The linked symposia, hosted consecutively by Baylor University and Texas A&M University, build upon both institutions' substantial collections of 18th- and 19th-century archival materials and their commitment to creating accessible digital archives and scholarship.
This year, we’re embarking on a fresh project that merges the creative energy of a studio environment with the thoughtful structure of a book club. Our goal is to bring together diverse forms of literature—academic, revolutionary, and poetic—and uncover the themes that connect them. Through this process, we aim to inspire participants to explore archival silences, feminist politics, and community organization within literature, existing projects, as well as their own work. From February 24 through June 30, we will meet from 1:30–2:45 PM (Eastern Time) on the last Monday of every month (excepting the month of May). You can join us for the entire series or choose the sessions that resonate most with your interests.
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.
Presented by the Bibliographical Society of America and the Alliance for Digital Research on Early Latin America on March 7, 2025, this virtual symposium features presentations by researchers and cultural heritage professionals who are using digital approaches to analyze and transmit a diverse range of Latin American texts from the colonial period, nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
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.
In this video, Nick Laiacona of Performant Software Solutions demonstrates how to go from a set of page images to a functioning online digital edition. Using FairCopy and EditionCrafter, Laicona introduces a workflow for organizing, editing, and publishing a digital edition.
Join the History of Black Writing (Indiana University-Bloomington) and the Center of Digital Humanities Research (Texas A&M University) for a virtual talk on March 27 at 3:30 PM CST / 4:30 PM EST. Dr. Lawrence Jackson, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History at Johns Hopkins University, will present "Revisiting Baltimore's African American History: Archives and Curated Digital Public Exhibits".
How do you get from a stack of books to a graph reflecting what’s inside them? What gets in the way? What research questions does the process enable? This workshop introduces participants to some foundational principles, practices and challenges when working with textual data. No programming experience required. Attendees will use Voyant as a vehicle to explore text analysis, but the workshop will create an experience beyond this one tool. The workshop, hosted by the US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH) on March 31 at 10:00 AM CDT, will discuss the affordances and limitations of Voyant as a vehicle for exploring the opportunities and challenges of working with textual data.
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.
On April 23 at 6:00 PM (British Summer Time), Janelle Jenstad (University of Victoria) will discuss LEMDO during a presentation hosted by Animating Text Newcastle University. This talk aims to justify LEMDO’s objective to provide open-access editions of every surviving early modern text (1512-166), argue for a collaborative editorial practice, and describe its mechanism for publishing editions in sustainable digital anthologies, downloadable PDFs, and print-on-demand books.
On April 24 at 9:00 AM EDT, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions will host a webinar featuring Jennifer Brannock. This presentation will highlight the cookbook collection at USM and how cookbooks can be used for local history and genealogical research. The talk will also focus on the efforts to use cookbooks to engage with users locally and online.
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.
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