GhentCDH

The Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities (GhentCDH) engages in the field of ‘Digital Humanities’ at Ghent University, ranging from archaeology and geography to linguistics and cultural studies. It develops DH collaboration and supports research projects, teaching activities and infrastructure projects across the faculties.

  • Digital heritage

    The Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities actively supports projects in digital heritage, public participation and virtual exhibitions. We help researchers, educators, and students in creating, managing, and presenting their digital collections.

  • Geospatial analysis

    The Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities offers advice, support and training in geospatial data management, analysis and visualization.

  • Digital text analysis

    The Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities is committed to advancing the study of textual sources through the use of digital tools. We offer guidance on a wide range of technologies, including Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and the processing of tabular and layout data.

  • Collaborative databases

    The Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities assists researchers in collaboratively managing and working with research data, offering tailored solutions to suit their needs. We provide guidance on tools like Nodegoat, a web-based platform for data management, analysis, and visualization. Our services also include advice on best practices for data standards, long-term storage, interoperability, and linked data integration.

News

Lecture: Teaching Digital Tools Transnationally: Tropy & Omeka S

We are delighted to announce that researcher Laura Brannan Fretwell from the Roy Rosenzweig Centre for History and New Media will give a presentation "Teaching Digital Tools Transnationally: Tropy and Omeka S in the Undergraduate Classroom” at the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities.

When? 3 December 2024, 10 - 12am. UFO Building, History Department, 3rd Floor, Malpertuis.

No registration required.

Kick-off Event Artemis - project

Tielrode

 

Op 26 november 2024 organiseert het Artemis-project zijn officiële kick-off in de belvédère van de Boekentoren in Gent. Het event biedt een uniek onderzoeks- en netwerkforum voor iedereen die werkt met (historische) ecologische data. Dit is dé kans om kennis te maken met het project en om in contact te komen met vakgenoten uit verschillende sectoren.

Walk and Talk: Use and users of Industrial Heritage

De Centrale Gent

Walk & Talk with visiting scholar Dr. Hillary Orange. The Industrial heritage walk starts at 3:30 PM and will be held by Robrecht Declercq (History Department) and Johan Vanacker (De Centrale). They will talk about the Case of 100 years Energy Central and 30 years Kunstencentrum. The talk by visiting scholar Dr. Hillary Orange titled Users of industrial heritage will serve as an introduction to the round table.

We will discuss questions such as:

Cune-iiif-orm demo view of a cuneiform tablet, transliteration, translation, and metadata.

CUNE-IIIF-ORM Web Viewer Demo

Digital Humanities Internship Experience

Bent u geschiedenisleraar eerste jaar? Help ons via een kort interview!

Tree sitter

Student developers at GhentCDH: MediaWiki parsing and migration

QGIS logo

Workshop QGIS

Text annotator component

Student developers at GhentCDH: DevOps and Text Annotation Component Development

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