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Publish ENABLAR call for participants

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+title: Call for Participation - ENABLAR
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+- Anisa Hawes
+- James Baker
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+<p><figure><img src="/images/blog/ENABLAR/ENABLAR-banner.jpg" alt="Banner showing Jisc and Programming Historian logos alongside the project wordmark for the ENABLAR project, which reads ENABLAR, ENABling Library and Archive participation in digital Research co-learning communities"/><figcaption></figcaption> </figure></p>
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+_Programming Historian_ and Jisc are delighted to announce a new shared investment: **ENABLAR** - **ENAB**ling **L**ibrary and **A**rchive participation in digital **R**esearch co-learning communities.
+
+## What is ENABLAR?
+
+**ENABLAR** is a new Jisc-funded project from _Programming Historian_ that will **encourage participation** and **facilitate co-production** to **empower co-learning communities**. It will bring **library and archive practitioners** into dialogue with **digital humanities researchers**, creating opportunities for **knowledge exchange**, **skills development**, and **network building**. 
+
+- Want to develop your technical writing skills?  
+- Keen to learn from cross-disciplinary peers?  
+- Interested in co-authoring a _Programming Historian_ lesson?
+  
+If so, we’d love to hear from you. We’re inviting participation from those interested in forming a **cross-disciplinary cohort** who, over the next 10 months, will have the opportunity to **build partnerships**, **exchange insights**, and **develop the skills** needed to **co-produce** practical, accessible, sustainable lessons that support computational processing, discovery, or analysis of digital library and archive collections.
+
+
+## How will it work?
+
+The **ENABLAR** project will evolve through three phases: Phase 1: **Gather**, Phase 2: **Collaborate**, Phase 3: **Publish**. 
+
+**Phase 1: Gather**  
+- Happening right **now**. Through this call, we will gather ~10 participants as our cohort, balancing representation across library and archives professionals and digital humanities researchers.
+
+**Phase 2: Collaborate**  
+- Collaboration is central to the project, and during **December 2025** we’ll facilitate two webinars to teach effective, sustainable technical writing, and create partnerships for cross-disciplinary co-authorship.
+- As you begin writing, we’ll support your progress through an online programme of lesson development workshops and writing sprints (**January-March 2026**).
+
+**Phase 3: Publish**  
+- Through **April and May 2026**, we’ll host community review workshops to share and test **ENABLAR** lessons-in-progress. These will provide opportunities for the cohort to benefit from broader feedback, as well as each other’s - we’ll invite new voices to join us from the library and archives sector and the digital humanities research community, also seeking expressions of interest for participation in a formal open peer review process. 
+- **ENABLAR** participants will be invited to submit their drafts to _Programming Historian in English_ for consideration in **June 2026**.  
+- From **July 2026** **ENABLAR** lessons selected for development by our editorial team will be guided through open peer review towards first publication in [our English-language journal](/en/lessons/). If not selected for development, we’ll support the publication of your lesson as [grey literature](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_literature). All lessons will be published under an [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en) license.
+
+
+## Who can participate?
+
+We’re seeking a mixed cohort of participants from across the library and archive sector, and digital humanities research community. 
+- Maybe you’re a **librarian** who has always signposted communities towards _Programming Historian_’s lessons, but never found time to develop your own computational research skills?
+- Or an **archivist** responsible for a growing digital collection, seeking to support researchers to use computational methods to analyse or interact with archival data?
+- Perhaps you’re a **Research Software Engineer** working with cultural collections, keen to apply software engineering principles to support and enhance reader services and collections research?
+- Are you a **technician** who builds or maintains tools for data management and analysis, eager to explore ways library staff and researchers could put them to use?
+
+We value diversity of skills, voices, and lived experiences. We are committed to diversity and equal access within digital humanities, we encourage the participation of women, members of marginalised groups, LGBTQ+ community, and peoples from the Global South. All events in the **ENABLAR** project programme will take place online to maximise opportunities for participation. 
+
+## When is it happening?
+
+**Phase 1: Gather**
+- Call for participation open: 30 October 2025
+- Information webinar: 14 November 2025 
+- Call for participation close: 30 November 2025
+- Notifications sent to successful participants: 5 December 2025
+
+**Phase 2: Collaborate**
+- Orientation 1 (writing digital methods):  12 December 2025 (_indicative date_)
+- Orientation 2 (partnership building): 16 December 2025 (_indicative date_)
+- Lesson development workshops and asynchronous writing sprints:  January - March 2026
+
+**Phase 3: Publish**
+- Community Review Workshops:  April - May 2026
+- Draft **ENABLAR** submissions due: June 2026
+- Selection and support for publication: from July 2026
+
+## I’d like to get involved. What’s the next step?
+
+- If you’re interested in taking part, we encourage you to join our **information webinar** which will include an open question and answer session. After the session, we'll add a summary of questions asked and answers given to this blog post.
+  - The webinar will take place at [12:30 GMT](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20251114T123000&p1=tz_gmt) on **14 November 2025**. 
+  - Register to join: [tinyurl.com/enablar-info](https://tinyurl.com/enablar-info)
+
+- Complete our  short online **application form**: [tinyurl.com/enablar-apply](https://tinyurl.com/enablar-apply). It provides space for you to tell us about yourself, your interest in the programme, and what you hope to achieve by participating.
+  - Applications close: **30 November 2025**
+  - We’ll write to you to let you know if your application has been successful.