Research team: Jelke Bloem (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities & ILLC, UvA); Nicolo’ Brandizzi (PhD Candidate, University of Sapienza); Muhadj Adnan (PhD Candidate, University of Bayreuth)
The researchers requested help with further development of their open-source tool CorpusCompass. This tool aims to allow linguists to analyze, annotate, and validate their texts. The researchers started the project with a Jupyter Notebook-based prototype.
Software engineering support provided:
Research team: Tessa Blanken (Assistant Professor), Riet van Bork (Assistant Professor), Jill de Ron (PhD Candidate). All from Psychological Methods Department, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, UvA.
The researchers focused on a theoretical model for a certain type of treatment for insomnia. The model proposes an explanation of the mechanisms behind the effectiveness of this treatment. The researchers aimed to translate this theoretical model to a computational model in order to study it further. As a future end-goal, they wanted to create an application for professionals providing treatment for insomnia patients. The researchers already had a prototype script for the model in R.
Software engineering support provided:
3. The TRACE project
Research team: Carolyn Birdsall (Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, UvA)
The researcher worked on metadata from radio recordings made during World War II. These recordings were often moved during the War, so the metadata described where and when respective recordings were located.
Software engineering support provided:
With the Research Software Engineering support offered by the library we created an interface around our computational model. The discussions with the software engineer were really helpful to determine the desired outcomes, which were then implemented in a sprint-format, allowing to go back-and-forth several times. Ultimately, creating such an interface brings our research closer to next-end users, made possible with support from the library!
The call for research software engineering and support of 2024 is now closed.
If you have any questions about the call, please contact us at dsc@uva.nl.