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

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

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