charles van den Heuvel

Charles van den Heuvel (1956) studied art-history (specialization history of town planning and architecture) at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. He publishes regularly on the history of town planning, fortification and cartography, on the history of science and more recently on the history of information. At the moment he works as senior researcher at the Virtual Knowledge Studio of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Art and Sciences. In 2001 he initiated, together with Boyd Rayward (University of Illinois) and Pieter Uyttenhove (University of Ghent) the research project Architecture of knowledge. European antecedents of the WWW. Furthermore he leads the Paper and Virtual Cities project funded by the Netherlands Organisation of Science (NWO) and is involved in research on web archiving, visualization of knowledge, digital humanities and (digital) cultural heritage