This Zotero group represents an effort to increase the visibility of digital work in Middle East studies and related fields through making conference and workshop presentations discoverable and citable. The effort was inspired by the Work of Scott Weingart and others on collecting and analysing the bibliographic metadata for large DH conferences, which they recently published as "The Index of Digital Humanities Conferences" as well as Maxim Romanov’s work to map the network of contributions to MESA’s Annual Meeting.

Some basic tagging has been used to organise papers beyond the meeting name insofar as recurring events have received their own tag, e.g. "idhn", "islamicdh@brown", "rtl@dhsi".