07 June 2023 @ 11:15 – 12:45 – There is a lot of buzz about ChatGPT and its impact on education. While some schools ban it due to fears of cheating and plagiarism, others believe it can enhance …

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. …

On March 17, 2023, the Analytics Advisory Committee (Adviescommissie Analytics) has officially started. This committee, consisting of academics and experts, will provide solicited and unsolicited advice to the Ministry of Finance, the Tax Administration, Customs and Service Surcharges on how to deal with risk models and algorithms. Risk models and algorithms can increase efficiency and…

Edo Storm used a combination of computational methods and close reading to conduct research into the history of the term ‘the West’. It earned him this year’s Digital History Thesis Award. Storm: ‘I wouldn’t have seen the big overarching narrative without this computational method.’ Fellow students sometimes joked about him and his ‘digital stuff’ when…

The Digital Humanities Lab, together with a group of researchers from Utrecht University and Fryske Akademy, launched the Frisian dialects application to collect Frisian language data in an online experiment in the form of a game. The Frisian dialects application, built by developer Ben Bonfil, tests the knowledge of language variation within Frisia (Northern part…

04 April 2023 – 12 April 2023 @ 09:30 – 12:30 – During these two workshops participants learn how to apply automatic speech recognition (ASR) to their own material. Arjan van Hessen, researcher language and speech technology, will discuss the available tools …

Binnen de geesteswetenschappen wordt steeds meer gebruik gemaakt van gedigitaliseerde data en tools om deze data te bewerken en analyseren. Om onderzoek en onderwijs op dit gebied te ondersteunen is aan de faculteit Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit Utrecht een Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) ingericht, waarmee bestaande activiteiten versterkt en gebundeld worden. Zo worden in het Research…

The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) has been awarded two FAIR Research IT Innovation Grants. These will allow the CDH to host its own server instance of 4CAT, a webbased toolkit enabling researchers and students to collect and process social media data in a well-secured virtual self-service setting, as well as the addition of a…

Statistical Advisor Kirsten Schutter organizes ‘Quantitative research design meetings’ in March, April and May. These meetings are intended for staff at the Faculty of Humanities who are interested in or are struggling with the quantitative component of their research designs. During this meetings, researchers can present and discuss their ideas. According to textbooks on research methodology, doing quantitative…

26 May 2023 @ 15:30 – 17:30 – The Department Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University recently published (in open access) the edited volume Situating Data – Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture (Amsterdam University Press); bringing together a diverse …

24 March 2023 @ 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 …

Het Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) zoekt een full-stack ontwikkelaar voor het Portal Development onderdeel (PortalDev). PortalDev is een klein team van developers dat verantwoordelijk is voor het onderzoeken, ontwerpen, bouwen en beheren van uiteenlopende portals en andere toepassingen ten behoeve van de onderzoeks- en onderwijsinfrastructuur van de faculteit Geesteswetenschappen. Reageren kan tot en met…