CDH workshop: Entry-level Python course in four days (extra edition) This entry level course in Python is tailored for humanities teachers, researchers, and students who want to learn the basics of this popular programming language. Over four full-day sessions, participants will learn to write simple programs using the most common structures. Led by the scientific developers of the Centre for Digital Humanities’ Research Software Lab, this […] Read more
Vacature CDH Research Software Lab: Student-assistant ter ondersteuning van project spraakassistent Het Research Software Lab (RSLab) en Florian Kunneman zoeken een student-assistent voor 4 uur per week om te helpen met onder andere het voorbereiden van experimenten en interviews en het testen van een spraakassistent. Het RSLab ondersteunt onderzoekers door op maat gemaakte softwareoplossingen te ontwerpen. Voor een project waarin wordt onderzocht of een spraakassistent van […] Read more
Open eScience call – Projects in need of research software If your research requires the development of advanced research software, and if you think the research community in general would benefit from that software, then this call is for you. The Netherlands eScience Center supports researchers from all disciplines by creating tailor-made research software: digital tools that contribute to answering research questions by creating and/or […] Read more
CLARIAH Community Connect 2025 On Wednesday, December 3rd, CLARIAH-NL will organise its first CommunityConnect in Utrecht. CLARIAH-NL is a network of humanities faculties,research and heritage institutes, enhancing humanities research throughshared data, tools, workflows, and teaching materials. This Community Connect event specifically aims to connect (potential) users,researchers, developers and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) professionals to collaborate, show and […] Read more
UDCC Forum X: Virtual Research Environments VREs are increasingly used in research as a ‘user friendly’ form of cloud computing for increased computing power, collaboration, and secure data handling. MOVED TO 16 DECEMBER: Due to the strike actions scheduled on 9 December, the Forum moves to 16 December, same time, same place. The Utrecht Digital Competence Center (UDCC) network meets every […] Read more
LUCDH online lunch lecture: A Computational Investigation of 18th-century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery This lecture is part of the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities‘ Lunch Lecture series. On 14 October, from 12:00 to 13:00 hours, Ruilin Wang will talk about finding duplicate and near-duplicate decorative images by deep learning across 200,000 digitized books from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Is it possible to trace the hidden connections […] Read more
UU Symposium on alternative forms of assessment in the age of AI This UU-staff only symposium is organised by the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning (CAT). Participants are invited to explore how research on assessment practices in higher education is evolving in response to technological developments and the growing need for meaningful, future-focused evaluation. The programme features two keynote lectures, each followed by public debate. Lecturers […] Read more
CDH/CLARIN workshop: ParlaMint – An introduction to Multilingual Parliamentary Data In this hands-on workshop, you will explore and compare parliamentary proceedings from 29 European countries and regions with two user-friendly tools: the CLARIN.SI noSketchEngine concordancer and the TEITOK service. These proceedings are available both in the original languages and in machine-translated English. The session will be led by Anna Kryvenko and Kristina Pahor de Maiti […] Read more
Machine learning: principles and practices During this comprehensive one-day course, Hugo Schnack, assistant professor Language acquisition, processing and disorders, will introduce the principles of machine learning and its relevance for research in the humanities. Machine learning is a powerful technique to discover (complex) patterns in data. It is widely applied across research areas, such as physics, biology, and medicine, – […] Read more
CDH workshop: Introduction to NVivo Explore the fundamentals of qualitative data analysis with NVivo in this entry-level workshop led by Julia Straatman, researcher at Data School. This session is designed to familiarise you with the basic functionalities of NVivo, including importing, coding, organising, and searching your data. NVivo is a software package designed to help researchers organise, analyse, and gain insights from […] Read more
DH team & teacher nominated for UU Awards for Education 2025 28/01/2025 To stimulate and reward cooperation in the field of education at UU, the UU Team Award for Education has been awarded for several years to a team that has made an exceptional contribution to education at UU. This year, a team with a focus on digital humanities has been nominated: Team Summer School Digital Art […] Read more
UDCC Forum II review 13/01/2025 On 10 December 2024, the UDCC (Utrecht Digital Competence Center) gathered together for its second Forum. With both returning and new participants, this meeting served as an opportunity to build upon the momentum of the UDCC’s initial outreach activities toward democratic and inclusive community building. Having been in official operation for only two months, the […] Read more
NVivo video tutorial In this video series, Julia Straatman (Data School) provides a beginner-friendly tutorial of NVivo: a software program designed to help analyze qualitative data. Installation instructions for NVivo are provided by Utrecht University in English and in Dutch. If you run into any trouble while using NVivo, manuals for NVivo 14 are available for Windows and […] Read more
Call for Applications for 11 Doctoral Positions at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität 04/12/2024 The research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, funded by the German Research Foundation, is offering 11 Doctoral Positions (m/f/d) (65%, E-13 TV-L) for a duration of three years respectively, starting 1 October 2025. Extensions for the doctoral positions (6 months) are possible. The interdisciplinary Research Training […] Read more
First UDCC Forum review 26/11/2024 On 12 November 2024, the UDCC (Utrecht Digital Competence Center) convened for its inaugural Forum event. The UDCC Forum brings together people from across Utrecht University (UU) working to support university processes in digital research, including, but not limited to, areas such as research data management, software, and infrastructure. By getting together once a month, […] 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
The Digital Humanities Lab develops digital toolset for major European research project ‘People and Parliament’ 22/09/2021 The Utrecht Digital Humanities Lab will collaborate with the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) on the political-historical research project ‘People and Parliament’. This collaboration between software developers and historians enables groundbreaking research into parliamentary data. ‘People and Parliament’ is an ambitious project. The research focuses on the use of political language in the national parliaments of […] Read more
Visual pattern recognition and (meta) data extraction The project created a workbench that can be used for computationally analyzing large datasets of visual material. It is designed to cater to the needs of researchers in a range of studies who work with digitized visual material. […] Read more
Meaningful digital (and hybrid) collaboration This tool helps teams to shape their digital cooperation in a meaningful way during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. […] Read more
