CODART: Curators’ Specializations Now Available on the CODART Website

CODART: Curators’ Specializations Now Available on the CODART Website. “In the curators overview, you will find a new filter that allows you to select from various topics in terms of geographical regions, periods, media, themes and artists. Please note that only topics related to Dutch and Flemish art from about 1350 to 1750 are included. For example, if one selects the region of Spain, curators specializing in northern artists who were active in Spain will be presented, not curators specializing in Spanish artists.”

Trinity College Dublin: Unlocking the Fagel Collection – Trinity’s Old Library celebrates its Dutch treasures

Trinity College Dublin: Unlocking the Fagel Collection – Trinity’s Old Library celebrates its Dutch treasures. “Botanical catalogues, lavish celestial atlases and unique pamphlets from the early modern period are among 30,000 titles being conserved and digitally catalogued in an ambitious collaboration to register the entirety of the 18th-century Fagel Collection, which fills a mile of shelving space in the Old Library of Trinity College Dublin.”

CODART: Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam Rebrands as H’ART Museum

CODART: Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam Rebrands as H’ART Museum. “Amsterdam’s Hermitage Museum, once the largest satellite of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, will change its name into H’ART Museum…. The rebranding and repositioning came more than a year after the Amsterdam museum cut ties with its parent museum in March 2022, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

Statistics Netherlands: CBS develops experimental database of supply chains in the Dutch economy

Statistics Netherlands: CBS develops experimental database of supply chains in the Dutch economy. “Production chains play a major role in the Dutch economy, but they are vulnerable to disruptions. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) is developing a database to understand the production chains for Dutch companies. The database is still in the experimental phase, but some initial analyses have recently been published.”

Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Dutch archives on accused Nazi collaborators to open to the public in 2025

Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Dutch archives on accused Nazi collaborators to open to the public in 2025. “The Dutch government is planning to throw open information about 300,000 people investigated for their collaboration with the Nazis, in a move that could accelerate a reckoning with the Netherlands’ Holocaust record. For the past seven decades, only researchers and relatives of those accused of collaborating with the Nazis could access the information held by the Dutch archives. But a law guarding the data is set to expire in 2025.”

Codart: Ackland Art Museum Launches Website Entirely Dedicated to a Collection of Drawings

Codart: Ackland Art Museum Launches Website Entirely Dedicated to a Collection of Drawings. “In 2017, UNC alumnus Dr. Sheldon Peck and his wife Dr. Leena Peck gave the Ackland Art Museum their collection of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch and Flemish drawings, along with an endowment to support a new curatorial position, future art acquisitions, exhibitions, educational materials, and public programs. Central to their vision was a robust website on the leading edge of the digital humanities, that would make possible a deep and significant virtual experience of the art in the collection.”

SURF Netherlands: Mastodon pilot for research and education

SURF Netherlands: Mastodon pilot for research and education . “SURF and Universities of the Netherlands are jointly exploring Mastodon as an open source platform for education and research in the Netherlands. In which public values are paramount. We launched a pilot in February 2023. Join us and discover how students, researchers, staff and institutions can experiment with Mastodon in a low-threshold way.”

National Library of the Netherlands: Libraries make their foreign language collections easier to find

National Library of the Netherlands: Libraries make their foreign language collections easier to find. “The dashboard lists all non-Dutch language books available for borrowing in libraries in the Netherlands, or in the online Library…. At the moment, the foreign language collections of 712 libraries are included, offering over 527,000 titles in 161 languages.”

National Library of the Netherlands: KB launches Religion and Philosophy of Life web collection

This is from last November but I just found out about it and it’s too good to miss. From the National Library of the Netherlands: KB launches Religion and Philosophy of Life web collection. “The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) has launched a new web collection: Religion and Philosophy of Life. In it you will find 580 websites about religion, spirituality and philosophy of life, or how people view life. It is the largest Dutch web collection on this subject.”