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The use of descriptive, contextual, referential, or illustrative content or structure that supports the discoverability and accessibility of source materials. Annotation may take many forms (footnotes, source notes, metadata, glossaries, essays, indexes, keywords, images, maps, and more) and multiple forms of annotation may be used by a project.
Upcoming Events
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Camp eLabs
August 3, 2026 8:00 am
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 Revolutions and Reflections.
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Revolutions and Reflections: A Conference for Editing and Recovery Practitioners
August 8, 2026 9:30 am
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.
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SNACSchool Create and Edit
August 26, 2026 1:00 pm
This summer, SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context)—a cooperative platform that helps researchers and archivists discover relationships between people, families, organizations, and archival holdings across repositories—will host another series of …
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Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage and Association for Documentary Editing Joint Conference
October 8, 2026
From October 8–10, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery) and the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) will host a joint conference in Houston, Texas. This first-ever collaboration between Recovery and ADE will bring together scholars, archivists, editors, students and community practitioners to explore how figures and documents—canonical, forgotten, official and grassroots—have shaped the histories, literatures and identities of the United States.
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From Fragmented Records to Collective Memory: Centering Black Women Organizer’s Archives in History
The Black Women's Organizing Archive (BWOA) showcased its innovative, participatory approach to repositioning Black women's contributions and redefining historical archives during a presentation at eLaboratories on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.
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About the eLabs Website Launch
We would like to take a moment to introduce you to what you can find on our site today and what you can expect to find on it in the coming months.
