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

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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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Visualizing History’s Fragments with the Ottoman Algerian Registers

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Join eLaboratories on Oct. 29 at 11:00 AM ET 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 will show 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.

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Dear Mr. Meredith: Transcribing and Analyzing the Correspondence Received by James Meredith During His Integration of the University of Mississippi

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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. On October 17 at 1:00 PM ET, join 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.

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Metadata Justice in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium

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As part of their commitment to “to accurately and respectfully describ[e] 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.

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Open-Assembly Teaching, Making, and Publishing: COVE Editions and Studio

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Are 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.”