A routine Django version upgrade, a chain of dependency and server updates, and an unplanned trip to the server room to recover SSH access — this post for the DHTech Blog is a candid field report on the operational side of keeping research software infrastructure running, and what it took to track …

Based on semantic, content-related data from 359 printed editions of astronomy textbooks used to teach cosmology at European universities between 1472 and 1650, this paper investigates how new epistemic communities emerge. Editions are grouped into families that share content, showing how these …

At the DH 2019 conference, a group of people who broadly identify as Digital Humanities Research Software Engineers came together for a workshop. This white paper is the outcome: an attempt to draw attention to issues this community observes and experiences day to day, and an open invitation for …

Digital humanities projects rely on someone actually building the tool — yet that role, and the people who fill it, often sit awkwardly between “developer” and “researcher” in how DH projects are staffed, credited, and understood. This abstract, presented at DH2019 in …

Following a talk at the DARIAH-DE Grand Tour 2018, this post for the DHd Blog discusses how Jupyter Notebooks support “literate programming” in the humanities — combining executable code, narrative text, and citations in a single document — and what this means for reproducible research …

Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) practices support collaborative, fast-moving software development through automation. This recorded DHTech webinar walks through setting up Gitlab CI/CD pipelines for a Django project — covering automated building, testing, and deployment — alongside …