Issue 11 - July 2026
Welcome / bienvenidos / bienvenue / bem-vindos / to the eleventh issue of Programming Historian’s bulletin / boletín / bulletin / boletim. In this issue, we celebrate Adam Crymble, who stepped down from our Board of Trustees after many years of dedicated service, share news of editorial transitions across our journals, highlight new French translations, renew our call for volunteer peer reviewers, and look back on the achievements of ENABLAR as it draws to a close. We also extend our sincere thanks to our Institutional Partners and Patreons, whose continued support helps make our work possible.
Honouring Adam Crymble’s contributions
This quarter, we honour the service and commitment of Adam Crymble, who has served on the Board since 2011 – and who, this June, stepped down from their role as Trustee. Thank you, Adam, for everything you’ve given this organisation, and for everything you’ve given so many of us individually.
Maria José Afandor-Llach, James Baker, Riva Quiroga, Jennifer Isasi and Anisa Hawes share their tributes.
Adam brought together a community of Digital Humanities practitioners into a global-scale thriving editorial project in which many of us learned and collaborated. I’m grateful for his mentorship, openness, and support when we started with Programming Historian en español in 2016. I will never forget our Bogota’s workshop. Gracias Adam.
Maria José Afandor-Llach
For me - and for I expect many others - Adam Crymble and Programming Historian are indivisible. Adam has now stepped down after 16 years of service and this marks an inflection point for the project. One of Adam’s great qualities is that when he does something, he does it well. His list of achievements whilst working on the Programming Historian back that up. He was part of the team that launched Programming Historian as an open access peer reviewed journal. He championed diversity when that diversity was lacking. He won a British Academy grant that created the foundations for the Programming Historian en español. And when Programming Historian incorporated first as a company and latterly as a charity, Adam was its founding Chair of Directors and Trustees, guiding us through those initial years of organisational growth. Adam’s attention to detail, challenge mindset, and deep institutional knowledge of the project are qualities that I - and suspect many in the project team - will miss deeply. Thank you Adam for all you’ve done for the Programming Historian and for the wider community. Your work has changed the digital humanities for the better.
James Baker
I first met Adam at the Bogotá workshop, an experience made possible by his work and leadership. Looking back, I can see that it was, in many ways, a turning point for me. It opened the door to a community that has profoundly shaped both my professional and personal life, and to a project that showed me what genuine collaboration could look like. Adam believed that Programming Historian could become something bigger than an English-language publication, and he was deeply committed to making that vision a reality. His allyship meant that many of us felt empowered to contribute and to lead, and to imagine Programming Historian as a project we could truly call our own. Thanks to the community he helped build, many of us found collaborators, friendships, and a sense of belonging. For that, I will always be grateful. ¡Muchas gracias, Adam!
Riva Quiroga
Adam has stepped down from this project after 16 years and it is hard to overstate what that means for this community.
He was part of the team that welcomed the idea of making PH bilingual, opening the door to the Spanish-language edition and a much wider community of scholars and learners. He has continued to support new teams ever since, offering the kind of steady, generous guidance that doesn’t always make it into public view but makes all the difference.
I joined the team in 2018, and Adam’s presence was there from the very first day – a constant, thoughtful voice in the many hard conversations that shaped this journal into what it is today.
Sixteen years is an extraordinary contribution. Gracias, Adam, por todo, the visible work and everything behind it.
Jennifer Isasi
From my very first day in 2021, Adam’s wholehearted commitment to and investment in Programming Historian were absolutely clear. He gave me the opportunity and encouragement to develop the skills needed to support our publications and to build strong relationships across our teams. Adam has been my mentor and my advocate, making it possible for me to grow within this very special organisation. I will always be grateful for his generosity, guidance, and belief in me.
Anisa Hawes
Team News
This quarter we say un grand merci to Marie Flesch who has stepped after four years as Managing Editor of our French-language journal. Marie has been a fantastic managing editor, who took on a complex set of lessons and built a strong, resourceful, communicative team.
We welcome Daphné Mathelier as the new Managing Editor of Programming Historian en français, supported by Alexandre Wauthier as Assistant Managing Editor.
Finally, we warmly thank Giulia Osti, Giulia Taurino, Maria José Afanador-Llach, and David Valentine — four general editors who recently stepped down. We are enormously grateful for their commitment and contributions.
New Translations
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Jonathan Blaney, traduction par David Valentine
Introduction aux principes des données ouvertes liées
- Cette leçon présente les concepts fondamentaux des données ouvertes liées (Linked Open Data), incluant les URI, les ontologies, les formats de données RDF et une introduction en douceur au langage de requête SPARQL.
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Nicolás Vaughan, traduction par Maritza Beatriz García Rodríguez
Introduction à l’encodage de texte TEI (partie 1)
- Cette leçon (qui sera suivie d’une deuxième partie) vous enseigne les rudiments de la TEI-XML pour encoder des textes.
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Daniel van Strien, Kaspar Beelen, Melvin Wevers, Thomas Smits, et Katherine McDonough, traduction par Jean-Philippe Moreux et Matthias Gille Levenson
La vision par ordinateur pour les sciences humaines : introduction à la classification d’images par apprentissage profond (partie 1)
- Ceci est le premier volet d’une leçon en deux parties qui présente des méthodes de vision par ordinateur basées sur l’apprentissage profond pour la recherche en sciences humaines. À partir d’un ensemble de publicités extraites de journaux historiques, la leçon explique comment entrainer un modèle de vision par ordinateur pour la classification d’images avec la bibliothèque Python fastai.
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Gabriel Calarco et Gimena del Río Riande, traduction par Yanet Hernández Pedraza
Introduction à la publication web de fichiers TEI avec CETEIcean
- Cette leçon vous enseigne les étapes nécessaires pour publier en ligne un fichier TEI en utilisant CETEIcean.
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
ENABLAR update
As ENABLAR draws to a close this month, it’s a good moment to reflect on what the project has achieved. Funded by Jisc, ENABLAR has brought together a cross-disciplinary cohort to co-author lessons in computational methods for library and archive professionals, supporting digital transformation through skills development and knowledge sharing.
The response to our call for participants exceeded expectations, and our cohort spans the UK and Ireland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the US, bringing together expertise from libraries, archives, and the digital humanities.
Together, the cohort has developed four practical lessons, each rooted in a real challenge facing library and archive professionals: understanding AI licence agreements, exploring catalogues as data, visualising connections across collections, and helping researchers discover people across large archival collections.
This July, we tested the lessons through a series of hands-on workshops. Each session gave participants the chance to try out the methods for themselves and explore how they could apply them in their own work. The workshops also provided feedback ahead of peer review and helped us connect with potential reviewers from across the community.
Alongside the lessons, we’re also developing guidance on using Programming Historian lessons in continuing professional development (CPD), drawing on feedback from the cohort to ensure it reflects real teaching and learning experiences.
A huge thank you to our cohort for their creativity and hard work, to everyone who joined our workshops and shared their feedback, and to Jisc for making the project possible. We’re excited to share the finished lessons with the wider community once they’ve completed peer review, and we hope they’ll become a useful resource for library and archive professionals who want to develop computational skills in their own practice.
Our Supporters
Grateful thanks to our whole community of Institutional Partners. Their continued support sustains and empowers our work.
Warm welcome to Zentralbibliothek Zürich our newest Silver Tier partner, with thanks to Missing Link for helping to make this happen.
Thank you to all those partners who have renewed their memberships this quarter: Edinburgh Futures Institute and University of Sussex Library both at Gold Tier; Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Université du Luxembourg, The National Archives,
School of Advanced Study, University of London, University of Waterloo, University of Oxford, Western University Library, Cambridge Digital Humanities, University of Florida, and Iowa State University Library, 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. This quarter we warmly welcome Anna Costalonga at Educator tier. You can join us at Apprentice, Educator, Patron or Gold tier: tinyurl.com/PH-patreon.
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: September/October 2026.
About the author
Anisa Hawes, Publishing Manager, Programming Historian.
