26 January
13:00 - 17:00

Beyond Ctrl-F: how to semi-automate searches in numerous files using regular expressions, Poppler, GREP and Python

In this hands-on workshop Liliana Melgar (GKG) covers the basic level of automated searching. The training is addressed to humanities researchers or teachers who have little or no experience with the command line/terminal or with Python. As a researcher you may need to query a relatively high number of digital files stored in your own

07 December
14:00 - 15:00

Linked (Open) Data – Showcase UB Digital Humanities

More and more institutions and researchers are discovering the possibilities of Linked Data for their dataset or (digital) heritage collection. But what exactly is Linked (Open) Data and more importantly, what can you do with it? In the Living Lab Digital Humanities, subject specialist History and Digital Humanities at the University Library Ruben Schalk, demonstrates

01 January
00:00

The Digital Humanities Lab develops digital toolset for major European research project ‘People and Parliament’

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

26 November
15:00 - 16:30

CDH Webinar: Hands-on session ‘Automatic Speech Recognition of Radio’

During this hands-on session on automatic speech recognition on radio, dr. Alexander Badenoch (MCW) will cover a case study of the Eurovision Song Contest.

17 June
09:00 - 16:00

Training day with Joris Veerbeek: Network analysis

In this course you will learn the basics of network analysis: you will learn to perform such analyses using Gephi, to interpret network statistics and to create insightful network visualisations. You will also be able to work with your own dataset. Admission is free, but the number of participants is limited, so please register as

03 May
15:30 - 17:30

OIL Lab guest lecture

As part of the Digital Methods reading group we welcome Sal Hagen and Emillie de Keulenaar of Open Intelligence Lab (“data is the new oil making sense of new political currents in the digital sphere.”) to discuss their work. As always we will focus on the contributions and epistemological consequences of data science and computational

17 September
15:00 - 16:00

CDH Webinar: On data and care in migration contexts

On 17 September, the Centre for Digital Humanities will host the webinar: ‘On data and care in migration contexts’. In the context of the emerging interdisciplinary field of digital migration studies, this webinar will discuss how researchers can care for their data. The webinar features as a pre-launch of the volume Research methodologies and ethical challenges

22 April
15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: Turning words to numbers: Pre-processing text data for text mining

Digital Humanities Lab Lecture series on Text Mining (2/5) organised by the focus area Applied Data Science.

01 January
00:00

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.

01 January
00:00

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.