The website of the Netherlands Royal Library now shows an interactive tool visualizing the relative canonicity over time of a selected number of historical Dutch figures. The tool was built with nodegoat technology (also used in ERNiE) and the underlying research was done by Joep Leerssen during his tenure as Royal Library Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. More at http://lab.kb.nl/tool/canot.

The State of Nationalism (SoN), the excellent online review presenting survey articles on various aspects of nationalism studies, has just published Dean Kostantaras’s “Nationalism and Social Class”.

Postage stamps are the ultimate form of “banal nationalism”. Spread in great variety and in huge numbers, they imprinted a national brand on all written communication throughout the 20th century. The European corpus of nationally-branded postage stamps is far too huge to admit full coverage within ERNiE, but a selection will be given under the rubric “CURRENCY”. That rubric used to contain only banknotes but now also accommodates postage stamps; the search bar allows users to choose between the two.
The metadata are hyperlinked and clickable, allowing users to explore the connections to different cultural media. As always, the “label” icon above the samples brings up a searchable/sortable checklist.

The interest of postage stamps for SPIN is threefold. [....]