FAIRer DH Software (Open Science Fund) The FAIRer DH Software project was set up to assure that all research software developed by the CDH Research Software Lab adheres to the FAIR software standards. […] Read more
Excalibur Excalibur (Example sentences Calibrated for Use in Research) is a project on the database of linguistic example sentences to enable enhanced publications and accelerate linguistic research. […] Read more
Research Software Lab The dedicated Research Software Lab (RS Lab) team consists of ten specialized developers who provide technical support by creating bespoke software solutions for research and education purposes. Their expertise spans a wide range of applications, including databases, visualizations, and text mining tools. Additionally, the RS Lab offers guidance on (the adaptation of) ready-to-use research software […] Read more
Interview with CDH director Hugo Quené: past, present and future of the CDH 05/09/2024 In 2020, the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) at Utrecht University was officially launched. In this interview, prof. dr. Hugo Quené, Professor of Quantitative Methods of Empirical Research in the Humanities and CDH founding director, reflects on the past four years since its inception, and shares his thoughts on the future. How should digital humanities evolve […] Read more
BWI data portal An interactive portal to make the data of the Better Well-being Index (BWI, ‘Brede Welvaartsindicator’) downloadable and to visualise the data for a wide audience on a public website. […] Read more
EDPOP Virtual Research Environment A virtual research environment to create and annotate your own virtual collection of printed materials of early modern European popular culture and assess collections made by peers. […] Read more
People & Parliament A digital toolset for text- and datamining and natural language processing for a political-historical research project. […] Read more
Mind your Manner Adverbials! A linguistic database housing manner adverbials from 15 languages and dialects. […] Read more
Invitation for input: Daidalos – A Digital Social Sciences and Humanities Summer/Winter School on Research Software 23/01/2024 The CDH Research Software Lab is actively engaged in the ‘Daidalos – A Digital Social Sciences and Humanities Summer/Winter School on Research Software’ project. Daidalos is part of TDCC SSH Bottleneck Projects, and is centered around the development of a Digital Social Sciences and Humanities (Summer/Winter) School. This project is in development and welcomes your […] Read more
Text search and exploration tool I-Analyzer now open source 21/11/2023 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 more
Blog Julian Gonggrijp: ‘How to ensure that others can run your code’ 06/11/2023 “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 more
Use I-Analyzer tool for informed voting in Dutch Elections on November 22 24/10/2023 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 more
Research Software Lab collaborates on new interactive platform for researching historical Jewish migration data 06/04/2023 To further map the mechanisms and underlying structures of Jewish migration in Europe, the new project ‘Interactive Geo-Spatial Platform for Modelling Jewish Historical Migration’ has been launched. This project has been awarded a FAIR IT Grant. Professor of Late Antiquity Leonard Rutgers, master’s student Stefan Dingemans and developer Tijmen Baarda (Centre for Digital Humanities) will together shape the new […] Read more
Launch of the Frisian dialects project 30/03/2023 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 […] Read more
Frisian dialects project The Frisian dialects projects is a tool to collect Frisian language data in an online experiment in the form of a game. […] Read more
Now online: Database with Dutch dialect idioms 23/02/2023 The Digital Humanities Lab relaunches the ‘Dutch Dialect Idioms’ database, developed by linguists from Utrecht University and KU Leuven. This is a renewed version of an online database of idioms in 13 Dutch dialects. Idioms are special, linguistically speaking, because they have a meaning that does not follow from their parts: when someone ‘kicked the […] Read more
Dutch Dialect Idioms database The ‘Dutch Dialect Idioms’ database is an online database of idioms in 13 Dutch dialects, publicly accessible and easily searchable. […] Read more
From 2023 the Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours move to Thursdays 29/11/2022 From January 2023, the Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours will shift from Wednesdays to Thursdays. The time from 14:00 to 15:00 hrs will remain the same. All humanities staff and students are welcome to visit the Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours for face-to-face advice about all kinds of questions related to research data, digital humanities software, Python, statistics and […] Read more
Digital Humanities Lab presents READ-IT tool with international partners 27/09/2022 At the SHARP Conference 2022, the Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab) recently presented the results of the international READ-IT project. With the Horizon2020 grant of 250,000 euros the DHLab built an advanced interface for this project. READ-IT (Reading Europe Advanced Investigation Tool) is a large-scale study of reading culture in Europe from the 18th century to […] Read more
Digital Humanities Lab launches AuChAnn 24/08/2022 The Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab) recently launched AuChAnn, the Automatic CHAT Annotation tool. AuChAnn is a python library that can read a Dutch transcript and interpretation pair and generate a fitting CHAT annotation. Scientific developers Sheean Spoel and Mees van Stiphout of the DHLab developed AuChAnn in collaboration with Frank Wijnen, Professor of psycholinguistics at […] Read more
