A Discussion on the Considerations of Digitization
UVA Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library 170 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia, United StatesNeel Agrawal discusses the various considerations involved in developing a digitization plan for your project.
A Discussion on Using Omeka Classic for Preparing and Publishing a Digital Edition
UVA Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library 170 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia, United StatesCathy Moran Hajo discusses the benefits of using Omeka Classic for preparing, managing, and publishing her digital edition.
A Demonstration of FairCopy
UVA Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library 170 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia, United StatesNick Laiacona demonstrates how to use FairCopy, an offline tool that facilitates the encoding of documents in TEI-XML.
A Demonstration of a Drupal Module for Digital Editions, & Discussing the Archival Benefits of Static Sites
UVA Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library 170 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia, United StatesErica 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.
A Discussion on Open Scholarship Tools & Considerations
UVA Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library 170 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia, United StatesSherry Lake discusses some of the tools and considerations involved in preparing and cataloguing data (like digital editions) for open access.
A Demonstration & Discussion of GAMS for Publishing Financial Records
UVA Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library 170 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia, United StatesChristopher Pollin demonstrates how GAMS can publish financial records, as well as discusses the lessons learned from developing this tool.
A Discussion on How Editions Shape Our Ideas About the Documentary Record
UVA Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library 170 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia, United StatesKarin Wulf discusses how editions shape our ideas about scarcity or plenty in the documentary record.
A Discussion on the Recovery Publishing Ecosystem at Arte Público Press
UVA Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library 170 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia, United StatesDrs. 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."
Writing & Submitting Federal Grant Applications
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.
Caring for Community Collections: Insights from Working with the Seizo Oka Collection at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California
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.
Introduction to CollectionBuilder-SHEETS
In this recorded workshop—which was originally held on March 6, 2024, and taught by Julia Stone (University of Idaho), Olivia Wikle (Iowa State University), and Evan Peter Williamson (University of Idaho)—viewers learn how to use CollectionBuilder-Sheets (SHEETS), a CollectionBuilder template released in 2024 that enables users to build digital collections directly from a Google Sheet of metadata.
Scholarly Editing: Fostering Communities of Recovery (Part 1)
In a two-part, recorded event series, two of Scholarly Editing’s editors and two of its contributing authors explored the nature and impact of the journal’s expanding content and communities of journal editors, readers, contributors, and genres. They also discussed the role of art, poetry, and fiction as a lens for recovery work.
