Dr. Stef Scagliola

Researcher

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Dr. Stef Scagliola (1958) is a Dutch military historian with an Italian background and graduated cum laude in social history at the Erasmus  School for History, Culture and Communication in 1996.  She defended her dissertation on the decolonisation war with Indonesia in 2002. Since the 1st of november 2011 she came back to her roots at the faculty where together with Henri Beunders, Martijn Kleppe and Max Kemman she is involved in the European research project AXES, a project on advanced search technology in audiovisual archives. She is specialized in military oral history and e-research with a main interest in how societies deal with a burdened past. She was involved in various large scale ICT-projects intended to bridge the gap between technology and academic research. As the creative author of the Dutch Interview project, she was responsible for collecting 1000 biographical interviews with various generations of Dutch war- and military mission-veterans and for designing a searchable database. This experience is of relevance for her task within AXES: designing a training program for using the advanced search technology that is being developed within AXES. Besides this task at the ESHCC, she is also part of the Erasmus Studio for e-research. Here she is involved in various oral history projects where technology is applied to stimulate community building in post war societies and to generate oral sources for academic research.