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

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

Hackathons – not only for techies

The Leiden University Data Management Network enjoyed a safari tour around the data hackathons that have recently either taken place at Leiden, or involved people from Leiden. After clarifying what hackathons really are, and how everyone benefits, we brainstormed some ideas for future hackathons.

Joanne Yeomans and Kristina Hettne • March 22, 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

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