Centre for Digital Humanities
Within the humanities, increasing use is being made of digitised data and tools to process and analyse this data. To support research and education in this field, a Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) has been set up at Utrecht University’s Faculty of Humanities, strengthening and combining existing activities.
Teams
In Utrecht, the Centre for Digital Humanities consists of:
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| The Research Software Lab develops applications in areas such as text and data mining, linguistics, philosophy, language and literature studies and history. | The labs at the Institute for Language Sciences provide experimental facilities to support linguistic research with subjects, such as a phonetics lab, baby lab, eye-tracking lab and EEG/ERP facilities. | Research activities at the Data School include data ethics and public debates on social media. | The infrastructure enabling all these activities is built and managed by the Humanities IT. |
 Research Software Lab |
ILS Labs |
Data School |
Humanities IT |
Education
Collection of the teaching and educational materials for Digital Humanities research.
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| Quantitative Methods and Statistics | Textbook on Quantitative Methods and Statistics. Also in Dutch. |
| Basics of Statistics | One-day course for Humanities researchers. |
| Gephi | Introductory course on network visualization for Humanities. |
| Programming in Python | Entry level course on the basics of the Python programming language. Special attention is given to best practices in coding, e.g.: writing clean code and documentation. |
| R for Humanities | Basics in R syntax, to data handling and visualisation using a set of tools known as the ‘tidyverse’ |
| LaTeX | Introductory workshop for LaTeX aimed at Humanities students and staff. |
| Data exploration toolkit for cultural data | Structure, clean, visualize, and run a preliminary analysis. |
| Web scraping | Introduction into web scraping with Python, with the use of Replit. |
Staff Education Program
The materials above where mainly developed for workshops, given at Utrecht University. Every semester, the Centre for Digital Humanities presents its Training Programme, featuring a diverse range of courses, lectures and hands-on workshops, covering various aspects of digital humanities. In addition to our regular program, we also offer Tailor-made Workshops upon request.
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Contact
If you find yourself missing materials or have any inquiries regarding our resources, please don’t hesitate to contact us via cdh@uu.nl or visit our website at cdh.uu.nl for more information on how we can assist you.
