Issue 04 - September 2024

Welcome / bienvenidos / bienvenue / bem-vindos / to the fourth issue of Programming Historian’s bulletin / boletín / bulletin / boletim. This quarter, we promote our open call for new lessons in French; invite the community to participate as peer reviewers; celebrate our outgoing Chair Sofia Papastamkou, and more.

Appel à Contributions

Programming Historian en français recherche des propositions de nouvelles leçons originales ou de traductions, pour une publication en 2024-25.

Vous pouvez :

• Proposer une leçon originale en français
• Proposer une traduction en français d’une leçon originale existante en anglais, espagnol ou portugais publiée dans l’une des autres éditions de Programming Historian. Veuillez consulter notre carte de concordance des traductions pour identifier les leçons à traduire.

Nos leçons aident avant tout les personnes qui souhaitent acquérir de nouvelles compétences. Toutefois, l’acte d’écrire est également précieux pour les auteurs·es : expliquer une méthodologie ou un outil vous permet d’approfondir votre propre compréhension et vos connaissances. Cela vous aide à développer votre esprit critique et votre réflexion, ainsi que vos compétences en matière de rédaction technique.

Nous avons créé un formulaire Google que vous pouvez utiliser pour soumettre votre proposition directement en ligne. Il existe également une version texte que vous pouvez nous envoyer par courrier électronique, si vous préférez.

Call for Reviewers

Do you to want to contribute to the development of another high-quality Programming Historian lesson?

Programming Historian in English // Programming Historian en español // Programming Historian en français are looking for volunteers who are available within the next 12 months to review new lesson submissions in any of these three languages.

Reviewing for Programming Historian is a great opportunity to learn new technical skills and engage with the digital humanities community.

We’re proudly committed to an Open Review policy, in which peer reviewers and author/translator are known to each other, and where reviews and discussions develop in an open exchange of comments. By reviewing our lessons, you will be contributing to collaborative, productive, and sustainable scholarship.

Please register your interest to participate in your preferred language(s):

Form in English // Formulario en español // Formulaire en français

New Lessons

ALEX WERMER-COLAN, NICOLE ‘NIKKI’ LEMIRE-GARLIC, AND JEFF ANTSEN
Text Mining YouTube Comment Data with Wordfish in R

• In this lesson, you will learn how to download YouTube video comments and use the R programming language to analyze the dataset with Wordfish, an algorithm designed to identify opposing ideological perspectives within a corpus.

A Special Thanks

Our incoming Chair of the Board of Trustees, James Baker, would like to share a few words to celebrate the significant and sustained contribution made to our project by our outgoing Chair, Sofia Papastamkou:

“We shared in our June Bulletin that Sofia Papastamkou had recently stepped down as Chair of the Board of Trustees. Sofia took on the role of Chair at an important moment in our journey as a publisher: in Spring 2023, we had reorganised our structures and were looking to expand our team by hiring a Digital Humanities Publishing Assistant. Sofia’s first major task as Chair was to guide us through a successful recruitment process, which she did with purpose.

Under Sofia’s leadership, Programming Historian achieved some significant successes: we celebrated the publication of our 200th and, later, 250th lessons since launch in 2008; we won best DH Training Materials category of the Digital Humanities Awards; we grew the support base of our Institutional Partner Programme, including new Gold Tier supporters; our lessons became discoverable through EBSCO and DARIAH Campus; and we expanded our outreach, communication, and community networking activities.

From her time as Manager Editor of Programming Historian en français, to her recent time as Chair, Sofia’s passion and enthusiasm for our work has been undiminished. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I wish to extend my heartfelt thanks to Sofia and wish her every success in her future work.”

Research Highlights

Juliana Marques, Joana Vieira Paulino, Daniel Alves, Jimmy Medeiros & Suemi Higuchi, “O Programming Historian em Português na promoção do letramento digital na sala de aula”, Revista História Hoje 13, no. 17 (2024), 304-325. https://doi.org/10.20949/rhhj.v13i27.1146

• Analisam-se o letramento digital dos estudantes e os reflexos da utilização do Programming Historian em português, evidenciando a interconexão essencial entre pesquisa, ensino e tecnologia, especialmente em um contexto de transformações digitais.

Quiroga, R., Hawes, A., Sichani, A. & Chevrie, C., (2024) “Sustainable Growth of Multilingual Open Publishing Projects: The Case of Programming Historian”, The Journal of Electronic Publishing 27(1). https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5571

• Discusses the evolving challenges of managing the project, and how our commitment to sustainability informs our practices as we grow.

Our Supporters

Welcome to our generous new Patreon subscriber, Michael Piotrowski (Patron), who has individually invested in our success. Join our Patreon community: https://tinyurl.com/PH-patreon

Grateful thanks to our valued partners who have renewed their membership to our Institutional Partnership Programme this quarter: Corporation for Digital Scholarship (Gold Tier), and MIT Libraries.

Institutional Partnerships enable us to keep developing our Diamond Open Access publishing model, and sustain the production of peer-reviewed, multilingual lessons for digital humanists around the globe. If you’d like to join our Institutional Partnership Programme, or learn about other ways you can support us: https://tinyurl.com/support-PH

Next issue: December 2024. In the meantime, keep in touch with us on social media to stay updated on our new publications, research and events! Twitter - Mastodon - LinkedIn- Patreon

You can also download this Bulletin as a PDF.