Issue 06 - March 2025

Welcome / bienvenidos / bienvenue / bem-vindos / to the sixth issue of Programming Historian’s bulletin / boletín / bulletin / boletim. We promote our French journal’s targeted call for translations from Spanish, give warm thanks to a long-term member of our team, and invite you to be an Open Access advocate by encouraging your institution to support us.

New Lessons

JIM CLIFFORD, JOSH MACFADYEN, & DANIEL MACFARLANE, traduzido por LUANNA KAORI
Instalando o QGIS e adicionando camadas

• Nessa lição, fará a instalação do programa QGIS, o downloado de arquivos geoespaciais como shapefiles e GeoTIFFs, e a criação de um mapa a partir de vários vetores e camadas raster.

CLÁUDIA DE SOUZA & DINAH M. WILSON FRAITES
Utilizar Datos Abiertos Enlazados para describir revistas académicas con Wikidata

• Esta lección introduce Wikidata y proporciona una guía paso a paso para integrar metadatos de revistas y personas utilizando datos abiertos enlazados. Explora las mejores prácticas para insertar y gestionar los metadatos en Wikidata, con el fin de incrementar la visibilidad y accesibilidad de recursos en entornos digitales.

NABEEL SIDDIQUI, traduite par DAMIEN BELVÈZE
Gestion et manipulation des données avec R

• Cette leçon guide les chercheurs et chercheuses dans l’organisation de leurs données pour les rendre « propres », et les aide à prendre en main les packages R qui leur permettront de conduire des analyses de base sur ces données.

JUSTIN COLSON, traduzido por LUANNA KAORI
Geocodificando Dados Históricos com o QGIS

• Aprenda a usar o QGIS para converter listas de nomes de lugares em coordenadas geográficas, permitindo que os mapeie.

JASCHA SCHMITZ, MALTE VOGL, ALEKSANDRA KAYE & RAPHAEL SCHLATTMANN
Simulating Historical Communication Networks in Python

• This lesson introduces the core concepts, methodologies and discussions surrounding simulation methods for historical inquiry. It teaches the basics of programming a simulation model by building an Agent-Based Model of historical letter exchanges using the Python library mesa.

ADAM CRYMBLE, traduzido por DANIELA GOMES
Utilizar Gazetteers para Extrair Conjuntos de Palavras-chave de Textos Corridos

• Esta lección demustra los pasos para crear un conjunto de datos de textos usando la API de la biblioteca digital HathiTrust. Los datos obtenidos permitirán aplicar técnicas de minería textual para estudiar los textos.

Appel à Traductions

Programming Historian en français lance un appel à traduction de leçons en espagnol vers le français, ciblé sur des thématiques qui concernent le traitement de données textuelles grâce au format d’encodage TEI (surtout les deux dernières leçons de la liste).

Voir les détails : https://tinyurl.com/appel-a-traductions

Pour nous envoyer une proposition ou simplement nous poser une question, veuillez écrire à la rédactrice en chef Marie Flesch.

Invest in Open

Would you like to join the vibrant network of Institutional Partners across Europe, Latin America, China, Canada and the United States who invest in our success?

Institutional Partnerships empower us to sustain our model of Diamond Open Access publishing, and enable the continued growth of our multilingual portfolio of digital humanities lessons.

If you know that our work aligns with your organisation’s priorities and is valuable to your community, we’d love your help to connect with the right person.

Email our Publishing Manager or visit http://tinyurl.com/support-PH to learn more about joining our Institutional Partnership Programme.

Grateful thanks to our valued partners who have renewed their membership this quarter: Exeter University, Universiteit Gent, the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State University, KU Leuven Bibliotheken, University of York, C²DH,the National Archives, the School of Advanced Study (UoL) and Universität Bern Bibliothek.

We’re also supported by a community of Patreons, whose generosity is instrumental to us as a charity-based publisher. You can join us too as an individual at Apprentice, Educator, Patron or Gold tier: https://tinyurl.com/PH-patreon

Thank you, Zoe!

Our chair of Trustees James Baker shares a few words about Zoe LeBlanc, who is leaving Programming Historian after many years of dedication:

“Zoe joined the team in 2018 whilst completing her PhD. Since then, whilst navigating the challenges of being an early career scholar (culminating in her appointment at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2021), Zoe has made a remarkable contribution to the project, as an editor, Technical Lead, and latterly as Trustee of the charity.

Zoe was central to the additions of French and Portuguese journals to our portfolio, led on some notable improvements to the user experience of our site (search, dark mode, expanded author metadata), and has been a steadfast champion of PH. Most recently, she has made important contributions to our deliberations around the renewal of our technical infrastructure.”

Call for Reviewers

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

We are looking for volunteers who are available within the next 12 months to review new lesson submissions in any of our four languages.

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

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

Form in English // Formulario en español // Formulaire en français // Enviar um email ao Editor-Chefe em português

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