WhatsHappening 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!

Let’s take a moment to celebrate ourselves!

Julia Damerow — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000

DHTech turned eight this year! Time for a personal reflection of the last eight years, what we have accomplished, and where we want to go. Thank you to everyone who has helped shape DHTech over the years, has participated in events, or simply just read along!

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!

DHTech Steering Committee Nominations 2025

DHTech Steering Committee — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000

It's that time of the year again to nominate yourself for the Steering Committee. This blog post summarizes the key responsibilities and tasks of the Steering Committee.

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)

Recently published: 'Code Review in Digital Humanities'

Julia Damerow, Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Malte Vogl — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:00:15 -0400

Based on a poster at DH2022, Julia Damerow, Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Jeffrey C. Carver, and Malte Vogl have published a paper in *Digital Scholarship in the Humanities* describing the work of the Community Code Review Working Group of DHTech.

DHTech Steering Committee Nominations 2024

DHTech Steering Committee — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

It's that time of the year again! For the upcoming two-year term (2025-2026), three seats on the Steering Committee need to be filled. This blog post summarizes the key responsibilities and tasks of the Steering Committee.

DHippo Challenge

DHTech — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 09:00:15 -0400

Do you want a DHippo to take home from DH2024? Write a blog post and get one!

DH Inside Out - Mini-conference at DH2024 - Program

DHTech — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:00:15 -0400

DHTech will hold a mini-conference at DH2024 themed “**DH Inside Out**”. The program is out now!

New Steering Committee Member

Jose Hernandez — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:01:41 -0500

Introduction of our new Steering Commitee member Jose Hernandez Perez

DH Inside Out - Mini-conference at DH2024

DHTech — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:00:15 -0400

DHTech will hold a mini-conference at DH2024 themed “**DH Inside Out**”. 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.

DHTech Participation at US-RSE Conference

Cole Crawford — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 10:06:15 -0400

Several DHTech members attended the inaugural US-RSE conference held in Chicago, Oct. 16-18, an event by the US Research Software Engineer Association themed “Software-Enabled Discovery and Beyond.”

Reinventing the DHTech logo

Rebecca Sutton Koeser — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 09:06:15 -0400

Earlier this year, when we were getting ready to order DHTech swag to bring to the DH2023 conference and share with all of you, we hit a snag: we didn't have vector versions of our logo, or even any high-resolution versions. Here's how I created the new version of our DHTech logo.

DHTech Steering Committee Elections 2023

Cole Crawford — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000

This November we are planning to hold the first official Steering Committee elections. This blog post summarizes the key responsibilities and tasks of the Steering Committee.

Report on a conference session – DH2023, Graz

Szemes Botond — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:57:24 +0000

Thanks to funding from ADHO, DHTech was able to support one DHTech member by paying for their DH2023 registration costs. Read Szemes Botond reflection of the workshop "Digital Literary Stylistics (SIG-DLS)"!

Join me for a DHTech hackathon? It’s an un-date!

Rebecca Sutton Koeser — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Rebecca reflects on the first DHTech Hackathon!

DHTech on Django

Rebecca Sutton Koeser and Julia Damerow — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Our December meetup was focussed on discussing the Python-based Django framework. Read our summary of the meetup!

DHTech Steering Committee Elections

Julia Damerow — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000

This November we are planning to hold the first official Steering Committee elections. This blog post will summarize the key responsibilities and tasks of the Steering Committee.

Awesome DHTools has new Maintainers

DHTech — Fri, 27 May 2022 11:48:21 +0000

Our "Awesome DHTools" repository has two new maintainers: Moritz Mähr and Diego Siqueira!

A Code Review Process for DH

Julia Damerow — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:32:21 +0000

The Code Review Working Group of DHTech is starting the alpha phase of implementing a code review process for the digital humanities. For the initial round of reviews, we are looking for people willing to submit code for review and people willing to review someone else’s code.

Greatly improved DH link list

DHTech — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:48:21 +0000

Thanks to Moritz Maehr, DHTech now has a vastly improved list of curated DH related links. Have a look at them and consider adding your own tips for resources and tools as a pull request!

First DHtech Meetup as an ADHO SIG

DHtech — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:14:11 +0000

The first DHTech Meetup as a SIG took place on 29th of September. Members of the initial steering committee introduced themselves and shared some ongoing projects of the SIG. The attendees discussed the specific focus of DH software development in context to the wider RSE movement.

DHtech on Twitter

DHtech — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:57:53 +0000

DHtech is now tweeting @dhtech_group

DHTech Technical Mentorship Program

DHTech — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:45:30 +0000

A survey to gauge the interest of the community for a technical mentorship program.