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
ADHO DH-Conference
From July 14th to 18th 2025 at NOVA-FCSH in Lisbon, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations organizes DH2025 — the annual ADHO conference on “Building Access and Accessibility, Open Science to all Citizens.”
CLARIAH-VL+ project day
On Tuesday the 2nd of September 2025 from 10 - 16h the FWO international infrastructure project CLARIAH-VL+ will host a first in-person event for project partners. This includes all four university partners, the related core facilities, co-PIs, and third party partners. This meeting will be held in Ghent from the Belvedere room of the Booktower. The goal of the meeting is to formally introduce the goals of the project and details of the work packages, as well as have opportunities to meet each other.
CLS INFRA Online Workshop - Introduction to network analysis in the humanities
The Horizon 2020 Infrastructure project - CLS INFRA will give an online workshop on the introduction to network analysis in the humanities on 9 July from 10:30h.
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of network analysis for humanities scholars, combining historical and literary case studies with hands-on practice. Participants will explore networks of literary characters, letter correspondence, and historical actors, and learn to visualise and interpret these structures using accessible tools like Gephi and EzLinaVis.
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