Walk-in consultation hour DH Lab cancelled Due to the new Corona measures, we have decided to cancel the walk-in consultation hour on Wednesday from 14-15.00h at the Digital Humanities Lab (DH Lab). It remains possible to set up an online no-obligation consultation at a day and time that suits you. The DH Lab offers these consultations to the staff of the Faculty of Humanities […] Read more
Posen Fellowship in Digital Humanities & Indexing The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization seeks to create a cohort of 10-15 Fellows in Digital Humanities & Indexing with graduate level work in digital humanities, digital archiving, or metadata and indexing, as well as a passion for Jewish Studies. Fellows will spend the bulk of their time working with the primary sources […] Read more
Automated systematic text reviewing in the Living Lab Digital Humanities Since the summer, Prof. dr. Rens van de Schoot has been making weekly use of the Living Lab Digital Humanities in the Utrecht University Library City Centre with his Automated Systematic Review group (ASReview group). He talks about the added value of the Living Lab DH, working during the lockdown and expectations for the future. The Living […] Read more
Looking for patterns in readers’ reviews of translated books using DIOPTRA-L What do English readers expect from translated literature? And how about the Dutch? Professor Haidee Kotze and her research team used big data to look for patterns in the way that ordinary readers review translated literature. Together with the Digital Humanities Lab they developed DIOPTRA-L, a corpus with 280.000 reviews of more than 150 books […] Read more
Two vacancies for scientific Information Specialists: Humanities Utrecht University Library is looking for two scientific Information Specialists (0.8-1.0 FTE). These positions focus specifically on subject-specific services for a number of disciplines within the Humanities. One position focuses on library support for Digital Humanities and the other function focuses on publishing and open access services. In these roles you are among others responsible for the selection of relevant […] Read more
Call for papers and workshop on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities Rootroo, a Finnish company that specializes in AI solutions for natural language processing (NLP), and the University of Helsinki have issued a call for papers that combine Natural Language Processing with Digital Humanities. On the 16th or 19th of December 2021 they will organize a Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, which will […] Read more
The Digital Humanities Lab develops digital toolset for major European research project ‘People and Parliament’ The Utrecht Digital Humanities Lab will collaborate with the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) on the political-historical research project ‘People and Parliament’. This collaboration between software developers and historians enables groundbreaking research into parliamentary data. ‘People and Parliament’ is an ambitious project. The research focuses on the use of political language in the national parliaments of […] Read more
Walk-in hours Research Data Management Support @Living Lab Digital Humanities Do you have any questions about creating datasets, or sharing them? Or do you want to know more about data security? Feel free to ask these and other questions during the walk-in hours of Research Data Management Support in the Living Lab Digital Humanities. You are welcome every other week on Monday afternoon from 3 – […] Read more
Historical data available via Yoda Utrecht University Library has developed a new way for UU employees to digitally access the raw data of millions of newspaper articles dating as far back as 1785. The text corpora of the following historical datasets are now accessible and downloadable via Yoda: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Guardian & Observer (1791-1909 & 1910-2003) Nineteenth Century […] Read more
NWO Spinoza Prize for media scholar José van Dijck Media scholar Professor José van Dijck, advisory board member of the Centre for Digital Humanities, has been awarded a NWO Spinoza Prize of 2.5 million euros. The Spinoza Prize is the highest scientific distinction in the Netherlands. Van Dijck is University Professor of Media and Digital Society and is a top player in the international field of […] Read more
Education Program Fall 2021 The Centre for Digital Humanities will offer the following education program in the fall of 2021. You can now register for all courses and lectures. For some courses the number of participants is limited, so register as soon as possible (first come, first served). The Centre for Digital Humanities aims to promote digital literacy amongst […] Read more
Call KB researcher-in-Residence Are you a researcher working with or interested in the digital collections of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB)? The KB is seeking proposals for its fully paid Researcher-in-Residence program in 2022. This program offers a unique chance for early career researchers of all disciplines to work in the library with the Digital Scholarship […] Read more
Vacancies developer and web developer Do you want to work as a (web)developer in the midst of the latest developments in the field of Digital Humanities (DH)? The Centre for Digital Humanities is looking for a DH developer and a DH web developer. Find more info here (the vacancies are in Dutch): Ontwikkelaar Digital Humanities (0,6 – 1,0 fte) Webdeveloper […] Read more
Technical help and inspiration in the Living Lab Digital Humanities On the 20th of May, the Living Lab Digital Humanities will open in the University Library City Centre. Prof. Dr. Hugo Quené, Professor of Quantitative Methods of Empirical Research in the Humanities, talks about this cooperation between the Centre for Digital Humanities and the library. What is the Living Lab Digital Humanities?The Living Lab Digital Humanities will be a […] Read more
