Collection – eLaboratories

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.

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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CANCELLED: What’s at Stake in Community Engagement? A Conversation About Goals and Ethics with Editors from the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive

By Katie Blizzard

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.

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SNAC for Indigenous Archival Research: Finding Records and Improving Representation

By Katie Blizzard

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.

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