Announcement on DHTech

DHTech April Meetup

DHTech — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

On April 30, 2026 at 10am ET/4pm CET (find your local time). Register here.

At our last meetup in February we had a lively discussion about generative and agentic AI and the impact of these shifts in DH software development, with some attendees making the case for agentic AI as a “sea change” allowing DHers to focus more fully on the research, and others raising caution about the ethical and environmental risks.

DHTech February Meetup

DHTech — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

With AI coding agents and chatting computers the landscape of software development as a profession in DH is shifting. How does this shift reflect in the perspective for students, how are professionals adjusting their day to day business? How do we balance the potential loss of quality in research software with the benefit of making software development more accessible?

DHTech December Meetup

DHTech — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Before 2025 comes to a close, DHTech is planning one more meetup to discuss how to build a Python Package Community for the Humanities. Are you a developer of a Python package for DH research? Or maybe you are not the developer but you are using someone else’s Python code? Do you wish there was such a community to support you in your efforts? Do you wish there was a way of sharing your work with others so it could be reused? If so, then join us on December 4, 2025 at 10am ET/4pm CEST!

The Digital Humanities Tech Symposium Proceedings are Published!

DHTech — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce that the proceedings from the Digital Humanities Tech Symposium 2025 have been published\! The Digital Humanities Tech Symposium was a one-day workshop organized by DHTech and held at the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) 2025 conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

2025 DHTech Steering Committee Nominations are Open

DHTech — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

DHTech is led by an international Steering Committee of seven dedicated volunteers. Each member serves a two-year term, with no limit on reappointment. For the upcoming 2026–2027 term, five seats on the Steering Committee need to be filled. Nominations for the Steering Committee are now open and close on November 15!

DHTech September Meetup

DHTech — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Our next meetup will be on September 11, 2025 at 9am ET/3pm CET. The topic of the meetup will be publication venues for research software. Where do you publish your software? Do you publish it at all outside of GitHub and Zenodo? How do you let other people know your software exists? There are the big names like the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) but are there maybe other venues not so well known? And what does it mean to publish your software? What do you write about when you publish? And even more broadly, where do you publish about your software engineering work? These and many more questions will be the focus of our next meetup. You can register here!

Digital Humanities Tech Symposium - Agenda

DHTech — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Digital Humanities Tech Symposium at DH2025 - Agenda

From July 14-18, 2025, DH2025 will be held at NOVA University in Lisbon, Portugal. DHTech will hold a mini-conference at DH2025, the Digital Humanities Tech Symposium. Typical DH conference presentations are focussed on the research with a slight nod to the technical details; we want to flip that format and dive more deeply into the technical aspects of the work, while still keeping it in context of the research and domain specifics.

Digital Humanities Tech Symposium - Final Extension and Proceedings Publication

DHTech — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Digital Humanities Tech Symposium at DH2025

Final Submission Deadline Extension and Conference Proceedings

We have exciting news to share! In collaboration with the new ACH open access conference proceedings series Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, there is now the option to submit a short proceedings article about your Digital Humanities Tech Symposium presentation after the conference.

Here are the quick facts:

Proceedings articles should be 4 to 6 pages in length.
Articles need to be submitted by August 3, 2025 (we highly recommend having a draft ready in time for the conference).
Articles will be reviewed with potential requests for revisions.
You will likely be asked to be a reviewer for another submission.
Reviewed articles will be published on the proceedings website with a DOI for each article.

To give everyone interested in this opportunity a chance to submit, we have extended the submission deadline for the Digital Humanities Tech Symposium to April 27, 2025.

DHTech April Meetup on Data Longevity

DHTech — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The next DHTech meetup will be held on April 24, 2025 at 9am ET/3pm CET. We will discuss what we can do to keep the data of our projects around and usable even long after the software used to present the data has found its natural end. How can we make sure data is understandable and usable long-term? What happens to the logic encoded in our code that is necessary to interpret the data? Where can we store data and in what format? What’s the cost to benefit ratio for creating backups that might not be used for a long time? Does this sound interesting? Come join us and register for our Zoom meeting!

Digital Humanities Tech Symposium

DHTech — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Digital Humanities Tech Symposium at DH2025

From July 14-18, 2025, DH2025 will be held at Nova University in Lisbon, Portugal. DHTech will hold a mini-conference at DH2025, the Digital Humanities Tech Symposium. Typical DH conference presentations are focussed on the research with a slight nod to the technical details; we want to flip that format and dive more deeply into the technical aspects of the work, while still keeping it in context of the research and domain specifics. To that end, we invite submissions of interest to the people who work on the technical aspects of DH projects, such as:

DHTech February Meetup

DHTech — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Our next DHTech meetup will be on February 20, 2025 at 9am ET/3pm CET. We will discuss a potential submission to RSECon25, which will be hosted at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK from 9-11 September 2025. At US-RSE’24, we organized a Birds of a Feather session to talk about how different domains pose different challenges to RSEs and require different skill sets. The idea has been floated to propose a similar session for RSECon25. Does that sound interesting?

Digital Humanities Research Software Engineering Survey

DHTech — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

DHTech is running a survey to better understand the experiences and needs of anyone doing technical work in the digital humanities! [Click here to take the survey](https://forms.gle/WhK4wyh62ruiGqXy5)

DHReSCU Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to Support Research Software Projects

Julia Damerow, Cole Crawford, Rebecca Sutton Koeser — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0000

We are honored to announce that we have been awarded a $30,000 Chair’s Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This grant will create a pilot for a Digital Humanities Research Software Consulting Unit (DHReSCU). DhReSCU’s mission will be to aid early-stage digital humanities research software projects in developing a technical implementation plan.

Final deadline extension for DH2024 Mini-conference “DH Inside Out”

DHTech — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0000

The submission deadline for "DH Inside Out" is being extended one last time to April 26, 2024 to give people outside of the DHTech community a chance to submit.

Deadline extension for DH2024 Mini-conference “DH Inside Out”

DHTech — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The submission deadline for "DH Inside Out" is being extended to March 31, 2024.

Call for Projects for RSE Consultation

Julia Damerow, Cole Crawford, Rebecca Sutton Koeser — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000

DHTech is looking for digital humanities project teams in the US planning to develop software who would benefit from consulting with a Research Software Engineer (RSE) on their technical implementation plan.

DHTech April Meetup about the Princeton Geniza Project

Julia Damerow — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:00:00 +0000

In our April meetup on April 20, 9am ET/3pm CET Rebecca Sutton Koeser will talk about one of her projects.

Code Review Workshop

Julia Damerow — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000

The Code Review Working Group will hold a workshop on January 18, 2023 at 11am ET/5pm CET.

April DHTech Meetup on Documentation

Julia Damerow — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000

On April 21, 2022 at 9am, we will be discussing software documentation (technical, API, end user, etc). Come join us!

DHTech February Webinar: Deployment, Release, and Packaging Workflows

Julia Damerow — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 06:00:00 +0000

On Thu, Feb. 27, 10am ET/4pm CET, we will be talking about how different projects manage their deployment, release, and packaging workflows. We will be discussing the different ways code can be release and deployed and everything that surrounds that topic.

DHTech January Webinar: How to build local DH RSE communities?

Julia Damerow — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 09:00:00 +0000

On Thu, Jan. 23, 2020 at 10am ET/4pm CET, we will be discussing how to build local DH RSE communities. We will talk about questions such as how you can go about finding like-minded people at your institution or area or what methods have people successfully applied to build a DH RSE community?

DHTech December Webinar: Discussion of ADHO SIG Proposal

Julia Damerow — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 10:00:00 +0000

On December 17, at 10am ET/4pm CET, we will be discussing the ADHO Special Interest Group proposal.

Plans for an ADHO SIG

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Special Interest Group that focuses on the technical side of DH such as tool development and maintenance.

DHtech November Webinar: Discussion of ADHO SIG Proposal

Julia Damerow — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 10:00:00 +0000

On November 13, at 10am ET/4pm CET, we will be discussing the idea to propose an ADHO Special Interest Group.

How to train your new developers?

Julia Damerow — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 08:00:00 +0000

On September 9, 2019 Itay Zandbank will talk about how his company trains new developers followed by a group discussion.

Frontend development using Vue.js

Julia Damerow — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000

On May 20, 2019, Taylor Quinn will talk about starting a Vue.js project using the Vue CLI and Single file component basics

Upcoming DHTech Virtual Workshop

Julia Damerow — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:00:00 +0000

We are currently planning the next workshop. Please check back later for more info.

Announcing the February DHTech Virtual Workshop

Julia Damerow — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:00:00 +0000

In the first workshop of 2019 on February 25 at 8am MST/4pm CEST, Julia Damerow will talk about developing applications using Java and the Spring Framework. We will talk about the core concepts of Spring and briefly touch on some of Spring’s projects such as Spring Security and Spring Data.

Julia Damerow is a scientific software engineer at Arizona State University where she manages the Digital Innovation Group and develops software for historians of science.

Announcing the November DHTech Virtual Workshop

Julia Damerow — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

We are currently planning the next workshop. Please check back later for more info.

Announcing the October DHTech Virtual Workshop

Julia Damerow — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

The next DHTech Virtual Workshop will be on October 15, 2018 at 7am MST/4pm CEST. Florian Kräutli will run the workshop. Its topic is "CIDOC-CRM by Practice."

Announcing the July DHTech Virtual Workshop

Julia Damerow — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 10:00:00 +0000

The next DHTech Virtual Workshop will be on July 09, 2018 at 8am MST/5pm CEST. Yoann Moranville will give an introduction to WordPress plugins.

Announcing the June DHTech Virtual Workshop

Carsten Thiel — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:00:00 +0000

The next DHTech Virtual Workshop will be on June 04, 2018 at 8am MST/5pm CEST. Peter Gietz (DAASI International) will talk about Authentication and Authorization.

Announcing the April DHTech Virtual Workshop

Carsten Thiel — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 17:30:00 +0000

The next DHTech Virtual Workshop will be on April 23, 2018 at 8am MST/5pm CET. Julia Damerow (Arizona State University) will talk about Apache Kafka and the Giles Ecosystem.

Announcing the March DHTech Virtual Workshop

Julia Damerow — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:30:00 +0000

The next DHTech Virtual Workshop will be on March 26, 2018 at 8am MST/5pm CET. Carsten Thiel (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) will be talking about configuration management.

Announcing the February DHTech Virtual Workshop

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 09:30:00 +0000

The next DHTech Virtual Workshop will be on February 19, 2018 at 8am MST/4pm CET. Robert Casties (MPIWG) will be talking about image servers and IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework).

Announcing the First DHTech Virtual Workshop

cthiel — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:30:00 +0000

Established at DH 2017 Montreal, DHTech aims to support the development and reuse of software in the Digital Humanities by providing a community to exchange knowledge, share expertise, and foster collaboration among Digital Humanities software projects.