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.
Are you overwhelmed by the work of planning a digital edition or digital archive? Are you looking for tools or tips to help you set and track manageable project goals? Try watching this 90-minute recorded workshop from May 21, 2024 about successfully planning and managing your project from start to finish.
This recorded interview showcases archivists’ viewpoints on digitizing initiatives, particular in regard to issues of preservation, access, institutional partnerships and collaborations, and community engagement. It also provides an alternative point of entry for thinking about creating digital editions and working with digital materials. One of the main goals of this conversation is to identify sites of shared vision and commitment for the many different practitioners working in the ecosystem of digitizations, digital collections, and digital editions, centering an archivist’s point of view on how digital partnerships and collaborations can be fruitful for all parties.
Are you interested in learning more about how to involve students in your editing and recovery work? Join the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers for a Zoom panel on "Engaging Students in Recovery Work."
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