CHoral - access to oral history

News

2010-04-05 An updated version of the Buchenwald demonstrator has been put online.
2009-11-30 CHoral will present itself during the DISH 2009 conference in 'De Doelen' in Rotterdam.
2009-11-27 NWO has created a short documentary about the unique formula and benefits of the NWO research programme CATCH. CHoral is one of the projects that is introduced in this film.
2009-09-25 Mies Langelaar of the Rotterdam Municipal Archives presented 'Hidden Treasures Lost Forever? Speech technology & the disclosure of Dutch audiovisual archives' at the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) 2009 conference in Athens, September 19-25, 2009.
2009-05-14 In cooperation with CHoral, the Rotterdam Municipal Archives have added a new functionality to their website about the WWII bombardment of the city of Rotterdam (Brandgrens, in Dutch): access to and search in interviews with survivors of this bombardment. CHoral has provided the ASR-based index to enable this functionality.
2009-04-01 A paper on CHoral's research is forthcoming in the CATCH Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
2008-10-16 Launch of the International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement (IIAV) demonstrator.
2008-07-14 At the website of 'InformatieProfessional' a dossier on the CATCH programme is available. CHoral has it's own entry (in Dutch).
2008-06-19 Franciska de Jong has been interviewed by the 'UT Nieuws'. The interview (in Dutch) can be found here.
2008-06-12 CHoral will present the Buchenwald demo at CBMI 2008 in London.
2008-06-11 Laurens has won the first prize in the CTIT PhD Poster Contest!
2008-04-11 CHoral has contributed to the realisation of the Buchenwald search engine (see www.buchenwald.nl). It supports access to and search in interviews with Buchenwald survivors.
2008-01-10 CHoral is involved in the organisation of a symposium on the re-use of interview collections, to be held on March 14 2008 in The Hague. More information (in Dutch).
2007-11-30 At the CATCH midterm event we'll have a poster and oral presentation. During this same event the integrator, that Thijs has been working on together with some of the other CATCH programmers, will also be presented
2007-08-29 The Radio Oranje demo was presented at Interspeech in Antwerp.
2007-07-24 CHoral had a presentation at SIGIR'07 in Amsterdam.
2007-04-26 A background article about the Radio Oranje demo appeared in the UT-nieuws (in dutch).
2007-04-24 The Radio Oranje demo is now online at the NIOD website (Koningin Wilhelmina in de Tweede Wereldoorlog)!
2007-01-03 The CHoral team wishes everybody a happy new year!
2006-11-21 The demonstrator for the pilot project (The Radio Oranje demo) is almost finished. Take a look in the Demo section to find it.
2006-11-01 We are currently working on the Radio Oranje demo and will soon present our first results.
2006-09-01 The website is onlinish and gaining shape...