Publications
2024
Weber, A.; Turnhout, E., (2024), "A Langur from Sumatra: Digital Futures, Material Presents and Colonial Pasts," Nuncius, in press.
Turnhout, E., Supper, A., & Weber, A. (2024). Epistemic Inequities (summer school). (WTMC Series on Teaching and Learning; Vol. 2024, No. 02). Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture (in press).
Morales Furuta, S.; Reviejo Salamanca, A.; Todd, M.; Stork, L., Weber, A. (2024), "Herbaria Heritage: Visualising Colonial Bias in Natural History Collections," Short paper for the 11th Digital Humanities Benelux Conference 2024, Leuven, Belgium. https://zenodo.org/records/11519550 [PDF]
Turnhout, E., Supper, A., & Weber, A. (2024). Endangered futures (workshop). (WTMC Series on Teaching and Learning; Vol. 2024, No. 01). Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.2666-2892.2024.01
2023
Turnhout, E., Supper, A., & Weber, A. (2023). Archiving (online workshop): Autumn Workshop 2023. (WTMC Series on Teaching and Learning; Vol. 2023, No. 03). Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. https://doi.org/10.3990/4.2666-2892.2023.03
Weber, A., Heerlien, M., Gassó Miracle, E., & Wolstencroft, K. (2023). Introduction to the Special Issue on Digital Natural and Cultural Heritage: Opportunities and Challenges. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 16(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597459 [PDF]
Turnhout, E., Supper, A., & Weber, A. (2023). WTMC summer school Algorithmic (WTMC Series on Teaching and Learning; Vol. 2023, No. 02). Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.2666-2892.2023.02
Turnhout, E., Supper, A., & Weber, A. (2023). STS at work: Perspectives on labour: Spring Workshop. (WTMC Series on Teaching and Learning; Vol. 2023, No. 01). Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. https://doi.org/10.3990/4.2666-2892.2023.01
2022
Islam, S., Weber, A., & Tóth-Czifra, E. (2022). From Green Deal to Cultural Heritage: FAIR Digital Objects and common data spaces. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 8, [e93815]. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e93815
Islam, S., Weber, A., Chambers, S., Tóth-Czifra, E., Arnold, K., & Schulz, H. (2022). Data-Driven storytelling through FAIR data: The challenges in discoverability, cross-domain linking and integrating context. Abstract from DARIAH Annual Event 2022, Athens, Greece. The abstract is here.
Turnhout, E., Beaulieu, A., & Weber, A. (2022). Trust and truth, spring workshop (WTMC Series on Teaching and Learning; Vol. 2022, No. 01). Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. https://doi.org/10.3990/4.2666-2892.2022.01
Honarmand Ebrahimi, S., Milford, I., Bond, J., Deb Lal, N., El Chami, Y., Elsisi, H., Ganneri, N., Kamphuis, K., Tizzoni, M., Tunç, U., Wallace, C., Wang, Z., Weber, A., & Zarkar, R. (2022). "Roundtable: the archives of global history in a time of international immobility", in: Historical Research, 95(270), 586-597. DOI: 10.1093/hisres/htac015
Turnhout, E., Supper, A., & Weber, A. (2022). The view from somewhere. Geographies of knowledge and STS (online) (WTMC Series on Teaching and Learning; Vol. 2022, No. 03). Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. https://doi.org/10.3990/4.2666-2892.2022.03
Weber, A. and Van Zanen, S., "Matters of perspective: Local visual expertise and natural history drawings in Java, 1820-1850," in: Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia 23:1 (2022), 38-63. DOI: 10.17510/wacana.v23i1.1243.
Turnhout, E., Supper, A., & Weber, A. (2022). Opening up diversity, summer school (WTMC Series on Teaching and Learning; Vol. 2022, No. 02). Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. https://doi.org/10.3990/4.2666-2892.2022.02
Weber, A. and Van Zanen, S., Kunstenaar in Sumatra: De reisdagboeken en tekeningen van Pieter van Oort (1833-1834) (Zutphen 2022), published as volume 120 of the Reeks van de Werken van de Linschoten-Vereeniging.
2021
Van Zanen, S. and Weber, A., "Schreeuwende apen, zingende vogels en fluitende kogels: Natuuronderzoek op Sumatra in oorlogstijd (1833-1834)," in: Indische Letteren (2021), 278-299. [PDF]
Turnhout, E., Beaulieu, A., & Weber, A. (2021). Emerging innovations as systems, fall workshop (WTMC Series on Teaching and Learning; Vol. 2021, No. 04). Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. https://doi.org/10.3990/4.2666-2892.2021.04
Weber, A., "Natural History Collections and Empire," in: Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire, ed. by Andrew Goss (London 2021), 80-86. [PDF]
Turnhout, E., Beaulieu, A., & Weber, A. (2021). Datafying non-humans (WTMC Series on Teaching and Learning; Vol. 2021, No. 02). Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. https://doi.org/10.3990/4.2666-2892.2021.02
Stork, L., Weber, A., van den Herik, J., Plaat, A., Verbeek, F. , Wolstencroft, K., "Large-scale zero-shot learning in the wild: classifying zoological illustrations," Ecological Informatics 62 (2021), 101222. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101222
Weber, A. and Van Zanen, S., Kunstenaar in Java: De reisdagboeken en tekeningen van Pieter van Oort (1825-1833) (Zutphen 2021), published as volume 119 of the Reeks van de Werken van de Linschoten-Vereeniging. [PDF of intro]
Turnhout, E., Beaulieu, A., & Weber, A. (2021). Epistemic corruption, summer school (WTMC Series on Teaching and Learning; Vol. 2021, No. 03). Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. https://doi.org/10.3990/4.2666-2892.2021.03
Weber, A., Heerlien, M., Gassó Miracle, E., Wolstencroft, K. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference Collect and Connect: Archives and Collections in a Digital Age Leiden, the Netherlands, November 23-24, 2020, CEUR-WS.org, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2810.
Weber, A., “Material Sensibilities: Writing Paper and Chemistry in the Netherlands and beyond, ca. 1800,” in: The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Materials, Networks, ed. Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds (Leiden: Brill 2021), 327-341. DOI: 10.1163/9789004424005_015. [PDF]
Kuhlmann, S., Beaulieu, A., & Weber, A. (2021). A new political sociology of science (WTMC Series on Teaching and Learning; Vol. 2021, No. 01). Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. https://doi.org/10.3990/4.2666-2892.2021.01
2020
Weber, A., “Over krokodillenvangers, onechte gavialen, en schedeltentoonstellingen,” Wonderkamer 1 (2020), 40-41. [PDF]
Caceres, A. , Weber, A., and Schomaker, L. (2020). MONK in Practice: Indexing Heterogeneous Handwritten Collections. Abstract for the 7th Digital Humanities Benelux Conference 2020, Leiden, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3860811
Gassó Miracle, E., Stork, L., Weber, A., Ameryan, M., Wolstencroft, K. (eds.), Natuurkundige Commissie Archives Online: Providing Access to the hidden treasures of the ‘Natuurkundige Commissie voor Nederlandsch-Indie’. Leiden: Brill (2020). DOI: 10.1163/9789004336865
2019
Dijksterhuis, F.J., Weber, A., and Zuidervaart, H. (eds.), Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
Weber, A., “Collecting Colonial Nature: European Naturalists and the Netherland Indies in the Early Nineteenth Century,” BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review 134:3 (2019), 72-95. DOI: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10741
Mostert, T. and Weber, A., “Historians Should Explore Rather Than Sticking with What They Know”: Interview with Professor Harold Cook, Brown University, Itinerario 43:1 (2019), 1-13. DOI: 10.1017/S0165115319000020
Stork, L.; Weber, A.; Wolstencroft K., "The Semantic Fieldbook Annotator", Biodiversity Information Science and Standards: 3 (2019). DOI: 10.3897/biss.3.37223
Stork, L., Weber, A., Gassó Miracle, E., Verbeek, F., Plaat, A., Van den Herik, J and K. Wolstencroft, “Semantic Annotation of Natural History Collections,” Journal of Web Semantics 59 (2019), 100462. DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2018.06.002 [PDF]
Dijksterhuis, F.J. and Weber, A., “The Netherlands as a Laboratory of Knowing”, in Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts, ed. Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Andreas Weber, and Huib Zuidervaart. Leiden: Brill, 2019, 1-14. DOI: 10.1163/9789004264885_002
Stork, L.; Weber, A.; Van den Herik, J., Plaat, A.; Verbeek, F., Wolstencroft, K., “Automated Semantic Annotation of Species Names in Handwritten Texts,” in Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2019: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 11437, Azzopardi, L., Stein, B., Fuhr, N., Meyr, P., Hauff, C. & Hiemstra, D. (eds.). Cham 2019, p. 667-680 (peer-reviewed, acceptance rate 23%, 165 submissions out of which 39 were accepted). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_43 [PDF]
2018
Weber, A. and Wille, R.J. “Laborious Transformations: Plants and Politics at the Bogor Botanical Gardens,” Studium. Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitsgeschiedenis 11:3 (2018), 169-177. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18352/studium.10176 [ONLINE] [PDF]
Kraak, M.J.; Weber, A.; Van Lottum, J., Engelhardt, J., "Toward VR eventscapes for spatio-temporal access to digital maritime heritage", Conference Proceedings of 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science, p. 413-414. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2018.00129 [PDF] [POSTER]
Weber, A., “A Garden as a Niche: Botany and Imperial Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century Dutch Empire,” Studium. Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitsgeschiedenis 11:3 (2018), 178-190. DOI: 10.18352/studium.10177 [ONLINE] [PDF]
Stork, L.; Weber, A.; Gassó Miracle, E.; Wolstencroft, K., Linking Natural History Collections, Conference Proceedings of 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science, 388-389. DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2018.00113 [PDF].
Weber, A.; Ameryan, M.; Wolstencroft, K.; Stork, L.; Heerlien, M.; Schomaker, L. "Towards a Digital Infrastructure for Illustrated Handwritten Archives," in Digital Cultural Heritage, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 10605, ed. Marinos Ioannides (Springer 2018), 155-166 (peer-reviewed, Mahya Ameryan and Andreas Weber share first authorship, acceptance rate: 29 out of 198 submissions. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75826-8_13 [PDF].
Post, A.L. and Weber, A., “Notes on the reviewing of learned websites, digital resources and tools,” Isis 110: 4 (2018), 796-800. DOI: 10.1086/701651
Stork, L., Weber, A., Herik, J. van den, Plaat, A., Verbeek, F., Wolstencroft, K., “From Handwritten Manuscripts to Linked Data,” in: Méndez E., Crestani F., Ribeiro C., David G., Lopes J. (eds) Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11057. Springer, Cham, 330-334. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00066-0_34
Stork, L., Weber, A., Gassó Miracle, E., Wolstencroft, K., “A Workflow for the Semantic Annotation of Field Books and Specimen Labels,” in Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2: e25839 (2018) (presented by Lise Stork at joint meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) and Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), Dundee, New Zealand, August 25 – September 1, 2018). DOI: 10.3897/biss.2.25839
Stork, L.; Wolstencroft K.; Weber, A.; Verbeek, F.; Plaat, A. “Priming Digitization: Learning the Textual Structure in Field Books,” Conference abstract, ICT OPEN 2018, 18-19 March 2018, Amersfoort.
Book review of Patrick Manning & Daniel Rood (2016): Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 in Journal of Modern History 90:2 (2018): 415-417. DOI: 10.1086/697330
2017
Weber, A., Essay Review: “World Histories of Science and Material Exchange,” Journal of World History 28, 1 (2017), 178-183. DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2017.0016
Weber, A., “Hout, poep, en hydrometers: Chemische kennis en het bestuur van het Nederlandse koloniale rijk in Azië in de vroege negentiende eeuw,” Dingen die ergens toe dienen’: Verhalen over materiële cultuur van wetenschap. ed. Esther van Gelder, Erik Jorink, Ilja Nieuwland, et al. (Verloren, 2017), 32-35. [PDF]
Stork, L. and Weber, A., “A Linked Data Approach to Disclose Handwritten Biodiversity Heritage Collections,” Book of Abstracts, DH Benelux 2017 (Utrecht 2017), 10-13. (peer-reviewed). [PDF]
Weber, A., “Renegotiating debt: Chemical Governance and Money in the Early Nineteenth Century Dutch Empire,” in: Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840, ed. Lissa Roberts and Simon Werrett(Leiden: Brill 2017), 205-225 (published in open access). [PDF]
Weber, A. Book review of Diarmid A. Finnegan and Jonathan Jeffrey Wright (eds.) (2015): Spaces of Global Knowledge: Exhibition, encounter and exchange in an age of empire in Isis 108, 2 (2017):453-454. DOI: 10.1086/692426
2016
Schomaker, L.; Weber, A.; Thijssen, M.; Heerlien, M.; Plaat A.; Nijssen, S.; Verbeek, F.; Lew, M.; Gassó Miracle, E.; Wolstencroft, K.; Suvyer, E.; Verheij, B.; Wiering, M.; Dekker, R.; Kok, J.; Roberts, L.; Van den Herik, J. “Making Sense of Illustrated Handwritten Archives,” Digital Humanities 2016 Krakow, Conference Abstracts, 764-766. [LINK TO FULLTEXT]
Weber, A.; Ameryan, M.; Stork, L.; Wolstencroft, K.; Gassó Miracle, E.; Nijssen, S.; Wiering, M.; Heerlien, M.; Thijssen, M.; Huetink, M.; Verbeek, F.; Plaat A.; Kok, J.; Roberts, L.; Herik, J. van den; Schomaker, L., Making Sense of Illustrated Handwritten Archives, Poster at eScience Symposium, Amsterdam, 13 October 2016 [POSTER]
Weber, A., Book review of Kevin Y.L. Tan (2015): Of Whales and Dinosaurs: The Story of Singapore’s Natural History Museum in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 1 (2016): 150-151. DOI: 10.1163/22134379-17201017
Weber, A., Book review of Knight, R.G. (2015): Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia. Gillian Maclaine and his Business Network in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 4 (2016): 573-74. DOI: 10.1163/22134379-17204017
2015
Weber, A., Book review of Güttler, Nils (2014): Das Kosmoskop. Karten und ihre Benutzer in der Pflanzengeographie des 19. Jahrhunderts in Isis. A Journal of the History of Science Society 106 (2015): 459-460. DOI: 10.1086/682790
2014
Weber, A., “Bitter Fruits of Accumulation: the Case Caspar G.C. Reinwardt (1773-1854).” History of Science 3 (2014): 297-318. DOI: 10.1177/0073275314546970 [PDF]
Weber, A., Book review of Cook, Harold J. and Sven Dupré (eds.) (2012): Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries in sehepunkte.de 14 (2014).
Weber, A., Book review of Schönitzer, Klaus (2011): Ein Leben für die Zoologie. Die Reisen und Forschungen des Johan Baptist Ritter von Spix in Jahrbuch für Europäische Überseegeschichte 14 (2014): 309-311.
Weber, A., Book review of Strauss, Dieter (2011): Der grüne Baron. Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, der Humboldt Brasiliens, und seine Expedition von Rio de Janeiro zum Amazonas 1822-1829 in Jahrbuch für Europäische Überseegeschichte 14 (2014): 309-31.
Weber, A., Book review of Zangger, Andreas (2011): Koloniale Schweiz: Ein Stück Globalgeschichte zwischen Europa und Südostasien (1860-1930) in Studium. Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitsgeschiedenis 1 (2014): 56-57.
2013
Weber, A., Book review of Loeber, Katharina (2010): Der Niedergang des Chilesalpeters. Chemische Forschung, militärische Interessen, ökonomische Auswirkungen in Jahrbuch für Europäische Überseegeschichte 13 (2013): 316-318.
Weber, A., Book review of Schoor, Wim van der (2012): Zuivere en toegepaste wetenschap in de tropen in Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 126.1 (2013): 136-137. DOI: 10.5117/TVGESCH2013.1.WEBE
2012
Weber, A., Hybrid Ambitions: Science, Governance, and Empire in the Career of Caspar C.G. Reinwardt (1773-1854) (Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2012) (=dissertation). [PDF] [UL repository]
Weber, A., Book review of Sternagel, Renate (2011): Der Humboldt von Java. Leben und Werk des Naturforschers Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864) in: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 1 (2012): 151-153.
2011
Weiss, M. and Weber, A., “Martinus van Marum en Casper Georg Carl Reinwardt. Vriendschap, planten en musea.” Teylers magazijn 110 (2011): 11-13.
Weber, A. and J. Gommans, “An Interview with Jürgen Osterhammel.“ Itinerario 3 (2011): 7-16. DOI: 10.1017/S0165115312000034
Weber, A., Book review of Goss, Andrew (2011): The Floracrats: State-sponsored Science and the Failure of Enlightenment in Indonesia in: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 2-3 (2011): 340-342.
2010
Weber, A. and H. Schulte Nordholt, „An Interview with Thee Kian Wie.“ Itinerario 1 (2010): 9-34. DOI: 10.1017/S0165115310000033 [PDF]
Weber, A. and H. Schulte Nordholt, “Interview with Thee Kian Wie.” in Merajut sejarah ekonomi Indonesia: Essays in honour of Thee Kian Wie 75 years birthday, ed. Thomas Lindblad and Bambang Purwanto (Yogyakarta: Ombak 2010): 41-88.
Weber, A., “Sprache im ‘Zwischenraum’: Adriaan David Cornets de Groot jun. (1804-1829) als multilingualer Grenzgänger im zentraljavanischen Surakarta,” in Sprachgrenzen – Sprachkontakte – kulturelle Vermittler. Kommunikation zwischen Europäern und Außereuropäern (16.-20. Jahrhundert), ed. Mark Häberlein and Alexander Keese (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2010): 223-243. [PDF]
2009
Weber, A., “Encountering the Netherlands Indies: Caspar G.C. Reinwardt’s Field Trip to the East (1816-1822).” Itinerario 33:1 (2009): 45-60. DOI: 10.1017/S0165115300002709 [PDF]