CHC is home to many dedicated researchers from a wide range of academic backgrounds. Drawing on our diverse interdisciplinary perspectives, we engage in foundational enquiry into the fields of language technology, artificial intelligence, agent-based modelling, and cultural dynamics. In particular, our research investigates both the limits and possibilites of this technology and associated methods for modelling and exploring cultural heritage data. We therefore also participate actively in applied research projects with humanities scholars who wish to use computational methodologies to help make sense of their data. The goal of these research partnerships is to employ state-of-the-art technology alongside the domain expertise of our partners to create high-quality research outputs which explores complex cultural phenomena.

In addition to our research portfolio, we offer a range of services designed to support research projects in computational and digital humanities. In these contexts, CHC is not engaged as an active research partner in your project but instead aims to facilitate your research by providing a range of ready-made and custom solutions to your needs. An non-exhaustive list of such services includes: data acquisition and management; database construction and storage systems for sensitive data; access to a high-performance computing infrastucture; project management support; exploratory data analysis; and simple web applications.

Making use of state-of-the-art technology often requires access to state-of-the-art hardware which is often beyond the reach of most researchers. To solve this problem, we provide computational infrastructure for research. In collaboration with the eScience Center at SDU and CLAAUDIA at AAU, we develop and maintain apps for the High-Performance Computing (HPC) platform UCloud. This fully integrated HPC platform allows user to both store and share data within projects, while simulataneously having access to data analysis apps which run fully in the cloud.
Supported by the Danish e-Science Infrastructure Committee (DeiC), UCloud is intended as an alternative to cloud providers like AWS and Azure. Crucially, though, UCloud is fully GDPR compliant, thereby allowing users to use the platform for storing handling sensitive data. Furthermore, access to compute resources on UCloud is significantly cheaper for reasearchers than the commercial providers. UCloud therefore lowers the technical and financial barriers to secure and cutting-edge interactive high-performance computing. Visit the AU Interactive HPC website for more about the infrastructure and UCloud platform.

We serve as a pivotal research liaison at Aarhus University, specifically in relation to the overlapping and interconnected domains of humanities research and technology. Our role encompasses active participation in committees and boards at all levels of organization within the university, representing the interests and needs of researchers. As a research liaison, CHC is tasked with the critical responsibility of advocating for and ensuring the implementation of technological solutions that are precisely tailored to meet the specific requirements of researchers in the humanities.