Meetup 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!

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 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!

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?

DHTech October Meetup on Code Review and AI

DHTech — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Our October DHTech Meetup will be on **October 10, 2024, at 9am ET/3pm CET**. We will briefly introduce the [DHTech Code Review Working Group](https://dhcodereview.github.io/) and then talk about how AI tools can support code review, in general and in digital humanities specifically.

DHTech April Meetup on LLMs

DHTech — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Our April DHTech Meetup will be on **April 18 at 9am ET/3pm CET**. We will be talking about **how large language models (LLMs) affect aspects of research software engineering.**

DHTech February Meetup on Agent-Based Modeling

DHTech — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Our February DHTech Meetup will be on **February 15, 2024, at 9am ET/3pm CET**. We will talk about **agent-based modeling (ABM)**.

DHTech October Meetup on Education and Training

DHTech — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:00:00 +0000

Our October DHTech Meetup will be on **October 5, 2023, at 9am ET/3pm CET**. We will talk about how DHTech can support training and education of research software engineering work in the Digital Humanities.

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.

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!

Community Projects Lightning Talks

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

On February 17, 2022, members from DHTech came together to learn about some of the projects of their fellow community members. A total of five lightning talks were presented. The speakers and their projects are listed below. The meetup was recorded for anyone who wasn't able to join.

Deployment, Release, and Packaging Workflows

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

On February 27, 2020, a total of 11 DHTech members met for a webinar on the topic of deployment, release, and packaging workflows. Several people described the workflows and tools they employ at their organizations followed by a lively (and interesting) discussion of questions and answers.

How to train your new developers?

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

On September 9th, 2019, Itay Zandbank gave a short overview of how his company trains new developers and brings them up to speed on their projects.

Itay is the CEO and founder of The Research Software Company, a company that provides services for science and humanities research labs from coding to data management.

Front end Development using Vue

Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

On May 20, 2019, Taylor Quinn talked about starting a Vue.js project using the Vue CLI and Single file component basics. He showed how to set up and use Axios to make Ajax calls and covered topics from project setup to the basics of composing a UI with components.

Taylor is a Software Engineer in the Digital Innovation Group at ASU where he specializes on Python and Django development using Vue.js.

The Spring Framework

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

In the first workshop of 2019, Julia Damerow talked about developing applications using Java and the Spring Framework. Core concepts of Spring were briefly discussed 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.

CIDOC-CRM by Practice

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In this webinar Florian Kräutli showed how to use the [X3ML Toolkit](https://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/index_main.php?l=e&c=721) to build a [CIDOC-CRM model](link to http://www.cidoc-crm.org/) based on existing XML data.

Introduction to WordPress plugins

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Yoann Moranville gave an Introduction to WordPress plugins. Yoann is a software developer and research associate in DARIAH.

Authentication and Authorization

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Peter Gietz talked about Authentication and Authorization. he is the CEO of DAASI International and has been working with federated identity management for decades. The workshop covered the basic concepts and focused on the SAML/Shibboleth technology that is the basis for eduGAIN and the DARIAH AAI in particular.

Apache Kafka and the Giles Ecosystem

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Julia Damerow talked about Apache Kafka and how it is used in the Giles Ecosystem.

Read the announcement for this workshop.

Configuration Management

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Carsten Thiel talked about configuration management. He touched on topics such as Puppet and his experiences in regards to configuration management. Carsten works as Technology Coordinator DARIAH-DE at the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.

You can find the announcement for this workshop here.

Image Servers and IIIF

Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Robert talked about Image Servers and IIIF. He presented Digilib a IIIF-compliant image server that he develops.

You can find the announcement for this workshop here.

Gitlab CI/CD for Django

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Malte will talk about Gitlab CI/CD for Django websites, Carsten and Julia will talk about their experiences with Jenkins and Travis.

You can find the announcement for this workshop here.