Distinguishing gradual change from the emergence of genuinely new directions is a central challenge in tracking how research fields evolve. This preprint explores local versus global evolution of knowledge systems through the socio-epistemic networks (SEN) framework, pairing an information-theoretic …

Software errors can quietly undermine digital humanities research, but code review — a standard quality-control practice in software engineering — is hard to do when most DH developers work alone or in teams of one to three. This paper shares progress and insights from an effort to establish a …

This is the teaching material for a DH2024 pre-conference workshop on the socio-epistemic networks (SEN) framework for studying the evolution of knowledge over time. It walks through automating data extraction from historical sources, exploring language-based change in historical documents with text …

DH Inside Out was DHTech’s mini-conference at DH2024, flipping the usual conference format to foreground technical depth alongside research context. At the August 5, 2024 session in Arlington, Virginia, I moderated Session 1 and later presented TippingPigs — Serious games as communication …

The Historical Letters model reconstructs communication and archiving processes in the Republic of Letters — the 15th- to 17th-century form of scholarly exchange — including a pruning process that simulates the loss of letters over time. This document is the full ODD-protocol (Objectives, Design, …

Tipping Pigs 3 casts the player as guardian of a Polynesian island, balancing a pig herd against the health of its environment. Send pigs to neighboring islands, grow the herd, or cull it — but push the ecosystem too far and it crosses a tipping point, after which recovery becomes very hard. The …