Centre for Digital Humanities
CDH workshop: Social media data – introductory 4CAT course for humanities staff
07 March 2023 @ 13:00 – 15:00 – In this workshop, Sander Prins and Jeroen Bakker, researchers at Utrecht Data School, will introduce you to social media data collection and analysis. After this hands-on session, you will be …
Read moreCDH Workshop: Basics of Statistics – Hands-on training day for humanities staff OUD
15 May 2023 @ 09:30 – 16:30 – Data are becoming increasingly important in the humanities. In this one day course, intended for researchers and teachers in the humanities, you will learn the basics of statistical data analysis. …
Read moreCDH webinar: The datafication of race-ethnicity in Dutch governmental databases
23 March 2023 @ 15:00 – 16:15 – For his PhD research, Gerwin van Schie delved into the data systems of Dutch government bodies to look at the algorithms used there. During this webinar, he will talk about …
Read moreUB & CDH Workshop: Transkribus and Optical Character Recognition
23 May 2023 @ 13:00 – 16:00 – During this entry level demo-workshop the Digital Humanities support team at the University Library will demonstrate and teach how to use Optical Character Recognition software and Transkribus on example texts or material …
Read moreCDH Workshop: Entry level course Python in four days for humanities staff
04 April 2023 – 25 April 2023 @ 10:00 – 17:00 – This entry level course in Python consists of four hands-on training days on Tuesdays starting 4 April 2023. The course will be provided by the scientific developers of the Digital …
Read moreCDH Workshop: Getting started with network visualization – introductory Gephi course for humanities staff
21 March 2023 @ 13:00 – 17:00 – In this workshop, Jeroen Bakker, junior researcher at Utrecht Data School, and Sander Prins, teaching and research assistant, will introduce you to network analysis and visualization using Gephi. After this hands-on session, …
Read moreCDH hybrid lecture: Humanities and AI – One answer to a million questions?
16 February 2023 @ 15:00 – 16:15 – During this duo presentation, professor Antal van den Bosch and assistant professor Dong Nguyen will discuss from their own different perspectives – Humanities and Computer Science – the impact of …
Read moreFrom 2023 the Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours move to Thursdays
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…
Read moreData School as ethical guide for the digital government
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…
Read moreFinal SKILLNET Conference on November 17-18: Digital approaches to the Republic of Letters
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…
Read moreCentre for Digital Humanities launches two Calls to Action for teachers
The possibilities of digital humanities (DH) appeal most to students when they are introduced by their own teachers with applications in their own field. The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) has launched two ongoing Small Grants programs: one to promote the integration of digital humanities methods into the courses of the Faculty of Humanities and…
Read moreJob alert: Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities
The Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) is looking for a lecturer in Digital Humanities (0.5 FTE) to teach Digital Humanities courses as well as support the advancement of digital research skills and tools at the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University through workshops and other educational activities. In particular, they are looking for candidates that…
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