Encoding – 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.

Building a Digital Edition with FairCopy and EditionCrafter

By Katie Blizzard

In 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.

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Analyzing Your TEI-XML Editing Project: A Personalized Workshop for Ongoing TEI Projects

By Katie Blizzard

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.

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Creating Your TEI-XML Editing Project: A Personalized Workshop for Beginners to TEI

By Katie Blizzard

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.

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

By Katie Blizzard

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.”

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Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting

By Katie Blizzard

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.

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