DHTech November Newsletter

by DHTech · calendar Nov 18, 2025  · newsletter

We hope you had a great start into the month of November! Since we now officially switched from end-of-the month newsletters to beginning-of-next month newsletter, here comes the last DHTech newsletter of this year. The next one will be waiting in your inbox for you in early 2026. So enjoy these latest DHTech news one last time this year!

Digital Humanities Tech Symposium 2025 Proceedings

We are extremely excited to announce that the proceedings of our symposium at DH2025, “Digital Humanities Tech Symposium 2025”, are now published in the new ACH journal Anthology of Computers and the Humanities. The proceedings include seven articles and an introduction spanning from tool presentations, over architecture descriptions, to technical community initiatives. Our heartfelt thanks go to all the authors, reviewers, symposium attendees, and anyone else who was involved in making this happen! We especially want to thank Taylor Arnold, Editor-in-Chief of the Anthology, for his support in this endeavor and giving us this opportunity.

Nominate yourself for the DHTech Steering Committee

It’s that time of the year again! Nominations for the DHTech Steering Committee are open, and we need to fill at least one spot. If you want to get more involved in this community and help shape its direction, this is a great opportunity. Wondering what it takes? Read our blog post for more information or just go and fill out the nomination form here.

Technical track at DH2026

We are very pleased to let you know that for the first time, the DH conference allows submissions for a technical track! Specifically, the CfP reads:

“Authors may designate their submission as part of the Technical Track. Submissions in this track, in line with the mission of the DHTech SIG, emphasize the development, sustainability, and reuse of software and infrastructures for the digital humanities. These proposals will be reviewed by members of the DHTech SIG.”

This is very exciting news for our community! We hope it will create new opportunities to connect, collaborate, and share our work and expertise. To help the program committee match technical submissions with the right reviewers, please remember to check the box indicating that you’re available to provide technical reviews.

Submission deadline for DH2026 is December 8, 2025, 11:59 PM KST. You can find the CfP on the DH2026 website.

DHTech Posters at DH2025 and USRSE’25

DHTech presented posters at two conferences this year: DH2025 and USRSE’25. Our poster “Surveying the Digital Humanities Research Software Engineering Landscape” presented the results of the DHTech survey we ran earlier this year. Fun fact: the “typical” DH developer works in a small team of no more than three people, is (at least in part) self-taught, and programs in Python. Who would have thought? 😉 Our second poster, “Community Code Review in the Digital Humanities,” presented the efforts of the DHTech Code Review Working Group. It described the community code review process overseen by the group and provided an overview of its impact, current challenges, and future work. Both posters are available on Zenodo.

  • Damerow, J., Koeser, R., & Crawford, C. (2025). Surveying the Digital Humanities Research Software Engineering Landscape. Digital Humanities Conference 2025 (DH2025), Lisbon, Portugal. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15863899

  • Damerow, J., Koeser, R., Vogl, M., & Carver, J. (2025). Community Code Review in the Digital Humanities. US Research Software Engineering Conference 2025 (USRSE'25), Philadelphia, PA. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17315401

Digital Humanities Tech Symposium at DH2026: Call for Organizers and Participants

The DHTech SIG is once again planning a “Tech Symposium” to be held at next year’s DH2026 Conference in Daejeon, South Korea! We are currently looking for members of the community or participants who expect to be at DH2026 who would like to volunteer to be part of the Organizing Committee for the DH2026 Tech Symposium. If you are interested and/or would like more information about this opportunity, please send a quick email to Jeffrey Tharsen at tharsen@uchicago.edu containing the subject “DH2026”.

Upcoming Deadline

Submit Code For Review! The next submission deadline for code review requests is coming up on December 31 A description of the process and what it takes to have your code reviewed can be found on the code review website.

Get Involved!

  • Tell us About Your Career Path: We believe that it is important to share the varied paths people have taken to the DH technical work we do now, in whatever capacity. We want to hear your story and share them on the DHTech website. Contact us in Slack or via dhtech.community@gmail.com if you’re willing to share what you do and how you got there.

  • Become a Code Review Facilitator: Do you want to get involved with DHTech’s community code review process, but are not yet ready to become a reviewer? Become a code review facilitator! It’s low effort but a really important job! You’ll be recognized as a facilitator on our website afterwards and will have everyone’s deep gratitude. You can sign up using our facilitator application form.

Latest Blog Posts

DHTech Job Board

If you have a job posting you think might be of interest to the DHTech community, consider submitting it using this form. We have added a new section to our website that lists current jobs. If you would be willing to help out with reviewing and adding job postings to the website, please get in touch on Slack or by emailing the Steering Committee.

DHTech Email Address

Email dhtech.community@gmail.com if you want to reach the DHTech Steering Committee.

Upcoming Newsletters

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Yours truly,

The DHTech Steering Committee