Issue 09 - December 2025
Welcome / bienvenidos / bienvenue / bem-vindos / to the ninth issue of Programming Historian’s bulletin / boletín / bulletin / boletim. In this issue, we promote our calls for fresh proposals in Portuguese and English, renew our portfolio-wide call for peer reviewers, and invite you to explore some newly published lessons. We give grateful thanks to our community of supporters, and we honour and celebrate our colleague María José Afanador-Llach, whose contributions have helped shape what Programming Historian is today.
Chamada Aberta para Proposta (edição em português)
A edição em português do Programming Historian está com chamada aberta para propostas de novas lições originais ou traduções para publicação em 2025-6. Nesta chamada, propostas de originais terão prioridade na publicação.
Ao criar uma lição, você pode:
- Ajudar leitores a adquirir conhecimentos práticos
- Desenvolver suas habilidades de escrita técnica
- Transformar a prática da investigação em ensino
Saiba mais: tinyurl.com/ph-chamada-aberta
Envie-nos a sua proposta até 31 de dezembro de 2025: tinyurl.com/pt-ph-proposta-2025
Call for Proposals (English edition)
Our English edition invites proposals for new original lessons or translations to be considered for publication in 2026. In this call, we would particularly like to encourage proposals for translations.
By writing a lesson, you can:
- Empower readers with knowledge of a digital method or tool
- Hone your technical writing skills
- Transform your research practice into teaching
Learn more: tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog
Send us your proposal by 15 February 2026: tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-form
Renewing our Call for Reviewers
Would you like to contribute to the development of another high-quality Programming Historian lesson?
We’re seeking volunteers who are available within the next 12 months to review lessons in any of our four languages. Reviewing for Programming Historian is an opportunity to learn new technical skills and engage with the digital humanities community.
Who can participate?
Anyone who is working, teaching, or learning with computational methods. You might be an educator, a researcher, a PhD candidate, a Research Software Engineer, a librarian, a linguist, a historian - if you share our interest in using digital methods to acquire, transform, analyse, present or preserve data, we’d love to hear from you.
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
New Lessons
- Nicolás Vaughan, translated by Ashlyn Stewart
Introduction to Encoding Texts in TEI (Part 1)
- This lesson teaches you the basics of using TEI-XML to encode texts, and demonstrates how to create a minimal TEI document.
- Pascal Martinolli
Enrichir ses données avec le processus de réconciliation d’OpenRefine
- Cette leçon vous initie à enrichir un jeu de données de recherche avec d’autres données liées provenant de sources externes telles que Wikidata. Cet enrichissement, basé sur un processus nommé « réconciliation », est géré par OpenRefine.
- Anthony Picón Rodríguez e Miguel Cuadros, traduzido por Bernardo de Souza
Introdução ao Map Warper
- Nesta lição aprenderá à georreferenciar imagens digitais com informação geográfica e vinculá-la a sistemas de informação geográfica.
Farewell and thank you to María José Afanador-Llach
This quarter, we honour and celebrate María José Afanador-Llach, who steps down from her role on our Spanish team having worked with us since 2016. One of our longest-serving volunteers, María José’s dedication and extensive contributions have helped shape what Programming Historian is today. Adam Crymble, Silvia E. Gutiérrez De la Torre, and Jennifer Isasi share their tributes:
María José has been a digital humanities pioneer in Latin America. I had the great honour of co-hosting a Programming Historian writing workshop with her in Bogota in 2018 and I’m so grateful for not only her wonderful hospitality during that visit, but also the incredible work she put into building our first foray into another language community. She was our first Spanish language managing editor, and helped curate the community that would sustain that publication to the present day. I know I’ve personally learned so much about digital scholarship, differences, and commonalities around the world thanks to her efforts, and the project will forever be in her debt. Thank you for everything María José and I hope we all cross paths again soon.
Adam Crymble
Querida María José:
Al despedirnos de ti en Programming Historian, no puedo dejar de pensar en el legado profundo que dejas, especialmente porque tu convicción de que la chispa de un encuentro presencial puede encender la llama una comunidad virtual, es un fueguito del que sigo recibiendo calor. Para mí, el taller de PH Bogotá en 2018 fue la encarnación perfecta de esta visión tuya: ¡22 humanistas digitales de toda América (la única, la que va del Polo Norte al Sur) se reunieron durante cuatro días al pie de los Andes, gracias a tu liderazgo y a tu incansable esfuerzo!
Con la energía de los jugos de lulo y todo el café colombiano que se pudo tomar, se forjaron amistades y colaboraciones que perduran, y en una semilla que sigue dando frutos: esa rama de Programming Historian en español que sigue desafiando la noción de que las soluciones deben venir de otras latitudes.
¡Gracias por tanto, María José! Con un abrazo enorme y el agradecimiento de toda la comunidad,
Silvia E. Gutiérrez De la Torre
Querida compañera:
No puedo pensar en esta revista y proyecto sin pensar en ti. Fuiste parte fundamental para su nacimiento y desarrollo, y cada lección que publicamos lleva alguna idea tuya.
Recuerdo que el día en que me entrevistaste yo estaba nerviosa, pero algo cambió cuando empezamos a hablar. Colgué la videollamada pensando: “Ojalá me llamen porque podría aprender mucho y estaría rodeada de compañeros estupendos”. No me equivoqué.
Nos has dado más de lo que probablemente te das cuenta. Tu empuje para arrancar esto, tu paciencia para dirigirnos cuando aún había un camino por hacer, para aprender juntos…todo eso queda con nosotros.
Y bueno, esto no es una despedida. Seguiremos trabajando juntas de alguna forma.
Así que mejor dicho: hasta pronto.
Jennifer Isasi
UCL Open Science & Scholarship Awards 2025
We also take this opportunity to congratulate our colleague Adam Crymble, co-founder and first chair of Programming Historian, who is the winner of a UCL Open Science & Scholarship Award 2025 in the Open Publishing category. Well done to all the staff and students whose contributions to promoting open scholarship have been recognised by these awards.
Our Supporters
Grateful thanks to our whole community of Institutional Partners. Their continued support sustains and empowers our work.
Thank you to those partners who have renewed their membership this quarter: University of Southampton and Corporation for Digital Scholarship at our Gold Tier; MIT Libraries, Department of Information Studies at University College London, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, University of Exeter, Universiteitsbibliotheek Tilburg University, Princeton University, and Software Sustainability Institute at Silver Tier.
As a Diamond Open Access publisher, we rely on partnerships to maintain and develop our multilingual portfolio of journals. Our success through 2026 and beyond depends upon the ongoing support of our community. If you’d like to learn more about joining our Institutional Partnership Programme, please get in touch with our Publishing Manager: admin@programminghistorian.org.
We are delighted to be among publishers working together as part of the newly-launched Open Journals Collective to sustain our Diamond model, and guarantee our content remains available at no cost to authors or readers. Find out more, and join the movement.
Next issue: March 2026.
About the author
Anisa Hawes, Publishing Manager, Programming Historian.
