Documenting sustainable workflows for a multilingual publishing project: the case of Programming Historian

Programming Historian in English, en español, en français, and em português are four Diamond Open Access journals of computational methods. Through article-length lessons, we support scholars and educators in the fields of history, social sciences, and the humanities to develop effective digital research skills. Today, our website hosts 250 lessons, teaching a wide range of tools and approaches for acquiring, transforming, analysing, preserving, or presenting data. We use a public GitHub repository to host the code, files, and data that configure our website and serve lessons to our readers. GitHub also provides an environment where we collaborate to develop lessons and manage our publishing workflows. While most often used by developers in the open source community to share code, iterate, and release software, our cross-disciplinary team has adopted this platform as a very suitable space for working together on open publishing projects. GitHub has innately sophisticated version control facilities, and provides richly detailed insights into changes made to any file by multiple collaborators. We’ve designed a workflow that makes imaginative use of GitHub through eight phases: Proposal, Submission, Initial Edit, Revision 1, Open Peer Review, Revision 2, Sustainability + Accessibility, and Publication. This poster is designed to provide a visual insight into the ways we collaborate.