Issue 12 - October 2026
Welcome / bienvenidos / bienvenue / bem-vindos / to the twelfth issue of Programming Historian’s bulletin / boletín / bulletin / boletim. In this issue, we highlight recently published lessons and translations, and share news from our editorial teams including heartfelt thanks and warm welcomes. We also celebrate the completion of the ENABLAR project, sharing openly available materials, and offering our sincere thanks to the cohort for their creativity and care, and to Jisc for making the work possible. We invite expressions of interest from those keen to volunteer as peer reviewers – a rewarding way to develop technical skills 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.
New Lessons and Translations
- Clément Godbarge
L’édition critique en continu : publier au rythme de l’encodage (Partie 1)
- Cette leçon montre comment mettre en place une édition critique « en continu » d’un corpus TEI définir un ODD, générer un schéma RELAX NG, compléter la validation avec Schematron et produire des sorties (texte/HTML/Markdown) via XSLT 2.0. L’exemple s’appuie sur la correspondance de Filippo Cavriana.
- Ian Goodale, traduction par Felix Vanden Borre
Analyser des textes multilingues en français et russe en utilisant NLTK, spaCy et Stanza
- Cette leçon introduit la tokénisation, l’étiquetage morpho-syntaxique et la lemmatisation, ainsi que la détection automatique de langage pour des textes non anglais et multilingues. Vous apprendrez à utiliser les packages Python NLTK, spaCy et Stanza pour analyser un texte multilingue russo-français.
- Kiran Mohammadi-Williams
Creating and Hosting Basic IIIF Images and Manifests Using GitHub
- This lesson demonstrates how to display and share image files on the web using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Github Pages. After explaining how to create and host IIIF manifests, this lesson walks through the creation of IIIF-compliant images using three different methods, ranging from beginner to advanced levels of difficulty.
- Adrian Demleitner and Daniel Gammenthaler
Reverse Engineering Born-Digital Artefacts: A Beginner’s Guide
- This lesson teaches reverse engineering to conduct historical analysis of digital artefacts. Learn to use a hex viewer to inspect the hidden, raw bytes of image and document files.
- Will Hanley
Wikidata for Historical Research
- This lesson introduces Wikidata and its underlying data structure. It shows how to navigate and query Wikidata using the Query Builder and SPARQL, and how its data model can be used to explore historical data.
- Cláudia De Souza and Dinah M. Wilson Fraites, translated by Felipe Valdez
Using Linked Open Data to Describe Academic Journals and People with Wikidata
- This lesson introduces Wikidata and provides a step-by-step guide to using linked open data to create and link metadata about academic journals and people. It explores best practices for managing metadata in Wikidata to increase the visibility and accessibility of resources in digital environments.
- Jennifer Isasi, translated by Natasha Nunn and Sarah Severson
Building a Digital Exhibition with CollectionBuilder and the Internet Archive
- In this lesson, you will learn how to use CollectionBuilder to create and customize a digital exhibition featuring digital objects hosted on another platform, such as the Internet Archive.
Team News
This quarter, we extend our thanks to Alex Wermer-Colan, who has stepped down as Managing Editor of our English-language journal. Since taking on the role in 2023, he has contributed considerable time, energy, and expertise to the journal, and we are delighted that he will continue to be part of the team as a general editor.
We are also pleased to welcome Laura Alice Chapot as the new Managing Editor of Programming Historian in English, with Caio Mello taking on the role of Assistant Managing Editor. We look forward to working with them in their new roles.
We extend a cordiale bienvenue to three new members of the Programming Historian en français team: Hélène Gautier, Vy Cao, and Mohamed Ilyes Mechentel, who joined us in September and have already begun their first editorial assignments. We are delighted to have them on board!
We also warmly thank Matthias Gille Levenson, who has recently stepped down from the team after working with us since 2021. During his time with us, he edited several original lessons, including the recently published L’édition critique en continu : publier au rythme de l’encodage (Partie 1) by Clément Godbarge, as well as translations, and also contributed as a translator and reviewer. We are grateful for his many contributions and his commitment to the team. Merci et bonne continuation, Matthias!
ENABLAR: Wrapping up
ENABLAR’s funded phase has come to an end, and we’re grateful to Jisc for making it possible. Our cohort of library, archive and digital humanities professionals has co-authored four practical lessons in computational methods, now being prepared for peer review.
The workshop materials, slides and guidance on adapting lessons for CPD are openly available in our community on Zenodo: zenodo.org/communities/programminghistorian. Recordings are on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@ProgrammingHistorian.
Huge thanks to the cohort for their creativity and care, and to everyone who joined our workshops and shared their feedback. We’ll share updates as the lessons progress.
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 // Formulário em português.
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: Princeton University and University of Cambridge, both 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 2027 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, and this quarter we welcome Katarina Varjačić at Educator-level. 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: December 2026.
About the author
Anisa Hawes, Publishing Manager, Programming Historian.
