Do you teach with primary sources, or want to learn more about teaching with primary sources? Join the TPS Collective from July 30–August 1 for their annual TPS Fest—an informative and fun virtual event, covering all aspects of Teaching with Primary Sources!
Gathering under the conference theme of "Collaborations," the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) will host its annual meeting at the Embassy Suites Downtown in Buffalo, NY from June 20-22. Some presentations include: "The Ethics of Documenting Community: Collaboration Toward the Preservation of US Latina Texts;" a town hall with the ADE's Education Committee; "Collaborating on and Best Practices in the Digital Realm;" "Textual Tangles in Print and Online Publication;" "Building Indigenous Digital Infrastructure: The Haudenosaunee Archive, Resource, and Knowledge (HARK) Portal at the University at Buffalo;" "From Transcription to Edition: Crowdsourcing the Notebooks of a 17th Century Physician and Vicar of Stratford upon Avon and Discussing Next Steps in a Collaborative Digital Edition;" and more.
As part of their commitment to "to accurately and respectfully describ materials relating to historically overlooked communities," the University of Central Oklahoma Chambers Library annually hosts a virtual symposium for catalogers, archivists, metadata specialists, library/archives workers or students interested in metadata justice to share and discuss their approaches.
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."
Are you looking to build a peer-reviewed, open-access critical edition, gallery, or anthology–without any coding? Are you interested in collaborating with your class in the preparation and annotation of these materials? Join COVE at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute for the course "Open-Assembly Teaching, Making, and Publishing: COVE Editions and Studio."
Drs. Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Carolina Villarroel discuss the ecosystem of a program at Arte Público Press called Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage ("Recovery"), which is "an international program to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form since colonial times until 1960."
Karin Wulf discusses how editions shape our ideas about scarcity or plenty in the documentary record.
Christopher Pollin demonstrates how GAMS can publish financial records, as well as discusses the lessons learned from developing this tool.
Sherry Lake discusses some of the tools and considerations involved in preparing and cataloguing data (like digital editions) for open access.
Erica Cavanaugh demonstrates how to use the UVA Digital Publishing Cooperative's Drupal module as a platform for preparing and publishing digital editions. Following, Patricia Searl discusses the archival benefits of publishing editions as static sites.
Nick Laiacona demonstrates how to use FairCopy, an offline tool that facilitates the encoding of documents in TEI-XML.
Cathy Moran Hajo discusses the benefits of using Omeka Classic for preparing, managing, and publishing her digital edition.
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