The Year 2023@CDS

In this post we look back at some of the milestones and achievements made by the Centre for Digital Scholarship in 2023

Alenka Prinčič • February 12, 2024

The Drivers for Building Creative Spaces in Libraries

This last September, The Centre for Digital Scholarship further developed its plans for a shared learning space that will be built in the CDS location. The facilitator of visioning meeting was Katy Webb from Yale University, who was visiting on a Fulbright grant for three weeks.

Guest author • December 02, 2022

After the Collaborative Transcription: addressing the challenges of crowdsourced transcription

Leiden University Libraries support transcription of digitised materials in various ways, including methods that enable crowdsourcing. A recent international symposium and the exchange of experiences, produced insights that will help to improve how Leiden can respond to these challenges.

Ben Companjen • June 30, 2022

Using Twitter data to study the responses to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo

During the past few years, data extracted from the social media platform Twitter have increasingly been on the radar of researchers interested in contemporary developments or in responses to recent events.

Peter Verhaar • May 23, 2022

Mediating Islam in the Digital Age

Mediating Islam in the Digital Age is a project-based network that examines the impact of digital technologies on the practice and the study of Islam. The work that the Centre for Digital Scholarship carried out in MIDA gave us a better understanding of the fundamentals of Machine Learning.

Peter Verhaar • January 31, 2022

Learn about data management concepts in this online Data Horror Escape Room

Our new digital escape room introduces some basic data management concepts and offers a fun way to educate and to prompt discussions with researchers.

Joanne Yeomans and Guest author • October 30, 2020

The Centre for Digital Scholarship responds to Coronavirus

With the announcement on Friday 13 March that the Leiden University Libraries would close and that all people in the Netherlands should take steps to avoid social contact, the CDS team packed up their laptops and prepared to work from home. What does this mean for the services that we deliver?

Joanne Yeomans • March 19, 2020

Descartes, social networks and popular culture: An excursion into digital scholarship

Thanks to an Elsevier Fellowship for Digital Scholarship, Paolo Rossini spent two months collaborating with members of the CDS. Using digital tools, he reconstructed the networks of René Descartes and his supporters from epistolary sources.

Guest author • December 17, 2019

Envisioning a Scholar’s Lab at Leiden University

Fulbright Specialist grantee Katy Webb has just completed the first of two visits to the Centre for Digital Scholarship to help envision what a scholar’s lab space might look like. The first phase of the work will investigate and report on the needs.

Guest author • November 14, 2019

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