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Iris Muis nominated for Women in AI Award
Iris Muis, Team Leader at Data School, has been nominated by Women in AI (WAI) Netherlands for a Responsible AI Leader award. The winner of the award will be revealed during the first annual Women in AI Summit on October 10th. This summit will showcase 35 female nominees, across 6 categories, who are making an impact…
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DBNL Corpus Now Available in I-Analyzer
The CDH Research Software Lab has now added the Digital Library for Dutch Literature (Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren, DBNL, in Dutch) to the online text and data mining tool I-Analyzer. DBNL is a digital collection of texts from Dutch literature, linguistics, and cultural history, from the year 1200 to 1890. Millions of visitors…
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Call for Papers: Engaging with Big and Small Historical Data
Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals for one or more chapters in the edited Volume titled ‘Engaging with Big and Small Historical Data’, as part of the Routledges ‘Engaging with…’ series. The deadline for proposals is October 15, 2023. The material that historical research – and humanities scholarship in general – is based on…
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Large Language Models: Do it yourself – Lecture by Antal van den Bosch
On Thursday, September 28th, Professor Antal van den Bosch invites you to explore the latest open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) in this upcoming lecture, organized by the Centre for Digital Humanities. LLMs are the driving force behind chatbots like ChatGPT. Thanks to platforms like Huggingface, both closed and open-source LLMs have become increasingly accessible for…
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Lezingenreeks Studium Generale: Wie is er bang voor AI?
Komend najaar organiseert Studium Generale de lezingenreeks Wie is er bang voor AI? waarin ze ingaan op de vraag of de angst voor Artificial Intelligence terecht is. Gedurende drie avonden vertellen zeven wetenschappers over AI met betrekking tot werk, kunst en democratie. De voertaal is Nederlands.
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Weekly CDH Walk-in Hours resuming on September 7th
Starting Thursday, September 7th, from 14:00 to 15:00 hrs, we’re resuming our CDH Walk-in Hours. During these weekly consultation sessions, all humanities staff and students are welcome to ask their Digital Humanities (DH) questions, ranging from beginner to advanced levels. Our advisory team comprises a scientific developer from the Research Software Lab, a member from Research Data Management…
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Now accepting submissions: NWO Open Science & HAI funding calls
We’d like to bring your attention to two recently opened calls: the Open Science Fund 2023 call offers an opportunity to propose grants of up to €50.000, dedicated to supporting projects aimed at implementing and advancing open science practices. NWO aims to encourage open science by providing incentives and rewards to researchers who are already…
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Data School joins Katapult consortium Data and Knowledge Hub Healthy Urban Living
Over the next four years, Data School will be participating in the Katapult consortium Data and Knowledge Hub Healthy Urban Living. The hub is an independent and open public-private platform initiated by Utrecht University, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and the Economic Board Utrecht. Together with several other partners, as well as…
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Vacancy: postdoc in Wording Repair: Digitally Unveiling the History of Reparative Justice in the Words of a Forgotten Diary
Would you like to help connect the field of digital humanities to historical research on twentieth-century German history? The Department Of History and Art History at Utrecht University is seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join the project of Dr. Lorena De Vita as a part-time Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of Digital Humanities for…
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Heise.de features Data School’s Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA)
In the recent article Künstliche Intelligenz: Drei Beispiele für das Scheitern von Algorithmen (Artificial Intelligence: Three Examples of Algorithm Failures) on Heise.de, a prominent German ICT news site, the importance of regulating Artificial Intelligence is discussed. Mirko Schäfer, the Faculty of Science Lead at Data School, shares insights into the Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA)….
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Stories from the Lab: AI & Media Lab – Beyond the frenzy of the day
The AI & Media Lab, a cooperation between Utrecht University, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and Media Perspectives, works on exploring AI applications in the media and the gaming world. Operating under the umbrella of AI Labs, it actively collaborates with a varied network of partners from the IT sector and creative industry. In…
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Interview with Jeroen Bakker and Sander Prins: A simple way of harvesting and analyzing social media data with 4CAT
In this series of interviews the FAIR Research IT Innovation Fund shows what contribution projects can make to FAIR research IT. The research teams of the projects have received a grant from them. Good news for scientists whose technological skills are limited, but who want to work with social media data in their research: now…
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