Join Ben and Sara Brumfield of FromThePage as they step you through your first crowdsourcing project. The session covers selecting material, finding volunteers, developing transcription conventions, keeping volunteers engaged, and what to do with your transcriptions once you're done.
In this plenary address “Sovereign Printscapes: Why Indigenous Newspapers Matter” at the annual conference of the National Digital Newspaper Program, Professor Kathryn Walkiewicz will discuss the role Indigenous newspapers have historically played as a means of asserting sovereignty and countering damaging stereotypes about Native communities. Join NEH Division of Preservation and Access and the Serial and Government Publications Division at the Library of Congress for this special, virtual event on September 25 from 3:30–5:00 pm ET.
Learn more about the innovative use of digital technologies to enhance and transform undergraduate and graduate teaching at the Digital Pedagogy Institute, which will be held online from August 13-15, 2024.
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!
UCLA California Rare Book School is pleased to host the second annual Queer Bibliography conference, with virtual sessions to be held between July 25-26, 2024. Queer Bibliography makes explicit the connections between queer theories and methodologies and the multifaceted field of bibliography. This year’s conference will focus on CalRBS’s 2024 theme “Borders, Boundaries, and Margins.”
Do today's latest "AI" models offer capabilities not possible with traditional OCR, for unlocking documents whose handwritten contexts were impenetrable with previous technologies? A decade ago, the Office of the Historian scanned its "Consular Cards file", a collection of 6,500 handwritten index cards containing listings of officials at all U.S. diplomatic and consular posts from 1789-1960. A unique and foundational source for understanding the history of U.S. foreign relations, the utility of the scanned cards remained limited due to OCR's inability to extract text from the ornate cursive handwriting on these cards. Experiments conducted this year with multimodal AI tools have produced breakthrough, if imperfect, results. The talk will demonstrate the methodology and results of these experiments and will offer tips and caveats for scholars considering such tools.
Come hear scholars and archivists from McMaster University, home to Austin Clarke’s papers, and the British Library, custodian of Andrew Salkey’s papers, as they explore and discuss this extraordinary documentary legacy.
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."
Are you thinking about how your edition could be used by students or teachers, but you’re unsure how to plan for or cultivate these audiences? Try this 60-minute recorded eLabs webinar from May 31, 2024 that explores different approaches to engaging teachers, as well as students of all ages.
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