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Appendix 1 Case-study 1a
NIOD Research Project Transitional Justice
“Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice: Narratives in Historical Perspective” was a
research project created by and carried out at the NIOD, in cooperation with the University of
Amsterdam. It ran from 2011 until 2017. The program, under the direction of Prof. dr. Nanci
Adler, was staffed by two doctoral candidates (both obtained doctorates at the University of
Amsterdam), two post-docs, one Marie Curie (post-doc) fellow, and five research interns
(University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University, Clark University). The program was financed by
KNAW strategic seed-funding (600K), NIOD and – through matching a PhD - the University of
Amsterdam. It was built around a nucleus of an average 2,5 fte over the years.
The program organized and hosted international conferences, expert meetings, workshops, and
summer schools, and produced two monographs, two dissertations, one edited volume, several
peer-reviewed scholarly articles and books (see appendix), and established a Chair at the
University of Amsterdam as well as substantial cooperation with a broad international network
ranging from Columbia University to Kigali and Belgrade.
The aim of the Transitional Justice research program was national and international: (1) to
develop a research line within the NIOD that would bridge Holocaust and Genocide Studies with
existing NIOD research-focus areas, and (2) for the NIOD to become one of the hubs of the
transitional justice discussion. A series of expert meetings helped determine that the unique
historical niche and approach that NIOD researchers could bring to the subject would address a
lacuna in the field of transitional justice. This assessment proved accurate, as evidenced by
impact analysis studies, performed by dr. Ad Prins, that found the NIOD Transitional Justice
program to be highly visible and traceable in dozens of academic and research organizations,
NGOs, and blogs. And with regard to the aim of creating a bridge within the NIOD, we might
conclude that the program actually led to working over the borders of research areas.
Among the important research questions that emerged from the program was what kind of
history is being written in the narratives recorded by judges. For example, ICTY judgments have
reportedly contributed to the pursuit of historical accuracy regarding the patterns and details of
the conflict, yet contending parties almost always enter and leave the courtroom with their own
“truths” still intact. However, tribunals create and facilitate access to testimonies that might have
otherwise been inaccessible; that alone makes the record they produce an indispensable, yet
problematic, source for historians (Bouwknegt, Petrovic, Tromp). Our research has also
examined the narratives of compensation claims, varying from those of Holocaust survivors, to
those filed by the widows of Indonesians murdered by the Dutch military in their post-WWII
struggle for independence (Immler).
Besides filling important gaps in our knowledge, we also discerned several areas for future
research. For example, in the course of our investigations, we identified a number of “hard
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cases” generally absent from the scholarship. These are cases in which transitional justice is not
on the state agenda, transitional justice processes are restricted or resisted, or transitional justice
measures have been implemented but their achievements have been undermined by the
persistence of narratives that justify the repression of rights. In fact, transitional justice
mechanisms, norms, and tropes have been used, implemented, and executed by new, repressive
regimes to tighten their social and political grip, legitimize their authority, and whitewash prior
crimes while maintaining a ‘post-repressive regime’ reputation to the outside world, and securing
aid. This type of abuse of transitional justice is the norm rather than the exception. The next
phase of our research will focus on these difficult cases. This research has the potential to
enlarge the scope of scholarly thinking on the historical persistence of repression and open new
avenues for approaching transitional justice practices.
The most significant societal impact of our program is that since 2011, the NIOD has gained
recognition as a professional partner -- and even a hub -- in the global transitional justice
discussions, attracting visiting scholars, researchers, NGO actors, and numerous invitations to
(keynote) lecture, advise, or participate in international workshops, expert meetings, and NGO
events. The NIOD became a partner in the (Columbia-University based) “Historical Dialogues,
Justice, and Memory Network,” the most prominent organization devoted to issues surrounding
historical injustice. The NIOD has also deepened its international Netherlands-based contacts.
For example, it took active part in The Hague ‘Tribunal Legacy’ discussions, which focused on
facilitating broader access to the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunal (MICT) archive
for researchers. It held a fully-booked international workshop in The Hague: “The Trial Record
as Historical Source” (National Archive, The Hague, 2014), among the 140 in attendance were
numerous officials and staff members of the Hague tribunals. Further, the program organized
and hosted two international conferences: Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice (Peace
Palace, the Hague, 2015), plus an afternoon public event in Filmhuis Den Haag, as well as the 6th
Annual Conference of the Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Network, “Confronting
Violent Pasts and Historical Injustice,” (Amsterdam, 2016), which attracted nearly 200
practitioners and scholars from around the world.
In its years of operation (2011-2017), a number of varied, scholarly deliverables (results for
peers) were produced: the NIOD organized two international expert meetings (2011 and 2013),
the above-mentioned conferences, two dissertations were defended (2015, 2017), two
monographs and one edited volume were published by excellent academic presses, five research
interns were hosted, three Research Master’s theses were supervised, and several scholarly
articles and book chapters were written, peer-reviewed, and accepted by top presses and journals.
On the educational front, a Chair was established at the University of Amsterdam in 2015
(Memory, History and Transitional Justice), curriculum was developed for a University of
Amsterdam-accredited graduate Summer School run by the NIOD Transitional Justice team
(Kigali Rwanda, 2014 and 2015), NIOD transitional justice courses were integrated into the
curriculum of Leiden University College, and program faculty taught Transitional Justice classes
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at universities and international summer schools in Bosnia, Switzerland, Serbia, Croatia,
Rwanda, Germany, Belgium, Austria.
Finally, this research program has fostered substantive cooperation with key national and
international academic and NGO networks: the Humanitarian Law Center (Belgrade), Memorial
(Moscow), Lund University (Sweden), Hugo Valentin Center, Uppsala University (Sweden),
HL-Senteret (Oslo, Norway), University of Southern California Shoah Foundation, International
Institute of Social History, Aegis Trust (Kigali), The Hague Tribunal Legacy consortium,
University of Helsinki, Leiden University, University of Amsterdam, VU Amsterdam, Utrecht
University, National University of Rwanda, Mount Kenya University, Human Rights Watch, the
Center for International Justice, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, and the International Criminal
Court.
Relevant indicators
1. Select publications
Adler, Nanci, ed. Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice: Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and
Chronicling, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2018.
Adler, Nanci, “On History, Historians, and Transitional Justice,” in Understanding the Age of
Transitional Justice.
Adler, Nanci, “Challenges to Transitional Justice in Russia,” in Stan, Lavinia, Horne, Cynthia, eds.
Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union: Reviewing the Past and Looking Toward
the Future, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Adler, Nanci, Üngör, Uğur Ümit. “Epilogue: Indonesia in the Global Context of Genocide and
Transitional Justice,” Journal of Genocide Research 19, 3 (2017).
Adler, Nanci, “Communism’s ‘Bright Past’: Loyalty to the Party despite the Gulag,”, in Faces and
Traces of Violence: Memory Politics in Global Perspective, Culture and History Digital
Journal 3, 3 (2014): e015.
Adler, Nanci, Leydesdorff, Selma, eds. Tapestry of Memory: Evidence and Testimony in Life Story
Narratives, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2013.
Adler, Nanci, “The ‘Bright Past’, or Whose (Hi)story? Challenges in Russia and Serbia Today,”
Philosophy and Society XXIII, 4 (2012): 119-138.
Adler, Nanci, “Reconciliation with – or Rehabilitation of – the Soviet Past?” Memory Studies 5, 3
(2012): 327-338.
Anderson, Kjell, Perpetrating Genocide. A Criminological Account, London: Routledge, 2018.
Anderson, Kjell, “Collective Crimes, Collective Memory, and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh,” in
Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice.
Bouwknegt, Thijs B., & Adina Nistor, “Ordinary Eichmanns: ‘Perpetrators’ on trial’, in Alette
Smeulers, Maartje Weerdesteijn and Barbora Hola, eds., Perpetrators of International Crimes.
Methodology, Theory and Evidence, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Bouwknegt, Thijs B., “Duch is Dead.” Review of Alexander Laban Hinton, Man or Monster? The
trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016’, Journal of
Perpetrator Research, Vol. 1, No. 1 (September 2017).
Bouwknegt, Thijs B., ‘Ubutabera: Facts and case files from the International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda (ICTR)’, Transitional Justice Report (January 2017), pp. 1-125.
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Bouwknegt, Thijs B., “Unravelling Atrocity: Between Transitional Justice and History in Rwanda and
Sierra Leone’, in Ugur Ungor, ed., Genocide: New Perspectives on Causes, Courses and
Consequences Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016, pp. 217-251.
Bouwknegt, Thijs B., ‘Chad – Dakar: Habré trial is litmus test for Pan-African justice’, African
Arguments, 1 June 2015.
Bouwknegt, Thijs B., ‘Dominic Ongwen: born at the time of the white ant, tried by the ICC’, African
Arguments, 20 January 2015.
Bouwknegt, Thijs B., ‘How did the DRC become the ICC’s Pandora’s Box?’, African Arguments, 5
March 2014.
Bouwknegt, Thijs B., “The International Criminal Trial Record as Historical Source,” in
Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice.
Immler, Nicole L., “Human Rights as a Social Secular Imaginary in the Field of Transitional Justice.
The Dutch-Indonesian ‘Rawagede Case’, in Hans Alma, Guido Vanheeswijk, eds. Social
Imaginaries in a Globalizing World, Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming.
Immler, Nicole L., Jouwe, Nancy, “The colonial past tackles also present generations (Koloniaal
verleden gaat ook volgende generaties aan),” Trouw, 1 April 2015.
Immler, Nicole L., Narrating (In)Justice in the Form of a Reparation Claim: Bottom-up Reflections on
a Post-Colonial Setting – the Rawagede Case,” in Understanding the Age of Transitional
Justice.
Petrovic, Vladimir, “Swinging the Pendulum: Fin de Siècle Historians in the Courts,” in
Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice.
Petrovic, Vladimir, Clio Takes the Stand: The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise,London:
Routledge, 2016.
Petrovic, Vladimir, “The Power(lessness) of Atrocity Images: Bijeljina Photos Between Perpetration
and Prosecution of War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia,” International Journal for
Transitional Justice 9, 3 (2015): 367-385.
Tromp, Nevenka, Prosecuting Slobodan Milosevic: The Unfinished Trial, London: Routledge, 2016.
2. Grants
Nicole Immler, “Narrated Injustice” FP7 2013, Marie Curie
3. Completed dissertations
Thijs Bouwknegt, “Cross-Examining the Past: Transitional Justice, Mass Atrocity Trials and History
in Africa”, NIOD/UvA, October 2017.
Nena Tromp, “The Unfinished Trial of Slobodan Milosevic: Justice Lost, History Told,” NIOD/UvA,
September 2015.
4. Select invited lectures/keynotes/workshops/expert meetings
International Conference, “ICTY Legacy Dialogues”, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia, Sarajevo, Bosnia, June 2017
International Workshop, “History Unwanted,” Netherlands Institute in Athens, September 2016
Expert-meeting, “Perpetrators of international crimes,” Tilburg University, June 2016
International Workshop, “The Age of Transitional Justice: Overview, Approaches and Challenges,”
Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, June 2016
International Conference, “The Future of the Soviet Past,” HL-Senteret Oslo, June 2016
Expert Meeting, Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) Meeting on the Formation of a Law and
Peace Practice Group, Barcelona, November 2015
International Expert Meeting, “Complementarity in Prosecuting the Crime of Genocide: Lessons from
4Guatemala, Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina”, Geneva, UN Human Rights Council, March
2014
Workshop, “The Politics of Memory in Europe,” Copenhagen, October 2013
International Conference, “Genocide: How to Come Beyond Silences,” University of Helsinki, September
2013
Exploratory Workshop/Expert Meeting, “Setting a research agenda for the law, the criminology, the
victimology, and the research methodology of international crimes”, Institute for Legal Practice
and Development (ILPD) and Africa-Low Countries Network (Nyanza [Rwanda]), March 2013
Workshop/conference, “Sajmiste: If Not Now, When..,” Belgrade, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, May 2012
International Conference, “Regional and International Discourses on Deliveries of Justice in the
Former Yugoslavia: Histories, Meanings & Narratives,” Netherlands Institute for Advanced
Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS, Wassenaar (NL)), April 2012
Exploratory Workshop/Expert Meeting: “Living Through Violence: Everyday performances and
perspectives of memory, justice and social repair,” University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, February 2012
5Case Study 1b
Network of Dutch War Collections: en route to a national theme-
based infrastructure
NIOD is the lead partner in the Network of Dutch War Collections (Netwerk
Oorlogsbronnen, NOB), a theme-based digital infrastructure that provides access to many
dozens of archives, museums and libraries. The NOB operates at the boundary between
research and collection management: on the one hand, it is a programme that helps NIOD
carry out its tasks and role as an expertise centre and collection management institution;
on the other hand, it is opening up new avenues for research. One example is the NOB
project ‘Tribunal Archives as a Digital Research Facility’ (Tribunaalarchieven als
Digitale Onderzoeksfaciliteit, TRIADO), set up in cooperation with Huygens ING, NIOD
and the Dutch National Archives. This NOB/NIOD project will develop digital methods
and tools for new forms of research based on one of the richest and most frequently
consulted collections in the Netherlands, the Central Archive for Special Justice
(Centraal Archief Bijzondere Rechtspleging). That is why we have added the NOB,
which has been operating for less than two years, to this evaluation report as a case study.
The name ‘Network of Dutch War Collections’ (NOB) not only stands for an alliance between
66 collection management institutions but also for their joint programme, which focuses on
creating a digital infrastructure concerning the Second World War in the Kingdom of the
Netherlands as it then existed. The purpose of the NOB is to improve access to the virtual
‘Second World War Collection of the Netherlands’ by means of a digital infrastructure. This
‘collection’ is dispersed across 400 organisations and institutions and consists of archive
material, photographs, films, objects, interviews and so on.
NIOD is the lead partner in the network. The programme (2016-2019) is being funded by the
Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, the private Dutch Fund for Peace, Freedom and Veteran
Support (VFonds) and the VSBfonds private equity fund; some parts of it are also funded by the
Prins Bernhard Cultural Fund, the Mondriaan Fund and the Academy Innovation Fund. NOB is a
‘spearhead project’ in the Digital Heritage Network (NDE), in which several large national
organisations that act as nodes cooperate in the field of digital heritage.
The programme focuses on linking metadata and full content associated with the access points
‘who’, 'what’, ‘where’ and ‘when’. The NOB consists of projects involving linked open data,
geocoding, linking personal data, crowdsourcing and fully automatic access to archives. It is also
a network organisation that gets organisations dedicated to the memory of the Second World
War to engage actively in new developments. There are full-day network meetings, partners take
active part in projects, NOB members regularly give presentations, and social media and the
website www.oorlogsbronnen.nl update peers on what is happening in the programme. The NOB
Steering Committee – which consists of representatives of regional historical centres, War
museums and memorial centres, several major national heritage institutions (Dutch National
Archives, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, the National Library of the Netherlands,
and the CBG | Netherlands Centre for Family History) and NIOD itself, of course – is
responsible for guiding the programme content.
1NOB in key figures (1 February 2018)
Number of participating institutions 66
Number of collections in portal 100
Number of objects in portal 10,034,809
Number of FTEs in programme team 3.8 full-time equivalents
Number of active partners in projects in 2017 45
Budget 2016-2019 EUR 3.2 million
Coverage (now) 2016-2019 EUR 2.8 million
Number of visits to oorlogsbronnen.nl in 2017 49,000 visits
Linking collections by theme
The NOB takes a fundamentally different approach to the digitalising heritage collections and
making them accessible. Whereas traditional collection management institutions select which
material is made available digitally in what way themselves, this project looks at the collections
from the perspective of the digital visitor, whose choices would depend on an entirely different
question or need, i.e.: what information and/or data is available about a specific subject or
question and can I peruse that information or data directly? The work thus proceeds on the basis
of a different paradigm in which there are no organisational boundaries, just as there are no
boundaries in the digital reality of users and the web itself. The focus is consequently on
searching and finding – but also on ensuring that a digital web search does not end with users
being presented with 24,000 hits that they must then navigate on their own. The point is to allow
users to conduct narrow searches and easily trace the locations of the results, whether digital or
analogue.
At the same time, this approach does not stop at digitalisation per se by simply making data and
locations available; it is, explicitly, also about contextualisation, source enrichment, with links to
other, non-digitalised sources being identified.
The process of joining up the dispersed collections and generating knowledge of what is located
where leads to new research questions and methods. That, in turn, encourages innovation within
the world dedicated to the memory of the Second World War because it makes new perspectives
and new materials available. This will lead to new output (education, exhibitions, other forms of
creative expression), some of which will appeal to a new audience alongside the very large
number of people who continue to take an intrinsic interest in this period or that are seeking
more background and knowledge of their own family history or the history of their community.
2The purpose of the theme-based digital infrastructure is to link the research tools developed
within the context of the digital humanities to their use in the domain of cultural heritage. One
example is the link between the biographical portal of Huygens ING and the persons portal. It
will be obvious that scholarly input into the process of information enrichment (access points) is
of critical importance. Building a corpus of documented experiences can help future programmes
provide even better access to digital materials, even those associated with very different themes.
A final point is that the theme-based approach aligns with the development of research guides
that could have a huge societal impact, in this case because they will be useful to a wide
audience.
Because the programme is decentralised in nature, with the participating institutions being
responsible for managing their own collection data, the NOB must be able to handle a variety of
different systems and standards. Within the infrastructure, the NOB regularly retrieves data from
the various systems and enriches it with metadata at a central node. It can then use the enriched
data itself and return it to the individual institutions. To ensure that data can be reused, the NOB
assumes – and this is important – that both the collection data and open data will be shared.
Because the point is to build a digital infrastructure, the NOB initially invested a great deal of
time in building robust, flexible underpinnings for the programme, paralleling developments
related to the national digital infrastructure within the Digital Heritage Network.
Results: innovations, research and public r
It has now been two years since the start of the programme and in that time the NOB has not
only made important organisational progress but also achieved interesting results. Some of these
can be described in quantitative terms: the collections portal at www.oorlogsbronnen.nl gives
access to 10,034,809 separate object descriptions at a total of 100 institutions. All objects are
linked automatically (by linked data) to the Second World War thesaurus. The number of
affiliated collections will continue to grow, and the data will also be interlinked at geolocations.
Visits to the website have doubled to almost fifty thousand.
What are at least as relevant as the hard figures are the new pathways that the NOB is exploring
and the innovations that are being generated. To show this, it would be best to set aside time for
a presentation during the site visit. One of the most interesting parts of the programme is the
Second World War Persons Portal, which falls under the ‘who’ aspect of the NOB’s task. In this
project, in which the NOB cooperates with fifteen institutions that manage persons databases
associated with the Second World War, the aim is to develop a portal that provides easy access to
all these data. Kennisland, a think tank for social innovation, has studied the legal framework of
the portal for the NOB. There have also been experiments involving datasets in a test
environment. Smart matching algorithms make it possible to retrieve persons from the databases.
It is then possible to generate a timeline for each individual.
One of the ambitions this year is to set up a web portal – a restricted one for the time being – that
makes it possible to peruse the dispersed databases (probably about one million records
altogether) using a single search command. The idea is that the portal would eventually be
opened to the public. This project – which focuses on collecting ‘big data’ on persons associated
with the Second World War – will also be an interesting research facility for statistical and/or
prosopographical research, for example. The deployment of volunteers for data entry of analogue
3collections remains an attractive strategy for the NOB. Over the course of 90 days in 2017, 170
volunteers entered the information on almost 30,000 index cards from a Dutch deportation camp,
Camp Vught, using a structured digital format, allowing these data to be added to the Second
World War Persons Portal.
The NOB is interested in relevant collection data in the broader sense: not only metadata on the
collections, but the digital content itself. The NOB project Tribunal Archives as a Digital
Research Facility (TRIADO), set up in cooperation with Huygens ING, NIOD and the Dutch
National Archives, explores new digital methods – developed as research tools – for improving
digital access to the individual documents that form part of the Central Archive for Special
Justice, one of the richest and most frequently consulted collections in the Netherlands and part
of the Dutch National Archives, and making them more suitable for new forms of research. The
initial preparations began in 2017; in 2018, the NOB will use a 14-metre-long test set to run a
series of experiments, i.e. preparing typed documents for machine reading, automated clustering
of similar documents, and named entity recognition.
The data-enrichment process focuses on the standardised identification of ‘who’, ‘what’,
‘where’ and ‘when’. This creates the requisite conditions for linking this archive to other, related
archives, such as NIOD’s National Socialist Movement (NSB) archive, the International Tracing
Service’s complex ‘displaced persons’ collections, and, naturally, the collection data that NOB is
assembling in other projects. In the longer term, the TRIADO project will serve two purposes: to
provide the building blocks for a follow-up funding application meant to support the productive
digitalisation of the entire CABR (3.8 kilometres in length), but also to discover and develop a
set of digital instruments that will transform analogue collections into useful ‘big data’ in order
to encourage innovative research.
Screenshot of networked databases
4Screenshot of an automatically generated timeline based on different databases
Perspective
The NOB has generated enormous interest as a model for theme-based data networks. The 2017
Network Day attracted 160 people, including peers working in other theme-based domains, e.g.
the Van Gogh Museum. Work is proceeding on a spin-off, an NOB portal for the Province of
Gelderland; the aim is to extend the NOB’s regional and international reach over the next few
years. From now on, its communication strategy will target end users more than it has in the past,
i.e. interested citizens, in addition to professionals. Finally, the NOB will also devote more effort
in the coming years to the international perspective: linking to foreign sources about the
Netherlands and making them available for scholarly research (in cooperation with the
International Tracing Service, Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
among others).
Given the results of the first two years, various funding bodies have already indicated their
willingness to continue supporting the programme until the end of 2021.
Other sources
Video (in Dutch, no subtitles) explaining how the NOB works
5Information (in Dutch) about TRIADO:
https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tribunaalarchieven-als-digitale-onderzoeksfaciliteit
Presentation (in Dutch) by project coordinator Lizzy Jongma about the persons portal:
https://www.slideshare.net/Oorlogsbronnen/demonstrator-personenportal-wo2-
opgeleverd-netwerk-oorlogsbronnen
Article (in Dutch) in national newspaper supplement NRC Next, 14 November 2017,
about the NOB: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/11/14/google-voor-woii-materiaal-
moet-herinnering-levend-houden-a1581138
NOB programme plan (2015),
https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/sites/default/files/Programmaplan%20Netwerk%20Oorlogsbronn
en_0.pdf
Article (in Dutch) in national newspaper Trouw, 30 January 2018,
https://www.trouw.nl/home/trouw-bestaat-75-jaar-en-dat-vieren-we~a2ef7bf4/
6Appendix 2 Results of quantitative indicators NIOD 2012-2017 (Table D3b SEP) Indicator 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2.1.1 Scientific/scholarly books, critical source 12 4 3 7 5 6 publications and exhibition catalogues (authorized) 2.1.2 Journal articles and reviews (authorized) 18 18 12 9 7 12 2.1.3 Book chapters (authorized) 19 12 9 8 8 7 2.1.4 Editorship of an edited volume or special issue 0 2 0 2 0 1 (authorized) Other Scientific/scholarly books, critical source 2 4 0 1 0 0 publications and exhibition catalogues Other Journal articles and reviews 7 7 3 3 6 4 Other Book chapters (authorized) 4 6 3 2 1 4 Other Editorship of an edited volume or special issue 0 0 0 1 0 0 (authorized) 2.1.6 Commissioned reports (reasoned) 2 1 2 4 1 5 2.1.7 Organising Conferences [and 14 15 4 11 7 12 workshops/seminars] 2.3.1 Invited Lectures 92 102 63 64 64 52 2.4.2.1 Books, source publications and exhibition 1 2 8 3 4 5 catalogues for a general readership 2.4.2.2 Articles in general magazines and journals 34 23 28 21 10 8 2.4.2.4 en 2.4.3.1 Lectures and master classes for a 18 12 40 42 47 33 professional resp. general audience Number of finished PhD’s by NIOD Staff 0 2 1 1 1 1 Number of finished PhD’s of non-employees under 1 2 0 2 1 3 NIOD supervision
Some remarks regarding the results and the table
1. General
The figures in this table are arranged and organized according to the criteria at the website QriH.
Data are drawn from Pure, the registration system adopted by the KNAW. Since the systematics
of QriH and Pure (and its predecessor Metis) don’t fully correspond, the data had to be manually
edited.
2. High output books, articles and book chapters in 2012
The high output in 2012 and, to a lesser extent, 2013, can be explained by number of partly
accidental circumstances: (1) the completion of two NWO-projects; (2) the sharpening of the
distinction between scholarly books and books for a general public from 2014 on; (3) the
publication of two edited volumes to which many NIOD-researchers contributed. The decreased
output after 2014 can also be explained by the fact that a number of senior researchers who were
particularly active in publishing articles in general journals and newspapers (2.4.2.2), retired.
3. Authorized indicators and the category ‘Other book/articles/book chapters’
The classification into two categories – the indicators 2.1.1 till 2.1.4 and ‘Other
book/articles/book chapters’ – reflects the distinction between the list of journals and publishers,
authorized by the National Authorization Panel QriH (see website) and the journals and
publishers that are not listed. The NIOD strictly follows this distinction, though most journals and
publishers in the category ‘Other’ follow peer-review procedures; in many cases these non-
enlisted journals and publishers have a highly specialized character.
4. Commissioned Reports
Commissioned reports which have been published as commercial books, like De val van
Srebrenica, Amsterdam: Boom, 2016, have been rubricated under 2.1.1, not under 2.1.6.
5. Invited lectures (2.3.1) and Invitations for public lectures (2.4.2/3).
In the Metis system this distinction was not always sharp: the transition from Metis to Pure
explains the decline resp. increase in the period 2013-2014.
6. Lectures and master classes for a professional resp. general audience
The categories 2.4.2.4 and 2.4.3.1 are combined, because the registration system Pure does not
make the distinction between ‘professional’ and ‘general’..
Nota bene: these figures do not include the many public events which have been organized by the
NIOD itself.Appendix 3
Monographies and Edited Volumes by NIOD Staff
2012-2017*
2017
Buchheim, Eveline [et al.] (ed.). Gendered food practices from seed to waste. Amsterdam:
Verloren, 2017.
Eickhoff, Martijn, Gerry van Klinken, Geoffrey Robinson (ed.). 1965 today: living with the
Indonesian massacres. Routledge, 2017.
Grüter, Regina. Kwesties van leven en dood: het Nederlandse Rode Kruis in de Tweede
Wereldoorlog. Amsterdam: Balans, 2017.
Keizer, Madelon de. Als een meeuw op de golven: Albert Verwey en zijn tijd. Amsterdam:
Prometheus, 2017.
Keppy, Peter, Bart Barendregt, Henk Schulte Nordholt. Popular music in Southeast Asia:
banal beats, muted histories. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017.
Kieft, Ewoud. Het verboden boek: Mein Kampf en de aantrekkingskracht van het nazisme.
Amsterdam: Atlas, 2017
Kok, René en Erik Somers. Stad in oorlog: Amsterdam 1940-1945 in foto’s. Zwolle:
WBooks, 2017.
Piersma, Hinke. Zussen: een oorlogsverhaal. Amsterdam ; Antwerpen: Querido, 2017.
Romijn, Peter. Der lange krieg der Niederlande: Besatzung, Gewalt und Neuorientierung in
den vierziger Jahre. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2017.
Romijn, Peter. Dilemma’s van gezagsdragers in zware tijden. Haarlem : Provincie Noord
Holland, 2017.
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the Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg and the Holocaust. Amsterdam: Amsterdam
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Amsterdam: Boom, 2016.
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not included are publications by former employees, as far as these were written after their NIOD-contract.
1Amsterdam: NIOD, Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust en Genocidestudies, 2016.
Üngör, Uǧur Ümit (ed.). Genocide: new perspectives on its causes, courses and consequences
(NIOD Studies on War, Holocaust, and Genocide 3). Amsterdam: Amsterdam
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Bij, 2016.
2015
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topstukken uit het NIOD-archief. Amsterdam : Hollands Diep, 2015.
Benda Beckmann, Bas von. German historians and the bombing of German cities: the
contested air war (NIOD Studies on War, Holocaust and Genocide). Amsterdam:
Amsterdam University Press, 2015.
Buchheim, Eveline [et al.] (ed.). Gender and activism: women’s voices in political debate.
Amsterdam: Verloren, 2015
Buchheim, Eveline (ed.). Traveling War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015.
Cohen, Jaap. De onontkoombare afkomst van Eli d’Oliveira: een Portugees-joodse
familiegeschiedenis. Amsterdam: Em. Querido’s Uitgeverij, 2015.
Eickhoff, Martijn, Marjet Derks. What’s left behind: the lieux de mémoire of Europe beyond
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Grüter, Regina. Strijd om gerechtigheid: Joodse verzekeringstegoeden en de Tweede
Wereldoorlog. Amsterdam: Boom, 2015.
Have, Wichert ten. 1940: verwarring en aanpassing (Leven in bezet Nederland). Houten:
Spectrum ; Amsterdam : NIOD, Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocide-
studies, 2015.
Heijningen, René van. De muur van Mussert. Amsterdam: Boom, 2015.
Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig, Sandrine Kott, Peter Romijn and Olivier Wieviorka (ed.).
Seeking peace in the wake of war: Europe, 1943-1947 (NIOD Studies on War,
Holocaust and Genocide). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015.
Hustinx, Alphons Louis Marie Antoine Hubert, Lodewijk Imkamp, René Kok, en Erik
Somers. De oorlog in kleur: Hustinx reist door Nederland 1939-1946. Zwolle:
WBOOKS, 2015.
Kok, René, Erik Somers, en Louis Zweers. Koloniale oorlog: 1945-1949: van Indië naar
Indonesië. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Carrera, 2015.
Krimp, Renske, Regina Grüter, Esther Captain, Suzanne Liem, Sylvia Riwke Heimans, Kees
Ribbens, Hans de Vries, en Johannes Th. M. Houwink ten Cate. De doden tellen:
slachtofferaantallen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog en sindsdien. Amsterdam:
Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 Mei, 2015.
Piersma, Hinke, en Jeroen Kemperman. Openstaande rekeningen: de gemeente Amsterdam en
de gevolgen van roof en rechtsherstel, 1940-1950. Amsterdam: Boom, 2015.
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fout: grafische vormgeving in Nederland 1940-1945. Nijmegen: Uitgeverij Vantilt,
2015.
22014
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Academia,
2014.
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Amsterdam: Boom, 2014.
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II. Amsterdam: Verloren, 2014.
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Amsterdam: Boom, 2014.
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2013
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in life-story narratives. New Brunswick, NJ etc.: Transaction Publishers,
2013.
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Netherlands, 1940-1945. (Studies of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust
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collaborateurs in Nederland en België, 1944-1950. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Balans,
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4Appendix 4
TABEL D3C NIOD BUDGET AND FUNDING 2012-2017
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Funding: Amount € per FTE % Amount € per FTE % Amount € per FTE % Amount € per FTE % Amount € per FTE % Amount € per FTE %
Direct funding (1) 2.907 50 56% 2.908 57 57% 2.867 53 58% 2.913 48 50% 3.316 62 56% 3.273 58 54%
Research grants (2) 637 11 12% 191 4 4% 187 3 4% 315 5 5% 502 9 9% 206 4 3%
Contract research (3) 1.468 25 28% 1.792 35 35% 1.770 32 36% 2.199 36 37% 2.069 39 35% 2.402 43 40%
Other (4) 187 3 4% 167 3 3% 126 2 3% 438 7 7% -10 -0 0% 159 3 3%
Total funding 5.199 89 100% 5.058 99 100% 4.950 91 100% 5.865 97 100% 5.877 110 100% 6.040 107 100%
Expenditure: Amount € per FTE % Amount € per FTE % Amount € per FTE % Amount € per FTE % Amount € per FTE % Amount € per FTE %
Personal costs 4.287 73 82% 4.028 79 79% 4.044 74 80% 4.364 72 77% 4.793 90 77% 4.314 77 75%
Other cotsts 912 16 18% 1.087 21 21% 982 18 20% 1.304 22 23% 1.465 27 23% 1.453 26 25%
Total expenditure 5.199 89 100% 5.115 100 100% 5.026 92 100% 5.668 94 100% 6.258 117 100% 5.768 102 100%
Result - -57 -76 197 -381 272
FTE 58,7 51,1 54,6 60,3 53,5 56,36
Headcount 70 68 65 76 74 72
(1) Direct funding (basisfinanciering / lump-sum budget)
(2) Research grants obtained in national scientific competition (e.g. grants from NWO and the Royal Academy)
(3) Research contracts for specific research projects obtained from external organisations, such as industry, government ministries, European organisations and charitable organisations
(4) Funds that do not fit into the other categoriesAppendix 4
TABEL D3A NIOD STAFF IN FTE AND HEADCOUNT 2012-2017
Table D3A SEP
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
fte persons fte persons fte persons fte persons fte persons fte persons
Research unit
Scientific staff 21,33 24 19,4 25 21,9 28 25,5 30 19,23 28 22,33 26
Post-docs np np np np np np np np np np np np
PhD students 1,8 3 2,5 3 1 1 np np 0,84 1 1,64 2
Total research staff 23,13 27 21,9 28 22,9 29 25,5 30 20,07 29 23,97 28
Visiting fellows 0,25 2 0,17 2 0,17 2 0,17 1 0,25 3 0,4 3
Other staff 35,57 43 29,2 40 31,7 36 34,8 46 33,43 45 32,39 44
Total staff 58,95 72 51,27 70 54,77 67 60,47 77 53,75 77 56,76 75
TABEL D3D
Finished PhD's 3 2 3
Current projects 21 26 26Funding NIOD 2012-2017
7000,0
6000,0
5000,0
4000,0
3000,0
2000,0
1000,0
-
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
-1000,0
Lump sum KNAW Research grants Contract research Other
Financial results NIOD 2012-2017
7000,0
6000,0
5000,0
4000,0
3000,0
2000,0
1000,0
-
-1000,0
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Total funding 5199,0 5058 4950 5865 5877 6040
Total expenditure 5199 5115 5026 5668 6258 5767,9
result 0 -57 -76 197 -381 272Staff NIOD fte
58,95 60,47
56,76
54,77 53,75
51,27
25,5 23,97
23,13 21,9 22,9
20,07
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
research staff fte 23,13 21,9 22,9 25,5 20,07 23,97
total staff niod fte 58,95 51,27 54,77 60,47 53,75 56,76
Staff NIOD headcount
77 77 75
72 70
67
28 29 30 29 28
27
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
research headcount 27 28 29 30 29 28
total staff numbers 72 70 67 77 77 75Ref. Ares(2017)2086173 - 24/04/2017
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Open Innovation and Open Science
Research infrastructure
Brussels,
REVIEW REPORT
Grant Agreement (GA) number: 654164
Project1 Acronym: EHRI
Project title: European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
Type of Action: RIA
Start date of the project: 01/05/2015
Duration of the project: 48
Name of the primary coordinator contact Conny KRISTEL (NIOD-KNAW)
and organisation:
Period covered by the report: from 01/05/2015 to 24/04/2017
Periodic report: Intermediate assessment not linked to the end of a reporting period
Date of first submission of the periodic Not applicable
report (if applicable):
Date of latest version of Annex 1 to the 01/07/2016
GA (Description of the Action - DoA)
against which the assessment is performed
Date of meeting with consortium (if 20/04/2017
applicable):
Name(s) of monitors assisting in the Richard Marciano
project assessment (if applicable)
Name of Project Officer drafting the Maria THEOFILATOU
report:
1 The term ‘project’ used in this template equates to an ‘action’ in certain other Horizon 2020 documentation
11. Overall assessment
Overall assessment
Project has fully achieved its objectives and milestones for the period.
Significant results linked to dissemination, exploitation and impact potential
Project has delivered exceptional results with significant immediate or potential impact (even if not all objectives
mentioned in the Annex 1 to the GA were achieved).
This is a very significant and innovative project. The 2-year review demonstrated a superbly- managed and coordinated
project that is delivering on all the goals of Horizon 2020, and specific project deliverables:
(1) Networking activities: through workshops & training
(2) Trans-national access: through fellowship programs and virtual portal access
(3) Joint research activities: through infrastructure development, data identification and integration, standards
developments, user assessments, and digital research.
EHRI is achieving its main objectives of:
(1) integrating information on essential archival collections and institutions into an innovative online portal
infrastructure
(2) fostering collaborative Holocaust research and pioneering new methodologies that have the potential to influence
other disciplines
The mid-point project results are significant enough to suggest the exploration of new sustainable ventures beyond
2019: Agreement to work towards the establishment of a permanent ERIC, and drafting of a proposal for an ESFRI
Roadmap.
General comments
The reach of EHRI has been greatly expanded to new communities and regions including in Central and Eastern
Europe (Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece), and the United States. This is a very significant development with
deep cultural impacts.
As a reviewer based in the North America, I am particularly impressed by the integrative scope of this Horizon 2020
Project:
- EHRI touches on "Hidden Collections", which would be funded by CLIR (Council on Library and Information
Resources).
- EHRI promotes "computational treatments of collections" at scale, which would typically be funded by IMLS
(Institute of Museum and Library Services).
- EHRI brings together archivists, technologists and researchers, which the Canadian SSHRC funded through
projects like InterPARES, however portal infrastructure was not part of that work.
- EHRI is training the next generation of Holocaust researchers, which you would see in US NSF/SBE science
initiatives like the SLC (Science of Learning Centers), where communities of postdocs and young researchers in
brain science are being groomed (this however does not extend to the social sciences and humanities).
- EHRI is developing significant digital infrastructure (in the way the NSF DIBBs - Data Infrastructure Building
Blocks - initiative is promoting).
- EHRI is promoting big data and analytics tools (in the way NSF/SBE RIDIR is - Resource Implementations for
Data Intensive Research is doing), but there the focus is the database and the computational methods only.
- EHRI is leading the field in showing how computational treatments can occur with cultural data (in a way IMLS is
starting only to consider with its Library Collections as Sources of Computation planning grant).
These types of activities in North America are primarily funded through a patchwork of independent agencies.
Hence, my enthusiastic endorsement of this EU-integrated framework that is supporting multiple dimensions
(human, technical, education) to be developed harmoniously and an integrated fashion, on such a historically and
culturally significant subject.
Recommendations concerning the period covered by the report
2I find it particularly exciting to see that the human infrastructure, training, networking, and building of the
portal, are supplemented by Work Package 14: Digital Historiography of the Holocaust. This is allowing for the
interdisciplinary study of digital technology and history practice and is pioneering the integration of historical work
with archival and computational thinking.
Six research use cases at scale that are being developed:
- Names and Networks. Chances of Survival during the Holocaust
- In Search of a Better Life and a Safe Haven: Tracing the Paths of Jewish Refugees (1933-1945)
- People on the Move. Revisiting Events and Narratives of the European Refugee Crisis (1930s-1950s)
- Between Decision Making and Improvisation. Tracing and Explaining Patterns of Prisoners’ Transfers through the
Concentration
Camp System.
- Archives and Machine Learning.
- Networked Reading.
This task and its findings in the second part of the project deserve to be highlighted prominently as they are an
exemplar of the types of future services that could be provided beyond this project. This work has the potential to
broaden Social Network Analysis / Text Analysis / Spatial Analysis to "Big" social science and humanities "Data"
and speak to sustainable activities.
Recommendations concerning future work, if applicable
EHRI is on track for improving data integration into the Portal, developing new methodologies / tools and services
for archival and digital research, supporting researchers through online courses, fellowships, workshops, seminars,
providing dissemination through scholarly blogs, organizing events and conferences.
Focusing now on the sustainability of the EHRI Community and Services is vital. Beyond the technical
infrastructure, the extensive social capital demonstrated in year two, based on relationships of trust and deep human
networking... are priceless. These are unique developments that need to be sustained and expanded on. Transitioning
from a research collaborative to a more permanent European structure would leverage all the investments to date and
provide a framework for the future.
32. Objectives and Workplan
Is the progress reported in line with objectives and work plan as Yes
specified in the DoA? If there are significant deviations, please comment.
All the planned deliverables are on track, as demonstrated during the in-person review.
Are the objectives of the project still scientifically and /or technologically Yes
relevant?
This is a model project. EHRI stands to influence the development of digital humanities, both technologically and
scientifically.
Its expected impact of contextually linked Holocaust research such as the study of anti- Semitism and racism; 19th-
century racial and nationalists theories and the societies that produced them; and the development of (dictatorial)
state machineries [per the proposal] are still very relevant.
Are the critical implementation risks and mitigation actions described in Yes
the DoA still relevant?
Yes, they all seem relevant.
While there are risks in conducting new activities at the intersection of Humanities and e-Science, the potential to
bring together archival and computational thinking is exciting and well worth the risk-taking.
Have the pilots/case studies started to showcase innovative results as Yes
described in the DoA?
Deliverable 14.1 was presented and demonstrates a great potential for innovation. When these pilots are showcased
later in the project, this will be an important dissemination opportunity.
Have the ethics related deliverables and/or requirements due for the Yes
current period been adequately addressed and approved?
Section 5.1 of the proposal spells out a rigorous approach to ethics which is being observed in EHRI2.
Have the comments and recommendations from previous assessments Not applicable
been taken into account?
I am not aware of previous comments and recommendations.
43. Impact
Does the work carried out contribute to the expected impacts detailed in Yes
the DoA?
EHRI has the potential to impact the digital transformation of the Holocaust research community.
DoA impacts stated included:
I. Simplify access to, and usage of, the EHRI infrastructure by radically focusing on user needs
II. Facilitate knowledge transfer and the education of a new generation of researchers
III. Tighten the co-operation of Holocaust infrastructure operators to exploit synergies and increase harmonization of
services
IV. Build a large community of researchers committed to openness, sharing and disciplinary cross-fertilisation
V. Foster innovation through partnership with industry
VI. Improve the management and continuous flow of integrated knowledge-based resources
VII. Contribute to evidence-based policy making
VIII. Build local capacities to overcome digital divides
There is convincing and strong evidence of impact in all eight areas.
Does the work carried out follow the plan detailed in the DoA to enhance Yes
innovation capacity, create new markets opportunities, strengthen
competitiveness and growth of companies, address issues related to
climate change or the environment, address industrial and/or societal
needs at regional level or bring other important benefits for society?
Give information on the relevant innovation activities carried out
(prototypes, testing activities, standards, clinical trials) and/or new
product, service, reference materials, process or method (to be) launched
to the market, if any.
EHRI is creating new opportunities in enhancing innovation capacity on the innovative use of Big Data and NoSQL
technologies.
EHRI's portal is built on top of Neo4J, one of the leading vendors in graph databases. EHRI's novel uses of
networking technologies at scale has the potential to open new markets and set trends in cultural infrastructure at
scale. This approach while innovative and risky stands to pay off.
Does the work carried out contribute towards European policy Yes
objectives and strategies and have an impact on policy making?
Deliverable D14.1 discusses a potential workshop to evaluate opportunities and obstacles for the International
Tracing Service to become a digital research space with a focus on policy and legal issues.
Does (or will) the work carried out have an impact on SMEs? Yes
EHRI has been working closely with OntoText and Neo4J and its innovative work stands to open up new markets
and set new trends and use cases.
Have the beneficiaries aimed at a gender balance at all levels of Yes
personnel assigned to the action? If beneficiaries could not achieve the
balanced participation of women and men in their teams despite active
recruitment efforts, have the reasons been explained in the periodic
report?
The proposal discusses its awareness of gendered analysis in Holocaust research at large. Regarding gender
balance in participation in teams and recruitment, my anecdotal observations are that there is gender balance on the
management team and working teams, as well as with research fellows.
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