Center for Humanities Computing

Center for Humanities Computing is a computational research laboratory and infrastructure located at the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University. CHC was born in 2019 as a response to the growing need for applications of computational approaches and digital data in the humanities. We started as a small group of researchers and research software engineers. Today CHC employes more than 25 researchers, engineers, and developers, and have a handful of affiliated researchers. CHC's vision is to organize socio-cultural and historical data and make them openly accessible, understandable, and actionable. Our goal is to bring significant and practical research benefits to researchers and other stakeholders, and to do so at a scalable and fast enough pace to keep up with the funding cycle. We use a range of techniques to realize our goal, but Machine Learning and Interactive High Performance Computing are central to almost all we do. CHC's activities are organized around a service-based model providing all employees at the Faculty of Arts with a rich service catalog, ex. cloud computing, databases, and custom model and software development. CHC also have several experimental services for educational IT infrastructure.