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Vacancy: Assistant Professor in Art History (with a focus on digital approaches) (1.0 FTE)

The Art History Section within the Department of History and Art History seeks to appoint a fulltime Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) in Digital Art History, with expertise in digital and/or computational methods in art history, the proven ability to apply these methods in teaching and research in the field of art and architectural history, and […] Read more

Sciences and Humanities join forces in Centre for Digital Humanities

The Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities join forces in the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) at Utrecht University. Investigating the implications of AI and datafication for our digital society requires concerted interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary efforts. The CDH aims to effectively respond to this urgent need, and to connect better with various societal partners to different […] Read more

Places available for the Statistics for Humanities beginner’s course on March 18 and June 3

Due to the cancellation of this workshop last week, we are now organizing two replacement workshops of the course ‘Basics of Statistics – Hands-on training day for humanities/researchers’. The first will take place on Friday, March 18, and the second on Friday, June 3. Workshop content Data are becoming increasingly important in the humanities. In […] Read more

Vote for the Carla Atzema Soroptimistprijs

The article ‘Misogynie als politiek wapen‘, for which Joris Veerbeek and Sahra Mohamed conducted the data research, has been nominated for the Carla Atzema Soroptimistprijs, an award for an outstanding journalistic project on the position and rights of women. You can vote now! The nominated article on the sexism that female political representatives have to […] Read more

Utrecht Data School joins CDH

Starting March 1st, 2022, Utrecht Data School (UDS) will become part of the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) at Utrecht University under the joint deanship of the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities. Investigating the implications of AI and datafication for our digital society requires concerted interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary efforts. Over the past years, UDS developed collaborative projects with societal […] Read more

CDH@RUG presents: Digital Hands ON webinar series – Discussing the handling of historical texts through DH tools

Digital Hands ON is the new webinar series of the Groningen Centre for Digital Humanities, highlighting new tools and methods. Historical texts are crucial across Humanities fields, and a variety of digital methods both enhance and expand our possibilities for studying, exploring, editing, and manipulating them. This series brings together scholars and researchers from different domains to […] Read more

Vacancy: knowledge and data engineer

The Utrecht Data School and the department of Computer Science at Utrecht University are looking for a ‘knowledge and data engineer’ for a project on Bias in Open Knowledge Graphs. Deadline to respond is February 25, 2022. Job description The candidate will develop an application to automatically detect the different kinds of bias in Linked […] Read more

Webinar series to learn how to work with CLARIAH Media Suite

In the spring semester 2022, the CLARIAH Media Suite team offers a webinar series that introduces participants to working with the audiovisual collections, tools and methods made available in the Media Suite. Each webinar starts with a theoretical introduction followed by a hands-on session. The team starts the series with an introductory session focusing on […] Read more

Become an eScience Center Fellow

The Netherlands eScience Center is looking for individuals who have the ambition to promote or improve the use of research software within their organization or discipline. They invite them to apply to become an eScience Center Fellow. Deadline to apply is April 11, 2022. This Fellowship is aimed at those who want to make a difference […] Read more

Affiliated member Pim Huijnen awarded by eScience Center

The project of Pim Huijnen, affiliated member of the Centre for Digital Humanities, was approved by the Netherlands eScience Center. In April of this year, he will start the two-year project for which the eScience Center will build cutting-edge research software. The Netherlands eScience Center has set out this open call to help researchers from […] Read more

Wanted: Part-time C++ developer or student programmer

The department for Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University is looking for a part-time C++ developer or student programmer to assist with a project related to Human-Centered AI. Vacancy:The department is looking for a software developer with experience of C++ development to extend and improve the stability of the open source model-checker MCMAS for […] Read more

ASReview needs your valuable feedback for version 1

ASReview is approaching the release of ASReview LAB version 1 (see Github). To make sure version 1 meets your expectations and runs smoothly, the creators want to involve you, as a user, in its development. The latest version of ASReview LAB, free and open-source software that accelerates systematic text screening is installed about every 5 minutes by […] Read more

AI Labs call to action – new deadlines for 2022

AI Labs has issued a second call to action for new project ideas, with 1 March 2022 as the deadline. About AI Labs AI Labs are a collaborative fund from the faculties of Science, Geosciences and Humanities. Utrecht University encourages more collaborative, transdisciplinary, long-term and sustainable research projects with public and private organisations. With the […] Read more

CDH Education Program Jan-May 2022

We are proud to present the new staff education program of the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH). We again offer a diverse program with lectures and hands-on workshops on all kinds of different aspects of digital humanities. Registration is open. Attendance to CDH courses and workshops (not the webinars) will be compensated by the Centre for Digital Humanities in […] Read more

Call for Participants: Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions

Day: 15 & 16 DecemberTime: 17:00 – 19:00 UTCVia Zoom The organizers of this working group seek to create a common Linked Open Data vocabulary for the description of medieval manuscripts from the Middle East. They are gathering an online community of scholars to begin work on this shared vocabulary. That is why they invite […] Read more

AI and Digital Humanities: three projects to start in 2022

The first round of AI Labs’ ‘call to action’ has resulted in three Digital Humanities projects being funded. AI Labs In the AI Labs at Utrecht University, academic researchers collaborate with external partners on societal issues that involve artificial intelligence and/or data science. With the AI Labs’ ‘call to action‘, UU encourages collaborations between researchers from the faculties […] Read more

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