VUB DIGI

The Brussels Platform for Digital Humanities (DIGI) is an interdisciplinary research platform aiming to support digitally-enabled research across the Arts and Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. As such, DIGI engages in the field of 'Digital Humanities' at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ranging from archaeology and philosophy to linguistics and history. It develops DH collaboration and supports research projects and infrastructure projects across the faculties.

DIGI brings together and offers guidance to researchers affiliated to the Centre for Linguistics (CLIN) and the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC), who use digital techniques for corpus linguistics; to the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLWF), where digital tools are used for the study of intellectual history; and to the members of HOST (Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes), who use linked data, GIS, social network analysis, and text mining in the field of social and economic history.

These research groups have established productive ties with research groups outside of the humanities. At the AI-Lab, novel microservices are currently being developed to delve deeper into the content analysis of text corpora with regards to both ‘distant’ and ‘close’ reading, and new techniques are developed for the application of agent-based modeling in linguistics.