The paper The Giles Ecosystem – Storage, Text Extraction, and OCR of Documents was published in the Journal of Open Research Software on September 28, 2017 (check it out here). The paper describes the Giles Ecosystem developed by the Digital Innovation Group.

From September 7 to 8, 2017, the second Research Software Engineer conference was held in Manchester, UK. Julia Damerow attended the conference and presented a poster. The two days were packed with interesting talks about topics such as software reusability, container infrastructures, or open source projects.

On 7 August 2017, the Digital Innovation Group together with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science hosted a pre-conference workshop at the Digital Humanities Conference 2017 in Montréal. The workshop called “Let’s Develop an Infrastructure for Historical Research Tools” focused on collaboration and integration of digital humanities software and tools.