User Experience – eLaboratories

Practical Strategies for Web Accessible and Environmentally Sustainable Digital Projects

By Katie Blizzard

On August 7, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EDT, explore practical approaches to planning for web accessibility and environmental sustainability for your digital project with Project Developer Erica Cavanaugh. During the workshop, participants will discuss topics like planning for accessibility in your site’s visual design and navigation, optimizing image and media resources to reduce unnecessary data transfer, selecting sustainable hosting and technology solutions, and more.

Camp eLabs

By Katie Blizzard

Are you looking for a workshop environment to begin planning your digital edition or archive? Join eLaboratories from August 3–6, 2026 in Charlottesville, VA for our introductory workshop, followed by our conference Revolutions and Reflections.

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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.

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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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The 2024 Virtual DLF Forum, Hosted by the Digital Library Federation

By Katie Blizzard

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) invites digital library, archives, and museum practitioners to join the Virtual DLF Forum, which will be held from October 22-23. With 34 sessions planned over two days, the DLF Forum program features a vibrant program for those interested in discussing digital library technologies and practices: from reflections on digitizing textual and complex physical materials, to conversations on how to improve the discoverability and accessibility of archival and library collections, and more.

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Digital Editions and Collections: An Archivist’s Point of View

By Katie Blizzard

This recorded interview showcases archivists’ viewpoints on digitizing initiatives, particular in regard to issues of preservation, access, institutional partnerships and collaborations, and community engagement. It also provides an alternative point of entry for thinking about creating digital editions and working with digital materials. One of the main goals of this conversation is to identify sites of shared vision and commitment for the many different practitioners working in the ecosystem of digitizations, digital collections, and digital editions, centering an archivist’s point of view on how digital partnerships and collaborations can be fruitful for all parties.

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Conceptualizing and Creating a Digital Edition

By Katie Blizzard

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How Editions Shape Our Ideas About the Documentary Record

By Katie Blizzard

Karin Wulf discusses how editions shape our ideas about scarcity or plenty in the documentary record.

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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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