Curating Dynamic Digital Humanities   Perl (Photo credit:
Wikipedia)  I’m using part of my research time to dive back into
a development thread I’ve been working on for the last decade.
It started with the various Gestinanna packages through 2004
that are now on BackPAN, the archive of CPAN modules no longer
considered actively distributed. I followed it a few years later
with a set of Ruby fabulator gems that are in my github
repository. I designed these to run in Radiant, a nice CMS for
small teams. I used the Ruby/Radiant system to teach a course at
DHSI in 2011 covering data acquisition, management, and
presentation.  Now, I’m combining my experience and starting a
new coding effort. I’ll be posting code to
github.com/jgsmith/perl-ookook/. There are a lot of design
decisions that I hope to discuss in a series of blog posts. For
example, why did I choose Perl over something new and shiny like
Ruby or Node.js? Why didn’t I use a venerable environment like
Java and the JVM? Why have a backend SQL database in