About

Who made it?

BlackLab was developed at the Dutch Language Institute (INT) to provide a fast and feature-rich search interface on our historical and contemporary text corpora. It was released as open source (Apache License 2.0) in 2012 and has since gathered a number of users and contributors. It is still in active development.

• GitHub repositories: BlackLab Server and Core and BlackLab Frontend
• Release history

Contact us

For technical questions, please file a GitHub issue or contact Jan Niestadt directly.

Citing BlackLab

If you wish to cite BlackLab, you can use the following publication:

Does, Jesse de, Jan Niestadt en Katrien Depuydt (2017), Creating research environments with BlackLab. In: Jan Odijk and Arjan van Hessen (eds.) CLARIN in the Low Countries, pp. 151-165. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi

In other contexts, linking to this website or the GitHub repositories is also a good way to refer people to the project.

Thank you!