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Conceptualizing and Creating a Digital Edition
May 26, 2025 8:00 am – May 30, 2025 5:00 pm PDT
Are you looking for a workshop environment to begin planning your edition? Join eLaboratories at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute for the course “Conceptualizing and Creating a Digital Edition.”
This course will explore all aspects of conceptualizing, planning for, and creating a digital edition. It provides a basic introduction to the various types of digital editions, the practice of editing in the digital age, and a survey of the many digital tools available to serve project goals. Approaching a digital edition means taking time to think about how end-users will want to work with a particular edition. Beginning with the research and analytical needs of end-users in mind, editors are better able to develop effective editorial strategies that will result in a dynamic, useful, and usable, digital edition. In this course, participants will engage in hands-on learning and group discussions related to project conceptualization, editorial policies and processes, and the selection and use of digital tools that can serve the needs of researchers and other end-users. Participants will bring a few sample materials they are working with. We will use these in a class project—creating a digital edition over the course of the week using skills learned in each session. The goal is for participants to return to their home institutions ready and able to build upon, enhance, and transform these initial ideas into robust digital editions.
This course is jointly sponsored by eLaboratories and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and will be taught collaboratively by Katie Blizzard and Dr. Lorena Gauthereau.
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Katie Blizzard (kal3aw@virginia.edu) is the Managing Director of eLaboratories and a senior research editor at the Center for Digital Editing, where she supports the editorial practices of community and partner projects. She holds a master’s degree in public administration. Blizzard contributes to the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) e-newsletter and served as secretary for the ADE from 2021 to 2023.
Lorena Gauthereau, PhD (lgauthereau@uh.edu) is the Digital Programs Manager for the US Latino Digital Humanities Center at the University of Houston’s Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery), where she supports the creation of digital projects and provides training. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Association of Computers and the Humanities (ACH). In 2021, she was awarded a Rare Book School-Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Heritage. Previously, she held the position of CLIR-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation at Recovery. Dr. Gauthereau earned her MA in Hispanic studies and her PhD in English literature, both from Rice University.
