Centre for Digital Humanities
UB & CDH present: Georeferencing: An innovative update for old maps
19 April 2022 @ 10:00 – 12:00 – During this University Library showcase of the Special Collections, curator Marco van Egmond will show a number of beautiful applications and possibilities of georeferencing using practical examples. For ten years …
Read moreCDH Webinar: Computer vision in early modern print culture
08 April 2022 @ 15:00 – 16:15 – Currently computer vision tooling is available in abundance. In this online lecture Jeroen Salman (CDH affiliated member) and guest speaker Giles Bergel (Oxford University) explore some of the tools that …
Read moreAI 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 moreCDH 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 moreCall 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 moreAI 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 moreCDH Lecture (hybrid): Understanding opinion dynamics – a (seemingly) simple model with many applications
18 November 2022 @ 15:00 – 16:15 – In this hybrid lecture Rainer Hegselmann, philosophy professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, will talk about the bounded confidence model. The bounded confidence model is an extremely …
Read moreEntry level course in Python for humanities teachers/researchers
09 May 2022 – 10 May 2022 @ 10:00 – 17:00 – This entry level course in Python for teachers and researchers of the Faculty of Humanities consists of two hands-on training days. The course will be provided by Julian Gonggrijp and …
Read moreGetting started with network analysis – introductory Gephi course for Humanities staff
12 April 2022 @ 13:00 – 17:00 – *** Due to circumstances this workshop has been cancelled on April 12, the replacement workshop will be given on May 24. *** In this workshop, Jeroen Bakker, junior researcher at …
Read moreCDH webinar ‘Who wrote the Wilhelmus? – A comparison of Latent Semantic Analysis and Correspondence Analysis for Text Mining’
25 March 2022 @ 15:00 – 16:15 – In this online lecture, PhD candidate Qianqian Qi, will discuss two text mining methods that she uses to explore who wrote the Wilhelmus. Using methods of computational text analysis, a …
Read morePrinciples & practices of machine learning: A hands-on training for beginners with applications in the humanities
24 March 2022 @ 10:00 – 16:00 – In this one day course Hugo Schnack, assistant professor Language acquisition, processing and disorders, will give an introduction to what machine learning is, when and how it can be used …
Read moreCANCELLED – Basics of Statistics – Hands-on training day for humanities teachers/researchers
03 March 2022 @ 10:00 – 16:00 – *** CANCELLED – A new date will follow soon *** Data are becoming increasingly important in the humanities. In this one day course, intended for researchers and teachers in the …
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