Data-driven scholarship in the humanities requires the appropriate tools and software for the production, description, visualization, annotation, and analysis of its objects of interest. Drawing from the abundance of available open source software from the DH community, our spectrum of services ranges from hosting existing tools to developing bespoke solutions tailored to the specific data models and needs of a project and researcher. To continuously improve and expand our portfolio, we explore emerging trends, familiarize ourselves with state-of-the-art developments, and generally strive to foster a culture of openness, learning, and curiosity.
Our applications support collaborative work and offer programmatic access to data via well-defined APIs. We release most of our code on GitHub under open source licenses (MIT by default). Solutions especially suitable for reuse are listed in the ACDH-CH Software Dashboard.
The programming languages most frequently used in the ACDH-CH ecosystem are Python, TypeScript, and PHP. We utilize a variety of frameworks, both in front- (VueJS, ReactJS) and back-end (Django, Flask). We put particular emphasis on quality assurance (linting, testing) and modern deployment strategies.
