Active projects
HAICu — Collectie Overijssel
2024–present
Making the resolutions of the States of Overijssel (1528–1795) digitally accessible within the HAICu national consortium for AI and cultural heritage.
→ activeInnovation Lab: Histories of Ordinary People
October 2025–present
HAICu Innovation Lab deepening cooperation between regional archives and academic research.
→ activeHISMET
March 2026–present
NWO XS-funded project developing tools for topical metadata creation for archival sources.
→ activeREAD-COOP SCE
2023–present
The European cooperative behind Transkribus — public-good digital infrastructure for handwritten text recognition.
→ activeRHONDA
2021–present
International community developing a multilingual ontology for early modern police ordinances.
→ activePolice Ordinances in Early Modern Bern
Ongoing
Monograph project applying digital legal-historical methodology to the Bernese normative corpus (1528–1795).
→Concluded projects
A Game of Thrones?
2020–2024
NWO Veni project comparing normative governance in the Dutch Republic and the Swiss Confederation, 1576–1701.
→ concludedEntangled Histories
2019–2020
KB Researcher-in-Residence — dataset of 107 books of ordinances from the Low Countries with HTR transcriptions.
→ concludedLaw and Order: Low Countries
2017–2020
NWO Rubicon at Ghent University — institutions and legislation in the early modern Low Countries.
→ concluded'New Monarchy'
2011–2016
NWO project at Erasmus University Rotterdam — doctoral research on patriot-rhetoric in Jülich, Hesse-Cassel, and Brittany.
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