Centre
for
Digital
Humanities
Groningen 09-03-2015
Dear Colleagues
The rise of digital culture is quickly changing research in the humanities. The increasing availability
and accessibility of (big) data, whether digitized material or digitally-born data, challenges scholars in
various disciplines to develop and test new theories and models, explore new venues for research,
and implement new technological tools to study data sets and to present the results to the academic
community and to society. The Centre for Digital Humanities strives to be the platform where
scholars from all disciplines in the humanities come together to make this happen.
To foster cutting-edge research, and facilitate training and education in digital humanities and eresearch we need an infrastructure at the RUG. This includes investments in technology (hard- and
software), people (e-science engineers and researchers) but also in training and education of our
researchers. Right now, the Centre would like to start organizing hands-on workshops for staff,
ranging from PhDs to senior researchers.
In order to find out what your needs are in the area of Digital Humanities, we like to hear what
specific skills, methods or tools you would like to learn about. The Centre could, for instance,
organize workshops about: data-harvesting, data-analysis, text-mining, search strategies,
programming for humanities, geographical mapping (gis), topic modelling, visualizations or network
analysis. Depending on the outcome of this inventory the Centre will develop an agenda for offering
courses this spring and in the following years.
Name researcher:
Research institute:
I would like to attend a workshop on:
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Please return this file to cdh@rug.nl. For more information please contact Nadja Zadorina, on this email adress or by phone: 363 8416. See also: http://www.rug.nl/research/researchlet/expertisecentra/centre-for-digital-humanities/?lang=en