Working with Collections as Data

The Centre for Digital Scholarship has been involved in project that aimed to explore the various ways in which digital heritage collections can be analysed using data science methods.

Peter Verhaar • June 23, 2023

The Centre for Digital Scholarship Collaborates with The Carpentries for Innovative Trainings

Recognising that there is a growing need among researchers, teachers, and students to develop data science skills, the CDS has begun to collaborate with the international Carpentries community on the organisation of interactive workshops about coding literacy and computational thinking.

Peter Verhaar • February 24, 2023

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

Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier Seminars on Reproducible Research: Wrap-up Seminar 3

The spreakers in the third session of the Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier seminars on Reproducible Research explained the concrete steps researchers can take to make their research reproducible.

Peter Verhaar • May 17, 2021

Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier Seminars on Reproducible Research: Wrap-up Seminar 2

The second session of the Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier seminars on Reproducible Research discussed the phenomenon of reproducibility mainly on a conceptual level. As one of its central questions, the seminar examined the scope and the limits of the concept of reproducible research.

Peter Verhaar • April 30, 2021

Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier Seminars on Reproducible Research: Wrap-up Seminar 1

The first seminar in the Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier seminars on Reproducible Research concentrated on the overall rationale of reproducible research.

Peter Verhaar • April 23, 2021

Digital Skills and Thinking for the Humanities

The first “Teach the Teachers workshop in Digital Skills and Thinking for the Humanities” was successfully delivered in January 2021. The workshop was a collaboration between the Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities and Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship.

Peter Verhaar • March 31, 2021

Durable access to book historical data

A project to FAIRify a rich, existing dataset on the historical Leiden book industry shows how the data can be made more durable and accessible leading to more reproducible, more collaborative and more open scholarship.

Peter Verhaar • September 30, 2019

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