Radical Research and Digital Documents (R2-D2)

By combining knowledge, experience, and expertise, the team establishes stronger links between NIOD's ‘traditional’ documentation and research areas and developments in Digital History, Computational Archival Studies, and archive digitization. For example, computer models for handwriting recognition are used to digitize war letters, digital research environments are developed, and we publish on the significance of these developments. 

Ethics, transparency, and responsible use of software and hardware are important in this regard. The team continuously reflects on the social, epistemological, legal, and moral implications of digital methods and technologies and works on responsible and meaningful ways to use them in research and archival creation and management.