Centre for Digital Humanities
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 moreUB & CDH Workshop: Visualizing spatial data on the georeferenced maps of the Special Collections
13 December 2022 @ 13:00 – 16:00 – During this unique demo-workshop Ruben Schalk, Information- and Collection Specialist at the University Library, will show and teach you how to integrate the digitized maps of the Special Collections or …
Read moreCDH Workshop: Yoda for Humanities
07 December 2022 @ 13:00 – 14:30 – During this workshop Frans de Liagre Böhl, data manager for the Faculty of Humanities, will provide a hands-on introduction to Yoda, and will help you navigate the data related choices …
Read moreCDH Tutorial: Philosophy and computer simulations – two incompatible realms?
30 November 2022 @ 14:00 – 15:30 – What role can computational models play in philosophy? Theoretical philosopher Dominik Klein will try to answer this question during this tutorial on November 30. This tutorial provides additional and practical insights …
Read moreUB & CDH Workshop: Transkribus and Optical Character Recognition for humanities staff
24 November 2022 @ 13:30 – 16:30 – During this entry level demo-workshop Ruben Schalk, Information- and Collection Specialist at the University Library, will demonstrate and teach how to use Optical Character Recognition software and Transkribus on example …
Read moreCDH Workshop: Principles & practices of machine learning – A hands-on training for beginners with applications in the humanities
03 November 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 and …
Read moreCDH Workshop: Entry level course in Python for humanities staff
01 November 2022 – 22 November 2022 @ 10:00 – 17:00 – This entry level course in Python consists of four hands-on training days on Tuesdays starting November 1. The course will be provided by Julian Gonggrijp and Jelte van Boheemen, scientific developers of …
Read moreCDH Webinar: Talking XTC – Distant and close reading of digitized newspaper and radio data archives
21 October 2022 @ 15:00 – 16:15 – In this webinar on October 21, media researcher Berrie van der Molen will talk about the methodological approach – the ‘leveled approach’ – he used writing his dissertation ‘Talking XTC: Drug …
Read moreCDH Workshop: Getting started with network visualization – introductory Gephi course for humanities staff
18 October 2022 @ 13:00 – 17:00 – In this workshop, Jeroen Bakker, junior researcher at Utrecht Data School, will introduce you to network analysis and visualization using Gephi. After this hands-on session, you will be able to conduct a network …
Read moreCDH Webinar: Digital Humanities 101 – An introduction to DH thinking
22 September 2022 @ 15:00 – 16:30 – This webinar is set up as an entry into Digital Humanities (DH) thinking. Professor Hugo Quené will show and discuss how to work with digital data and how to employ …
Read moreUB & CDH Workshop: Working with large text corpora in I-Analyzer for humanities staff
04 October 2022 @ 13:00 – 16:00 – This joint workshop by the Utrecht University Library and the Centre for Digital Humanities will give an overview of how text corpora are processed in order to be used in …
Read moreMirko 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….
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