Beginning in January 2023, CHC now also has an official Machine Learning Team to meet the growing needs for state-of-the-art computational methods in humanities research.

The new ML team is led by Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan, and comprises Junior Developers with a range of different skills and backgrounds. Starting from these diverse perspectives, the team work invidually and collectively to apply state-of-the-art computational methods to the study of humanities data.

"Humanities research data are often unstructured, ambiguous, and complex to analyze. As a research unit, CHC is concerned both with developing tools which address these challenges, but also with producing robust, interpretable results which are meaningful for humanities scholars. The new ML Team is designed to address specifically these problems."

- Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan

Becoming team-based

The massive growth of CHC in terms of both people and projects over the last couple of years have resulted in a need to clearly define the services offered to researchers, and as the need for developers kept growing so did the need for management and actual teams. Therefore the development services of Center for Humanities Computing now revolves around two teams: The new Machine Learning Team lead by Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan and the Web and Databases Team lead by Peter Vahlstrup.

The new ML Team takes care of all jobs related to CHC's Research and Development-as-a-Service, and they are available to help with projects from initial idea development through to publication. 
The Web Team takes care of everything related to CHC's Databases and web-development service, helping with everything from the initial design of the database schema to the final online website presenting the data, and other web-development tasks.

If you're curious to find out more, please visit the Research and Publications pages that demonstrate the kinds of work the CHC development teams do, and please get in touch if there's anything we can do for you.