Text and Data Mining at the Royal Library in the Netherlands

Data for Reseachers at the Koninklijke BibliotheekLotte Wilms (Research department) @lottewilms

The dataMostly machine readable, structured or semi-structured data.

The result of:-More than 200 years of collecting -Over 30 years of digitisation-Almost 10 years of collecting born-digital

KB Data: examples

•Staten Generaal Digitaal, KB newspapers & ANP Radio bulletins

•Developed in CLARIN project at TU Delft, EUR, VU, Sound & Vision

www.polimedia.nl

• Developed at University of Amsterdam

• Digitised newspaper collection 1840 - 1995

• Transferred to KB Research Lab & freely available

Lab.kbresearch.nl/find/ngrams

KB Newspapers Ngramviewer

PoliticalMashup• Developed by University of

Amsterdam

• Speeches of statengeneraaldigitaal.nl and overheid.nl (1814 – now)

• Enriched content

• Visualisation tools (graphs & word clouds)

www.search.politicalmashup.nl

Lessons learned/benefits•Researchers use our data in more ways than we imagined

•Collaborations provide us with good insights into our data & users

•Opening up our data created opportunities for other users

• Strong connections with the research community

•New funding opportunities in research projects

Any questions?

www.kb.nl/dataserviceswww.kb.nl/dh

[email protected]@lottewilms

@kbnlresearch