Co-Developing Software in Digital Humanities

Engaging Technical Expertise in Digital Methods

I was glad to contribute to the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2025 at King’s College London with the talk “Co-Developing Software for Digital Methods: On Technical Expertise in Methodological and Software Development.”

In this talk, I reflect on what it means for digital methods researchers to engage in software co-development, and on the kinds of technical expertise that make these collaborations productive. From a methodological perspective, I discuss lessons from the development of Memespector-GUI, a research tool for interfacing with multiple computer vision APIs, developed by Jason Chao, and how this work helped advance new digital methodologies.

Slides DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33315.16167

🔗 DH & RSE Summer School Programme & Materials

📍 Day 1: Software Development Life Cycle > Case studies of Digital Humanities projects
📍 Day 2: Digital Humanities at the Command Line
📍 Day 3: High Performance Computing for Digital Humanities
📍 Day 4: Responsible Digital Research

Many thanks to King’s Digital Lab for the invitation and for hosting such a rich programme across software development, command-line methods, high performance computing, and responsible digital research.