Antal van den Bosch strategic advisor at the Centre for Digital Humanities As of October 1, 2022, Antal van den Bosch has been officially appointed as strategic advisor at the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH). Based on his extensive experience, Van den Bosch will advise the CDH in the field of future vision, interdisciplinary collaboration and focal points. He will focus in particular on the use of […] Read more
North-West University visits the Centre for Digital Humanities The Centre for Digital Humanities was pleased to receive a delegation of three professors from the humanities faculty of North-West University (NWU) in South Africa. The visitors wanted to explore the possibilities of integrating more digital humanities methods within several education tracks in their own faculty. To gain inspiration, they made a trip to various […] Read more
Philosophy professor Rainer Hegselmann comes to Utrecht for lecture on Opinion Dynamics On Friday November 18th, Rainer Hegselmann, philosophy professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, will visit Utrecht to give a hybrid lecture for the Centre for Digital Humanities. Sign up now to join this lecture. Hegselmann is well-known in the field of Opinion Dynamics. Together with mathematician Ulrich Krause, he developed the Hegselmann-Krause […] Read more
Renewed Python course for humanities staff This fall, the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) has decided to teach the Python workshop in four course days, with one week in between each of them. This gives the participants more opportunity to practice with the material and to make the knowledge stick better. After feedback from past semester on the Python workshop, the […] Read more
Digital Humanities Webinar: Talking XTC – Distant and close reading of digitized newspaper and radio data archives Interested in using digital humanities methods in media archives? During this webinar on Friday October 21, media researcher Berrie van der Molen will talk about the ‘leveled approach’ he has used for his dissertation on the use of the term ecstasy in the public debate in the Dutch media since the 1980s. For this research Van der […] Read more
Job opening: Data Station Manager Humanities at DANS DANS Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS-KNAW) is the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data. They are a service provider that helps researchers to make their data available for reuse. With more than 200,000 datasets, dozens of European projects and a staff of 60, DANS is among the leading data repositories […] Read more
Digital Humanities Lab presents READ-IT tool with international partners At the SHARP Conference 2022, the Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab) recently presented the results of the international READ-IT project. With the Horizon2020 grant of 250,000 euros the DHLab built an advanced interface for this project. READ-IT (Reading Europe Advanced Investigation Tool) is a large-scale study of reading culture in Europe from the 18th century to […] Read more
Showcase text and data mining application I-Analyzer – The Age of Revolution through the lens of historical newspapers Researchers and students are more and more interested in the use of text- and data-mining (TDM) for studying large quantities of digitally available text corpora, such as newspapers and journals. With TDM you can systematically experiment on and query sources as newspapers and periodicals in bulk, so that you can discover the evolution of concepts […] Read more
Hugo Quené introduces himself as track leader FAIR data & software The UU Open Science Programme introduces new members of the Open Science community. This time, Hugo Quené, professor in quantitative methods of empirical research in the humanities, director of the Centre for Digital Humanities at UU and the new leader of FAIR data & software within the Open Science programme. Who is Hugo Quené? Originally, […] Read more
eScience Center Call: Digital approaches to the Humanities This call for proposals, launched by the Netherlands eScience Center, aims to help researchers in the Humanities who require research software or digital tooling to answer their research problem. Researchers new to applying digital research methods as well as experienced users are encouraged to apply. A successful proposal should address a research question in a […] Read more
Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours – Python, R, Digital Humanities software and Research Data Management Do you have questions about creating datasets, sharing them or data security? Struggling with your Python script? Looking for a suitable digital tool to use for your research project? Do you have questions on how to analyse your data with R? You are welcome to visit the Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours for face-to-face advice about […] Read more
Digital Humanities Lab launches AuChAnn The Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab) recently launched AuChAnn, the Automatic CHAT Annotation tool. AuChAnn is a python library that can read a Dutch transcript and interpretation pair and generate a fitting CHAT annotation. Scientific developers Sheean Spoel and Mees van Stiphout of the DHLab developed AuChAnn in collaboration with Frank Wijnen, Professor of psycholinguistics at […] Read more
Open Science grant awarded to Digital Humanities Lab The scientific developers of the Utrecht Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab) have been awarded a grant from the Open Science Fund. The main objective of the rewarded project is to make the past and future research software of DHLab as FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) as possible. The Open Science Fund is an opportunity for Utrecht University and […] Read more
Department of Media and Culture Studies and Digital Humanities Lab launch of Digital Atlas of Europe: postcolonial intellectuals In collaboration with the Digital Humanities Lab, Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies Sandra Ponzanesi and research assistant Julia de Lange launched the Digital Atlas of Postcolonial Europe: Postcolonial Intellectuals. The Digital Atlas of Europe aims to visualise the connections of postcolonial intellectuals across time and space, within and beyond Europe. It offers a symbolic selection of major postcolonial figures […] Read more
CDH Staff Education Program Sept – Dec 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 now. Attendance to CDH courses and workshops (not the webinars) will be compensated by the Centre for Digital Humanities […] Read more
Hugo Quené becomes track leader within the UU Open Science Programme The Open Science Programme was established by Utrecht University to stimulate and facilitate researchers to put open science into practice. Hugo Quené, director of the Centre for Digital Humanities, will lead the FAIR data & software track within this programme. Utrecht University wants to promote open science as part of its promise to make science […] Read more
Text-mining platform Constellate offers free summer workshops This June and July the Constellate platform offers free workshops to teach you the skills – or advance them to a new level – to work with Constellate, a service that provides all the tools for proficiency in data analysis and digital literacy. The Utrecht University Library currently offers access to this platform which allows […] Read more
Antal van den Bosch appointed Professor of Language, Communication and Computation As of 1 September 2022, CDH Advisory Board member, prof. Antal van den Bosch, has been appointed Professor of Language, Communication and Computation at the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University. Van den Bosch is a pioneer in the field of language technology and artificial intelligence. He works on applications in language and communication sciences and, […] Read more
Mirko Schäfer appointed Visiting Professor to University of Helsinki For the coming three years, CDH programme team member Mirko Schäfer has been appointed Visiting Professor at the Helsinki Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH). Developing the Utrecht Data School at Utrecht University, Mirko Schäfer has built a track-record of societally engaged research for inquiring datafication and algorithmization at government organisation in the Netherlands. […] Read more
Utrecht Summer School courses open for registration Again this summer, the Utrecht Summer School offers an interesting range of courses related to data science and digital humanities. The courses last four or five full days. Data science and digital humanities summer courses: Data science: Statistical Programming with R: 4 July – 8 July 2022 Data science: Introduction to Text Mining with R: […] Read more
