Annotation – eLaboratories

An Introduction to Open and Social Knowledge Production: An Intensive Workshop

By Katie Blizzard

This fall, eLaboratories—in partnership with the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria—will host a month-long workshop focused on introducing and exploring the definition, contexts, methodologies, and affordances of open and social knowledge production. During the month of September, cohort members will meet once weekly on Fridays from 1:00–2:00 PM (Eastern Time) for a discussion on related readings and topics, with conversations or content to be led by Ray Siemens, Graham Jensen, Alyssa Arbuckle, Matt Huculak, and Randa El-Katib.

Research in Progress: New Projects Committed to Recontextualizing Visual Objects

By Katie Blizzard

On August 12, 2025, eLaboratories hosted ACLS fellows Kale Serrato Doyen and Letícia Fernanda Carvalho Silva for an engaging event that explores their ongoing work in illuminating the communities and lives of the people depicted in historical photographs and paintings.

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Enhancing Access and Discovery: Voices of the Eastern Shore as a Model for Local, Metadata-Driven Digital Projects

By Katie Blizzard

On August 13, 2025, eLaboratories hosted Voices of the Eastern Shore for a discussion on the value of a multi-disciplinary approach to editing. Led by Dreanna Belden—Director of External Partnerships at the University of North Texas Libraries and a graduate of the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (the precursor to eLabs)—Voices of the Eastern Shore brings together the best practices of library science and editing to bring to life the Somerset County Historical Trust’s long-held goal of publishing the letters of Elizabeth Upshur Teackle.

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From Fragmented Records to Collective Memory: Centering Black Women Organizer’s Archives in History

By Maria Kathleen Villanueva

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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Basics of Digital Editing Workshop

By Katie Blizzard

During back-to-back sessions on Thursday, November 6 from 10:00-11:15 AM (EST) and 11:30 AM-12:45 PM (EST), workshop leaders Jessica DeSpain from the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers and Sydney Lines from the Winnifred Eaton Archive will lead a two-session workshop at the SSAWW 2025 conference on the basics of digital editing.

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Association for Documentary Editing 2025: “Editing for Access: Audiences and Technologies”

By Katie Blizzard

From June 16—18, the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) will gather virtually to reflect on theme of “Editing for Access: Audiences and Technologies.” Sessions wil explore best practices, innovative approaches, and boundary-expanding projects within the capacious field of editing, publishing, and recovering historical or literary texts. For more details about the conference, visit https://www.documentaryediting.org/wordpress/?page_id=3277.

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Conceptualizing and Creating a Digital Edition

By Katie Blizzard

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.”

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Manos a la obra: A Virtual Hands-on Latino DH Workshop

By Katie Blizzard

This workshop explores analog and digital methodologies to create scholarship and knowledge around the experiences of US Latinas/os. Participants will learn about US Latino digital humanities methods and theory, archiving, metadata creation and free, easy-to-use digital platforms (Omeka, TimelineJS and StoryMapJS). The workshop will provide an introduction to US Latino Digital Humanities, archives and related theories.

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Epistemes indígenas en proyectos digitales de edición y archivo

By Katie Blizzard

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.

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Allmaps Virtual Forum: For Potential Users of the Open-Source Map Overlay Tool

By Katie Blizzard

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.

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