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Topics!!! We have created 13 topic pages that make it easy to find content about a specific element related to the practices of editing, recovery, and other related research activities. These topic pages…

🗂️ Word of the Day: Cataloging
At eLaboratories, we describe and organize source materials—making them easier to find, use, and connect across archives, editions, and library systems. 💬✍️
Check out more: elaboratories.org/project-guid...
#WordOfTheDay #DocumentaryEditing #eLaboratories

Annotation The use of descriptive, contextual, referential, or illustrative content or structure that supports the discoverability and accessibility of source materials. Annotation may take many forms (footnotes, source notes, metadata, glossaries, essays, indexes, keywords, images, maps, and more) and multiple forms of annotation may be used by a project.

Word of the Day: Annotation, enhances the discoverability and accessibility of source materials through descriptive, contextual, or referential content.
Learn more topics with eLabs : elaboratories.org/project-guid...
#WordOfTheDay #AnnotationMatters #DigitalHumanities #eLabs

Join Our eLabs Slack Workspace We’re excited to welcome you to the eLaboratories Slack workspace—a space that fosters a diverse community of practitioners engaged in making historical source materials accessible, discoverable, or (re)imaginable.

🤝 We want to hear from you!
Have ideas, questions, or comments that align with making historical source materials accessible, discoverable, or (re)imaginable.
Let’s connect — elaboratories.org/community/jo...
#DigitalScholars #CommunityDriven #eLabs

Projects – eLaboratories Projects in the eLaboratories community.

Spotlight on the "Dickens Search" Project!
Explore a searchable database of Charles Dickens’s works, built from first editions by scholars. dickenssearch.com
🔍 Discover more projects on our site! elaboratories.org/projects/
#PublicHumanities #DigitalProjects #eLabs

Finding Documents

Ready to sharpen your editorial skills?
Registration is now open for "Finding Documents" Guided by Cathy Moran Hajo!
Develop a plan for locating additional documents to add to your comprehensive or selected edition.
🔗 Sign up: elaboratories.org/courses/find...
#eLabs #Archives #HumanitiesEducation

Recovery Hub Tech Hours: Project Management for Digital Humanities Projects At their August workshop—to be held on August 6, 12:00 to 1:00 PM (Central Daylight Time)—the Recovery Hub will discuss some ideas on how to bring digital project—either of your own or others’—into…

Join @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social for "Recovery Hub Tech Hours: Project Management for Digital Humanities Projects", happening on August 6, 12:00 pm CDT
Explore ideas on how to bring digital project—either of your own or others’—into the classroom. #OnlineEvent #DigitalArchives #eLabs
Register here:

From Fragmented Records to Collective Memory: Centering Black Women Organizer’s Archives in History The Black Women's Organizing Archive (BWOA) showcased its innovative, participatory approach to repositioning Black women's contributions and redefining historical archives during a presentation at…

📣 New on the blog: "From Fragmented Records to Collective Memory: Centering Black Women Organizer’s Archives in History"
Dive into Maria Kathleen Villanueva key insights from the Black Women’s Organizing Archive (BWOA) presentation at eLaboratories.
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Connect. Collaborate. Contribute. Join our Practitioners & Projects pages to meet others in the documentary editing & recovery community doing the work with you!
visit : elaboratories.org/register/
#eLabsCommunity #editingtogether

Using Omeka Classic for Preparing and Publishing a Digital Edition Cathy Moran Hajo discusses the benefits of using Omeka Classic for preparing, managing, and publishing her digital edition.

In case you missed it: "Using Omeka Classic for Preparing and Publishing a Digital Edition"
Watch/listen/read here → elaboratories.org/event/using-...
#EditingMatters #eLaboratories #PublicScholarship

Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project The Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project (CWRGM) is digitizing, transcribing, and annotating over 20,000 valuable records from Mississippi’s governors’ offices and making them…

This week we’re diving into "Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project"
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CWRGM is making over 20,000 Civil War–era Mississippi governor records freely available online through digitization, transcription, and annotation.
#RecoveryWork #eLabs

TEI Summer Sessions: A Series on Justice-Oriented Critical Editing Have you ever considered creating a digital edition? Do you want to learn more about how TEI-XML can be used for digital humanities research? Do you want to practice editing-as-analysis with onsite…

🚨 Event approaching: TEI Summer Sessions: A Series on Justice-Oriented Critical Editing (July 23, 2025 10:00 am – 2:00 pm )
Don’t forget to register or share with someone who should join us!
🔗 elaboratories.org/event/tei-su...
#CommunityEngagement #eLaboratories #DigitalHumanities

Meet the team behind the scenes! Today we're spotlighting Anneliese and their work developing and maintaining the eLaboratories website to support access to our editing & recovery projects.
#DigitalHumanities #MeetTheTeam #eLaboratories

Events as of July - August of 2025! Sign up before spots fill up!

Big things are happening at @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social ! This week, we’re highlighting "Recovery Hub Tech Hours: Project Management for Digital Humanities Projects" — and you won’t want to miss it.
Learn more at : elaboratories.org/events/
#DigitalHumanities #EditingRecovery #eLabs

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Mark McConnell will give the 2025 Karmiole Endowed Lecture on “Publishing in the Renaissance: Christophe Plantin’s Business Strategy” at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, 9 July in UVA’s Special Collections Library Auditorium or via Zoom.

Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures

Courses Request a CourseIs there a specific course you are looking for that you don’t see included in our offerings? Request it! Propose a CourseIs there a tool, topic, or practice that you want to teach

Interested in learning the craft of documentary editing?
We’ve got free resources, guides, and events all summer long.
🌐 Dive in: elaboratories.org/all-courses/
#SummerWithElabs #LearnEditing #eLabs

Projects – eLaboratories

Curious about what others are working on?
Here are some project highlight and voices from the past—see what’s new this summer!
🔗 Browse current projects: elaboratories.org/projects/
#EditingHistory #RecoveryWork #eLabs

Join Our Slack Workspace

Calling all researchers, educators, and history lovers:
Our digital tools are designed with you in mind.
🛠️ Explore them today: elaboratories.org/community/jo...
#DigitalEditing #SlackCommunity #eLabs

Meet the people behind the text!
We’re spotlighting the staff who bring history to life—check out our latest staff feature on our newsletter!
✨ Stay tuned & share your questions!
#MeetTheStaff #BehindTheEdit #eLabs

Home A diverse community of practitioners engaged in making source materials accessible, discoverable, or (re)imaginable. About eLabs Who is eLabs for? Try starting with our Beginner's Guide Subscribe to…

Ever wondered what goes into editing a historical document?
Take a peek behind the scenes at eLaboratories and learn how the past gets preserved for the future.
🔗 Visit: elaboratories.org
#DigitalHumanities #DocumentaryEditing #eLabs

Courses Request a CourseIs there a specific course you are looking for that you don’t see included in our offerings? Request it! Propose a CourseIs there a tool, topic, or practice that you want to teach

New to editing or digitizing history?
Check out our free guides, tools, and learning events.
💡 Start here: elaboratories.org/all-courses/
#FreeLearning #DigitalEducation #eLabs

Home A diverse community of practitioners engaged in making source materials accessible, discoverable, or (re)imaginable. About eLabs Who is eLabs for? Try starting with our Beginner's Guide Subscribe to…

Want to get involved in digital editing & recovery?
We’ve got webinars, workshops, and ways to contribute—no PhD required.
🔗 Explore: elaboratories.org
#HistoryForAll #GetInvolved #eLabs

Read about members of the Team!
They're the hands behind the keyboard and the heart of the project.
Want to collaborate? DM us.
#DigitalArchives #DocEditing #eLabs

Center for Digital Editing The Center for Digital Editing concentrates the resources and expertise necessary to advance the practice of editing and the growth of innovative digital project solutions.

Project Spotlight: Center for Digital Editing
We’re making hidden histories accessible—one document at a time.
Check out more projects like this one at: elaboratories.org/projects/cen...
#EditingHistory #HumanitiesLab #eLabs

Home A diverse community of practitioners engaged in making source materials accessible, discoverable, or (re)imaginable. About eLabs Who is eLabs for? Try starting with our Beginner's Guide Subscribe to…

Ever wonder who preserves the stories behind the documents?
We’re here for the recovery, editing, and public access of historical records.
Follow us and join the journey.
🔗 elaboratories.org
#eLabs #DigitalHumanities #PublicHistory

In his recent interview with 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, Dr. Gordon Henry, a collaborator on the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence, speaks to the personal histories, experiences, and hopes that have shaped his thinking of the archive.
#ScholarlyEditing #RecoveryEditing

Dr. Ellen Cushman from Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence tells 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 about affordances and constraints of technologies in enacting peoplehood—that is, the “understanding of ourselves as having language, having history, having ceremony, and having land.”

In her recent interview with 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, Dr. Andrea Roberts illustrates the real-world impact of co-creation with an example from The Texas Freedom Colonies Project and its mapping of descendants’ stories.
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In the newest volume of 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, an interview with Dr. Andrea Roberts of The Texas Freedom Colonies Project reveals how the work of recovering place-based stories about Black settlements in Texas has evolved into a larger project that aims to do the same in other states.

The newest volume of 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 has something for everyone, from a micro-edition of ApertureScience.com, to insights on incorporating editing and recovery work within the classroom. Hear directly from editor in chief Noelle Baker about volume 42!
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Scholarly Editing, Vol 42 is out! Check out a micro-edition of a born-digital interactive work of fiction, interviews with scholars of Indigenous languages and Black heritage spaces, discussions on the challenges of using generative AI in recovery projects, and more. scholarlyediting.org/issues/42/