This page sets out how eve.gd is built, governed, and sustained. It is a personal academic website, so the details below are written honestly from that perspective rather than pretending that I am some larger organisation with a board of governors or anything like that.

Sustainability and environmental footprint

This is a static Jekyll site. Every page is plain HTML and CSS, generated ahead of time, with only minimal JavaScript. There is no database, no server-side rendering on each request, and no tracking or analytics scripts running in your browser. Because the site is static, it consumes very little server resource: the web server simply returns pre-built files, which are cheap to cache and to deliver.

I self-host the fonts rather than pulling them from third-party services, which avoids extra network requests. Typical pages are well under about 1 MB, and assets are cached efficiently so that repeat visits transfer very little data. A light theme is available, which some readers on OLED screens may prefer.

I aim to use efficient, reputable hosting, served over HTTPS via Apache from Reclaim hosting. In the interests of honesty, I must say that I do not know about the underlying hosting provider’s energy mix, which is not independently certified. I also do not have independently measured, audited carbon metrics for the site. The measures above reduce the site’s impact, but I do not want to overstate what I can actually verify.

Continuity and succession

If I am ever unable to maintain this site, it is designed to outlive my involvement. All content here is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), which means anyone is free to mirror, archive, or republish it with attribution.

My scholarly outputs do not depend on this site for their survival. They are independently preserved in the Birkbeck Institutional Repository (BIROn) and in Knowledge Commons (works.hcommons.org), and pages here are captured by web archives such as the Internet Archive. My Reclaim Hosting account and domain name ownership are paid for, 3-years in advance, so that if I die, the site will continue to run, at this URL, for this period. Those external repositories and archives act as custodians and mirrors, so the loss of eve.gd would not mean the loss of the work, although this will degrade over time.

The work is also published into the ATProto space (using the Bluesky PDS for now). This means that distributed clients can find the content as needed. It also provides another backup outlet.

I encourage anyone to mirror the content on this site or to repost any particular page or blog post wherever you like. Please do adhere to the license terms though and attribute the work to me. If you modify the work, please make clear that I was responsible for the original but not your modifications.

Governance

There is no committee or board for this site. This is a personal site, authored and maintained solely by me, Martin Paul Eve. I hold sole “editorial” responsibility for what appears on it, and all decisions about its content rest with me. There is no separate governing body, editorial board, or sponsor with a say over what is published. If ever I do accept any financial incentive for a post or have been given gifts in kind to review, I will make that clear and explicit on the post in question. It has never happened yet, though.

Open source and technical documentation

Much of my digital-humanities and computational work is open source. The source code for many of these projects lives on my GitHub profile at github.com/MartinPaulEve. Technical documentation for each project is kept alongside the code in its respective repository, typically in the README and accompanying docs, so that the documentation stays close to the software it describes.

Funding and transparency

Some of my projects have received external academic funding, and I try to disclose this clearly. For example, the COPIM project was funded by Research England and the Arcadia Foundation, and I was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust. These are the major disclosures relevant to the work represented here. Fuller funding detail for individual projects, including specific grant references and partners, is available in each project’s own documentation and outputs. Typically, each funding source is disclosed within the text of the academic research outputs that were produced with the support of the funding. For example, consider my paper on Library Genesis in Digital Humanities Quarterly which contains the statement “work on this article was funded by a Philip Leverhulme Prize from the Leverhulme Trust”.

Last reviewed: July 2026