At their July workshop—to be held on July 9, 12:00 to 1:00 PM (Central Daylight Time)—the Recovery Hub will discuss project management. During the workshop, they will explore strategies and resources for managing a digital humanities project—whether they’re solo or collaborative.
On April 23 at 6:00 PM (British Summer Time), Janelle Jenstad (University of Victoria) will discuss LEMDO during a presentation hosted by Animating Text Newcastle University. This talk aims to justify LEMDO’s objective to provide open-access editions of every surviving early modern text (1512-166), argue for a collaborative editorial practice, and describe its mechanism for publishing editions in sustainable digital anthologies, downloadable PDFs, and print-on-demand books.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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