Two Days of Collaboration, Knowledge Exchange, and Difference Making How can scholars and practitioners join forces to bridge the gap between academic inquiry and urgent societal challenges? What roadblocks stand in the way of translating research into practical change, and how might these roadblocks be reimagined as opportunities for cross-sector collaboration? Most significantly, how can […] Read more
Data School’s latest publication in the Journal of Responsible Technology, authored by Iris Muis, Julia Straatman and Bart Kamphorst, draws lessons from 15 FRAIA trajectories that Data School and Rijks ICT Gilde (RIG) facilitated and offers practical recommendations for effectively guiding your organisation through the impact assessment. Abstract Since the initial development of the Fundamental […] Read more
The Centre for Digital Humanities’ newsletter for March 2025 has been published. You can read the newsletter in your browser by clicking the button below. Would you like to receive the monthly CDH newsletter directly in your inbox? Sign up for the newsletter by clicking the button below and register with your (professional) email address. […] Read more
In an open letter to the Executive University Board of Utrecht University, Prof. dr. Albert Meijer (Professor of Public Innovation, UU) & Prof. dr. José van Dijck (Professor of Media and Digital Society, UU) are calling for a transformation to digital autonomy. They express their “concern about Utrecht University’s increasing reliance on services from Big Tech companies (particularly Microsoft, […] Read more
The Centre for Digital Humanities has published a matrix of ‘digital literacy’ learning objectives in the Humanities Bachelor degrees. These proposed learning objectives are currently in place for all bachelor degree programmes of the Faculty of Humanites at Utrecht University and can serve as inspiration for other educational institutions. The document is available in English […] Read more
PhD candidate Joris Veerbeek (Data School & De Groene Amsterdammer) has published the first research article of his dissertation in open access: ‘Fighting Fire with Fire: Journalistic Investigations of Artificial Intelligence Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques’. It is a must-read about using AI in journalism to critically interrogate AI. In the media You can find all […] Read more
The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) Research Software Lab was highlighted in the recently published LCRDM report ‘Professionalizing the role of Research Software Engineers in the Netherlands’. The report maps the landscape of Research Software Engineering in the Netherlands, highlighting both successful models and persistent barriers. The National Coordination Point Research Data Management (LCRDM) is a […] Read more
Utrecht University Library owns as many as about 900 books printed between 1450 and 1500, the first decades of printing in Europe. These so-called incunabula (books printed before 1501) will all be digitised in the coming years. Their catalogue descriptions will also be improved and enriched, with a special focus on the material features of […] Read more
The Digital Humanities (DH) Workspace is an initiative by the Centre for Digital Humanities and Utrecht University Library. LIBER, the “voice of Europe’s research library community”, has published a report on ‘Living labs for co-creation and co-innovation’ that features a case study on the DH Workspace at Utrecht University. The report is part of the […] Read more
The ‘Untangling FAIR Implementation in the Dutch Social Sciences and Humanities’ project has launched a survey to explore how FAIR data principles align with Research Data Management (RDM) policies and the coordination of FAIR-enabling services in Social Sciences & Humanites (SSH) research. The survey is open to data stewards, curators, RDM coordinators, managers, senior decision-makers, […] Read more