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The Cultural Analytics Lab (CANAL) is a cross-faculty lab at the University of Amsterdam with the mission to co-develop and co-research culturally-aware AI methods from a perspective that is both critical and ethical.

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Call for papers for CultMM, MMM 2024

As part of the 30th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), CANAL members Nanne van Noord and Melvin Wevers are co-organising the CultMM: Cult...

CANAL at CHR 2022

Between December 12–14, CANAL will take part in this year’s edition of the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) conference held in Antwerp, Belgium. Durin...

Tag the Picture Launched

On November 24, 2022, Tropenmuseum Amsterdam launched the annotation platform Tag the Picture. This platform enables volunteers to enrich images in the colon...

CANAL White Paper at NeurIPS Fest 2022

On November 24, Nanne van Noord & Melvin Wevers will present the white paper “An Analytics of Culture: Modeling Subjectivity, Scalability, Contextuality,...

CANAL at Data Science Day 2022

On Thursday 13th of October Melvin Wevers will present the Cultural Analytics Lab (CANAL) during UvA’s annual Data Science Day. The event will take place at ...

Alexandra Barancová joins CANAL

From September the Cultural Analytics Lab (CANAL) welcomed Alexandra Barancová, who is joining the team as Junior Researcher. Alexandra will be working with ...

CANAL launched!

On the 1st of September 2022 the Cultural Analytics Lab (CANAL) was launched! CANAL is a cross-faculty lab at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), with the mis...