CDH Interview: How did we perceive animals and plants in the Netherlands over the past centuries? Language model GysBERT assists with mapping it out
How did a sixteenth-century Dutch inhabitant experience the animals and plants around him? And how did that change in the centuries that followed? When did the rabbit change from food into pet and the horse from means of transportation into pleasure animal? Literary texts, scientific texts and folk tales, in particular, offer a unique glimpse
Questions about data, Python, R or any other aspects of digital humanities? Visit the Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours
Do you have a question about data, Python, or R? Or are you just finding your way in the field of digital humanities and need some guidance? All humanities staff and students are welcome to visit our weekly Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours on Thursdays from 14:00 to 15:00 hrs. Looking for a suitable digital tool to
Quantitative research design meetings for humanities staff
The ‘Quantitative research design meetings’ meetings – organized and hosted by Statistical Advisor Kirsten Schutter– are meant for humanities staff that is interested in or is 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 research is supposed to
Quantitative research design meetings for humanities staff
The ‘Quantitative research design meetings’ meetings – organized and hosted by Statistical Advisor Kirsten Schutter– are meant for humanities staff that is interested in or is 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 research is supposed to
CDH staff education program spring 2023 – New: workshops on demand
We are proud to present the new Staff Education Program of the Centre for Digital Humanities for January to June 2023. We again offer a diverse program with lectures and hands-on workshops in the field of digital humanities. In addition to the regular program, we now also offer Extra Workshops and Tailor-made Workshops on request. This is to ensure that the
CDH online lecture: An introduction to Automatic Speech Recognition
During this hybrid lecture, Arjan van Hessen, researcher language and speech technology, will talk about the possibilities of using Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). He will explain the (im)possibilities of the current speech recognizers, how ASR works and what will (hopefully) change in the coming months. Automatic Speech Recognition – having spoken language recognized and processed
CDH workshop: Social media data – introductory 4CAT course for humanities staff
In this workshop, Sander Prins and Jeroen Bakker, researchers at Utrecht Data School, will introduce you to social media data collection and analysis. After this hands-on session, you will be able to gather social media data yourselves. We’ll be using 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit, which doesn’t require any programming experience. The Centre for Digital
CDH Workshop: Basics of Statistics – Hands-on training day for humanities staff OUD
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. This hands-on training day will be given by professor Hugo Quené and research and education assistant Kirsten Schutter. They will start with core concepts: sample, data. Next, they will
CDH webinar: The datafication of race-ethnicity in Dutch governmental databases
For his PhD research, Gerwin van Schie delved into the data systems of Dutch government bodies to look at the algorithms used there. During this webinar, he will talk about the results and the methods he has used. In his research Van Schie focused on the way Dutch immigrant populations are ‘datafied’ by various societal
UB & CDH Workshop: Transkribus and Optical Character Recognition
During this entry level demo-workshop the Digital Humanities support team at the University Library will demonstrate and teach how to use Optical Character Recognition software and Transkribus on example texts or material from your own research. Thanks to improvements in AI, printed and handwritten texts can now be read almost perfectly by computers, using software for Handwritten
CDH Workshop: Entry level course Python in four days for humanities staff
This entry level course in Python consists of four hands-on training days on Tuesdays starting 4 April 2023. The course will be provided by the scientific developers of the Digital Humanities Lab. This beginners course is designed for humanities teachers and researchers who want to learn the foundations of Python in order to write simple
CDH Workshop: Getting started with network visualization – introductory Gephi course for humanities staff
In this workshop, Jeroen Bakker, junior researcher at Utrecht Data School, and Sander Prins, teaching and research assistant, will introduce you to network analysis and visualization using Gephi. After this hands-on session, you will be able to conduct a network research on a large dataset. Networks are all around us. The relationship between friends on Facebook, money