10th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute
ByLearn more about the innovative use of digital technologies to enhance and transform undergraduate and graduate teaching at the Digital Pedagogy Institute, which will be held online from August 13-15, 2024.
Tools & Technologies
Your First Crowdsourcing Project: A Webinar with FromThePage
ByJoin Ben and Sara Brumfield of FromThePage as they step you through your first crowdsourcing project. The session covers selecting material, finding volunteers, developing transcription conventions, keeping volunteers engaged, and what to do with your transcriptions once you’re done.
Unlocking the U.S. Department of State’s “Consular Cards”: Experimenting with AI Transcription of Handwritten Historical Documents (A Webinar with FromThePage)
ByDo today’s latest “AI” models offer capabilities not possible with traditional OCR, for unlocking documents whose handwritten contexts were impenetrable with previous technologies? A decade ago, the Office of the Historian scanned its “Consular Cards file”, a collection of 6,500 handwritten index cards containing listings of officials at all U.S. diplomatic and consular posts from 1789-1960. A unique and foundational source for understanding the history of U.S. foreign relations, the utility of the scanned cards remained limited due to OCR’s inability to extract text from the ornate cursive handwriting on these cards. Experiments conducted this year with multimodal AI tools have produced breakthrough, if imperfect, results. The talk will demonstrate the methodology and results of these experiments and will offer tips and caveats for scholars considering such tools.
Ethical Community Archiving: Tools for Meaningful Partnerships
ByDrawing 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.
Open-Assembly Teaching, Making, and Publishing: COVE Editions and Studio
ByAre 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.”
Critical Toolkits for Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement: A Free, Virtual Workshop
ByAre 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?
Conceptualizing and Creating a Digital Edition
ByAre 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.”
Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting
ByGathering 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.
About the eLabs Website Launch
ByWe would like to take a moment to introduce you to what you can find on our site today and what you can expect to find on it in the coming months.