Speaker: Hans Voorbij
April 13-17, 2010
Denver, Colorado, USA

Speakers: Biography

Hans Voorbij

lecturer
Utrecht University
Department of Information and Computing Sciences
P.O.Box 80089
Utrecht
3508 TB The Netherlands
http://people.cs.uu.nl/hansv/

Hans Voorbij studied medieval Dutch and Latin philology and literature and worked several years with the Department of Medieval Studies at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). In 1986 he joined the humanities computing group of Utrecht University. Since 1999 he is employed with the Department of Information and Computing Sciences. He is currently active in the fields of XML-standards and multimedia applications and their use in digital cultural heritage, with a focus on cultural landscapes.

Hans will present Annotators and Agents in a Web-based Collaboratory around Cartographical Collections in Cultural Heritage Institutions. [Paper]