Issue 10 - March 2026
Welcome / bienvenidos / bienvenue / bem-vindos / to the tenth issue of Programming Historian’s bulletin / boletín / bulletin / boletim. In this issue, we promote final reminders to submit your proposals for new original lessons or translations in Spanish or French as our open calls reach their close, and share links to some freshly published lessons. We also promote opportunities to participate as a volunteer peer reviewer – a great way to learn a new technical skill, and contribute to collaborative, sustainable, open scholarship. And, as always, we give grateful thanks to our community of Institutional Partners and Patreons, whose investment helps ensure our work remains sustainable.
Última convocatoria de propuestas (edición en español)
Programming Historian en español busca propuestas para lecciones nuevas o traducciones para su publicación a lo largo de 2026.
Fecha límite para la presentación de propuestas: 17 de abril de 2026
Al crear una lección, puedes:
- Empoderar a los lectores a adquirir conocimientos prácticos
- Desarrollar tus habilidades de redacción técnica
- Transformar tu práctica de investigación en enseñanza
Más información: tinyurl.com/propuestas-2026-info
Enviar una idea: tinyurl.com/propuestas-2026-enviar
Rappel ! Appel à contributions (édition française)
Programming Historian en français recherche des propositions de nouvelles leçons originales ou de traductions, pour une publication en 2026-2027.
Date limite pour la soumission des propositions : 20 avril 2026
- Aidez les lecteur·ices qui souhaitent acquérir de nouvelles compétences
- Développez vos compétences en rédaction technique
- Transformez la pratique de la recherche en enseignement
En savoir plus : tinyurl.com/aac-2026-info
Soumettre une idée : tinyurl.com/aac-2026-forme
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
- Douglas McRae
Gestionar fuentes primarias digitales con Tropy
- El propósito de este tutorial es mostrar a los investigadores cómo iniciar un proyecto de Tropy con el fin de gestionar las imágenes digitales de sus fuentes primarias.
- Igor Sosa Mayor y Nabeel Siddiqui, traducido por Igor Sosa Mayor
Visualizando datos urbanos y demográficos en R con ggplot2
- Esta lección muestra cómo utilizar la biblioteca ggplot2 de R para crear visualizaciones de datos sofisticadas mediante una gramática de gráficos. A partir de datos históricos sobre relaciones de hermanamiento entre ciudades europeas en el período posterior a la Segunda Guerra mundial – incluidos acuerdos, tamaños de población y distancias geográficas – la lección guía a los lectores a través del proceso de creación de distintos gráficos mientras explora patrones urbanos y demográficos.
- Agustín Cosovschi, translated by Silvia Stoyanova
From Sources to Data: Designing a Database for the Humanities and Social Sciences with nodegoat
- This lesson teaches you how to use the nodegoat software to build a relational database for research in the humanities.
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: Universiteit Gent, KU Leuven Bibliotheken, University of Sheffield Library, University of Bristol Library, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State University, Universität Bern Bibliothek, University of York, and Université de Montréal – all 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.
Each month, we receive generous support from individuals via Patreon. You can join us at Apprentice, Educator, Patron or Gold tier: tinyurl.com/PH-patreon.
We are proud to be part of the Open Journals Collective – an international collective of libraries, scholarly societies, and small non-profit publishers committed to building a sustainable future for open academic journals. Find out more, and join the movement.
Next issue: June 2026.
About the author
Anisa Hawes, Publishing Manager, Programming Historian.
