Project Management – eLaboratories

Engaging Communities in Crowdsourcing Using the Zooniverse Project Builder

By Katie Blizzard

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.

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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Managing Your Digital Edition or Digital Archive: Tips for Managing Your Project from Start to Finish

By Katie Blizzard

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.

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DEFCON Speaker Series: Latina/o/e Digital Humanities as Places of Joy and Querencia for Students

By Katie Blizzard

This 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.

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Ethical Community Archiving: Tools for Meaningful Partnerships

By Katie Blizzard

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.

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Critical Toolkits for Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement: A Free, Virtual Workshop

By Katie Blizzard

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?

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Writing & Submitting Federal Grant Applications

By Katie Blizzard

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.

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