Digital Preservation: An Overview
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.
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.
Creating Digital Editions with 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 Drupal Module for Scholarly Editions, & 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.
Open Scholarship in the Humanities: Support at the UVA Library
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.
DEPCHA: Publishing Historical Financial Records Lessons Learned
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.
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.
Beyond the Paradigm of the Book: US Latino Digital Publishing
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.
Recovery Hub Tech Hours: Using Digital Archives in the Classroom Panel
VirtualAre you interested in learning more about how to incorporate your editing and recovery work in the classroom environment? Join the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers for a Zoom panel on "Using Digital Archives in the Classroom."
Ethical Community Archiving: Tools for Meaningful Partnerships
Drawing from the experiences of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program, this workshop will explore strategies for collaborating with individuals and community organizations to ethically digitize, preserve, and disseminate historical materials. Through a lens of care and post-custodial approaches, the program will share its methodologies for identifying and making these historical resources accessible.
DEFCON Speaker Series: Latina/o/e Digital Humanities as Places of Joy and Querencia for Students
VirtualThis DEFCON Speaker Series presentation argues for the need to center Latina/o/e DH projects on students’ own cultural, community (Yosso, 2005), and linguistic wealth. Dr. Elena Foulis describes the development of student projects that pay attention to the process of constructing, engaging, and critically reflecting on our personal commitments to build accessible, multilingual archives that center on the community’s knowledge.
Critical Toolkits for Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement: A Free, Virtual Workshop
Are you interested in developing a digital project for crowdsourcing and community engagement? Join eLaboratories for a free, virtual 90-minute workshop that explores the process of organizing programs and digital projects that invite school and community groups to help enrich digitized archives?
Digitize Black Women’s Records Day
Join the Black Women's Organizing Archive and Center for Black Digital Research as they celebrate innovative ways to engage Black women’s activist archives during Digitize Black Women's Records Day. The event will feature engaging discussions from speakers Meta DuEwa Jones, DaMaris B. Hill, Sharia Benn, Janel Moore-Almond, and Jennifer Morris.
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.
Scholarly Editing: Fostering Communities of Recovery (Part 2)
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.
Recovery Hub Tech Hours: Engaging Students in Recovery Work Panel
VirtualAre you interested in learning more about how to involve students in your editing and recovery work? Join the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers for a Zoom panel on "Engaging Students in Recovery Work."
Digital Editions and Collections: An Archivist’s Point of View
This recorded interview showcases archivists’ viewpoints on digitizing initiatives, particular in regard to issues of preservation, access, institutional partnerships and collaborations, and community engagement. It also provides an alternative point of entry for thinking about creating digital editions and working with digital materials. One of the main goals of this conversation is to identify sites of shared vision and commitment for the many different practitioners working in the ecosystem of digitizations, digital collections, and digital editions, centering an archivist’s point of view on how digital partnerships and collaborations can be fruitful for all parties.
Managing Your Digital Edition or Digital Archive: Tips for Managing Your Project from Start to Finish
Are you overwhelmed by the work of planning a digital edition or digital archive? Are you looking for tools or tips to help you set and track manageable project goals? Try watching this 90-minute recorded workshop from May 21, 2024 about successfully planning and managing your project from start to finish.
Editions in the Classroom: Approaches to Engaging Students and Teachers
Are you thinking about how your edition could be used by students or teachers, but you’re unsure how to plan for or cultivate these audiences? Try this 60-minute recorded eLabs webinar from May 31, 2024 that explores different approaches to engaging teachers, as well as students of all ages.
Open-Assembly Teaching, Making, and Publishing: COVE Editions and Studio
University of Victoria 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, BC, CanadaAre you looking to build a peer-reviewed, open-access critical edition, gallery, or anthology–without any coding? Are you interested in collaborating with your class in the preparation and annotation of these materials? Join COVE at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute for the course "Open-Assembly Teaching, Making, and Publishing: COVE Editions and Studio."
Conceptualizing and Creating a Digital Edition
University of Victoria 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, BC, CanadaAre 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."
Metadata Justice in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium
As part of their commitment to "to accurately and respectfully describ materials relating to historically overlooked communities," the University of Central Oklahoma Chambers Library annually hosts a virtual symposium for catalogers, archivists, metadata specialists, library/archives workers or students interested in metadata justice to share and discuss their approaches.
Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting
Gathering under the conference theme of "Collaborations," the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) will host its annual meeting at the Embassy Suites Downtown in Buffalo, NY from June 20-22. Some presentations include: "The Ethics of Documenting Community: Collaboration Toward the Preservation of US Latina Texts;" a town hall with the ADE's Education Committee; "Collaborating on and Best Practices in the Digital Realm;" "Textual Tangles in Print and Online Publication;" "Building Indigenous Digital Infrastructure: The Haudenosaunee Archive, Resource, and Knowledge (HARK) Portal at the University at Buffalo;" "From Transcription to Edition: Crowdsourcing the Notebooks of a 17th Century Physician and Vicar of Stratford upon Avon and Discussing Next Steps in a Collaborative Digital Edition;" and more.
One Love & Venceremos: Celebrating the Correspondence of Austin Clarke & Andrew Salkey (A Webinar with McMaster University and the British Library)
VirtualCome hear scholars and archivists from McMaster University, home to Austin Clarke’s papers, and the British Library, custodian of Andrew Salkey’s papers, as they explore and discuss this extraordinary documentary legacy.
Unlocking the U.S. Department of State’s “Consular Cards”: Experimenting with AI Transcription of Handwritten Historical Documents (A Webinar with FromThePage)
VirtualDo today's latest "AI" models offer capabilities not possible with traditional OCR, for unlocking documents whose handwritten contexts were impenetrable with previous technologies? A decade ago, the Office of the Historian scanned its "Consular Cards file", a collection of 6,500 handwritten index cards containing listings of officials at all U.S. diplomatic and consular posts from 1789-1960. A unique and foundational source for understanding the history of U.S. foreign relations, the utility of the scanned cards remained limited due to OCR's inability to extract text from the ornate cursive handwriting on these cards. Experiments conducted this year with multimodal AI tools have produced breakthrough, if imperfect, results. The talk will demonstrate the methodology and results of these experiments and will offer tips and caveats for scholars considering such tools.
UCLA California Rare Book School’s Queer Bibliography Conference
VirtualUCLA California Rare Book School is pleased to host the second annual Queer Bibliography conference, with virtual sessions to be held between July 25-26, 2024. Queer Bibliography makes explicit the connections between queer theories and methodologies and the multifaceted field of bibliography. This year’s conference will focus on CalRBS’s 2024 theme “Borders, Boundaries, and Margins.”
TPS Fest: A Virtual Conference Covering All Aspects of Teaching with Primary Sources
VirtualDo you teach with primary sources, or want to learn more about teaching with primary sources? Join the TPS Collective from July 30–August 1 for their annual TPS Fest—an informative and fun virtual event, covering all aspects of Teaching with Primary Sources!
10th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute
VirtualLearn more about the innovative use of digital technologies to enhance and transform undergraduate and graduate teaching at the Digital Pedagogy Institute, which will be held online from August 13-15, 2024.
Sovereign Printscapes: Why Indigenous Newspapers Matter (Plenary Address for the Annual Conference of the National Digital Newspaper Program)
In this plenary address “Sovereign Printscapes: Why Indigenous Newspapers Matter” at the annual conference of the National Digital Newspaper Program, Professor Kathryn Walkiewicz will discuss the role Indigenous newspapers have historically played as a means of asserting sovereignty and countering damaging stereotypes about Native communities. Join NEH Division of Preservation and Access and the Serial and Government Publications Division at the Library of Congress for this special, virtual event on September 25 from 3:30–5:00 pm ET.
Your First Crowdsourcing Project: A Webinar with FromThePage
VirtualJoin 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.
Creating Your TEI-XML Editing Project: A Personalized Workshop for Beginners to TEI
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.
Dear Mr. Meredith: Transcribing and Analyzing the Correspondence Received by James Meredith During His Integration of the University of Mississippi
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.
The Dublin Core Data Institute (DCDI): An International Conference
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 2024 Virtual DLF Forum, Hosted by the Digital Library Federation
VirtualThe 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.
SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books
On Friday, October 25 at 1:00 PM EDT, join Laura R. Fisher and Arielle Zibrak, in conversation with María Carla Sánchez, as they address these questions and discuss how their new books engage with the complex relationship between literature’s social aims and its aesthetic value. This event, which is hosted by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), is part of the series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books.
Epistemes indígenas en proyectos digitales de edición y archivo
El 30 de octubre a las 3 PM EDT (UTC-4), Paloma Vargas Montes del Tecnológico de Monterrey reflexionará sobre cómo las humanidades digitales y el patrimonio cultural convergen en dos proyectos de investigación: La Crónica X: desmembrando su existencia a través de sus fuentes hermanas (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México-Tec de Monterrey) y Epistemes Indígenas de la Frontera, financiado por la Mellon Foundation a través del US Latino Digital Humanities Center de la Universidad de Houston.
Author Reading of Interrogation Records: A Docu-Poetry Collection about the Indonesian State-Sanctioned Massacre of 1965
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.
Using Podcasts for Digital Storytelling, Archival Recovery, and Community Engagement
On Nov. 7 at 3:30 PM EST, in a 90-minute webinar with eLaboratories, Dr. Saniya Ghanoui of Sexing History, and Drs. Gaby Barrios, Sonia Del Hierro, and Sophia Martínez Abbud of the Señora Power Project will discuss how and why they designed their projects with the affordances of the podcast medium in mind. This webinar aims to discuss how to ethically design digital storytelling projects, and the role of such projects in engaging students and local communities in the work of producing these projects.
Allmaps Virtual Forum: For Potential Users of the Open-Source Map Overlay Tool
On November 18 from 11am-2pm ET, the Leventhal Map & Education Center and UW-Milwaukee Libraries' American Geographical Society Library are jointly hosting a virtual forum on the Allmaps software ecosystem. Allmaps is a set of open-source digital humanities tools that makes overlaying historic maps on modern geographies—a process commonly known as "georeferencing"—easier and more fun. The virtual forum is geared towards a wide range of potential users, from DH researchers to educators and librarians. It is completely free.
Section on Archives of Literature and Art: Virtual Symposium
The ICA’s Section on Literary and Artistic Archives (SLA) will host a free, three-day virtual symposium from November 20–22 to explore the significance of cultural archives and their role in preserving the arts.
Creating Inclusive Digital Collections
Join the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) for ‘Creating Inclusive Digital Collections’, an online training event on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 3:00 PM GMT! This event is aimed at digital archivists, cultural heritage professionals, community archivists, curators, librarians, and all those interested in learning more about enriching archives through community engagement methodologies, participatory practices, and inclusive strategies.
Visualizing History’s Fragments with the Ottoman Algerian Registers
Watch this webinar, originally presented on Dec. 10, 2024, to learn more about Dr. Sanders’ strategies for recovering details about the lives of the countless men and women mentioned in these documentary fragments. In this presentation, Dr. Sanders shows how historical data set (re)construction is one way we can begin to address voids in the archive and use the records of the colonizers to do reparative work.
ATNU Virtual Speaker Series: Probing LLMs’ interpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—Reflections on the Use of Generative AI for Digital Scholarly Editing and the University Classroom
In a virtual talk on Dec. 11 at 5:00 PM GMT, Whittle will present her reflections when challenging LLMs’ translation, annotation and ‘interpretation’ of the Canterbury Tales.
SNAC for Indigenous Archival Research: Finding Records and Improving Representation
On Dec. 12 at 4:00 PM (Eastern Time), Ia Bull, Diana Marsh, Jerry Simmons and Melissa Stoner will introduce the SNAC web portal, demonstrate how to navigate SNAC records, and discuss approaches to doing Indigenous archival search.
Cultures of Correspondence Symposia: Part 1
Baylor University Waco, TexasThe linked symposia, hosted consecutively by Baylor University and Texas A&M University, build upon both institutions' substantial collections of 18th- and 19th-century archival materials and their commitment to creating accessible digital archives and scholarship.
STS 2025 Colloquium Series: “The Millican Massacre: Networked Racial Violence and Archival Restitution”
As part of their 2025 colloquium series exploring current trends in textual studies, the Society for Textual Scholarship (STS) presents “The Millican Massacre: Networked Racial Violence and Archival Restitution,” with Dr. Amy Earhart. The talk will be held via Zoom on February 7 at 2:00 PM CST.
Cultures of Correspondence Symposia: Part 2
Texas A&M University College Station, TexasThe linked symposia, hosted consecutively by Baylor University and Texas A&M University, build upon both institutions' substantial collections of 18th- and 19th-century archival materials and their commitment to creating accessible digital archives and scholarship.
CANCELLED: What’s at Stake in Community Engagement? A Conversation About Goals and Ethics with Editors from the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive
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.
The Material and Visual Text in Latin American Digital Humanities
Presented by the Bibliographical Society of America and the Alliance for Digital Research on Early Latin America on March 7, 2025, this virtual symposium features presentations by researchers and cultural heritage professionals who are using digital approaches to analyze and transmit a diverse range of Latin American texts from the colonial period, nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
Analyzing Your TEI-XML Editing Project: A Personalized Workshop for Ongoing TEI Projects
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.
Building a Digital Edition with FairCopy and EditionCrafter
UVA Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library 170 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia, United StatesIn this video, Nick Laiacona of Performant Software Solutions demonstrates how to go from a set of page images to a functioning online digital edition. Using FairCopy and EditionCrafter, Laicona introduces a workflow for organizing, editing, and publishing a digital edition.
Revisiting Baltimore’s African American History: Archives and Curated Digital Public Exhibits
Join the History of Black Writing (Indiana University-Bloomington) and the Center of Digital Humanities Research (Texas A&M University) for a virtual talk on March 27 at 3:30 PM CST / 4:30 PM EST. Dr. Lawrence Jackson, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History at Johns Hopkins University, will present "Revisiting Baltimore's African American History: Archives and Curated Digital Public Exhibits".
Book, Number, Graph: Getting Started with Text Analysis
How do you get from a stack of books to a graph reflecting what’s inside them? What gets in the way? What research questions does the process enable? This workshop introduces participants to some foundational principles, practices and challenges when working with textual data. No programming experience required. Attendees will use Voyant as a vehicle to explore text analysis, but the workshop will create an experience beyond this one tool. The workshop, hosted by the US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH) on March 31 at 10:00 AM CDT, will discuss the affordances and limitations of Voyant as a vehicle for exploring the opportunities and challenges of working with textual data.
Engaging Communities in Crowdsourcing Using the Zooniverse Project Builder
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.
