Summary
The Programming Historian is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal of digital humanities and digital history methodology.[1] It covers digital humanities research methods and also publishes tutorials that help humanities scholars learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching.[2] The original project was based upon a series of lessons written by William J. Turkel and Alan MacEachern of the University of Western Ontario in 2008.[3] The project launched as an academic journal during the Digital Humanities 2012 conference in Hamburg.[4] The journal publishes in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
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| Discipline | Digital Humanities |
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| Language | English, Spanish, French, Portuguese |
| Edited by | Alex Wermer-Colan (English), Jennifer Isasi (Spanish), Marie Flesch (French), Eric Brasil (Portuguese) |
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| History | 2012–present |
| Publisher | ProgHist Ltd (United Kingdom) |
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| License | CC BY |
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| ISO 4 | Program. Hist. |
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English | |
| ISSN | 2397-2068 |
Spanish | |
| ISSN | 2517-5769 |
French | |
| ISSN | 2631-9462 |
Portuguese | |
| ISSN | 2753-9296 |
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The project has twice won a "Digital Humanities Award". In 2016 it won "Best Series of Posts" for its English-language content.[5] In 2017 it won "Best Series of Posts" for its Spanish-language content.[6] In 2018, The Spanish version, was the winner of the "Mejor iniciativa formativa desarrollada durante el año 2018" of the Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas Association. It also won the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute's Open Scholarship Award 2020[7] and in 2021 it was awarded the Coko Foundation's Open Publishing Award in the Open Content category.[8] Programming Historian has also been involved in social issues in digital humanities, conducting a self-reflection and survey into gender biases in the project in 2015 in an attempt to encourage more participation from female authors and reviewers.[9][10]
The journal is indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals.[11]
References edit
- ^ McClurken, Jeff (2016-06-01). "Review: The Programming Historian". Journal of American History. 103 (1): 299–301. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaw172.
- ^ Blevins, Cameron (2015-12-15). "Review of The Programming Historian". The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy.
- ^ Turkel, William J.; MacEachern, Alan (2008). "The Programming Historian". Scholarship @ Western.
- ^ "The Programming Historian 2: Digital Humanities 2012". Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ^ "Digital Humanities Awards 2016". Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ^ "Digital Humanities Awards 2017". Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ^ "Open Scholarship Awards".
- ^ Coko Foundation. "Open Publishing Awards 2021".
- ^ Crymble, Adam (2016). "Identifying and Removing Gender Barriers in Open Learning Communities" (PDF). Blended Learning in Practice. 11: 49–61.
- ^ Sichani, Anna-Maria; et al. (2019). "Diversity and inclusion in digital scholarship and pedagogy: the case of The Programming Historian". Insights. 32. doi:10.1629/uksg.465.
- ^ ""Programming Historian"". Directory of Open Access Journals. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
External links edit
- Official website