Scholarly Editing is an open-access, peer-reviewed annual that fosters multiple communities of recovery. The journal seeks to amplify contributions from and about Black, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples; Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; women; LGBTQ+ individuals; and peoples and cultures of the Global South. A public-facing publication platform, the journal welcomes contributions from all custodians of knowledge, including academics from all disciplines and at any career stage, K-12 teachers and students, community groups, collectors, and local genealogists. In addition to textual scholarship theory and praxis, we welcome interviews, oral histories, creative works of “rememory,” and the decolonizing of artistic works, archives, records, and editions for the discoverability of underrepresented stories and artifacts.

In a two-part event series, two of Scholarly Editing’s editors and two of its contributing authors will explore the nature and impact of the journal’s expanding content and communities of journal editors, readers, contributors, and genres. In the second part, they will also invite you to engage in project planning exercises similar to those asked of authors, peer reviewers, and other collaborators.

Part one, which will be held on April 4 at 11:00 AM EDT, will welcome Co-Editor in Chief Noelle Baker and author Artist Marcia X. Baker will introduce the journal’s philosophy and infrastructure, and will discuss how these components have been essential to cultivating communities of recovery. Following, the Artist Marcia X will share their art, demonstrating how their recovery work evolved as a result of engaging with the Scholarly Editing community. To register for part one, please visit https://elaboratories.org/event/scholarly-editing-fostering-communities-of-recovery-part-1/.

Part two, which will be held on April 8 at 1:30 PM EDT, will welcome Essays Section Co-Editor Raquel Baker and author Bianca Swift. Together, they invite you to workshop your scholarship goals and to apply Scholarly Editing’s community-driven philosophy to your own work. To register for part two, please visit https://elaboratories.org/event/scholarly-editing-fostering-communities-of-recovery-part-2/.

Sincerely,

Harvey Quamen, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities and Academic Director of the Digital Scholarship Centre at the University of Alberta, will walk us through the intricate web of relationships from 1530 to 1800 within the Brewing Guild’s apprenticeship program, a key component of London’s beer and brewing history. By analyzing nearly 6,000 records from the Worshipful Company of Brewers and integrating other historical data sources, such as marriage, birth, death records, and criminal proceedings, Quamen unveils the dynamic interplay between apprentices, master brewers, and the broader societal shifts that shaped the industry over 270 years. Through this talk, we aim to shed light on the historical social networks that fueled an industry and explore methodological innovations in digital humanities research.

This talk will be delivered in a hybrid model. Participants can register here to join the live session in the Digital Scholarship Centre in Cameron Library, 2nd Floor, or via Zoom.
For in-person session, please use the register here. To participate virtually, please register via Zoom using the link here.

For any questions, please contact Andrew Ip at cip@ualberta.ca.

The Institute for Historical Studies in the Department of History invites you to:
“Spatial Humanities & Deep Mapping: New Approaches to Understanding the Historical Geographies of the English Lake District”

A talk by Dr. Ian Gregory
Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of History; and Co-Director, Centre for Digital Humanities
Lancaster University
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/gregoryi/

Mon. March 4. 12-1:30pm CST.
GAR 4.100 & Zoom.
Info/Register: bit.ly/3T7tEFj

Extracting geographical information from textual sources and using them to present new knowledge from these sources are major challenges within the spatial and digital humanities. This paper will present a variety of approaches to doing this based on a corpus of writing about the English Lake District from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The Lake District is an area with a rich tradition of landscape writing most famously by William Wordsworth and the other Lake Poets. This paper will present new methods on how these texts can be explored, represented and understood.

Ian Gregory is Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of History at Lancaster University where he also co-directs Lancaster’s Centre for Digital Humanities. His career started using quantitative sources to study the geographies of topics such as mortality and poverty in 19th century Britain, leading to the development of a field known as Historical GIS. More recently, his interests have moved into how textual sources can be analysed using geospatial technologies. The methods develop have been applied to a wide range of topics including, in particular, the study of writing about the English Lake District. This work has attracted funding from a wide range of sources including the European Research Council, the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council, and the Economic & Social Research Council (most recently for grant partnering with the US National Science Foundation), the Leverhulme Trust, and others. He has authored six books, most recently Deep mapping the Literary Lake District: a geographic text analysis (with Joanna Taylor), edited two volumes including the Routledge Companion to Spatial History (with Don DeBats and Don Lafreniere), and around 100 other publications.

The speaker will join virtually via Zoom for this talk and discussion. Guests may join virtually online by registering at the link below, or in-person in GAR 4.100 with RSVP.

In-person RSVP: cmeador@austin.utexas.edu. Venue: Garrison Hall 4.100. Light lunch provided.

Virtual attendance via Zoom: Please register to receive the access link at https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArf-CsqT4pGNBnBCrooRT4dDiiuv0e2lxA

Hi all,

Are you ever frustrated by what is missing from Wikipedia? Are you interested in women’s history and queer history in Canada? Join us for a 2-part Wikipedia Editathon in celebration of International Women’s Day.

This event is offered as a partnership between the Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project, The Humanities Data Lab, and the University of Ottawa’s DHToolbox series. If you are new to editing Wikipedia, join us for the Training and Practice session, otherwise feel free to come out just for the Drop-In Editathon. We’ll have snacks, a support team, research resources, and most importantly, lots of pages that could use your help.

Register here: http://bit.ly/uO-wiki-2024

DATES AND TIMES:

Training & Practice Editathon:

Monday, March 4th 2024

Time: 1pm-4pm EST

Drop-in Editathon:

Friday, March 8th 2024

Time: 12pm – 4pm EST

LOCATION:

In person:

The CreatorSpace

University of Ottawa

Virtual:

The Zoom link will be sent to people who register

This event is the English-language follow up to our French editathon last October. The event will be in English, but we are a bilingual team: N’hésitez pas à vous joindre à nous pour travailler ensemble en français.

A special thanks to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Ministry of Heritage for their support.

See you soon!

Connie

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Constance Crompton (she/elle)
Canada Research Chair, Digital Humanities
Professeure agrégée | Associate Professor
Directrice du Labo de données en sciences humaines | Humanities Data Lab Director

Département de communication | Department of Communication
Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa
@clkcrompton  | humanitiesdata.ca | @humanitiesdata
En savoir plus sur le SHN à uOttawa | Curious about DH at uOttawa? dhsite.org

The UH Digital Humanities Core facility, a partnership between UH Libraries and the HPE-Data Science Institute, is thrilled to bring Dr. Bryan Carter, Director of the Digital Humanities Center at University of Arizona, to UH on Monday, March 4, and Tuesday, March 5, for a series of engagements with the Core’s key partners. This visit is part of the DH Core’s 2024 DH@UH program.

We hope you will join us as Dr. Carter delivers this program’s inaugural keynote address, “Reimagining a Collaborative, Sustainable Student-Focused Digital Humanities Initiative”  in the Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Library, at 11:00 AM cst on Tuesday, March 5th. For those of you unable to join us in person, we are offering the opportunity to livestream Dr. Carter’s talk RSVP here.

Regards,

Linda

RSVP here: https://elaboratories.org/event/critical-toolkits-for-crowdsourcing-and-community-engagement-a-free-virtual-workshop/.

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.

Led by Denise Burgher and Jim Casey (Center for Black Digital Research, Penn State), this workshop is designed for teams who may wish to develop crowdsourcing transcription projects to invite communities to participate in the work of developing electronic editions. Burgher and Casey will cover the basics by sharing a series of resources from Douglass Day, including organizing kits, outreach materials, and strategies for curricular engagement. Along with exploring the most popular crowdsourcing platforms, there will be time in the workshop to start thinking practically about developing your projects and programs.

RSVP here: https://elaboratories.org/event/introduction-to-collectionbuilder-sheets-a-free-virtual-workshop/.

Learn how to use CollectionBuilder-Sheets (SHEETS) to create a free digital collection website that encourages browsing and contextualizing items through timelines, maps, and word cloud visualizations. No programming experience or software installation is required for this workshop; beginners from any background are welcome! SHEETS, the newest CollectionBuilder template, enables users to build digital collections directly from a Google Sheet of metadata. The first part of the workshop will review how to use SHEETS’ built-in development mode to prototype, test, and share a draft of your digital collection site. Next, participants will learn how to publish a permanent digital collection site using SHEETS. There will be demo metadata and digital objects available to use, but participants are also welcome to bring their own metadata and objects to work with. Before attending the workshop, we encourage you to view examples of CollectionBuilder projects in our CollectionBuilder Examples collection: https://collectionbuilder.github.io/cb-examples/.

This workshop will be taught by Julia Stone (University of Idaho), Olivia Wikle (Iowa State University), and Evan Peter Williamson (University of Idaho).

RSVP here: https://elaboratories.org/event/ethical-community-archiving-tools-for-meaningful-partnerships/.

This workshop aims to equip participants with the tools and resources necessary for fostering partnerships and community relations to advance preservation efforts of marginalized collections.

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.

Central to this approach is the recognition of the vital role that Latina/o communities play in knowledge production, nation-building, and community activism. By prioritizing best practices, the program seeks to affirm and support community contributions. Rather than replicating traditional archival methods, the program focuses on creating inclusive spaces for mutual knowledge exchange.

Facilitated by Drs. Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Carolina Villarroel, participants will gain insights into the tools and resources utilized by the Recovery Program and the USLDH in initiatives such as Community Archiving Day, the Young Scholars Program, and various digital projects.