CDH Education Program Jan-May 2022
We are proud to present the new staff education program of the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH). We again offer a diverse program with lectures and hands-on workshops on all kinds of different aspects of digital humanities. Registration is open. Attendance to CDH courses and workshops (not the webinars) will be compensated by the Centre for Digital Humanities in
Call for Participants: Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions
Day: 15 & 16 DecemberTime: 17:00 – 19:00 UTCVia Zoom The organizers of this working group seek to create a common Linked Open Data vocabulary for the description of medieval manuscripts from the Middle East. They are gathering an online community of scholars to begin work on this shared vocabulary. That is why they invite
AI and Digital Humanities: three projects to start in 2022
The first round of AI Labs’ ‘call to action’ has resulted in three Digital Humanities projects being funded. AI Labs In the AI Labs at Utrecht University, academic researchers collaborate with external partners on societal issues that involve artificial intelligence and/or data science. With the AI Labs’ ‘call to action‘, UU encourages collaborations between researchers from the faculties
CDH Lecture (hybrid): Understanding opinion dynamics – a (seemingly) simple model with many applications
In this hybrid lecture Rainer Hegselmann, philosophy professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, will talk about the bounded confidence model. The bounded confidence model is an extremely simple model. In that model individuals take seriously only those others whose opinions are not too far away from their own opinion. The model has
Entry level course in Python for humanities teachers/researchers
This entry level course in Python for teachers and researchers of the Faculty of Humanities consists of two hands-on training days. The course will be provided by Julian Gonggrijp and Jelte van Boheemen, scientific developers of the Digital Humanities Lab. Due to the great interest in the previous training, we are repeating this Python course.
Getting started with network analysis – introductory Gephi course for Humanities staff
*** Due to circumstances this workshop has been cancelled on April 12, the replacement workshop will be given on May 24. *** In this workshop, Jeroen Bakker, junior researcher at Utrecht Data School, will introduce you to network analysis and visualization using Gephi. After this hands-on session, you will be able to conduct a network
CDH webinar ‘Who wrote the Wilhelmus? – A comparison of Latent Semantic Analysis and Correspondence Analysis for Text Mining’
In this online lecture, PhD candidate Qianqian Qi, will discuss two text mining methods that she uses to explore who wrote the Wilhelmus. Using methods of computational text analysis, a group of four Flemish-Dutch linguists made a surprising discovery in 2016. They made the news when they stated that it was more likely that the
Principles & practices of machine learning: A hands-on training for beginners with applications in the humanities
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 what it can do. Machine learning is a data analysis technique to discover (complex) patterns in datasets related to some property of interest. These
CANCELLED – Basics of Statistics – Hands-on training day for humanities teachers/researchers
*** CANCELLED – A new date will follow soon *** 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. Due to the great interest in the previous training, we are repeating this Statistics course.
Research Data Management for the humanities
This short Research Data Management (RDM) training has been specially developed for Humanities staff. The short workshop will be given by Frans de Liagre Böhl, data manager for the Faculty of Humanities. The workshop touches on all aspects of research data management: FAIR data, data collection, data documentation, data storage, data security, data selection and
CDH Webinar: Studying Digital History as Cross-Disciplinary Trading Zones
In his recently published book Trading Zones of Digital History, dr. Max Kemman examines digital history collaborations and reflects on the positioning of digital history between the digital and the historical. Kemman has a background in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and History. In this lecture he will elaborate on the book and his approach to this
Tutorial data scraping
During this introductory workshop, Sander Prins, Technical Support Assistant at the Centre for Digital Humanities, will teach you the basics of web scraping and guide you through the graphical user interface named Outwit Hub. Websites and online platforms are increasingly being studied within scientific research. Unfortunately, the vast amount of information that websites provide is