471 search results for “cultural heritage” in the Library website
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Katarzyna CwiertkaFaculty of Humanities
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Florian SchneiderFaculty of Humanities
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Carlos Rilling TenorioFaculty of Humanities
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Mariana Gaba
Faculty of Humanities
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Christiaan van Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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Ronald Petrarca
Faculty of Humanities
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Inge VeldhuisFaculty of Humanities
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Jurjen DonkersFaculty of Humanities
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Basic Principles of Linked Open Data & SPARQL
Workshop
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‘I miss the smell of old paper in the vault’
Curators devote a lot of attention to their collections. How is Martijn Storms, curator of maps and atlases at Leiden University Libraries, managing to do this now he is working from home? And how is Silvia Vermetten digitising Eastern manuscripts from home?
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Joanne MolFaculteit Archeologie
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Donation for digitisation of Leiden Hebrew manuscripts
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has received considerable funding from the National Library of Israel (NLI) and the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society (FJMS) for the digitisation of a collection of 166 Hebrew manuscripts. The digitised manuscripts will be made available to the public in the course…
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Early Printed Books
In the course of over four centuries the book collections have been greatly enlarged thanks to the bequests and grants or the purchases from the propriety of scholars or private collectors. Sometimes it concerned collections with thousands of early printed books, such as the purchase of the library…
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Online exhibition – Yemen through the Dutch lens
Northern Yemen; a highland region often in the news as the center of the Houthi regime, has a political, social, and intellectual history spanning more than a millennium. This exhibition showcases some of the findings of the Early Modern State Development in Yemen project, based at Leiden University,…
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Fernanda Korovsky MouraFaculty of Humanities
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Diana SuhardimanFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Saskia Cohen-WillnerFaculty of Humanities
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Laura MiglioriFaculty of Humanities
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Johan RooryckFaculty of Humanities
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Wim TiggesExpertisecentrum SOZ
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Caspar Dullemond
Faculty of Humanities
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Mark Loderichs
Faculty of Humanities
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Lara WeissFaculty of Humanities
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Wahyu WidodoFaculty of Humanities
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Jelmar Hugen
Faculty of Humanities
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Medieval manuscripts made available in Europeana
Over 600 manuscripts and early prints have been made digitally available by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) via the Europeana platform. In the project 'The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ (ARMA), seven European heritage institutions added 30,000 digitised medieval items to Europeana’s database…
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Katharina RiebelScience
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Juliët TinebraFaculty of Humanities
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Carola HeinFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Vincent WalstraFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Francianne Dos Santos VelhoFaculty of Humanities
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Alex ReunekerFaculty of Humanities
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Anne PorFaculty of Humanities
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Syeda ShawkatFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Felix BoschFaculty of Humanities
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Elizabeth den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Irene VikatouFaculteit Archeologie
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Teaching with Special Collections
There are several excellent options for teachers and researchers to engage students and other audiences with primary sources. Either by requesting items from the Special Collections for use during lectures or by integrating our educational resources into your lesson plans.
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Photographs
The photographs collection of Leiden University Librarie (UBL) contains specimens of almost all photographic processes from the history of the medium, rare objects and artistic highlights. Together, they shed light on the history of photography as a technique, a means of scientific, historic and personal…
- Manuscripts, Archives and Letters outside Leiden
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Symposium on Tools Criticism
The Centre for Digital Scholarship of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities would like to invite you to the symposium on Tools Criticism on Thursday 21 November, from 10.00-18.00. The symposium will be held in the Vossius room of the University Library at Witte…
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Dario FazziFaculty of Humanities
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Online exhibition - The world’s last picture writing: Naxi Dongba manuscripts
Manuscripts that look like a comic book, that's how you could describe the manuscripts of the Dongba people from China. The manuscripts are one of the last examples of a so-called pictographic script that can only be interpreted by Dongba priests, shamans, who have knowledge of the ancient Dongba cu…
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Recap of Symposium on Tools Criticism and Public Lecture
On Thursday 21 November, Leiden University Libraries' (UBL) Centre for Digital Scholarship and the Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities organised a Symposium on Tools Criticism at the Leiden University Library. Visiting Scaliger Professor Ted Underwood, gave a Public Lecture on "The Humanities in an…
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Adam FaircloughFaculty of Humanities
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Steven LauritanoFaculty of Humanities
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities