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SUMMARY:Revolutions and Reflections: A Conference for Editing and Recovery Practitioners
DESCRIPTION:From August 8–9\, the Center for Digital Editing’s eLaboratories will host its first annual conference in Charlottesville\, Virginia\, under the theme “Revolutions and Reflections.” We invite editors\, recovery practitioners\, public historians\, archivists\, educators\, students\, digital humanists\, community-based researchers\, and more to join us in discussing methodologies\, technological approaches\, public applications\, and insights gained from editing and recovery work. \n\n\n\nHeld in the context of the United States’ 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, our first conference aims to reflect on revolution as both a historical event and an ongoing process. Our theme\, “Revolutions and Reflections\,” fosters discussion on how editions\, archives\, and research collections shape our understanding of revolutionary moments\, and how evolving technologies\, methodologies\, and public needs are reshaping the editorial landscape. \n\n\n\nView the conference program below\, or view the PDF conference program. Descriptions about pre-conference workshops can be found on their event page: \n\n\n\n\nView Camp eLabs (Aug. 3–6)\n\n\n\nView Practical Strategies for Web Accessibility and Environmental Sustainability (Aug. 7\, 9:30 AM–4:30 AM)\n\n\n\nView Strategies for Finding Scattered Documents (Aug. 7\, 1:00–4:30 PM)\n\n\n\n\nIn person registration will be open until August 3. Virtual registration will be open through the end of the conference. Register now. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Location \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConference Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, August 7Saturday\, August 8Sunday\, August 9\n\nPre-Conference Workshops: 9:30 AM–4:30 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewcomb Hall\, South Meeting Room9:30 AM–4:30 PMNewcomb Hall\, Room 3761:00–4:30 PMPractical Strategies for Web Accessibility and Environmental SustainabilityView workshop details. Strategies for Finding Scattered DocumentsView workshop details.\n\n\n\n\n\nOpening Remarks: 9:45–10:00 AM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewcomb BallroomCoffee and pastries will be provided.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 1: 10:15–11:30 AM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewcomb BallroomNewcomb South Meeting RoomAccessible Transcriptions and Scholarly Editions: Revisiting the A in FAIR DataCollaborative Editing\, Transformative Learning: Student Roles in Documentary ProjectsVictoria Van Hyning\, Ellen Forget\, Nicholas Gentry\, Raffaele VigliantiStudent Transcription\, Archival Authority\, and the Dickinson Electronic ArchivesElizabeth Dinneny\, Jeannette Schollaert Dangerous Harbor: Finding Escaped Unfree People in the Seventeenth-Century ChesapeakeJessica TaylorNaval Documents of the American RevolutionChristopher F. Minty\, Christopher Flores-Bravo\, Jonathan Lerdau\, Audrey Miracle\, Isabella Shealy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 2: 11:45–1:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewcomb BallroomNewcomb South Meeting RoomWikidata for Metadata CurationExtending the Reach of Digital Projects: Connecting with Students and Communities (NOT RECORDED)Dorothy Howard\, Robin Isadora Brown\, Lane RasberryYes\, They Can! Student Interns and Documentary Editing ProjectsMark CheathemLast Seen: Finding Family After SlaverySigne FourmyCollection-Driven Outcomes as the Afterlife of a Digital ExhibitionJen Hoyer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLunch: 1:00-2:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEWCOMB BALLROOMSandwich and salad options will be available in the Newcomb Ballroom for all attendees.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 3: 2:00–3:15 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewcomb BallroomNewcomb South Meeting RoomRecovering Unpublished Black Fiction of the Reconstruction South: George A. Newman’s A Miserable RevengeDigital Showcase Session 1Mollie Godfrey\, Mark Metzler Sawin\, Ruth M. Toliver\, Veronica T. WatsonMapping Place\, Recovering Histories: A Collaborative Digital Platform for Place-Based Historical InterpretationXiaolin DuanforgingUSErica Cavanaugh\, Anneliese Dehner\, Jennifer Stertzer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 4: 3:30–4:45 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewcomb BallroomNewcomb South Meeting RoomThe Black Women’s Diaries ProjectPresenting History through Performance and PlayJennifer Putzi\, Sapphire George\, Rachel N. Hogan\, Ziz KilmerReflective Recovery: Archival Storytelling\, Digital Editing\, and Public Memory in The Ward – Radical HistoryJohn W. Bessai\, Sandra CreightonGirlbossing the Guillotine: Collective Memory and Liberal Counterrevolution in The RevolutionistsAsia MeanaEditing the Uneditable: Recovering “Ye Bare and Ye Cubbe” Through PerformanceCason Murphy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReception: 5:30–8:00 PMandPoster Session: 6:00–7:00 PM(In Person Only) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUVA Rotunda\, Dome RoomDrinks and light appetizers will be available all throughout the reception and accompanying poster session.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoster PresentationsIdentifying the People Enslaved by the Mason Family of Virginia\, 1773-1865David G. ArmstrongHighlighting Narratives of Military Vulnerability and Demographic Complexity in Documents from Florida’s Second Spanish Period (1783-1821)Clayton McCarlEditions to Exhibits: Publishing the Drafts of the Declaration of IndependenceChristina R. CarrickCritical Bibliography and the Revolution: Visualizing a Book Census and the Materiality of Lived ExperienceJennifer MerrimanSocial Annotation and Open Pedagogy: Democratizing Student Learning Melissa ChimThe Revolution Remembered: Archival Recovery and the Political Imagination of the New LeftDrew PhaneufThomas Paine: Collected WritingsScott ClearyMaking an Online Edition as an English Major Capstone ProjectChristopher Phillips & Bianca FalboAdditional Essential Labor: Articulating the Work of EditingMarlowe Daly-GaleanoWhose Stories Are Remembered? Contextual History and Community-Led Preservation of African American Heritage in Blacksburg’s New TownToni PittsAmerica in the Archive: Entangled Narratives and Community InvolvementRachel A. ErnstCritical Access: Compiling a Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Raised PrintAmanda StuckeyMapping the Digital HumanitiesZoie Horecny & Henry KempJames Henry\, Victorian Revolutionary: Recovering the Manuscripts of Ireland’s Forgotten PolymathJustin TackettRecovering and Revising Revolutions by Digitizing Early American Women Writers’ Textual MonumentsMelissa J. Lingle-MartinThe Cause of Loyalty: The Revolutionary Worlds of Myles CooperPeter Walker\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 1: 9:15–10:30 AM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewcomb BallroomNewcomb South Meeting RoomRecovering and Prioritizing Community MemoryAI and Editing: A Brave New World?Uncovering Thamel: The Heart of Cultural TreasuresPrakriti AdhikariBen Brumfield\, Cathy Moran Hajo\, Charles WelskoArmenian Cookbooks as Living Rhetorical Sites of Diaspora\, Memory\, and CommunityEmiliya MailyanArchiving at the Margins: Community-Centred Digital Recovery and the Visibility Problem for Early West African Women Photographers Alex Ohemeng\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 2: 10:45-12:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewcomb BallroomNewcomb South Meeting RoomBuilding Capacity and Community: Models for Collaboration and SustainabilityExploring the Applications and Effects of AI (NOT RECORDED)From Funeral Records to Newspaper Networks: Collaborative Approaches to Recovering Latino HistoriesGabriela Baeza Ventura\, Carolina VillarroelReconstructing Black Truth: Synthetic Media and the Crisis of Digital Memory Breauna Marie Spencer\, Ph.D.History Beyond the Institution: Digital Preservation\, Crowdsourcing\, and the Future of AI in the Manumission ProjectStephen Langeland\, Sydney GilbertAI-Assisted Editorial Workflows: Expanding Access and Discoverability in Digital CollectionsAaron PahlSmall\, Local\, and Sustainable Digital Editions: Re-editing the Henry Boswell Jones Diary Mackenzie Brooks\, Paula S. KiserDigital Preservation\, Copyright\, and Publishing PaiNE Nora Slonimsky\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLunch 12:00–1:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEWCOMB BALLROOMSandwich and salad options will be available in the Newcomb Ballroom for all attendees.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 3: 1:00–2:15 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewcomb BallroomNewcomb South Meeting RoomArchives of Resistance: Reading\, Writing\, and Preserving Revolutionary HistoriesDigital Showcase Session 2Rethinking Revolution and the Postemancipation State in ‘Black Maryland in the Civil War’ William Horne\, James IllingworthAgainst All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi DeeDee BaldwinRevolutionary Archives: Leslie Marmon Silko and Almanac of the Dead Abigale MazzoPrompting a Public History Website into Existence using Generative AI: The Chinese Red Record Project Kevin HeggProcess/ing: Preserving the Freedom Information Service Library Dr. Christina J. Thomas\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 4: 2:30-3:45 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewcomb BallroomNewcomb South Meeting RoomDesigning Methodologies and Publications to Preserve Form\, Feeling\, and Contextual RelationshipsHMoob Stories Project: Living with and Through Displacement (NOT RECORDED)The Literary Annual as Editorial Problem: Editing Empire on the Parlour Table Katherine D. HarrisChong Moua\, Tommy CheeMou Yang“I Hope It Will Be Understood”: Editing Queer Intimacy in the Seven Sisters Diaries Anne-Laure SabathierWelcome to the Party: Thomas Jefferson’s Presidential Dinner Guest Records from Manuscript to Digital Database Merry Ellen Scofield\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClosing Remarks: 3:45–4:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewcomb BallroomJoin us for these final remarks as we close our first conference.
URL:https://elaboratories.org/event/revolutions-and-reflections-a-conference-for-editing-and-recovery-practitioners/
LOCATION:Newcomb Hall Ballroom\, 180 McCormick Road\, Charlottesville\, Virginia\, 22903\, United States
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SUMMARY:Camp eLabs
DESCRIPTION:Are you looking for a workshop environment to begin planning your digital edition or archive? Join eLaboratories from August 3–6\, 2026 in Charlottesville\, VA for our introductory workshop\, followed by our conference activities on August 7–9. \n\n\n\nTaught collaboratively by Katie Blizzard\, Christopher Ohge\, and Serenity Sutherland\, this workshop will explore all aspects of conceptualizing\, planning for\, and creating digital projects that aim to make historical or literary source materials more accessible and discoverable. It provides a basic introduction to the editing practices available to preparing materials for digital publication and a survey of the many digital tools available to serve project goals. Framing these discussions\, the workshop will consider how end-users will want to approach the particular digital project. Attendees also will learn how a project’s design—such as methodology\, planned outcomes\, and collaborations—can advance community perspectives and interests. By keeping these users and stakeholders in mind\, practitioners are better able to develop effective editorial strategies that will result in a dynamic\, thoughtful and usable digital archive or edition. \n\n\n\nIn this course\, participants will engage in hands-on learning and group discussions related to project conceptualization\, editorial policies and processes\, and the selection and use of digital tools that can serve the needs of their users. Participants are encouraged to bring a few samples of the materials they are working with for use during the practical exercises\, though samples will also be provided. The goal is for participants to return to their home institutions ready and able to build upon\, enhance\, and transform these initial ideas into robust digital projects. \n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for beginners with a project already in mind. We also welcome any individuals who are simply interested in expanding their skill set by learning about editorial practices.  \n\n\n\nInterested individuals are asked to apply for the workshop by completing this form by June 26. Candidates will be notified of their acceptance by July 10. Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, travel and lodging for accepted applicants will be covered for workshop and the conference activities that follow. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Location \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Pricing \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Presenters\n\n\n\nKatie Blizzard is the Managing Director of eLaboratories and a senior research editor at the Center for Digital Editing\, where she supports the editorial practices of community and partner projects. She holds a master’s degree in public administration. Blizzard contributes to the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) e-newsletter and served as secretary for the ADE from 2021 to 2023. \n\n\n\nChristopher Ohge is Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the School of Advanced Study\, University of London. He has also served as a core faculty member for eLaboratories\, working on the Fundamentals of Editing courses (formerly known as the Institute for Editing Historical Documents\, or “Camp Edit”). Since 2018 he has also taught editing and book history courses on the London Rare Books School. He serves as the Associate Director of the Melville Electronic Library and an Associate Editor for Melville’s Marginalia Online. Before moving to London\, he served as an associate editor at the Mark Twain Papers & Project at the University of California\, Berkeley. He has held postdoctoral fellowships and taught at the University of Maine\, Boston University\, and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The author of the book Publishing Scholarly Editions: Archives\, Computing\, and Experience (Cambridge University Press\, 2021)\, he has also published work in Textual Cultures\, Scholarly Editing\, Essays in Criticism\, American Literary History\, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies\, and in several edited collections. \n\n\n\nSerenity Sutherland is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego where she teaches undergraduate and graduate students. She received her PhD in History from the University of Rochester. Her research expertise includes the history of gender in science and technology\, the digital humanities\, scholarly editing\, and media studies. Her biography of chemist Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911)\, the first woman to attend MIT and teach there\, will be published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2027. Other published works that combine her interests include the digital humanities project “Visualizing Women in Science at the American Philosophical Society” and a digital edition of the papers of chemist Ellen Swallow Richards. She has taught multiple courses for eLaboratories\, and was the president of the Association for Documentary Editing from 2023-2024.
URL:https://elaboratories.org/event/camp-elabs/
LOCATION:University of Virginia\, 180 McCormick Rd\, Charlottesville\, Virginia\, 22903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Strategies for Finding Scattered Documents
DESCRIPTION:Historical correspondence\, organizational records\, and other primary sources are often dispersed across a vast network of archives\, museums\, historical societies\, and private collections. For scholars and practitioners working with these materials\, locating them can be one of the more challenging and time-consuming stages of a project. \n\n\n\nOn August 7\, in a half-day workshop for the eLabs conference Revolutions and Reflections\, Cathy Moran Hajo will draw on her work with Jane Addams Papers and Margaret Sanger Papers projects to share practical strategies for identifying\, locating\, and tracking scattered documents. Participants will learn about the various resources useful for conducting exploratory searches\, as well as will discuss how to interrogate their available documents to identify potential leads to relevant materials. The workshop will also address strategies for contacting repositories and private individuals\, and methods for documenting searches. \n\n\n\nDesigned for both emerging and experienced practitioners\, this session will equip participants with concrete techniques for beginning or expanding their documentary search. \n\n\n\nPlease note that registration for this workshop is currently full. New registrants may opt to join the waitlist. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Location \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Pricing \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter\n\n\n\nCathy Moran Hajo\, Ph.D. is the editor of the Jane Addams Papers Project at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She formerly worked as Associate Editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project at New York University. She taught for many years at the Institute for Editing Historical Documents\, and has contributed several courses on the basics of scholarly editing for eLaboratories. She teaches an undergraduate course\, Introduction to Digital History\, at Ramapo College. She served as president of the Association for Documentary Editing in 2008-2009.  
URL:https://elaboratories.org/event/finding-documents-a-workshop-for-practitioners-looking-for-dispersed-collections/
LOCATION:Newcomb Hall\, Room 376\, 180 McCormick Avenue\, Charlottesville\, 22904\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Practical Strategies for Web Accessible and Environmentally Sustainable Digital Projects
DESCRIPTION:EDIT\, 07/21/26: Please note that this workshop has been amended from a full-day workshop to a half-day workshop. \n\n\n\nAs digital editions and archives continue to grow in scale and reach\, project teams are increasingly considering how to create resources that are both accessible to diverse audiences and environmentally sustainable. These goals are frequently interconnected: decisions that improve usability\, clarity\, and efficiency can also reduce the energy and resources required to deliver digital content. At the same time\, evolving accessibility requirements and forthcoming compliance deadlines are making accessibility planning an increasingly important consideration for digital humanities and cultural heritage projects. \n\n\n\nOn August 7\, in a half-day workshop for the eLabs conference Revolutions and Reflections\, Erica Cavanaugh will draw on her experience in conceptualizing digital editions and building their publishing platforms to guide participants through practical strategies for improving the accessibility and sustainability of their websites and digital resources. Topics will include planning for accessibility in your site’s visual design and navigation\, optimizing image and media resources to reduce unnecessary data transfer\, selecting sustainable hosting and technology solutions\, and more. The in-person workshop will also introduce tools and methods for assessing web accessibility and measuring the environmental impacts of digital projects. \n\n\n\nDesigned for practitioners at all levels of technical expertise\, the workshop emphasizes actionable strategies that can be incorporated into both new and existing projects. By the end of the session\, participants will have a stronger understanding of how accessibility and sustainability intersect\, how emerging accessibility requirements may affect their work\, and how to make informed decisions that support more inclusive\, responsible\, and resilient digital projects. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Location \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Pricing \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister
URL:https://elaboratories.org/event/practical-strategies-for-web-accessible-and-environmentally-sustainable-digital-projects/
LOCATION:Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room\, 180 McCormick Rd\, Charlottesville\, Virginia\, 22903\, United States
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