher in several European Digital Humanities research projects that focused on opening up (audio) visual and textual archives by using techniques from the National Language Processing Domain, speech recognition and computer vision. At the KB, he now leads the Research Department that covers topics such as digital preservation, copyright, public library research, Data Science, and improving the usability and discoverability of digital content by applying AI techniques. He actively sets up research projects and consortia to stimulate the use of the digital collections of the KB and to implement the results within the organization in order for the general public to get better, richer and more innovative access to the national cultural treasures. Martijn is board member of CLARIAH, the national digital infrastructure for the Arts and the Humanities (NWO), one of the founding members of the Cultural AI Lab, chairs the Research Advisory Board of the Network Digital Heritage (NDE), and he is member of both the National Research Council for Heritage (NWO, OCW & RCE) as well as the Scientific Technical Council of SURF.
Management board
Prof. Dr. Susan Aasman | Chair of the Management Board (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Oversees MB operations and coordination, prepares the annual action plan and budget, and liaises with the Supervisory Board.
Email: s.i.aasman@rug.nl
Dr. Norah Karrouche | Lead Community Engagement (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Focuses on expanding and engaging CLARIAH-NL’s user base, especially in higher education and heritage sectors.
Email: n.f.f.karrouche@vu.nl
Dr. Roeland Ordelman | Lead Infrastructure (Universiteit Twente & Beeld & Geluid)
Translates research needs into digital services and workflows integrated within the national research infrastructure.
Email: rordelman@beeldengeluid.nl
Dr. Jetze Touber | Lead Data (DANS)
Identifies relevant research data and ensures infrastructure supports CARE and FAIR principles for humanities research.
Email: jetze.touber@dans.knaw.nl
Team
Richard Zijdeman | Co-PI of SSHOC-NL
Oversees SSHOC-NL tasks, ensures communication with Tom, and represents CLARIAH in the project.
Vânia Ferreira | Clariah coordinator SSHOC-NL
Coordinates SSHOC-NL tasks.
Janessa Leeuwis-Vleghert | Communications Officer
Leads internal and external communication strategy, handles social media, and coordinates with ODISSEI communications monthly.Liselore Tissen | Community Manager (Task 5.1–5.3)
Manages community engagement across humanities and social sciences, fellowships, ethics, and partner coordination. Leads organization and attendance of community events.
Christian Olesen | Education & Learning (Task 5.2)
Focuses on educational and learning aspects within CLARIAH as part of task 5.2.
Sabrina Sauer | Fellowships & ELSI (Task 5.1)
Works on fellowships, ELSI coordination, and the summer school.