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 planning on using text encoding or TEI-XML to prepare your editing project, but you don’t know where to start? Join eLaboratories for a 90-minute workshop on October 3 at 12:00 PM, where you’ll begin setting up your project in consultation with eLabs guide Christopher Ohge.
The long and arduous process of Meredith’s admission into the University of Mississippi captured the world’s attention. As news traveled, James Meredith received hundreds of letters from all over the world. Many of these letters are housed in the University of Mississippi’s Archives and Special Collections and are digitally accessible online, but a new project based at the University of Mississippi aims to make these materials more discoverable. In a recorded presentation from October 17, 2024, project leaders Adam Clemons and Abbie Norris-Davidson as they discuss their methodology in mapping Meredith’s correspondence and their plans for future work on this project. In a recording of their October 17, 2024 presentation, project leaders Adam Clemons and Abbie Norris-Davidson as they discuss their methodology in mapping Meredith’s correspondence and their plans for future work on this project.
During a recorded event on Nov. 6, 2024, Jeddie Sophronius read and commented on a selection of poems from Interrogation Records. Sophronius also discussed their work in preparing Interrogation Records as well as its role as one part in an unofficial trilogy of Sophronius’ poetry collections.
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.
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.
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.
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