During the Christmas holidays, I was introduced to the work of Rudolf Stingel (1956). I saw fascinating similarities in his work to Open Science, and especially to two of its themes: FAIR Data and Software, and Public Engagement. FAIR Data and Software In 1988, Stingel started working on “silver paintings”, large canvases with monochrome backgrounds,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…