Issue 02 - March 2024

Welcome / bienvenidos / bienvenue / bem-vindos to the second issue of Programming Historian’s Bulletin / Buletín / Bulletin / Boletim, a quarterly insight into our recent publications, research highlights, project news and more.

New Lessons

GRACE DI MÉO
Creating Interactive Visualizations with Plotly

• This lesson demonstrates how to create interactive data visualizations in Python with Plotly’s open-source graphing libraries using materials from the Historical Violence Database.

AGUSTÍN COSOVSCHI
Des sources aux données, concevoir une base de données en sciences humaines et sociales avec nodegoat

• Cette leçon permet de prendre en main le logiciel nodegoat pour construire une base de données relationnelle dans le cadre d’une recherche en sciences humaines.

AVERY BLANKENSHIP, SARAH CONNELL, AND QUINN DOMBROWSKI
Understanding and Creating Word Embeddings

• Through a primarily theoretical lens, this lesson teaches how to prepare a corpus and train a word embedding model. You will explore how word vectors work, how to interpret them, and how to answer humanities research questions using them.

CHAHAN VIDAL-GORÈNE, traduzido por JOANA VIEIRA PAULINO
Reconhecimento automático de manuscritos para o teste de idiomas não latinos

• Este tutorial descreve as boas práticas para a criação de conjuntos de dados e para a especialização dos modelos em função de um projeto HTR ou OCR de documentos que não utilizam o alfabeto latino.

MITA WILLIAMS
Designing a Deck of Timeline Cards for Tabletops and Tabletop Simulator

• This lesson demonstrates how to use nanDECK to design and publish your own deck of printed or digital playing cards, and use them to test a group’s knowledge of historical events through a Timeline-like game mechanic.

MIRIAM POSNER, traduite par ELINA LEBLANC
Démarrer avec Omeka Classic

• Cette leçon explique comment créer un site Omeka, le configurer, y ajouter des extensions et des contenus, et organiser ces contenus en collections.

SUSAN GRUNEWALD & RUTH MOSTERN
Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer

• A digital gazetteer records information associated with specific places. This lesson teaches you how to create a gazetteer from a historical text, using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format.

New Pathways to PH

• We’re delighted to announce that our lessons in English will now be discoverable via DARIAH Campus. We are thrilled to be included in their catalogue of excellent training resources.
• We are also extremely pleased to say that lessons published across all four of our journals will now be indexed in EBSCO’s database, accessible through the EBSCOhost online research platform.

Community & Collaboration

• We celebrated Open Education Week 2024 by asking an editor from each of our editions to share their reflections about one memorable Programming Historian lesson which they have used and valued. You can read their interviews in our blog post.
• We are proud to be supporting the Institute of Historical Research’s Digital Humanities seminar series 2024, which runs on one Tuesday of each month until June.

Team News

• We’re delighted to welcome Eric Brasil as the new managing editor of Programming Historian em português. Eric joined the Portuguese team as a general editor in September 2021 and has contributed in various roles since then, including as editor and reviewer of a number of translations and as author of the recently-published Portuguese original lesson Git como ferramenta metodológica em projetos de História (parte 1).
• We also take this opportunity to thank Daniel Alves for the deep commitment and expertise he has dedicated to the journal as managing editor since 2020, in particular for being the driving force behind the launch of the Portuguese edition in 2021.
• We welcome a new cohort of editors to Programming Historian in English: Laura Chapot, Massimiliano Carloni, Caio Mello, Agustín Cosovschi and Giulia Osti will be providing their expertise to accompany our authors and translators towards publication.
• Huge thanks to Yann Ryan and Célian Ringwald, who are stepping down from their role as editor on the English and French teams. We have greatly valued your commitment over the past years.

New Supporters

• Grateful thanks to all those who have renewed their membership to our Institutional Partner Programme this quarter: University of Waterloo, University of York, KU Leuven, Penn State University College of the Liberal Arts, Sheffield University Library, Lancaster University Library, Universität Bern Bibliothek and King’s College London. We especially celebrate the newest francophone member institution to join our programme, the Université de Montréal.
• Institutional Partnerships enable us to keep developing our model of sustainable, open-access publishing, and empower us to continue creating peer-reviewed, multilingual lessons for digital humanists around the globe. Join us: https://tinyurl.com/support-PH

Upcoming

We’re very excited to be participating in various digital humanities events happening around the world during the coming months, and we look forward to seeing many of you there!

• OPERAS 2024: ‘Opening collaboration for community-driven scholarly communication’ (24–26 April, Zadar, Croatia)
• Humanistica 2024: ‘Colloque annuel de l’Association francophone des humanités numériques’ (7-9 May, Meknès, Maroc)
• DHNB 2024: ‘From experimentation to experience: lessons learned from the intersections between digital humanities and cultural heritage’ (27-31 May, Reykjavík, Iceland)

Next issue: June 2024. In the meantime, keep in touch with us on social media to stay updated on our new publications, research and events!

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