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Alex Brandsen

@alexbrandsen.nl

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Interoperability project lead at TDCC-SSH, with a background in computational archaeology and machine learning. Builder of agnessearch.nl

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Alex Brandsen @alexbrandsen.nl · 14/10/2026

"STOP ELSEVIER CONTRACT" A little bit of activism during the Open Science Festival today, during the opening plenary. Inspired by the session on activism yesterday at the OS Barcamp, awesome to see action being taken directly!

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Alex Brandsen @alexbrandsen.nl · 10/07/2026

We're building an LLM for Dutch Archaeology! With funding from Stichting Reuvens, I'm working with Archol and BAAC to create a RAG based system connecting an LLM to AGNES, making it possible to interrogate archaeological grey literature. See tara-llm.nl for more info (in Dutch)

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Alex Brandsen @alexbrandsen.nl · 18/06/2026

A story in 2 parts...

A red sticker with the text "peeling me won't erase Palestine you idiot" on a blue background

The remains of a peeled off red sticker, on a blue background

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Alex Brandsen @alexbrandsen.nl · 24/03/2026

Roll call! Who will I see at CAA2026 next week?? I'll be representing DANS at the S24 roundtable on research data infrastructure

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Alex Brandsen @alexbrandsen.nl · 10/03/2026

Got a project idea about FAIR research data and software in the Social Sciences & Humanities, and you're based in the Kingdom of The Netherlands? Consider joining the TDCC-SSH Project Idea Generator to brainstorm ideas and get more information on our open call! tdcc.nl/evenementen/...

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Alex Brandsen @alexbrandsen.nl · 28/01/2026

- a workshop on standardisation; interoperability was already a big topic back then! - the @caaint.bsky.social conference in 1987, with one of the main topics being 'expert systems', i.e. what we considered SotA Artificial Intelligence at the time, right in between the first and second AI winter

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Alex Brandsen @alexbrandsen.nl · 28/01/2026

Spotted this newsletter from 1987 (before I was born!) at the @dans-knaw-nwo.bsky.social office. Opened it on a random page, and found 2 calls for papers that perfectly aligned with my current and previous work:

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