Welcome to the website of the DHTech Education & Training Working Group!

This website was launched after discussions at the ADHO DH 2023 conference in Graz to address the need for discipline-specific training in research software engineering for the Digital Humanities. Our goal is to provide low-threshold access to information on software development topics relevant to DH work. We focus on identifying core competencies—such as reproducible software design, responsible documentation, and the use of tools like Docker, ExistDB, or Python packaging—and either point to existing high-quality resources or create new ones when needed. The project relies on community participation: submitting and reviewing lessons, using the materials, and helping shape future content by requesting specific topics. This is a community-driven effort to build and maintain a shared knowledge base of training materials for learning how to develop software in the digital humanities.

Recent Lessons

Organizing Your Project

Organizing your project For a software developer, an empty project can feel like a blank page does for a writer. There are several practical considerations, including: Where do I start? How will I add to my project as it grows? How do I organize my project so that others can contribute to it? There are no easy answers to these questions, but this lesson will provide some concrete ways to think about project organization.
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Environments

Environments Building your Environment When creating a digital project it is important to know what underlying software, platforms, libraries, code, etc. we are utilizing. By keeping track of these elements we can make sure that our future work and that of researchers that build upon our efforts can execute our codes. But this can be a very time-consuming task especially when it is not built into the workflows that we may already use in our day-to-day practices.
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Git & GitHub

Git and GitHub In this lesson, we will talk about version control with Git and GitHub. Some of you might have already heard about it or even used it. Git is a very popular version control tool mostly used by developers but it can very well be applied to non-coding projects as well! You could use it to write a paper or to manage your dataset. If you do develop code, however, you should not live without Git or another version control system.
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Reproducible Research

Motivation and Rationale If you are going to take the time to build computational tools for humanistic research, you want others to be able to reproduce what you did. You want others to be able to verify your results, but also to use the tools you built to further their own projects. Reproducible research may be an unfamiliar concept to many humanists, but its motivation in the Digital Humanities is to ensure that other people will be able to use and modify the computational tools you have taken the time to build.
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