Dear colleagues, We hope you may find the below call for papers to your interest. Kind regards -/-Joris van Zundert # Call for papers for a special issue of Code4lib # Static websites for scholarly editions and other publications in the Humanities Static websites are increasingly recognized as a sustainable solution for digital editions and other scholarly publications in the Humanities. They are broadly defined as applications that do not rely, or rely only minimally, on server-side processing; some definitions restrict static websites to applications that are free of JavaScript; others embrace its use for complex client-side generation. While static websites offer durability and ease of maintenance, they may present limitations in functionality and scalability. We frame the question of static publi-/-cations within the discussion about minimal computing in digital humanities and sustainability of research outputs as a research data management practice. This special issue will consist of short reports (1,000–2,000 words) on practical experiences and lessons learned when developing, maintaining, or refactoring digital editions and other types of research outputs as static publications. Contributions may address project-specific solutions, generic workflows, automation strategies, institutional approaches, and more. Contributions from any practitioner working on digital publication are welcome, regardless of the stage or sophistication of the publication's development. This includes boutique, shoestring publications created by PhD students or early-career researchers who may lack financial or technical support and resources, as well as large-scale projects that rely on institutional backing, development teams, practices, and infrastructure. We encourage authors to make their code and data related to their submission, or a sample of them, available in FAIR compliant repositories (e.g., Zenodo) and link to it from their article. While the emphasis is on hands-on reporting, reflective position papers discussing the definitions, sustainability, and technical or conceptual boundaries of "the static" are also welcome. Reports may describe unpublished work as well as work that has been published or presented elsewhere. ## Paper submission First, authors will submit a 500-word abstract. Five weeks later, they will submit a first complete draft (1,000-2,00 words), followed by the final draft four weeks after that. The papers will be published as a thematic special issue in the Code4Lib journal approximately six months after the abstract is submitted. All submissions will undergo peer review by the guest editors and the editors of the journal to ensure that all contributions align with the focus of the special issue and meet the journal’s quality criteria. For the complete guide on how to format the articles, please see: https://journal.code4lib.org/article-guidelines. ## Important dates * Abstract submission (500 words): 17.04.2026 * First draft (1,000–2,000 words): 22.05.2026 * Final draft (1,000–2,000 words): 19.06.2026 * Publication: autumn 2026 ## Guest editors * Peter Dängeli (University of Bern) * Chiara Martignano (University of Padua) * Matteo Romanello (University of Zurich) * Elena Spadini (University of Bern) * Joris van Zundert (Huygens Institute) -/- -- Dr. Joris J. van Zundert Researcher & Developer in Humanities Computing Dept. of Computational Literary Studies / DHLab Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences [email protected] @jorisvanzundert +31624461051 http://jorisvanzundert.net/ https://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/medewerkers/joris-van-zundert-2/ visiting address Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185 1012 DK Amsterdam The Netherlands postal address P.O. Box 10855 1001 EW Amsterdam The Netherlands -- Jack Sparrow: I thought you were supposed to keep to the code. Mr. Gibbs: We figured they were more actual guidelines. (Pirates of the Caribbean) I wonder, Joe thought, if we might be one of the last generations to think of a fox as Reynard. (Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown.)