The first group has resumed 2dA Permanent Education
Practical training in material care, context, image quality and the professional knowledge behind careful archive digitisation.
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A question Michiel continued to follow after his PhD
After 87 years, the mathematical question on which Michiel based his PhD received a new outcome.
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The general rule becomes ten years. The real work starts today.
What the new Act changes and how selection, metadata, privacy, quality and digital delivery connect.
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Where conservation and digitisation reinforce each other
Restorers Netherlands visited 2dA for an exchange on material care, trusted digitisation and sustainable digital access.
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A Digital Source Register for digitised archives
A thought about digital control: keeping source, provenance, context and trust connected when archive data is used further.
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Rick van Velden strengthens the bridge between archive content and technology
2dA strengthens the chain around archive digitisation, metadata, OCR/HTR, scanning on demand and local AI agents.
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Archive Skills: not only finding archives, but understanding them
2dA will show how digital archives can become easier to understand without replacing the source, provenance or original data.
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KVAN pilot Tot de bodem: 259,227 scans made accessible
The first part, Selection and digitisation, has been completed: almost 52 metres of archive material became digitally accessible.
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Restoration of the Octoplus Chip Layout from 1982
Sometimes you encounter an object that immediately makes you feel: this is more than remarkable. This is history.
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2dA receives a grant for the further development of human-supporting technology
The idea was to develop human-supporting technology that helps employees move further in their work.
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First archive service goes live with scanning on demand and Mollie integration
Archive services can now receive revenue directly from additional digital services within their own collections.
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Working visit by Cedris to WerkBedrijf and 2dA
Op 24 maart ontvingen we bij WerkBedrijf vertegenwoordigers van Cedris: voorzitter Mohamed el Mokaddem en directeur Esmé Rijs.
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What we are learning from our first mass run for automated mass description
At 2dA, we completed our first mass run for the automated description of 58,000 pages of death records for Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum.
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At 2dA, we work on quality
At 2dA, we continuously improve our processes. During this Brown Paper session, colleagues critically reviewed our workflow with one clear goal: to keep improving our services.
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First visit to the restoration studio at 2dA
We welcomed representatives of the Metamorfoze programme of the KB for a look behind the scenes in our restoration studio.
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A local AI environment that feels like an extra colleague
2dA runs a powerful local AI environment in the office, securely under its own control and directly available for day-to-day work.
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