EviDENce: Unlocking the Past with eScience Technologies
Channel: Netherlands eScience Center
Date: 2019-12-11

Much of our historical knowledge is based on oral or written accounts of eyewitnesses, particularly in cases of war and violence, when regular ways of documentation and record keeping are often absent. The collaborative project EviDENCE, led by Dr Susan Hogervorst and supported by the Netherlands eScience Center, studies how eyewitnesses have reported on violence, and how this may have changed over time. 

A major way the project is doing this is through the use of a new innovative eScience tool that uses collection fragments instead of search words to find relevant extracts in a large digital collection of ego-documents.