Blogs on DHTech

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 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.

Introducing Hugo-Bibliography

Tatsat Jha — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:45:24 +0000

Hugo-Bibliography is a new Hugo plug-in designed to make adding citations into Hugo projects much easier. It can be added as a theme to a Hugo website to generate bibliography pages using the provided shortcodes. At this point, bibliography data needs to be available in CSL-JSON format (that for example can be exported from Zotero). In addition, these shortcodes have a few extra features to allow for filtering out entries from the resulting bibliography.

Coming Soon: a Couple of Exciting DH Apps

Aleks Kaye — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:45:24 +0000

How about seeing what the Declaration of Independence would look like if you were to open it up on your desk at work or on a train during your commute? Or perhaps you are interested in learning what others thought about that gripping Japanese detective novel you just read? Two new apps presented at DH2024: Reinvention & Responsibility can help you to do just that: Jisedai Reader and Booksnake.

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.

EditionCrafter at DH Inside Out

Nick Laiacona — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:00:15 -0400

At the DH Inside Out Workshop at DH2024, Performant Software Solutions LLC presented EditionCrafter, a tool for creating digital critical editions and archives.

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!

Dr. Strangelove - or how I learned to love testing

Malte Vogl — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:45:24 +0000

I finally took the time to write tests, you'll never imagine what happend next!

New Steering Committee Member

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

Introduction of our new Steering Commitee member Jose Hernandez Perez

How can you trust your code?

Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Jose Angel Hernandez, and Mareike Bassenge — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

At the DH2023 conference in Graz, Austria, a group of digital humanities academics and professionals gathered for a workshop titled “How can you trust your code?” organized by DHTech. The goal of the workshop was to identify and discuss issues related to the development, use, and reuse of research software in digital humanities and across humanities disciplines more broadly. We’ll be posting content compiled from the notes and resources gathered during the many productive conversations during that one-day workshop as a series of related blog posts over the next few months, and once they are all published, we’ll combine the content and publish it as a whitepaper authored by all workshop participants.

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.

Collaborative Coding: Pair Programming & Co-authoring Git Commits

Diego Siqueira — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 13:11:00 +0000

In the world of coding, teamwork is essential. Whether you're building a software project or collaborating on an open-source repository, co-authoring Git commits and practicing pair programming can streamline your workflow and improve code quality.

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)"!

Embracing Endings: Principles for Digital Longevity and Their Importance for Research Software Engineers

Moritz Mähr — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:54:55 +0000

In the digital realm, ensuring the longevity of projects is crucial. The University of Victoria's "Endings Project" presents guidelines for digital project sustainability. These principles divide projects into five areas: Data, Documentation, Processing, Products, and Release Management, each with its own set of standards to assure sustainability.

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!

All the color(profile)s of Java

Robert Casties — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:04:14 +0000

How the digilib image server learned to treat images with color profiles correctly and how I learned more about the weird quirks of Java's image libraries than ever before.

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.

Sharing Users between Django projects

Malte Vogl — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 13:18:30 +0000

You should never share Django user databases between projects! But sometimes....

Zope 2.10 in Docker, or Applied Software Archaeology

Robert Casties — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:52:34 +0000

I wanted to migrate the old website on the server to a Docker image for Zope so I could use it in a docker-compose setup together with a standard PostgreSQL container. How hard could that be?

Simply updating the Django version ...

Malte Vogl — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 09:33:00 +0000

For a small project running on Django, I was planning to do a tiny upgrade. Just changing from Django 2 to Django 3... What could possibly go wrong!

Just sending email notifications

Julia Damerow — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I love my job. It is very interesting and challenging, I get to learn new things all the time, and some semesters I teach, which I enjoy a lot. Some days, however, are like 2020, you just want them to end.