This is the first issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly dedicated to articles composed in Spanish (and French). This is a very important event for both the Spanish-speaking Digital Humanities community and the entire Digital Humanities community in general. We find ourselves at a moment of special importance for the discipline of the Digital Humanities in Spanish, a moment full of emerging associations, the rise of diverse voices on both sides of the Atlantic and of great interest to promote the use of our language to promote projects, tools and results linked to our cultural traditions in the Spanish-speaking world–as rich and varied as they are unknown in many of cases.

Digital Humanities Quarterly is one of the leading magazines in the field of Digital Humanities. Its relevance within it makes it very significant that it be the first journal to pursue a linguistic pluralism for academic contributions in the Digital Humanities, publishing articles in languages ​​other than English.

The appearance of this installment in Spanish represents, in this sense, another step in its opening to linguistic diversity. But not only that, for the Spanish-speaking community of the Digital Humanities, it means the recognition of Spanish–one of the most widespread languages ​​in the world–as a language with which to study, research and express knowledge in the Digital Humanities. It is also an acknowledgment of an increasingly large and restless community within the Digital Humanities whose object of study is expressed in Spanish or that uses Spanish, regardless of their language of origin, or their geographical location, to analyze and discuss issues relative to the Digital Humanities.

The texts that we publish in this issue reflect the topics and perspectives of the community that the hispanophone Humanistas Digitales community is investigating. Also the interest of other research communities, to see reflected their ideas in this language. In their collaboration, José Calvo Tello (University of Würzburg) and Juan Cerezo Soler (Autonomous University of Madrid), use the stylometry to address the problem of the authorship of the comedy The Conquest of Jerusalem, which has been attributed since its discovery to Miguel of Cervantes. The article by Pablo Gatica, from the University of Salamanca, of a methodological nature, seeks to elaborate a critical-conceptual apparatus for the cartography and analysis of Cyberspace. On the other hand, Paola Ricaurte Quijano of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, in Mexico, seeks to discuss, systematize and analyze the possibilities of developing the culture of Citizen Laboratories in Spanish America. Cecily Raynor of McGill Universiy, in her contribution, examines the idea that online space can operate as the next frontier for transactional writing. Finally, in a text originally written in English and then translated into Spanish, Suzana Sukovic and Peter Read of Western Sydney University, describe and reflect on the project on the history of the aborigines in the city of Sydney after the English colonization.

Different perspectives, diverse themes, diverse intentions of Digital Humanists that work “in”, “with” Spanish, or that seek to transmit their knowledge and experience to that language. For all this, it is a pleasure for us to edit this first issue that we hope opens a new door to Digital Humanities publications in our language and will serve to disseminate the results of research in multiple languages ​​that reflect and include, in turn, a great amount of cultural nuances, traditions and knowledge. The editors of this issue are greatly honored to have had the opportunity to coordinate this edition. We enormously appreciate the participation of all the authors, and we invite readers of this issue to bear witness, to continue publishing in our language and to spread our knowledge beyond linguistic and cultural barriers.