Digital Scholarship@Leiden

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Use of Digital Data

Read about some of the interesting projects that staff in the University Libraries' Centre for Digital Scholarship are collaborating on to develop the use of digital data.

Blogs

Can research software be managed?

Read about the discussions that took place during the recent Data Management Network event on software management where we heard more about TU Delft’s research software policy and the eScience Center’s software sustainability plan.

Ben Companjen • July 01, 2021

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

Medieval palaeography: using IIIF in education

Robert Stein uses a new online Medieval Palaeography platform to teach students to read medieval archival documents and to translate the Middle-dutch to modern Dutch.

Ben Companjen • December 24, 2020

Introduction to Python: (programming) lessons learnt

The second Python programming course from CDS has again become fully booked. The course covers the basics of Python in a supported hands-on environment. Ben explains what's covered in this popular course and how to find out about future courses.

Ben Companjen • February 25, 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