Between 2016 and 2018, Jeroen Salman led the EDPOP project. What digital techniques has he used in the project? What role did Utrecht University Library and the Research Software Lab of the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) play in EDPOP? And are such roles ever played out? The EDPOP project (European Dimensions of popular print culture) is…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Utrecht Digital Humanities Lab will collaborate with the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) on the political-historical research project ‘People and Parliament’. This collaboration between software developers and historians enables groundbreaking research into parliamentary data. ‘People and Parliament’ is an ambitious project. The research focuses on the use of political language in the national parliaments of…

A new corpus consisting of the annual reports (1957 – 2008) of 304 companies are now available via I-Analyzer, the online text- and datamining application of the Digital Humanities Lab. The reports are offered in two categories: financial- and non-financial companies. You can log in with your Solis ID or create your own account. The source material is archived…

Utrecht University encourages more collaborative, transdisciplinary, long-term and sustainable research projects with public and private organisations. With the start of the AI Labs, we aim to provide external parties and sectors with the means to address their (societal) challenges through AI and Data Science research and techniques, and to collaborate with interdisciplinary science teams at Utrecht University.

In this project two large Arabic Corpora will be prepared for analysis: The massive Shi’i encyclopedia of legal texts Oceans of Light (written around 1700, in 110 volumes). A collection of fourteen encyclopedic anthologies of poetry and belles-lettres, all written, from the 9th to the 18th century, in the Sunni world. The legal texts will…