Centre for Digital Humanities
Entry level course Python in four days
01 May 2024 – 22 May 2024 @ 10:00 – 17:00 – This entry level course in Python is specifically tailored to humanities teachers, researchers, and students who want to learn the basics of this popular programming language. After the course, participants …
Read morePrinciples & practices of machine learning with applications in the humanities
05 February 2024 @ 10:00 – 17:00 – During this comprehensive one-day course, Hugo Schnack, assistant professor Language acquisition, processing and disorders, will give an introduction to machine learning and explore its applications and potential within the humanities. …
Read moreVacature: Management-/Office- & Communicatieassistent (0,8 fte) bij het CDH
Voor de ondersteuning van de ketens Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) en Onderwijsondersteuning en Studentzaken (OSZ) zoekt de faculteit Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit Utrecht een management/-office- & communicatieassistent. In deze functie zul je beide organisatieonderdelen ondersteunen. Je kunt reageren tot uiterlijk 15 januari 2024. Binnen deze functie kom je terecht in professionele en enthousiaste teams….
Read moreExploring online newspaper archives with Delpher and I-Analyzer
14 May 2024 @ 13:00 – 15:30 – This entry-level workshop, a joint effort between the Utrecht University Library and the Centre for Digital Humanities, is designed to assist participants in navigating large digitized newspaper archives. This session …
Read moreIntroduction to LaTeX
28 February 2024 @ 10:00 – 12:00 – Do you want a good-looking thesis, article or dissertation without worrying about formatting too much? Are you fed up with Microsoft Word or other text editors not doing exactly what …
Read moreIntroduction to web scraping
09 April 2024 @ 13:00 – 16:00 – Join CDH software engineer Donatas Rasiukevičius and CDH technical support assistant Sander Prins for an introduction workshop into web scraping. This workshop will introduce you to the tools and terminology …
Read morePersonalized brainstorm & consultancy session: How to successfully integrate computational methods into your research design & funding proposal
25 April 2024 @ 13:00 – 15:30 – Do you have questions on the digital humanities component of your research proposal? Whether you’re unsure about how to begin, how to properly integrate computational methods, or what research tools …
Read moreText search and exploration tool I-Analyzer now open source
I-Analyzer, the user friendly text and data mining tool developed and maintained by the CDH Research Software Lab (RSLab), is now open source. By making the source code freely available, RSLab has significantly progressed in their commitment to promoting FAIR principles. In March 2023, the Research Software Lab received two FAIR Research IT Innovation Grants from the…
Read moreBlog Julian Gonggrijp: ‘How to ensure that others can run your code’
“If your code only runs on your computer with your files on it, in January under easterly wind while the moon is waning, then your colleagues will likely find it difficult to run your code.” How can you unsure that your freshly developed software is accessible and usable by your colleagues for their research? Julian…
Read moreNational Digital Humanities Network Meeting on October 26: a brief recap
On October 26, CLARIAH and the Centre for Digital Humanities of University of Utrecht jointly organized the very first National Digital Humanities Network Meeting. The aim was to strengthen the national network of organizations ‘with a DH (Digital Humanities) agenda’. Representatives from nearly all Dutch DH centers and organizations were in attendance. Developments in the…
Read moreUse I-Analyzer tool for informed voting in Dutch Elections on November 22
Would you like to gain insight into what statements politicians or parties have made on a particular subject? The Dutch Parliamentary Speeches, from 1815 to 2022, have now been added to the text search and exploration tool I-Analyzer. Developed and maintained by the CDH Research Software Lab, this open-source software is accessible to anyone interested…
Read moreHistorical fortress wall discovered in man’s backyard using ‘georeferenced’ map from Utrecht University
Dutch version of this article. While deepening a pond in his garden, Erwin Jesterhoudt from the Zeeland village of Philippine, stumbled upon a piece of an old wall in early October. Using a digital historical map from Utrecht University, he learned that it was a section of an 18th-century fortress wall. The Centre for Digital…
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