First-Hand Accounts of War: War letters (1935-1950) from NIOD digitized = Oorlog uit Eerste Hand: Oorlogsbrieven (1935-1950) van het NIOD digitaal

‘First-Hand Accounts of War’ aims to digitise and preserve the NIOD’s collection of war letters, and to make this collection more readily accessible. Not only in the reading room at the NIOD, but also, where permitted by legislation, online through the NIOD and the Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen websites. In the initial phase of the project we will digitise the collection by scanning, transcribing, and annotating the letters. ‘First-Hand Accounts of War’ wants to take it a step further by also creating a structured, scholarly dataset that can be used in research for the application of, for example, quantitative text analysis. This ensures the collection is not only better preserved for future generations, but also made available in a way that offers new research possibilities.

First-Hand Accounts of War: War letters (1935-1950) from NIOD digitized = Oorlog uit Eerste Hand: Oorlogsbrieven (1935-1950) van het NIOD digitaal

‘First-Hand Accounts of War’ aims to digitise and preserve the NIOD’s collection of war letters, and to make this collection more readily accessible. Not only in the reading room at the NIOD, but also, where permitted by legislation, online through the NIOD and the Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen websites. In the initial phase of the project we will digitise the collection by scanning, transcribing, and annotating the letters. ‘First-Hand Accounts of War’ wants to take it a step further by also creating a structured, scholarly dataset that can be used in research for the application of, for example, quantitative text analysis. This ensures the collection is not only better preserved for future generations, but also made available in a way that offers new research possibilities.