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Python in Digital Humanities

Python in Digital Humanities

Episode 538 Published 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Description
Digital humanities sounds niche, until you realize it can mean a searchable archive of U.S. amendment proposals, Irish folklore, or pigment science in ancient art. Today I’m talking with David Flood from Harvard’s DARTH team about an unglamorous problem: What happens when the grant ends but the website can’t. His answer, static sites, client-side search, and sneaky Python. Let’s dive in.

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Guest
David Flood: davidaflood.com

DARTH: digitalhumanities.fas.harvard.edu
Amendments Project: digitalhumanities.fas.harvard.edu
Fionn Folklore Database: fionnfolklore.org
Mapping Color in History: iiif.harvard.edu
Apatosaurus: apatosaurus.io
Criticus: github.com
github.com/palewire/django-bakery: github.com
sigsim.acm.org/conf/pads/2026/blog/artifact-evaluation: sigsim.acm.org
Hugo: gohugo.io
Water Stories: waterstories.fas.harvard.edu
Tsumeb Mine Notebook: tmn.fas.harvard.edu
Dharma and Punya: dharmapunya2019.org
Pagefind library: pagefind.app
django_webassembly: github.com
Astro Static Site Generator: astro.build
PageFind Python Lib: pypi.org
Frozen-Flask: frozen-flask.readthedocs.io

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