SURF interview: prof. dr. Antal van den Bosch on AI and GPT-NL Prof. dr. Antal van den Bosch has given an interview to SURF, the cooperative association of Dutch educational and research institutions. The interview is titled ‘AI lets scientists work magic with language’. In the interview, he speaks about his career in AI and his thoughts on the future of AI. He also shares his ideas […] Read more
Call for Participants: Utrecht Summer School 2024 From 5-9 August 2024, Data School offers a full week of hands-on workshops and inspiring guest lectures at Utrecht University during the summer course Exploring Culture Through Data: Digital methods & Data practices. By the end of this week you will be able to work with digital methods to collect, analyze and visualize complex data […] Read more
HOLYLAB: Research Fellowship in Digital History in Trento, Italy The Italian-German Historic Institute (ISIG) and Università Roma Tre are co-hosting a one-year fellowship in Digital History to collaborate with the ERC Project HOLYLAB in Trento, Italy. The project studies the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, a thirteenth-century organisation funded to maintain the Holy Sepulchre and the friars’ presence in the Holy Land. HOLYLAB […] Read more
Centre for Digital Humanities has reached 1,000 LinkedIn followers The Centre for Digital Humanites (Utrecht University) has officially reached 1,000 followers on LinkedIn! If you are not one of them yet, please follow us on LinkedIn here. You may also be interested in following the LinkedIn pages of Data School and Utrecht University – Faculty of Humanities. You can subscribe to the monthly CDH newsletter here to receive […] Read more
UU interview: Core team Human Artificial Intelligence An interview with Dr. Pim Huijnen and Dr. Evelyn Wan has been published on Intranet, the internal website for Utrecht University staff. Together with Dr. Tejaswini Deoskar and Dr. Dominik Klein, Pim and Evelyn make up the core team Human Artificial Intelligence. The interview is part of the series: ‘educational innovation through the eyes of the four […] Read more
Data School: Research report ‘Playing with fire’ translated to English The research report that was originally published as ‘Spelen met vuur’ in October 2023 has now been translated from Dutch to English. Researchers from Utrecht University’s Faculty of Humanities and Data School investigated the dynamics between political debate in the Dutch House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) and reactions, comments and framing on social media. Analyses […] Read more
Vacatures bij CDH: Linux/DevOps-Specialist & System Engineer Het Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) zoekt momenteel collega’s voor de posities van: We staan open voor zowel junior als meer senior kandidaten en zijn bereid om de functie af te stemmen op basis van je ervaringsniveau en professionele interesses. Dus zoek je een plek waar je met jouw technische expertise maatschappelijke impact kan hebben? Reageer dan […] Read more
Data School DEDA seminar: submission deadline May 31st Utrecht University’s Data School will host its first international DEDA seminar on September 25th, 2024. The deadline for submission is May 31st. The Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA), a toolkit developed by the Data School, maps ethical issues in data projects. It documents the deliberation process and stimulates accountability towards the various stakeholders and the public. This […] Read more
Last Spring DH Walk-In Hour on May 30 On Thursday, May 30, the last Digital Humanities (DH) walk-in hour of this academic year will take place from 14:00 to 15:00 hrs in the Digital Humanities Workspace. The DH walk-in hour on May 23 is cancelled. We will resume our weekly walk-in hours on Thursday, September 12, 2024. All staff and students of the Faculty […] Read more
Join the launch of the NLP@UU Special Interest Group On Thursday, May 16th, Utrecht University launches its newest Special Interest Group (SIG) NLP@UU. This SIG is an expansion of the existing SIG Text Mining, and welcomes a broader community of colleagues in Natural Language Processing (NLP) from across Utrecht University’s campuses. At the launch meeting, researchers from different domains and groups will share insights […] Read more
Humanities teachers gather to explore digital methods in education During the CDH Inspiration Session on April 19, teachers and education coordinators from the UU Faculty of Humanities came together to generate ideas and engage in discussions on how to effectively integrate data-driven and computational methods into their curriculum. The Digital Humanities (DH) in Education Inspiration Session, held at the Winkel van Sinkel in Utrecht, […] Read more
NRC article about the Babylab of the Institute for Language Sciences In the linguistic labs of the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS), experiments are carried out on both adults and babies, employing methodologies such as eyetracking, EEG, and head turn preference. NRC recently published an article on the research of linguistics researcher Iris van der Wulp within the Babylab. Van der Wulp is currently engaged in […] Read more
Interview with Karin van Es and Dennis Nguyen: Exploring the potential of data donations Data donation presents a new and unique approach to collecting digital trace data, liberating researchers from platform dependencies and restrictions. A consortium of six Dutch universities has now started building its own digital data donation infrastructure. Within this initiative, Karin van Es and Dennis Nguyen from the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University, supported by […] Read more
Interview Lorena De Vita: Using Transkribus to decrypt the diaries of a German jurist During her research Lorena De Vita stumbled upon the personal diaries, spanning from 1932 to 1989, of Otto Küster, a German jurist who dedicated a significant portion of his professional career seeking reparations for Holocaust survivors. His handwriting, however, was almost illegible. De Vita participated in a Trankskribus workshop offered by the UB and CDH […] Read more
Vacature: Communicatie- en onderwijsmedewerker bij CDH Het Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) zoekt van 1 juni tot 1 december 2024 een collega communicatie en onderwijscoördinatie in verband met een zwangerschapsverlof. Reageren kan t/m 26 maart 2024. Wat ga je doen? Je komt te werken in een professioneel en enthousiast team. We zien en spreken elkaar regelmatig, digitaal en op locatie. Je bent […] Read more
Data School on impact: ‘We want to take part in shaping the digital society’ Data School’s Mirko Schäfer and Iris Muis are keen to push for a broader definition of impact at university level. Although they do not find the time to publish as often as they would like, their research is having significant impact, with their work used in Austria, Sweden, Finland and Greece. Schäfer: ‘If you really want to achieve an impact, […] Read more
FAIR Research IT interview with Berit Janssen This interview is part of a series conducted by UU FAIR research IT, aimed at showcasing the impact of their projects on FAIR research IT. This TextMiNER project, led by the CDH Research Software Lab, has been made possible through a FAIR Research IT Innovation Grant. ‘You get much more out of a text corpus with […] Read more
Vacature: Postdoc digitale ethiek in het openbaar bestuur bij Data School De Faculteit Geestestwetenschappen van de Universiteit Utrecht zoekt een postdoctoraal onderzoeker Digitale ethiek in het openbaar bestuur voor 28 tot 32 uur per week. Je zal worden ingebed bij de Data School, waar je gaat meewerken aan het doorontwikkelen van hun tools, waaronder De Ethische Data Assistent (DEDA) en het Impact Assessment Mensenrechten en Algoritmes (IAMA), en het […] Read more
Responsible use of AI in education: A guide for the humanities A humanities project team of experts, coordinated by the Centre for Digital Humanities, aims to guide teachers at the Faculty of Humanities in promoting responsible use of AI in the classroom. The team has now developed educational material to support teachers in incorporating Generative AI, such as ChatGPT, into their courses responsibly. The material includes […] Read more
Invitation for input: Daidalos – A Digital Social Sciences and Humanities Summer/Winter School on Research Software The CDH Research Software Lab is actively engaged in the ‘Daidalos – A Digital Social Sciences and Humanities Summer/Winter School on Research Software’ project. Daidalos is part of TDCC SSH Bottleneck Projects, and is centered around the development of a Digital Social Sciences and Humanities (Summer/Winter) School. This project is in development and welcomes your […] Read more
