Neel Agrawal discusses the various considerations involved in developing a digitization plan for your project.
Cathy Moran Hajo discusses the benefits of using Omeka Classic for preparing, managing, and publishing her digital edition.
Nick Laiacona demonstrates how to use FairCopy, an offline tool that facilitates the encoding of documents in TEI-XML.
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.
Sherry Lake discusses some of the tools and considerations involved in preparing and cataloguing data (like digital editions) for open access.
Christopher Pollin demonstrates how GAMS can publish financial records, as well as discusses the lessons learned from developing this tool.
Karin Wulf discusses how editions shape our ideas about scarcity or plenty in the documentary record.
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."
Are you interested in applying for a federal grant to support the creation of a digital edition or an annotated digital collection or archive? Try this recorded 90-minute workshop that explores the common elements of federal grants aimed at supporting the creation of annotated collections and how to approach those elements in your application.
In 2019, the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC) began digitizing a rare collection of records that documents the lives of Issei (first-generation Japanese Americans) in San Francisco. This initiative not only marked the opening of the community’s access to these fragile records, but also launched a major renovation effort to the JCCCNC’s archival space. Since then, the JCCCNC has worked hard to re-envision their archives and prepare these materials with the local community in mind.
Are you interested in learning more about how to incorporate your editing and recovery work in the classroom environment? Join the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers for a Zoom panel on "Using Digital Archives in the Classroom."
Drawing from the experiences of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program, this workshop will explore strategies for collaborating with individuals and community organizations to ethically digitize, preserve, and disseminate historical materials. Through a lens of care and post-custodial approaches, the program will share its methodologies for identifying and making these historical resources accessible.
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