Web-scraping is ugly, but sometimes it may become necessary, because services don’t expose an API to retrieve data. Basically web-scraping is a mechanism to programatically open a website and grab the contents in

Well, this might be a catchy title. But what we are going to do, is to put the Jekyll artifacts into a Docker image and get a completely self-contained website. Jekyll, what? Artifacts?

It has been quite a while since the last version of SADE – the TextGrid flavoured version of the »Scalable Architecture for Digital Editions« – was published. Here is a new version, with

When going for Text Mining a collection of resources pretty much the first step is to check for the language. If it is a multi-language collection may be there is at least some

Technology fails – at least sometimes. This is particularly true for a modern distributed research infrastructure, such as DARIAH-DE. For the operation of this infrastructure, we have implemented a monitoring solution with Icinga.

Central Logging Service for Distributed Applications With the release of our great new presentation layer for the Goettingen Digitization Centre we faced new problems. The Application consists of many different separate services (and

Well, at least partially self-updating. You still will have to write the sentences and all that… Suppose you are at the beginning of a project and have written some classes. As a responsible

The continuous integration toolchain has developed a lot during the last years. Our mission, to build and deploy everything completely automatic and reproducable became more and more elegant. But let me take you

Twitter for Goettingen Digitisation Centre / Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum Did you know, that with the current relaunch of the GDZ (Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum), we implemented a small bridge to Twitter that tweets out the newly

Here is a cheat sheet to XQuery serialization.