Data School at #PrivacyCamp23 On January 25, Data School attended a panel in the 11th edition of Privacy Camp in Brussels. Privacy Camp is an annual conference that brings together digital rights advocates, activists, academics and policy-makers from all around Europe and beyond to discuss the most pressing issues facing human rights online. The panel to which the Data […] Read more
CDH Interview: How did we perceive animals and plants in the Netherlands over the past centuries? Language model GysBERT assists with mapping it out How did a sixteenth-century Dutch inhabitant experience the animals and plants around him? And how did that change in the centuries that followed? When did the rabbit change from food into pet and the horse from means of transportation into pleasure animal? Literary texts, scientific texts and folk tales, in particular, offer a unique glimpse […] Read more
Questions about data, Python, R or any other aspects of digital humanities? Visit the Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours Do you have a question about data, Python, or R? Or are you just finding your way in the field of digital humanities and need some guidance? All humanities staff and students are welcome to visit our weekly Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours on Thursdays from 14:00 to 15:00 hrs. Looking for a suitable digital tool to […] Read more
Internships at Data School Data School is looking for new interns in block 3 and/or block 4 (February 6 to June 30, 2023). As an intern at Data School, you will participate in existing projects and you will have the opportunity to contribute and develop your own research project (possibly combined with writing a thesis). As an intern you […] Read more
Open Science Recognition and Rewards video: Digital Humanities Lab fulfills unique role between academics and support staff Utrecht University presents its new vision on Recognition and Rewards in a series of videos. Our developers Luka van der Plas, Berit Janssen and head of DH-IT Andre van Kooij explain in this video how the Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab) fulfills a unique hybrid role between academics and support staff. The scientific developers of the DHLab develop […] Read more
CDH staff education program spring 2023 – New: workshops on demand We are proud to present the new Staff Education Program of the Centre for Digital Humanities for January to June 2023. We again offer a diverse program with lectures and hands-on workshops in the field of digital humanities. In addition to the regular program, we now also offer Extra Workshops and Tailor-made Workshops on request. This is to ensure that the […] Read more
Monthly quantitative research design meetings for humanities staff – Sign up as presenter or participant From February 2023, Statistical Advisor Kirsten Schutter will organize monthly ‘Quantitative research design meetings’ in the Living Lab Digital Humanities. These meetings are meant for humanities staff who are interested in or struggling with the quantitative component of their research designs. During this meetings researchers can present and discuss their ideas. According to textbooks on […] Read more
From 2023 the Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours move to Thursdays From January 2023, the Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours will shift from Wednesdays to Thursdays. The time from 14:00 to 15:00 hrs will remain the same. All humanities staff and students are welcome to visit the Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours for face-to-face advice about all kinds of questions related to research data, digital humanities software, Python, statistics and […] Read more
Data School as ethical guide for the digital government Iris Muis has just returned from a trip to the European Parliament, where she presented the Fundamental Rights & Algorithms Impact Assessment (FRAIA) together with Mirko Schäfer from Data School. Muis: ‘Organizations are increasingly using algorithms to make work more efficient and to hire fewer people. But if you use technology, you also have a […] Read more
Final SKILLNET Conference on November 17-18: Digital approaches to the Republic of Letters On November 17 and 18, scholars and developers from all over Europe will come to Utrecht to discuss Digital Humanities-analysis and infrastructure on the final conference of the ERD project SKILLNET ‘Digital approaches to the Republic of Letters: text-mining, network analysis and infrastructures’. The Utrecht Digital Humanities Lab collaborated on this project. This two-day conference […] Read more
Vacature onderzoeksassistent ‘Journalistiek & Democratie: Coronaberichtgeving’ Voor een interdisciplinair onderzoeksproject binnen de context van de AI Labs Digital Humanities zoekt de Utrecht Data School (UDS) een onderzoeksassistent voor 0,25 fte vanaf 1 december 2022, voor 10 maanden. Het salaris is in lijn met dat van een student-assistent. De UDS zoekt iemand met datavaardigheden die kan helpen bij het analyseren van coronaberichtgeving […] Read more
Centre for Digital Humanities launches two Calls to Action for teachers The possibilities of digital humanities (DH) appeal most to students when they are introduced by their own teachers with applications in their own field. The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) has launched two ongoing Small Grants programs: one to promote the integration of digital humanities methods into the courses of the Faculty of Humanities and […] Read more
Job alert: Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities The Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) is looking for a lecturer in Digital Humanities (0.5 FTE) to teach Digital Humanities courses as well as support the advancement of digital research skills and tools at the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University through workshops and other educational activities. In particular, they are looking for candidates that […] Read more
BOLD Profiler – an application to track bias in linked open data With a grant from the SIDN Fund, the Utrecht Data School built the BOLD Profiler. This application detects bias in commonly used knowledge bases such as Wikidata. Disinformation is not always spread with a deliberate plan, but can also (unintentionally) originate from incorrect information, missing data or misrepresentation. For example, Wikidata is considered very reliable, […] Read more
Pim Huijnen and Joris van Eijnatten win Deswarte Prize in Digital History With their paper ‘Something Happened to the Future: Reconstructing Temporalities in Dutch Parliamentary Debate, 1814–2018’ assistant professor Pim Huijnen and professor Joris van Eijnatten won the Richard Deswarte Prize, awarded each year to the best of digital history internationally. Pim Huijnen is affiliated member and Joris van Eijnatten is advisory board member within the Center […] Read more
Antal van den Bosch strategic advisor at the Centre for Digital Humanities As of October 1, 2022, Antal van den Bosch has been officially appointed as strategic advisor at the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH). Based on his extensive experience, Van den Bosch will advise the CDH in the field of future vision, interdisciplinary collaboration and focal points. He will focus in particular on the use of […] Read more
North-West University visits the Centre for Digital Humanities The Centre for Digital Humanities was pleased to receive a delegation of three professors from the humanities faculty of North-West University (NWU) in South Africa. The visitors wanted to explore the possibilities of integrating more digital humanities methods within several education tracks in their own faculty. To gain inspiration, they made a trip to various […] Read more
Philosophy professor Rainer Hegselmann comes to Utrecht for lecture on Opinion Dynamics On Friday November 18th, Rainer Hegselmann, philosophy professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, will visit Utrecht to give a hybrid lecture for the Centre for Digital Humanities. Sign up now to join this lecture. Hegselmann is well-known in the field of Opinion Dynamics. Together with mathematician Ulrich Krause, he developed the Hegselmann-Krause […] Read more
Renewed Python course for humanities staff This fall, the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) has decided to teach the Python workshop in four course days, with one week in between each of them. This gives the participants more opportunity to practice with the material and to make the knowledge stick better. After feedback from past semester on the Python workshop, the […] Read more
Digital Humanities Webinar: Talking XTC – Distant and close reading of digitized newspaper and radio data archives Interested in using digital humanities methods in media archives? During this webinar on Friday October 21, media researcher Berrie van der Molen will talk about the ‘leveled approach’ he has used for his dissertation on the use of the term ecstasy in the public debate in the Dutch media since the 1980s. For this research Van der […] Read more
