eLabs & Community Events

Name: An Introduction to Open and Social Knowledge Production: An Intensive Workshop
Start: 2025-09-05T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-26T14:00:00-04:00

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September 2025
Featured September 5, 2025 1:00 pm - September 26, 2025 2:00 pm EDT

An Introduction to Open and Social Knowledge Production: An Intensive Workshop

Virtual Event

This fall, eLaboratories—in partnership with the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria—will host a month-long workshop focused on introducing and exploring the definition, contexts, methodologies, and affordances of open and social knowledge production. During the month of September, cohort members will meet once weekly on Fridays from 1:00–2:00 PM (Eastern Time) for a discussion on related readings and topics, with conversations or content to be led by Ray Siemens, Graham Jensen, Alyssa Arbuckle, Matt Huculak, and Randa El-Katib.

Free
August 2025
Featured August 13, 2025 3:00 pm EDT

Enhancing Access and Discovery: Voices of the Eastern Shore as a Model for Local, Metadata-Driven Digital Projects

Virtual Event

On August 13, 2025, eLaboratories hosted Voices of the Eastern Shore for a discussion on the value of a multi-disciplinary approach to editing. Led by Dreanna Belden—Director of External Partnerships at the University of North Texas Libraries and a graduate of the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (the precursor to eLabs)—Voices of the Eastern Shore brings together the best practices of library science and editing to bring to life the Somerset County Historical Trust’s long-held goal of publishing the letters of Elizabeth Upshur Teackle.

Free
Featured August 12, 2025 3:00 pm EDT

Research in Progress: New Projects Committed to Recontextualizing Visual Objects

Virtual Event

On August 12, 2025, eLaboratories hosted ACLS fellows Kale Serrato Doyen and Letícia Fernanda Carvalho Silva for an engaging event that explores their ongoing work in illuminating the communities and lives of the people depicted in historical photographs and paintings.

Free
April 2025
Featured April 29, 2025 12:00 pm EDT

Exploring the Black Women’s Organizing Archive (BWOA): A Digital Project Informed by the Community Imperatives of Black Women’s Organizing

Virtual Event

On Tuesday, April 29 at 12:00 PM EDT, project leaders Shirley Moody-Turner (Penn State University) and Sabrina Evans (Howard University) will discuss the origins, values, and partnerships that have shaped the Black Women’s Organizing Archive. They will also present the resources available on the site for researchers and educators looking to engage with these materials. This presentation may be of interest to those seeking to create a digital project, archive or edition that is community centered.

Free
Featured April 22, 2025 11:30 am EDT

The Stories Behind Editing & Recovery Work (Storyteller Series, Part 1)

Virtual Event

Have you ever wondered how you get into editing and recovery work? Or maybe you’ve wondered what’s the most interesting thing a practitioner has seen? In this first installment of our Storyteller Series, originally recording on April 22, 2025, eLabs Advisory Board Member Diane Matsuda and eLabs Managing Director Katie Blizzard talked to Cathy Moran Hajo, Diana Marsh, Ken Price, Jennifer Stertzer, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, and Carolina Villarroel about the paths that led them to their work in editing and recovery.

Free
Featured April 3, 2025 3:00 pm EDT

Engaging Communities in Crowdsourcing Using the Zooniverse Project Builder

Virtual Event

Join eLaboratories on April 3 at 3:00 PM EDT for this free, virtual 90-minute workshop with Denise Burgher and Jim Casey (Center for Black Digital Research, Penn State). Drawing from their experience leading the Colored Conventions Project and Douglass Day, Burgher and Casey will guide you through the lifecycle of crowdsourcing projects using the free Zooniverse Project Builder—from design and development to launch and project completion.

Free
March 2025
March 17, 2025 12:00 pm EDT

Analyzing Your TEI-XML Editing Project: A Personalized Workshop for Ongoing TEI Projects

Virtual Event

Have you been encoding your texts in TEI-XML and are ready to begin analyzing your data? Are you aware of all the different ways you can query your encoded data? Or maybe you’re aware of what kinds of analysis you can do with it, but you’re unsure how to prepare your data in order to make that possible. Try this 90-minute workshop originally recorded on March 17, 2025, during which eLabs guide Christopher Ohge provides an overview the various ways you can query your TEI-XML data as well as helps you begin experimenting with analyzing your data.

Free
February 2025
Featured February 26, 2025 3:00 pm EST

CANCELLED: What’s at Stake in Community Engagement? A Conversation About Goals and Ethics with Editors from the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive

Virtual Event

On Feb. 26 at 3:00 PM ET, project co-editor Ken Price and editorial assistant Bianca Swift will explore the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive's ongoing work to cultivate new audiences and engagements. Their presentation will focus on current efforts to generate collaborations within the Cleveland community in which Chesnutt wrote, sharing their insights into developing meaningful partnerships and examining the challenges faced by such collaborations. Following their brief presentation, they will invite audience discussion about what ethical editing and archive creation looks like in project planning and practice.

Free
December 2024
Featured December 12, 2024 4:00 pm EST

SNAC for Indigenous Archival Research: Finding Records and Improving Representation

Virtual Event

On Dec. 12 at 4:00 PM (Eastern Time), Ia Bull, Diana Marsh, Jerry Simmons and Melissa Stoner will introduce the SNAC web portal, demonstrate how to navigate SNAC records, and discuss approaches to doing Indigenous archival search.

Free
December 10, 2024 11:00 am EST

Visualizing History’s Fragments with the Ottoman Algerian Registers

Virtual Event

Watch this webinar, originally presented on Dec. 10, 2024, to learn more about Dr. Sanders’ strategies for recovering details about the lives of the countless men and women mentioned in these documentary fragments. In this presentation, Dr. Sanders shows how historical data set (re)construction is one way we can begin to address voids in the archive and use the records of the colonizers to do reparative work.

Free
November 2024
Featured November 7, 2024 3:30 pm EST

Using Podcasts for Digital Storytelling, Archival Recovery, and Community Engagement

Virtual Event

On Nov. 7 at 3:30 PM EST, in a 90-minute webinar with eLaboratories, Dr. Saniya Ghanoui of Sexing History, and Drs. Gaby Barrios, Sonia Del Hierro, and Sophia Martínez Abbud of the Señora Power Project will discuss how and why they designed their projects with the affordances of the podcast medium in mind. This webinar aims to discuss how to ethically design digital storytelling projects, and the role of such projects in engaging students and local communities in the work of producing these projects.

Free
November 6, 2024 3:00 pm EST

Author Reading of Interrogation Records: A Docu-Poetry Collection about the Indonesian State-Sanctioned Massacre of 1965

Virtual Event

During a recorded event on Nov. 6, 2024, Jeddie Sophronius read and commented on a selection of poems from Interrogation Records. Sophronius also discussed their work in preparing Interrogation Records as well as its role as one part in an unofficial trilogy of Sophronius’ poetry collections.

Free

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