Tools & Technologies

The Alabama Digital Humanities Center and the University of Alabama Libraries invites you to join their Digital Humanities Conference Digitorium. Digitorium is an inclusive, interactive, fully hybrid conference and will take place September 12-14, 2024.

Join Ben and Sara Brumfield of FromThePage as they step you through your first crowdsourcing project. The session covers selecting material, finding volunteers, developing transcription conventions, keeping volunteers engaged, and what to do with your transcriptions once you're done.

The planned Dublin Core Data Institute (DCDI), which will be held in-person at the University of Toronto on October 19, will bring together data and information scientists as well as humanities and social science scholars, to mingle and exchange ideas on developing open data resources for humanities and social science scholarship.

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) invites digital library, archives, and museum practitioners to join the Virtual DLF Forum, which will be held from October 22-23. With 34 sessions planned over two days, the DLF Forum program features a vibrant program for those interested in discussing digital library technologies and practices: from reflections on digitizing textual and complex physical materials, to conversations on how to improve the discoverability and accessibility of archival and library collections, and more.

Christopher Pollin demonstrates how GAMS can publish financial records, as well as discusses the lessons learned from developing this tool.

Nick Laiacona demonstrates how to use FairCopy, an offline tool that facilitates the encoding of documents in TEI-XML.