Name: Taking OSINT to the archive: using data, OSINT and (a little bit of) AI for historical investigative journalism
Start: 2025-05-23T15:00:00+0200
End: 2025-05-23T16:15:00+0200

Friday May 23, 2025 3:00pm - 4:15pm CEST

Z1.15 - Aula Donche

In a world where history may sometimes seem busy repeating itself, the ability to find your way around traditional paper archives is increasingly useful. Whether it’s war, genocide, the Cold War or the environment: historical stories are becoming more and more – well – current.

In this session we’ll show you how to transfer data and OSINT skills to working with paper and historical records. We will explain how to find stories in the material and how to find both historical and current sources. We’ll show you some – hopefully – inspiring examples, and we’ll discuss why it’s not smart to accidentally download 500,000 records from the National Archives.

No previous knowledge and no additional materials (e.g. laptop) are required for this session.

Speakers

Ernst Arbouw

Journalist

Ernst Arbouw is a writer and journalist from the Netherlands. He works as a freelancer for de Volkskrant, where he writes about science, history, climate and - somehow - beached whales.In his book H.W.R. was hier ('H.W.R. was here', published 2021), he combined investigative journalism... Read More →

Friday May 23, 2025 3:00pm - 4:15pm CEST
Z1.15 - Aula Donche

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