Digital Humanities Tech Symposium at DH2025

Overview

The Digital Humanities Tech Symposium is a mini-conference organized by DHTech as part of DH2025, taking place at NOVA University in Lisbon, Portugal, from July 14–18, 2025. The symposium focuses on the technical aspects of Digital Humanities (DH) projects, providing a platform for sharing tools, workflows, and lessons learned by and for the technical DH community.

Event Details

  • Date: Monday, July 14, 2025
  • Time: 1:30pm – 6:30pm (Lisbon time)
  • Location: NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Organizers: DHTech (ADHO Special Interest Group)
  • Contact: dhtech.community@gmail.com | DHTech Website

Call for Participation

We invite submissions from those working on the technical aspects of DH projects, including:

  • Implementation and design specifics of packages and applications
  • Lessons learned regarding the design and implementation of research software
  • Tool demonstrations from a technical perspective
  • Community and diversity topics specific to the technical DH community

Presentation Formats

  • Presentations: 20-minute talks including Q&A
  • Tool Presentations: 10-minute demonstration + 10-minute discussion
  • Other: Propose your own format (describe length and audience engagement)

Submission Guidelines

  • Submissions: 500–750 words, including links to relevant code and packages
  • Final Submission Deadline: April 27, 2025 (extended) — submissions are now closed.
  • Submission platform may change depending on the number of submissions
  • Reviewers are needed—please sign up if interested

Proceedings Publication

In collaboration with the new ACH open access conference proceedings series Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, presenters may submit a short proceedings article (4–6 pages) after the conference.

  • Proceedings Article Deadline: August 3, 2025
  • Articles will be peer-reviewed and published with a DOI
  • Use the ACH Anthology LaTeX template (Overleaf available)

Agenda (July 14, 2025)

  • 1:30–1:40pm: DHTech Steering Committee Introduction
  • 1:40–2:00pm: Andreas Wagner – TEI2Zenodo: Server for TEI files to Zenodo
  • 2:00–2:20pm: Timo Frühwirth – tei-rdfa: Extracting RDFa Data from TEI-XML
  • 2:20–2:40pm: Gregor Middell – Turning an XML Database Inside Out
  • 2:40–2:50pm: Break
  • 2:50–3:10pm: Robert Casties – Data Preservation During Migrations
  • 3:10–3:30pm: Benjamin Kiessling – When Automatic Text Recognition Doesn’t Work
  • 3:30–3:50pm: Coffee Break
  • 3:50–4:10pm: Rebecca Koeser – Undate in Action: Temporal Data in DH
  • 4:10–4:30pm: Paul Girard – Visual Exploration of Historical Data with Static Web Tech
  • 4:30–4:50pm: Olivia Wikle – CollectionBuilder for Digital Exhibits
  • 4:50–5:10pm: Moritz Mähr, Moritz Twente – One Template to Rule Them All: Interactive Research Data Documentation with Quarto
  • 5:10–5:20pm: Break
  • 5:20–5:40pm: Jamie Folsom – Extending Recogito Studio with Plugins
  • 5:40–6:00pm: Jose Hernandez – QuantumRandomWalks for Citation Networks
  • 6:00–6:20pm: Tibor Kálmán – Federated AAI for the Digital Humanities
  • 6:20–6:30pm: DHTech Steering Committee Goodbye and Thank You

Important Dates

  • Final Submission Deadline: April 27, 2025
  • Conference Date: July 14, 2025
  • Proceedings Article Deadline: August 3, 2025

Further Information

For questions or to get involved, contact dhtech.community@gmail.com.

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