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  • March 28, 2024

    Virtual Lectures (Free): “Scholarly Editing: Fostering Communities of Recovery” (04/04/24 and 04/08/24)

    Scholarly Editing is offering a two-part virtual lecture series, "Scholarly Editing: Fostering Communities of Recovery", where editors and contributing authors will explore the nature and impact of the journal’s expanding content and communities of journal editors, readers, contributors, and genres. Part 1 is scheduled for April 4, 2024 at 11:00 AM EDT, and Part 2 is scheduled for April 8th at 1:30 PM EDT. The events are free to attend however registration is required.

  • Virtual Lecture (Free): “Historical Social Network Analysis: The Apprenticeship Networks of London Brewers, 1530-1800”, Dr. Harvey Quamen (04/04/24)

    Harvey Quamen, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities and Academic Director of the Digital Scholarship Centre at the University of Alberta, will discuss 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. The virtual lecture is scheduled for April 4, 2024 at 1:00 PM CST. The event is free to attend however registration is required.

  • February 29, 2024

    Virtual Lecture (Free): “Spatial Humanities & Deep Mapping: New Approaches to Understanding the Historical Geographies of the English Lake District”, Dr. Ian Gregory (03/04/24)

    The Institute for Historical Studies in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin is hosting Dr. Ian Gregory for a lecture, "Spatial Humanities & Deep Mapping: New Approaches to Understanding the Historical Geographies of the English Lake District". 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; Dr. Gregory 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 virtual lecture is scheduled for March 4, 2024 from 12:00 to 1:30 PM CST. This event is free to attend however registration is required.

  • February 27, 2024

    Virtual Event (Free): International Women’s Day Wikipedia Editathon (03/03/24 and 03/08/24)

    Are you ever frustrated by what is missing from Wikipedia? Are you interested in women's history and queer history in Canada? This Wikipedia Editathon is being 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 in celebration of International Women's Day. A virtual training and practice session is scheduled for March 4, 2024 from 1:00 to 4:00 PM EST. The official editathon is scheduled for March 8, 2024 from 12:00 to 4:00 PM EST. The event is free to attend however registration is required.

  • Virtual Keynote (Free): “Reimagining a Collaborative, Sustainable Student-Focused Digital Humanities Initiative”, UH@DH (03/05/24)

    Dr. Bryan Carter, Director of the Digital Humanities Center at University of Arizona, will be delivering an inaugural keynote, “Reimagining a Collaborative, Sustainable Student-Focused Digital Humanities Initiative”, for DH@UH, a program for the University of Houston's Digital Humanities Core Facility. The virtual keynote is scheduled for March 5, 2024 at 11:00 AM CST. The event is free to attend however registration is required.

  • Virtual Workshop (Free): “Critical Toolkits for Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement” (03/21/24)

    "Critical Toolkits for Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement" is a workshop that explores the process of organizing programs and digital projects that invite school and community groups to help enrich digitized archives. 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. 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. The virtual workshop is scheduled for March 21, 2024 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM EST. The event is free to attend however registration is required.

  • Virtual Workshop (Free): “Introduction to CollectionBuilder-SHEETS” (03/06/24)

    This workshop will teach participants 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. SHEETS enables users to build digital collections directly from a Google Sheet of metadata. No programming experience or software installation is required for this workshop. The virtual workshop is scheduled for March 6, 2024 from 12:00 to 2:00 PM EST. The event is free to attend however registration is required.

  • Virtual Workshop (Free): “Ethical Community Archiving: Tools for Meaningful Partnerships” (03/04/24)

    The "Ethical Community Archiving: Tools for Meaningful Partnerships" workshop aims to equip participants with the tools and resources necessary for fostering partnerships and community relations to advance preservation efforts of marginalized collections. This workshop will explore strategies for collaborating with individuals and community organizations to ethically digitize, preserve, and disseminate historical materials. The virtual workshop is scheduled for March 4, 2024 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM EST. The event is free to attend however registration is required.

  • January 26, 2024

    Virtual Conference: Digital Commonwealth Virtual Conference, “Building Connections: Pixels & People” (04/30/24)

    Registration is open for the 18th annual Digital Commonwealth Virtual Conference, "Building Connections: Pixels & People". The keynote speaker is K.J. Rawson, founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, as well as chair of the editorial board of the Homosaurus. The virtual conference is scheduled for April 30, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM ET. Registration is $10 for students, Digital Commonwealth members, and people experiencing personal hardship; $25 for non-members.

  • January 25, 2024

    Virtual Workshop (Free): “Introduction to Optical Character Recognition (OCR)” (03/22/24)

    The Scholars Lab at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries is hosting a Digital Humanities Workshop Series for Spring 2024. The last virtual workshop in the series is “Introduction to Optical Character Recognition (OCR)”. This workshop introduces the basics of optical character recognition (OCR), which allows for full-text searching and other types of text manipulation of a digitized document. Attendees will learn how to use Google Docs to create a basic machine-readable text from an image file and be introduced to Tesseract for OCR through exercises in Google Colab. The virtual workshop is scheduled for March 22, 2024 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM CT. The workshop is free to attend, however registration is required.