Media scholar Professor José van Dijck, advisory board member of the Centre for Digital Humanities, has been awarded a NWO Spinoza Prize of 2.5 million euros. The Spinoza Prize is the highest scientific distinction in the Netherlands. Van Dijck is University Professor of Media and Digital Society and is a top player in the international field of…

The Centre for Digital Humanities will offer the following education program in the fall of 2021. You can now register for all courses and lectures. For some courses the number of participants is limited, so register as soon as possible (first come, first served). The Centre for Digital Humanities aims to promote digital literacy amongst…

Are you a researcher working with or interested in the digital collections of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB)? The KB is seeking proposals for its fully paid Researcher-in-Residence program in 2022. This program offers a unique chance for early career researchers of all disciplines to work in the library with the Digital Scholarship…

Do you want to work as a (web)developer in the midst of the latest developments in the field of Digital Humanities (DH)? The Centre for Digital Humanities is looking for a DH developer and a DH web developer. Find more info here (the vacancies are in Dutch): Ontwikkelaar Digital Humanities (0,6 – 1,0 fte) Webdeveloper…

02 September 2021 @ 15:00 – 17:00 – AI Labs organizes an event to elaborate on the Call to Action and the labs-themes they have launched. They will answer questions and give researchers the opportunity to pitch their …

08 November 2021 @ 14:00 – 17:00 – Dr. Berit Janssen and Jelte van Boheemen (developers Digital Humanities Lab) will offer an I-Analyzer workshop on 8 November 2021 at 1.00 PM. Participants are given an overview of how text corpora are processed in order to be used in I-Analyzer, and how to search, filter and visualize results. 

15 November 2021 – 16 November 2021 @ 10:00 – 14:30 – This entry level course in Python for teachers and researchers of GW consists of two hands-on training days. The course will be provided by scientific developers of the Digital Humanities Lab.

07 October 2021 @ 10:00 – 16:00 – In this one-day course, intended for researchers and teachers in the humanities, you will learn the basics of statistical data analysis.

03 December 2021 @ 15:00 – 17:00 – In this workshop, Frans de Liagre Böhl, data manager for the Faculty of Humanities, will provide a hands-on introduction to the OpenRefine platform. After this 2,5 hour session you will …

‘Glad I now have a little more understanding of the programs, of what they can do and how they work.’ On 17 and 24 June, The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) organized the first two training days for staff in the DH Living Lab. Both courses on the basics of text mining and network analysis…

29 October 2021 @ 15:00 – 16:15 – In this presentation, Dirk van Miert and Liliana Melgar demonstrate, with practical examples and hands-on activities, how to search simultaneously in a large number of digitized texts (captured from Google Books and other online sources).

28 May 2021 @ 15:00 – 16:15 – Dr. Paola Monachesi presents a podcast series under development focusing on her research which takes a media and communication approach to urban sustainable development. It focuses on social behaviour analysed on the basis of communication arising from social media data.