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Amsterdam School of Historical Studies ASH

Dr. M.J.H.F. (Melvin) Wevers

Faculty of Humanities
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  • Kloveniersburgwal 48
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  • Publications

    2024

    • Nielbo, K. L., Karsdorp, F., Wevers, M., Lassche, A., Baglini, R. B., Kestemont, M., & Tahmasebi, N. (2024). Quantitative text analysis. Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 4, Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43586-024-00302-w [details]
    • Petram, L., Koolen, M., Wevers, M., & van Lottum, J. (2024). Charting Lives and Careers: Enriched Data About the Dutch East India Companyrsquo;s Eighteenth-Century European Workforce. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10, Article 44. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.210 [details]
    • Ros, R., & Wevers, M. (2024). Epistemic Capture Through Specialization in Post-World War II Parliamentary Debate. In Conference Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference (pp. 409-426). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3834). CEUR-WS.
    • Smits, T. P., & Wevers, M. J. H. F. (2024). Coloring in the world of others: color use in visual orientalism, 1890–1920. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03895-5

    2023

    • Barancová, A., Wevers, M., & van Noord, N. (2023). Blind Dates: Examining the Expression of Temporality in Historical Photographs. In A. Šeļa, F. Jannidis, & I. Romanowska (Eds.), Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2023: Paris, France, December 6-8, 2023 (pp. 490-499). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3558). CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/paper5790.pdf [details]
    • Smits, T., & Wevers, M. (2023). A multimodal turn in Digital Humanities. Using contrastive machine learning models to explore, enrich, and analyze digital visual historical collections. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 38(3), 1267-1280. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad008 [details]
    • Wevers, M. (2023). Mining Historical Advertisements in Digitised Newspapers. In E. Bunout, M. Ehrmann, & F. Clavert (Eds.), Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?: Reflections on tools, methods and epistemology (pp. 227-252). (Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics; Vol. 3). De Gruyter Oldenbourg. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110729214-011 [details]

    2022

    • Jongepier, L., & Wevers, M. (2022). Inleiding: Dossier: Digitale stadsgeschiedenis, de belofte ingelost? Stadsgeschiedenis, 17(2), 108-116. [details]
    • Smits, T., & Wevers, M. (2022). The agency of computer vision models as optical instruments. Visual Communication, 21(2), 329-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357221992097 [details]
    • Wevers, M. J. H. F., Vriend, N., & De Bruin, A. (2022). What to do with 2.000.000 Historical Press Photos? The Challenges and Opportunities of Applying a Scene Detection Algorithm to a Digitised Press Photo Collection. TMG – Journal for Media History, 25(1). https://doi.org/10.18146/tmg.815
    • Wevers, M., Karsdorp, F., & van Lottum, J. (2022). What Shall We Do With the Unseen Sailor? Estimating the Size of the Dutch East India Company Using an Unseen Species Model. In F. Karsdorp, A. Lassche, & K. Nielbo (Eds.), Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2022: Antwerp, Belgium, December 12-14, 2022 (pp. 189-197). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3290). CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3290/short_paper1793.pdf [details]
    • van Strien, D., Beelen, K., Wevers, M., Smits, T., & McDonough, K. (2022). Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 1). Programming Historian, 11. https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0101 [details]

    2021

    • Wevers, M. (2021). Scene Detection in De Boer Historical Photo Collection. In A. P. Rocha, L. Steels, & J. van den Herik (Eds.), ICAART 2021 : Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence : February 4-6, 2021. - Volume 1: ARTIDIGH 2021, Vienna, Austria (pp. 601-610). SciTePress. https://doi.org/10.5220/0010288206010610 [details]
    • Wevers, M., Kostkan, J., & Nielbo, K. L. (2021). Event flow - How events shaped the flow of the news, 1950-1995. In M. Ehrmann, F. Karsdorp, M. Wevers, T. L. Andrews, M. Burghardt, M. Kestemont, E. Manjavacas, M. Piotrowski, & J. van Zundert (Eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Humanities Research 2021: Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 17-19, 2021 (pp. 62-76). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2989). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2989/long_paper16.pdf [details]

    2020

    • Wevers, M., & Koolen, M. (2020). Digital begriffsgeschichte: Tracing semantic change using word embeddings. Historical Methods, 53(4), 226-243. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2020.1760157 [details]
    • Wevers, M., & Smits, T. (2020). Detecting Faces, Visual Medium Types, and Gender in Historical Advertisements, 1950–1995. In A. Bartoli, & A. Fusiello (Eds.), Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Workshops: Glasgow, UK, August 23–28, 2020 : proceedings (Vol. II, pp. 77-91). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12536). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66096-3_7 [details]
    • Wevers, M., & Smits, T. (2020). The visual digital turn: Using neural networks to study historical images. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 35(1), 194-207. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqy085
    • Wevers, M., Gao, J., & Nielbo, K. (2020). Tracking the Consumption Junction: Temporal Dependencies between Articles and Advertisements in Dutch Newspapers. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 14(2). http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/2/000445/000445.html

    2019

    • Wevers, M. (2019). Using Word Embeddings to Examine Gender Bias in Dutch Newspapers, 1950-1990. In The 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change: ACL 2019 : proceedings of the workshop : August 2, 2019, Florence, Italy (pp. 92-97). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-4712

    2018

    • van Erp, M., Wevers, M., & Huurdeman, H. (2018). Constructing a Recipe Web from Historical Newspapers. In D. Vrandečić, K. Bontcheva, M. C. Suárez-Figueroa, V. Presutti, I. Celino, M. Sabou, L.-A. Kaffee, & E. Simperl (Eds.), The Semantic Web – ISWC 2018: 17th International Semantic Web Conference, Monterey, CA, USA, October 8–12, 2018 : proceedings (Vol. I, pp. 217-232). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 11136). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00671-6_13 [details]

    2016

    • Martinez-Ortiz, C., Kenter, T., Wevers, M., Huijnen, P., Verheul, J., & van Eijnatten, J. (2016). Design and implementation of ShiCo: Visualising shifting concepts over time. In M. Düring, A. Jatowt, J. Preiser-Kappeller, & A. van Den Bosch (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd HistoInformatics Workshop on Computational History (HistoInformatics 2016): co-located with Digital Humanities 2016 conference (DH 2016) : Krakow, Poland, July 11, 2016 (pp. 11-19). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 1632). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1632/paper_2.pdf [details]

    2015

    • Kenter, T., Wevers, M., Huijnen, P., & de Rijke, M. (2015). Ad Hoc Monitoring of Vocabulary Shifts over Time. In CIKM'15: proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management : October 19-23, 2015, Melbourne, Australia (pp. 1191-1200 ). The Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2806416.2806474 [details]

    2024

    2021

    • Ehrmann, M., Karsdorp, F., Wevers, M., Andrews, T., Burghardt, M., Kestemont, M., Manjavacas, E., Piotrowski, M., & van Zundert, J. (2021). Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2021: Preface. In M. Ehrmann, F. Karsdorp, M. Wevers, T. L. Andrews, M. Burghardt, M. Kestemont, E. Manjavacas, M. Piotrowski, & J. van Zundert (Eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Humanities Research 2021: Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 17-19, 2021 (pp. v-vi). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2989). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2989/xpreface.pdf [details]

    2020

    • Karsdorp, F., McGillivray, B., Nerghes, A., & Wevers, M. (2020). Preface. In F. Karsdorp, M. McGillivray, A. Nerghes, & M. Wevers (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Humanities Research (CHR 2020): Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 18-20, 2020 (pp. v-viii). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2723). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2723/xpreface.pdf [details]

    2019

    • Wevers, M., Hasanuzzaman, M., Dias, G., Düring, M., & Jatowt, A. (2019). Introduction to the 5th HistoInformatics workshop. In M. Wevers, M. Hasanuzzaman, G. Dias, M. Düring, & A. Jatowt (Eds.), HistoInformatics 2019 : International Workshop on Computational History 2019: The 5th International Workshop on Computational History (HistoInformatics 2019), co-located with the 23rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2019) : Oslo, Norway, September 12th, 2019 (pp. 1-2). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2461). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2461/introduction.pdf

    2022

    • Smits, T., Wevers, M., & Paklons, E. (2022). A Clash of Colorful Worlds: Distant Viewing Color in Visual Representations of the Orient and Occident, 1890-1920. Paper presented at DH Benelux 2022, Belval, Luxembourg. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6530402
    • van Noord, N., Wevers, M., Blanke, T., Noordegraaf, J., & Worring, M. (2022). An Analytics of Culture: Modeling Subjectivity, Scalability, Contextuality, and Temporality. Paper presented at Cultures in AI/AI in Culture. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.07460 [details]

    2018

    2016

    • Martinez-Ortiz, C., Kenter, T. M., Wevers, M., Huijnen, P., Verheul, J., & van Eijnatten, J. (2016). ShiCo: A Visualization Tool for Shifting Concepts Through Time. Abstract from DH Benelux 2016.

    2015

    • Wevers, M., Kenter, T. M., & Huijnen, P. (2015). Concepts Through Time: Tracing Concepts in Dutch Newspaper Discourse (1890-1990) using Word Embeddings. Abstract from Digital Humanities 2015 (DH2015).

    Prize / grant

    Membership / relevant position

    • Wevers, M. (2022). Committee Member SSI Humanities Grant, Netherlands eScience Center.
    • Wevers, M. (2021). Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), UvA.
    • Wevers, M. (2021-2022). Selected member for the fourth intercontinental academia on AI, Intercontinental Academia. https://www.intercontinental-academia.org/

    Media appearance

    Journal editor

    • Wevers, M. (editor) (2021-). Journal of Open Humanities Data (Journal).

    Talk / presentation

    • Smits, T. (speaker) & Wevers, M. (speaker) (14-11-2024). Are we at a Multimodal Turn? Navigating AI Developments for Historical Research, Intermediality and Computational Humanities Hackathon, Vienna.
    • Wevers, M. (speaker) (28-3-2024). Audio Analysis with Python, Antwerp Centre for Digital Humanities and Literary Criticism (ACDC). https://github.com/melvinwevers/audio_analysis
    • Wevers, M. (speaker) (8-2-2024). A Multimodal Turn? Navigating AI Developments in Digital Humanities., Reimagining Annotation for Multimodal Cultural Heritage, Rennes.
    • Wevers, M. (speaker) (22-9-2022). Fotografisch Geheugen, Fotografisch Geheugen, Haarlem. https://noord-hollandsarchief.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht/1132-bestaat-het-fotografisch-geheugen
    • Wevers, M. (speaker), Blanke, T. (speaker) & van Noord, N. (speaker) (9-6-2022). Cultural Analytics in Amsterdam, Fudan University.
    • Wevers, M. (speaker) (2-6-2022). A clash of colorful worlds. Distant viewing the use of color in Western visual representations of the orient and occident, 1890- 1920, DH Benelux, Belval. https://zenodo.org/record/6530402#.YpYZUS0Rpqs
    • Wevers, M. (speaker) (6-11-2021). Modeling History: Digital History needs to look beyond Digitization, Third Conference of Chinese Digital Humanities.
    • Wevers, M. (speaker) (15-10-2021). Can AI help us to extract meaning from visual material from the past?, Digital Methods in History and Economics.
    • Wevers, M. (speaker) & Smits, T. (speaker) (7-10-2021). Shaping the Neoliberal Consumer, or how computational methods can help in analyzing Dutch historical advertisements for financial products., European History Reloaded, Utrecht.
    • Wevers, M. (speaker) (15-7-2021). Event Flow: a workflow to examine the interplay between events and the flow of information in historical newspapers, SciPy2021.
    • Wevers, M. (speaker) (2-7-2021). What to do with 2 million press photos? The challenges and opportunities of applying computer vision to a digitized press photo collection, Open Up the Morgue, Amsterdam.
    • Wevers, M. (speaker) & van Lottum, J. (speaker) (20-4-2021). VOCation: Tracing Maritime Careers in the Dutch East India Company, c. 1680-1800, Baltic Connections.
    • Wevers, M. (speaker) (15-3-202). NLP as an Intermediary in Historical Research, CENTAL.
    • Mellink, A. G. M. (speaker) & Wevers, M. (speaker) (19-11-2013). Putting the Human back in Digital Humanities, Cultuurhistorisch Seminar, Utrecht.

    Others

    • Petram, L. O. (organiser), van Wissen, L. (organiser), Tosun, M. (organiser), Land, R. (participant), Stapel, R. J. (chair), Wevers, M. (chair) & Schoonman, J. (chair) (15-5-2023). GLOBALISE Datasprint, Amsterdam. GLOBALISE organised a datasprint on places in the Indian Ocean world in collaboration with CREATE Lab. The goal was to collectively generate, curate, (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Wevers, M. (participant) (26-1-2023). CREATE SALON (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.create.humanities.uva.nl/uncategorized/salon-cultural-evolution/
    • Wevers, M. (participant) (12-12-2022 - 14-12-2022). Computational Humanities Research 2022, Antwerp (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://2022.computational-humanities-research.org/
    • Wevers, M. (host) (28-11-2022 - 9-12-2022). Jan Kostkan (hosting a visitor).
    • Wevers, M. (participant) (6-10-2022 - 7-10-2022). Adverts in Historical Newspapers, London (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Wevers, M. (host) (9-2022 - 12-2022). Phillip Stenmann Baun (hosting a visitor).
    • Wevers, M. (participant) (17-11-2021 - 19-11-2021). Computational Humanities Research 2021 (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Wevers, M. (visiting researcher) (18-10-2021 - 27-10-2021). Paris Institute for Advanced Study (visiting an external institution).

    2024

    • Petram, L., Koolen, M., Wevers, M., van Koert, R. & van Lottum, J. (12-2-2024). The Dutch East India Company's Eighteenth-Century Workforce: an Enriched Data Collection. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10599528

    2022

    • Wevers, M., Vriend, N., Barancová, A., Kruidhof, J., Nijssen, A. & Vereecken, L. (2022). Fotopersbureau De Boer Training Set on Scene Detection. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7137452
    • Wevers, M., Kruidhof, J., Nijssen, A., Vereecken, L., Vriend, N. & Barancová, A. (2022). Fotopersbureau De Boer Training Set on Scene Detection. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7071274

    2020

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