Events & Activities Archive
Also check out our INKE Events listing for events specific to the INKE Partnership!
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Commons, Platforms and Emerging Knowledge Frameworks (Adelaide, SA, Australia; December 2024)
- Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship: Canada (Montréal, QC, Canada; June 2024)
- A Digital Commons Space for the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences: INKE (Montréal, QC, Canada; June 2024)
- A Digital Commons Space for the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences: DHSI (Victoria, BC, Canada; June 2024)
DHSI 2024
Statistics
- 438 registrants
- 31 course offerings
DHSI Invited Institute Lectures
- Open Access Educational Resources for Whom and by Whom? Digital Pedagogy and the Digital Humanities at the Crossroads: Amanda Madden (George Mason U)
- Digital Humanities and Visualization: In-House and Cross-Campus Collaborations: David Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi)
- The Future of Digital Humanities Librarianship: Leigh Bonds (Ohio State U)
- Sound, Storytelling, and Digital Humanities: John Barber (Washington State U)
- Hypertext & Art: A Retrospective of Forms: Dene Grigar (Washington State U) and John Durno (U Victoria)
- #GraphPoem: Intermedia Performance Involving Dynamical Systems and Computational Data Commoning: MARGENTO (Chris Tanasescu [U Oberta de Catalunya] and Costin Dumitrache)
Aligned Conferences and Events
- DHSI Conference & Colloquium
- Project Management in the Humanities
- Open Digital Collaborative Project Preservation in the Humanities
- Hypertext & Art: A Retrospective of Forms
- #GraphPoem
Visiting Speakers
Digital Writing, AI, and Visualization – 16 May 2023 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
- SceneWizard: A Visualizer for a Novel: Brian Wyvil (UVic Emeritus)
- Navigating Digital Writing and AI: An Optimistic and Slightly Apocalyptic Examination: Bernardo Bueno (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul)
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship: Australasia (Sydney, NSW, Australia; November 2023)
- Building Digital Communities in the Humanities and Social Sciences: DHSI (Victoria, BC, Canada; June 2023)
- Building Digital Communities in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Congress (Toronto, ON, Canada; May 2023)
- Reviewing, Revising, and Refining Open Social Scholarship: Canada (Victoria, BC, Canada; January 2023)
DHSI 2023
Statistics
- 863 registrants
- 59 course offerings
DHSI Invited Institute Lectures
- Making Space for Affect, Co-Creation, and Care in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Andie Silva (CUNY)
- Teaching with Empathy in Physical, Hybrid, and Virtual Spaces: Chris Friend (Kean U)
- Is there Something Like Open Digital Humanities?: Gimena de Rio Riande (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual; University of Buenos Aires)
- Alan, Ada, Purna: Why are the Digital Humanities So Straight?: Edmond Chang (Ohio U)
- Playing an Imitation Game with Apple’s Siri: E.Q., I.Q., and the Gendered Design of Artificial and Automated Intelligence: Lai-Tze Fan (U Waterloo)
Aligned Conferences and Events
- DHSI Conference & Colloquium
- Historic Computing Lab Open House
- Building Digital Communities in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- #GraphPoem
- Open/Social/Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Training, and Mentorship
- Open, Digital, Collaborative Project Preservation in the Humanities
Honorary Resident Wikipedian
- Amanda Madden (George Mason U), “Can a University Education Be Open Source? Wikiversity, Open Educational Resources, and the Future of the University.” 9 November 2023, in collaboration with UVic Libraries.
ETCL-sponsored Events
- Now Writing Speaks Itself: On the Cultural Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT: Stefan Börnchen (U Luxembourg) – (Vancouver, BC, Canada; October 2023)
Building Digital Communities in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Building Digital Communities in the Humanities and Social Sciences: DHSI (Victoria, BC, Canada; June 2023) https://inke.ca/building3/
- Featured Speaker: Constance Crompton (U Ottawa), “Working It in and Working It out—Together: Centralized Infrastructure Project Management in the Humanities and Social Sciences” | Chair: Jon Bath (U Saskatchewan)
- Workshop: “Using the Commons: Community-Building Workshop.” Session leader: Graham Jensen (UVic).
- Building Digital Communities in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Congress (Toronto, ON, Canada; May 2023) https://inke.ca/building2/
- Lecture: Graham Jensen (U Victoria), “Building Community and Sharing Research Online: An Introduction to HSSCommons.ca.”
- Workshop: “Using the Canadian HSS Commons: Guided Workshop for Scholarly Societies.” Session leader: Graham Jensen (U Victoria), with members of the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab.
- Panel Discussion: “Building Digital Communities in the Humanities and Social Sciences.” Introductory Remarks: Ray Siemens (U Victoria), Alyssa Arbuckle (U Victoria), and Graham Jensen (U Victoria | Chair: Jason Boyd (Toronto Metropolitan U) | Speakers: Hannah Paveck (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences), Julia Bullard (U British Columbia), and Tanja Niemann (Érudit).
Visiting Speakers
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Reviewing, Revising, and Refining Open Social Scholarship: Australasia (online; November 2022)
- Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences: DHSI (online; June 2022)
- Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences: Congress (online; May 2022)
- Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences: INKE Partnership (online; January 2022)
DHSI 2022
Statistics
- 805 registrants
- 60 course / workshop offerings
DHSI Invited Institute Lectures
- The People and the Text, Neglected Indigenous Works, and the Anxieties and Ethics Around Making Indigenous Content Public: Deanna Reder (Simon Fraser U)
- Is Open Scholarship Possible without Open Infrastructure?: Leslie Chan (UTSC)
- On the Responsibility to Implement the Perspective of the People in Focus of (Digital) Projects: Nastasia Herold (U Leipzig) and Thérèse Ottawa (Atikamekw First Nation)
- Making Room: How the Book Materially Changed to Accommodate the Digital: Élika Ortega Guzmán (U Colorado, Boulder)
- Community Engaged Research at a Distance: Rachel Hendery (Western Sydney U)
Aligned Conferences and Events
- DHSI Conference & Colloquium
- Project Management in. the Humanities
- Open Digital Collaborative Project Preservation in the Humanities
- Open/Social/Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Training, and Mentorship
- #GraphPoem
- Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Honorary Resident Wikipedian
- Nastasia Herold (HRW) and Thérèse Ottawa (Atikamekw First Nation), “On the Responsibility to Implement the Perspective of the People in Focus of (Digital) Projects.” 8 June 2022, in collaboration with the UVic Libraries.
ETCL-sponsored Events
Event Series
Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Presented at the Reviewing, Revising, and Refining Open Social Scholarship: Australasia Conference (online; November 2022)
Graham Jensen (UVic), “Connecting Researchers and Research Communities: (Re)introducing the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons” - Part 3: Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences: DHSI (online; June 2022) https://inke.ca/launching-digital-commons-3/
- Workshop: “Using the Commons: Training Workshop and Guided Exploration.” Graham Jensen (UVic), with ETCL team members. https://doi.org/10.25547/6YXQ-SZ82.
- Featured Speaker Panel: Kim Martin (U Guelph), “Finding Common Ground: Cultivating Serendipity in the HSS Commons.” https://doi.org/10.25547/SH5H-1J24. John Maxwell and Beatrice Glickman (Simon Fraser U), “The Social Life of Scholarly Documents: Establishing Value in the Commons.” https://doi.org/10.25547/KFPY-KC36.
- Part 2: Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences: Congress (online; May 2022) https://inke.ca/launching-digital-commons-2/
- Workshop: “Using the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons: An Interactive Workshop.” Session leader: Graham Jensen (UVic), with members of the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab.
- Featured Speaker Panel: “A Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences” (Featured Speaker Panel). Introduction: Ray Siemens and Alyssa Arbuckle (UVic) | Chair: Leslie Weir (Library and Archives Canada) | Speakers: Julia M. Wright (Dalhousie U) and Gabriel Miller (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences).
Visiting Speakers
- From Catastrophe to Community: The Climate Disaster Project: Sean Holman (U Victoria) – 19 October 2021 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Putting Open Scholarship into Practice (online; December 2021)
DHSI 2021
Statistics
- 1,127 registrants
- 59 workshop offerings
DHSI Invited Institute Lectures
- Insurgent Pasts, Resurgent Futures: A New Genealogy of Digital Humanities: Roopika Risam (Salem State U)
- Listening to Emerging Voices in Digital Humanities in Arab Countries: David Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi)
- Graceful Degradation in Collaborative Relationships: Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford U), & Erica Cavanaugh (U Virginia)
- More Data, Less Process: A User-Centered Approach to Email and Born-Digital Archives: Lise Jaillant (Loughborough U)
- Human Exploits: Cybersecurity and the Humanities: Aaron Mauro (Brock U)
- What does “Data” Mean in the Humanities?: Miriam Posner (UCLA)
- Managing the Digital Backlist: Sustaining, Preserving, and Deleting Old Projects: Jessica Otis (George Mason U)
- Digital Homes: Technology and Sexuality in the Indiaspora: Rahul Gairola (Murdoch U)
- Network + Publication + Ecosystem: Curating Digital Pedagogy, Fostering Community: Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State U), Rebecca Frost Davis (St Edward’s U), and Matt Gold (CUNY Graduate Ctr)
- Digital Humanities: A Driver of Cenceptual Change in the Humanities: Elisabeth Burr (U Leipzig)
Aligned Conferences and Events
- DHSI Conference & Colloquium
- Right to Left (RTL)
- Project Management in the Humanities
- Research Data Management for Digitally-Curious Humanists
- Open Digital Collaborative Project Preservation in the Humanities
- Open/Social/Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Training, and Mentorship
- #GraphPoem
Honorary Resident Wikipedian
- Silvia Gutiérrez de la Torre (HRW), “Wikidata: The Linked Open Data Platform Everyone can Contribute To.” 16 March 2021, in collaboration with the UVic Libraries.
- Nastasia Herold (HRW), “Ethics and Responsibilities of Open Access and its Realization in the Atikamekw First Nation’s Wikipedia.” 27 October 2021, in collaboration with the UVic Libraries.
- Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, “Asian Canadian Content: Historical Newspapers for Chinese Canadians before 1930s.” 17 November 2021, in collaboration with the UVic Libraries, led by Ying Liu.
Visiting Speakers
- Mapping and Modelling Australia’s Pacific Past: Rachel Hendery (Western Sydney University) – 8 January 2020 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
- Interfacing Literature and Technology: the Case for Digital Creative Writing: Bernardo Bueno (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul) – 25 Febraury 2020 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Open Scholarship for the 2020s (Victoria, BC, Canada; January 2020)
- Engaging Open Social Scholarship (online; December 2020)
DHSI 2020
Aligned Conferences and Events
- DHSI Conference & Colloquium
- DHSI & ADHO Co-Sponsored Day Conference
- Right to Left
- Project Management in the Humanities
Honorary Resident Wikipedian
- Silvia Gutiérrez de la Torre (HRW), “Barriers to Diversity in Wikipedia: The Importance of the World We Don’t Know About.” 21 October 2020, in collaboration with UVic Libraries.
- Adam Wilton and Jennifer Jesso (Accessibility Resource Centre BC), “Designing for Accessibility: Authoring Effective Alternative Test Descriptions,” followed by Silvia Gutiérrez De la Torre (College of Mexico) and Matthew Huculak (UVic), “Wikipedia Accessibility Edit-a-Thon.” 22 October 2020, in collaboration with UVic Libraries.
Visiting Speakers
- Mapping Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia; Time, Space, Technology, and Meaning: Bill Pascoe (University of Newcastle) – 16-17 September 2019 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Knowledge Creation in the 21st Century: Approaches to Open, Digital Scholarship (Newcastle, NSW, Australia; December 2019)
- Understanding and Enacting Open Scholarship (Victoria, BC, Canada; January 2019)
DHSI 2019
Statistics
- 841 registrants (+162 short workshop participants)
- 47 course offerings (+10 short workshops)
DHSI Invited Institute Lectures
- Sex and Numbers: Pleasure, Reproduction, and Digital Biopower: Jacqueline Wernimont (Dartmouth C)
- Thinking Through DH: Proposals for Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Matt Gold (CUNY Graduate Center and Association for Computers and the Humanities)
- 3D Mapping and Forensic Traces of Testimony: Documenting Apartheid-Era Crimes Through the Digital Humanities: Ángel David Nieves (San Diego State U)
- The Riddle of Literary Quality: Some Answers: Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens Institute and U Amsterdam; Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations)
DHSI Invited Speakers
- An Introduction to Scholarly Publishing with Manifold: Krystyna Michael (Graduate Center, CUNY)
- E-Poetry Event: Chris Tanasescu (U Louvain)
- An Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks for Researchers: James Colliander (U British Columbia)
Aligned Events / Conferences
- DHSI Conference & Colloquium
Honorary Resident Wikipedian
- Constance Crompton (U Ottawa), “Present in All: Introducing the Humanities to Machines.” 9 April 2019, in collaboration with UVic Libraries.
- Erin Glass (UC San Diego),“Open access in the age of surveillance technology: Fighting for ground in the public imagination.” 21 October 2019, in collaboration with UVic Libaries.
Digital Scholarship on Tap
For the 2019-2020 academic year
Leads: Randa El Khatib (ETCL, English) and Matthew Huculak (ETCL, Library)
Presentations:
- Citizen Science: Stefania Gorgopa (Environmental Studies, University of Victoria), David Boudinot (Acquisitions & Electronic Resources Librarian, University of Victoria), and Daniel Brendle-Moczuk (Geospatial and Social Sciences Data Librarian, University of Victoria)
- 3D Imaging and Modelling: Marla MacKinnon (Anthropology, University of Victoria), and Allan Mitchell (English, University of Victoria)
ETCL-sponsored Events
- Online Engagement Within and Beyond the University: 9 April 2019, in collaboration with UVic Libraries (Victoria, BC, Canada)
- Social Media for Social Enterprises: Jen Polack (Animikii) – 9 April 2019, in collaboration with UVic Libraries (Victoria, BC, Canada)
- The Digital Humanities / Digital Scholarship Center in the 21st Century: Emergent Issues and Opportunities – 18 January 2019 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
- HSS Infrastructures for Open Knowledge and Data Science?: Susan Brown (Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship, U Guelph; President, Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques), Michael Sinatra (Director, Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques, U Montreal; Director of Research Dissemination, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences / Fédération des Sciences Humaines), Robbin Tourangeau (Interim President and CEO, Compute Canada / Calcul Canada), David Wrisley (Co-director, Center on Digital Humanities and Computational Knowledge Intelligence (in development), NYU Abu Dhabi), and John Maxwell (Director, Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing, Simon Fraser U) – 17 January 2019, in collaboration with the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership, the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute, and the MATRIX Institute for Applied Data Science (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Visiting Speakers
- It’s not what you know, but whom . . . and where you live: Collaborative playwriting in early modern London: Paul Brown (De Montfort University) – 26 January 2018 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Collaboration and Community in Open, Social Scholarship (Regina, SK, Canada; May 2018)
- Beyond Open: Implementing Social Scholarship (Victoria, BC, Canada; January 2018)
DHSI 2018
Statistics
- 932 registrants (+209 short workshop participants)
- 52 course offerings (+19 short workshops)
Institute Lectures
- Reconstitute the World: Machine-reading Archives of Mass Extinction: Bethany Nowviskie (DLF and U Virginia)
- Indigeneity, Conceptualism, and the Borders of DH: Jordan Abel (Simon Fraser U)
- A Landless Territory?: CyberPowWow and the Politics of Indigenous New Media: David Gaertner (U British Columbia)
- Discovery, Collaboration and Dissemination: Lessons Learned and Plans for the Future: William R. Bowen (U Toronto Scarborough)
Institute Panel: Perspectives on DH (or, #myDHis . . . )
- #MyDHis Antifascist: Dorothy Kim (Vassar C)
- Learning from the Iterative Process: Randa El Khatib (U Victoria)
- #MyDHis…People: Sarah Melton (Boston C)
- Release the Kraken: Story-Driven Prototyping for the Digital Humanities: Milena Radzikowska (Mt Royal C)
- Comfortably Trepid: Lee Zickel (Case Western Reserve U)
- #MyDHis Edgy: Emily Murphy (U Victoria)
- Prototyping Mina Loy’s Alphabet with a 3D Printer: Margaret Konkol (Old Dominion U)
Aligned Conferences & Events
- DHSI Conference and Colloquium
Digital Scholarship on Tap
For the 2018-2019 academic year
Leads: Randa El Khatib (ETCL, English) and Matthew Huculak (ETCL, Library)
Presentations:
- Mapping Across the Disciplines: Nathan Lachowsky (School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria), Jill Levine (History, University of Victoria), and Tom Okey (Environmental Studies, University of Victoria/Ocean Integrity Research)
- 3D Modelling Across the Disciplines: Helen K. Kurki (Biological Anthropology, University of Victoria) and Alejandro J. Sinner (Roman Art and Archaeology, University of Victoria)
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2018-2019 academic year
Leads: Luis Meneses (English, ETCL)
Presentations:
- The Comédie Française Registers project: Sara Harvey (French) and Charline Granger (Université de Paris Nanterre)
- Advanced Research Computing for the Digital Humanities: Belaid Moa (Compute Canada)
Visiting Speakers
- Modelling as an experimental practice in the humanities: Øyvind Eide (U Cologne) – 6 September 2017 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
- Digital Humanities and Institutional Structures: U Cologne’s Programming in the Humanities: Øyvind Eide (U Cologne) – 7 September 2017 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
- The Humanities and Social Sciences Research Accelerator: Sarah Milligan (U Victoria) – 26 September 2017 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Networked Open Social Scholarship (Victoria, BC, Canada; January 2017)
DHSI 2017
Statistics
- 877 registrants (+177 short workshop participants)
- 49 course offerings (+16 short workshops)
Institute Lectures
- The Mind-Book Problem: Robert Bringhurst
- Cultures of Reception: Readership and Discontinuity in the History of Women’s Writing: Julia Flanders (Northeastern U)
- Emoji Dick, Prequels and Sequels: Lisa Gitelman (NYU)
- A Conversation with Brewster Kahle, moderated by Jo-Ann Roberts: Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive), Jo-Ann Roberts (CBC)
- The Disciplinary Impact of the Digital: DH and ‘The Others’: Elena Pierazzo (U Grenoble Alpes)
Institute Panel: Perspectives on DH (or, #myDHis . . . )
- #myDHis Dusty: Meaghan Brown (Folger Shakespeare Library)
- #myDHis edgy and therefore slow: Jacob Heil (C of Wooster)
- The Downside of Difference: Corina Koolen (U Amsterdam)
- Engaging Social Justice Pedagogy and Scholarly Practices in the Digital Humanities: Ángel David Nieves (Hamilton C)
- DH In The Big Tent: Jessica Otis (Carnegie Mellon U)
- #myDHis radically inclusive: Michelle Schwartz (Ryerson U)
- #myDHis messy: David Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi / American U Beirut)
Aligned Conferences and Events
- DHSI Conference and Colloquium
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2017-2018 academic year
Leads: Matthew Huculak (ETCL, Library) and Randa El Khatib (ETCL, English)
Presentations:
- Modelling as an Experimental Practice in the Humanities: Øyvind Eide (Digital Humanities, U of Cologne)
- Decolonizing the Academic Edition (with Indigenized Cyberspace): Sara Humphreys (Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Victoria)
- The Comédie-Française Registers Project: Visualizing Eighteenth-Century Theater Ticket Sales and Repertories: Jeffrey S. Ravel (History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Sara Harvey (French, Uvic)
- Visual Recognition of Symbolic and Natural Patterns: Alexandra Branzan Albu (Electrical and Computer Engineering, UVic)
- Privacy, Security, and the Internet: Erik Reppel (Computer Science)
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2017-2018 academic year
Leads: Luis Meneses (English, ETCL) and Sarah Milligan (English, ETCL)
Presentations:
- Digital Humanities and Institutional Structures: U Cologne’s Programming in the Humanities: Øyvind Eide (Digital Humanities, U of Cologne)
- What are the processes and practicalities of turning an academic edition into a text-based game?: Sara Humphreys (Assistant Teaching Professor, UVic)
- Online Security: Jonathan Martin (Digital Humanities, Kings College)
- Online Academic Conferences and the Academic Research Poster: Paula Johansen (English, UVic)
ETCL-sponsored Events
- Teaching Digital Humanities across Europe: Efforts at harmonization of DH content and attribution by European research Infrastructures and National DH organisations: Walter Scholger (U Graz) – 15 November 2017 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Visiting Speakers
- Textual Studies, Text Analysis: Old and New Methods for Attributing Authorship: Gabriel Egan (De Montfort U) – 13 January 2016 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Events Series
INKE Partnership Events
- New Knowledge Models: Sustaining Partnerships to Transform Scholarly Production (Whistler, BC, Canada; January 2016)
- Innovative Interrogations: Modelling, Prototyping and Making (Victoria, BC, Canada; June 2016)
DHSI 2016
Statistics
- 783 registrants (+151 short workshop participants and +18 condensed workshop participants)
- 40 course offerings (+10 short workshops and +2 condensed workshops)
Institute Lectures
- Grass Roots and Ivory Towers: Building Communities and Inspiring Participation in the Digital Humanities: James Cummings (Oxford U)
- Digital Futures: Long-term Planning for your Project: Laura Estill (Texas A&M)
- Prototyping Resistance: Wargame Narrative and Inclusive Feminist Discorse: Jon Saklofske (Acadia U)
Institute Panel: Perspectives on DH (or, #myDHis …)
- Prototyping Resistance: Wargame Narritve and Inclusive Feminist Discourse (Panel): Stephanie Boluk (Pratt Institute), Diane Jakacki (Bucknell U), Elizabeth Losh (UC San Diego), Jon Saklofske (Acadia U), and Anastasia Salter (U Central Florida)
- At Play in the Digital Humanities: Jason Boyd (Ryerson U)
- On the Same Page: Models for Library-DH Collaboration: Lisa Goddard (U Victoria)
- Modding the Academy: eMOP, ARC, and Emerging (Digital) Humanities Paradigms: Liz Grumbach (Texas A&M U)
- “Harlem Shadows”: A Collaborative, Social Justice-Oriented Digital Edition: Amardeep Singh (Lehigh U)
- Data Science in the Service of Humanity at Berkeley: Claudia von Vacano (UC Berkeley)
Electronic Literature Affiliated Event
- Language, Accident, and the Virtual: Alan Sondheim
Aligned Conferences and Events
- DHSI Conference and Colloquium
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2016-2017 academic year
Leads: Matthew Huculak (ETCL, Library)
Presentations:
- Alice And Bob: A Critical History of Cryptography’s Most Famous Couple: Quinn DuPont (Digital Studies)
- Deploying Online Services to Support Colaboration: Corey Scholefield (Computer Science)
- Decolonizing Bodies: Indigenizing Data to Produce Better Health and Wellness Outcomes: Jacqueline Quinless (Digital Scholarship)
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2016-2017 academic year
Leads: Tracey El Hajj (English, ETCL) and Katie Tanigawa (English, ETCL)
Presentations:
- The Map of Early Modern London: Catriona Duncan (English)
- Crafting DH Grant Applications: Alyssa Arbuckle (ETCL)
- The Intersection of Technology and Visual Arts: Doug Jarvis (Visual Arts)
ETCL-sponsored Events
Digital Skills Training Workshops @ UVic
Leads: Alyssa Arbuckle (U Victoria ETCL), Lisa Goddard (U Victoria Library), and Ray Siemens (U Victoria ETCL), working with the ETCL and the UVic Libraries. Members: various, session by session, several per term.
- Matthew Huculak (U Victoria Library)
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Sustaining Partnerships to Transform Scholarly Production (Whistler, BC, Canada; January 2015)
DHSI 2015
Statistics
- 765 registrants (+39 registrants in condensed workshops)
- 38 course offerings (+2 condensed workshops in October (Tokyo) and November (Wellington))
Institute Lectures
- Ethical Aspects of Digital Humanities: Malte Rehbein (U Passau)
- Computers and Literary Studies: Doing DH in One Corner of the Big Tent: David Hoover (New York U)
- The End of the Beginning: Building, Supporting and Sustaining Digital Humanities Institutions: Claire Warwick (U Durham)
- Courses, Communities, and Collaboration: Learning in the Digital Humanities: Constance Crompton (UBC Okanagan)
Aligned Conferences and Events
- DHSI Conference and Colloquium
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2015-2016 academic year
Leads: Jana Millar Usiskin (English)
Presentations:
- The Digital Humanities as PhD Practice: Bassam Chiblak (English), Lindsey Seatter (English, ETCL) and Caroline Winter (English)
- The Lost World of Telidon: Challenges in the Conservation of Glenn Howarth’s Digital Art: John Durno (Library)
- Archiving Arabic Folk Tradition: Dwight Reynolds (U California, Santa Barbara)
- How Student Collaboration and Innovation Helped Build a Database of Victoria Periodical Poetry: Alison Chapman (English) and Samantha MacFarlane (English)
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2015-2016 academic year
Leads: Katie Tanigawa (English, ETCL) and Alex Christie (English, ETCL)
Presentations:
- Working with Linked Data and the Challenges and Potentials Derived from Building Digital Ontologies for the Linked Modernisms Project: Jana Millar Usiskin (English)
- Christine Walde (Library) and Caroline Winter (English), Digital Humanities Skills Training course participants (UVic)
- The Political and Social Impacts of Digital Cartography: Brian Thom (Anthropology, Ethnographic Mapping Lab)
- Building a DH Scholar: Lisa Goddard (Library)
Honorary Resident Wikipedian
- Christian Vandendorpe, “Wikipedia and the Ivory Tower.” 23 January 2015, in collaboration with UVic Libraries.
ETCL-sponsored Events
- Machines Investgating What it Means to Be Human? The Paradoxes and Opportunities of Digital Storytelling: John Barber (Washington State U Vancouver) – 24 November 2015 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
- Six Versions and Counting: How Digital Archiva Research Changed Our Understanding of Judy Malloy’s Uncle Roger and Electronic Literary History: Dene Grigar (Washington State U Vancouver) – 24 November 2015 (Victoria BC, Canada)
Digital Skills Training Workshops @ UVic
Leads: Alyssa Arbuckle (U Victoria ETCL), Lisa Goddard (U Victoria Library), and Ray Siemens (U Victoria ETCL), working with the ETCL and the UVic Libraries. Members: various, session by session, several per term.
Lisa Goddard (U Victoria Library), Alex Christie (English), Constance Crompton (UBC Okanagan), Katie Tanigawa (English), Jana Millar-Usiskin (English), Lynne Siemens (U Victoria), Tina Bebbington (Libraries), Lara Wilson (Libraries), Corey Davis (Libraries), Joel Legassie (U Victoria), Shawn DeWolfe (ETCL, U Victoria), Matt Huculak (U Victoria Library), Aaron Mauro (ETCL, U Victoria)
ETCL-sponsored Discussion Groups (and Related Workshops)
For the 2015-2016 academic year
Theorizing the Library/Library and Theory
Lead: Matt Huculak (ETCL, UVic Libraries)
- Members: Corey Davis (UVic Libraries), Heather dean (UVic Libraries), Lisa Goddard (UVic Libraries), Jane Morrison (UVic Libraries), Michael Radmacher (UVic Libraries), Stephen Ross (UVic), Christine Walde (UVic Libraries), Lara Wilson (UVic Libraries)
Gameful Employments
Lead: David Leach (Writing, Technology & Society)
- Members: Jentery Sayers (English, Maker Lab), Stephen Ross (English), Tina Bebbington (UVic Libraries), Ashley Blacquiere (Technology & Society), Janni Aragon (Political Science, Technology Integrated Learning), Nina Belojevic (Maker Lab), Kathy Sanford (Education), Bernadette Perry (French), Clint Lalonde (BC Campus), Eric Jordan (Codename Entertainment)
Digital Humanities Knowledge Commercialization Group
Leads: Richard J. Lane (Vancouver Island U), Lynne Siemens (Public Administration & Integration)
- Members: Ray Siemens (English, Computer Science), Emile Fromet de Rosnay (French), Dean Irvine (Dalhousie U), Brian Fillmore (BTF Financial Services Inc., Loaves & Fishes Food Bank), Nathan Bolton (Vancouver Island U), Seamas Finnerty (Vancouver Island U)
Designing for Repair
Lead: Jentery Sayers (English, Maker Lab).
- Members: Daniela K. Rosner (U of Washington), Nina Belojevic (Maker Lab), Shaun Macpherson (Maker Lab), Katherine Goertz (Maker Lab), Danielle Morgan (Maker Lab)
Virtual Reality Working Group
Lead: Alex Christie (English, ETCL)
- Members: Heather Dean (UVic Libraries), Alison Chapman (English), Shawn DeWolfe (ETCL), Katie Tanigawa (English, ETCL), Lindsey Seatter (English, ETCL), Lisa Goddard (UVic Libraries)
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: Emerging Reading, Writing, and Research Practices (Sydney, NSW, Australia; December 2014)
- Experimental Interfaces for Reading 2.0 (Chicago, IL, United States; September 2014)
- Building Partnerships to Transform Scholarly Publishing (Whistler, BC, Canada; January 2014)
DHSI 2014
- 608 registrants (+63 registants in condensed workshops)
- 27 course offerings (+3 condensed workshops in December (New York), January (Victoria), and March (Los Angeles))
Institute Lectures
- DH as Fan Practice: Remix, Re-use, Re-Write: Aimée Morrison (U Waterloo)
- The (Digital) Library of Babel: Digital Humanities at Scale: Paul Arthur (U Western Sydney), Jonathan Bengston (U Victoria Library), Ed Chang (Drew U), Aimée Morrison (U Waterloo), Michael E. Sinatra (U Montréal), Stéfan Sinclair (McGill U), Robert Gibbs (U Toronto), Alex Gil (Columbia U), Doran Larson (Hamilton College), James Nahachewsky (Curriculum and Instruction), Ray Siemens (English and Computer Science), John Simpson (U Alberta), George Tzanetakis (Computer Science), Paul Walde (Visual Arts)
Aligned Conferences and Events
- DHSI Conference and Colloquium
Honorary Resident Wikipedian Christian Vandendorpe, 2014-15
Co-hosted with Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE; inke.ca) and the UVic Libraries. Media coverage:
- “University of Victoria Announces New Honorary Resident Wikipedian.” CBC News.
- “UVic’s Resident Wikipedian.” Times Colonist.
- “Honorary Resident Wikipedian: Professor Christian Vandendorpe.” The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Blog.
- “Virtually Here: UVic’s first Honorary Resident Wikipedian.” The Ring.
- “Introducing UVic’s Resident Wikipedian.” The Martlet.
- “Former U of O Prof Named First ‘Honorary Wikipedian’ in Canada.” The Fulcrum.
- “Virtually Here: UVic Welcomes its First Honorary Resident Wikipedian.” UVic Communications.
- “Wikipedia: A Gift to the World.” University Affairs / Affaires universitaires
- “The University of Victoria has its Own Wikipedia Ambassador.” CKNW 980 AM.
- “U in the Ring: Valerie Cortez, Dr. Christian Vandendorpe, & Dr. Nikolai Dechev.” CFUV 101.9 FM.
- Christian’s role was also featured by Huffington Post Canada, L’Oreille tendue, Greater Victoria Public Library, Wikimedia Outreach, Nuzzel, UNews, and 2cultures.net
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2014-2015 academic year
Leads: Jana Millar Usiskin (English)
Presentations:
- Hokkaistory: A digital exploration of space, time and historical narrative: Joel Legassie (History)
- Big Modernism: Belaid Moa (Compute Canada) and Jana Millar Usiskin (English)
- Library Services for Digital Humanists: Lisa Goddard (Library)
- Z-Axis Scholarship: Modelling How Modernists Wrote the City: Alex Christie (English) and Katie Tanigawa (English)
- Teaching Computer Science in the Middle School Classroom: Mantis Cheng (Computer Science)
- Speak for Yourself! South American Indigenous Self-Representation Online and the Potential for Critical Discourse Analysis: Betsy Hagestedt (Anthropology)
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2014-2015 academic year
Leads: Matthew Hiebert (ETCL, English)
Presentations:
- The Space(s) of Digital Humanities: Richard Lane (Vancouver Island U)
- Can you get What you Want?: Stephen Ross (English and Cultural, Social, and Political Thought)
- Finding Women in the Archives: Digital Remedying & Remediation: Kim McLean-Fiander (English)
ETCL-sponsored Events
- 4Humanities for Whom? Contexts, Motivations, and Examples of a Grassroots Humanities Advocacy Collective: Stéfan Sinclair (McGill U) – 27 February 2014 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
- Wherefore art thou technical? On the (happy?) marriage of Literature and Digital Humanities: Michael E. Sinatra (U Montréal) – 26 February 2014 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
- Bearing Digital Witness: The Humanities and the American Prison Complex: Doran Larson (Hamilton College) – 25 February 2014 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
ETCL-sponsored Discussion Groups (and Related Workshops)
For the 2014-2015 academic year
Theorizing the Library/Library and Theory
Lead: Matt Huculak (ETCL, University Library)
- Members: Corey Davis (Library), Heather Dean (Library), Lisa Goddard (Library), Jane Morrison (Library), Michael Radmacher (Library), Stephen Ross (English), Christine Walde (Library), Lara Wilson (Library)
Gameful Employments
Lead: David Leach (Writing, Technology & Society)
- Members: Jentery Sayers (English, Maker Lab), Stephen Ross (English), Tina Bebbington (Library), Ashley Blacquiere (Technology & Society), Janni Aragon (Political Science, Technology Integrated Learning), Nina Belojevic (Maker Lab), Kathy Sanford (Education), Bernadette Perry (French), Clint Lalonde (B.C. Campus), Eric Jordan (Codename Entertainment)
Digital Humanities Knowledge Commercialization Group
Leads: Richard J. Lane (Vancouver Island U), Lynne Siemens (Public Administration & Integration)
- Members: Ray Siemens (English, Computer Science), Emile Fromet de Rosnay (French), Dean Irvine (Dalhousie U), Brian Fillmore (BTF Financial Services Inc., Loaves & Fishes Food Bank), Nathan Bolton (Vancouver Island U), Seamas Finnerty (Vancouver Island U)
Designing for Repair
Lead: Jentery Sayers (English, Maker Lab)
- Members: Daniela K. Rosner (U of Washington), Nina Belojevic (Maker Lab), Shaun Macpherson (Maker Lab), Katherine Goertz (Maker Lab), Danielle Morgan (Maker Lab)
Virtual Reality Working Group
Lead: Alex Christie (English, ETCL)
- Members: Heather Dean (Library), Alison Chapman (English), Shawn DeWolfe (ETCL), Katie Tanigawa (English, ETCL), Lindsey Seatter (English, ETCL), Lisa Goddard (Library)
Events Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: E/Merging Reading, Writing, and Research Practices (New York, NY, United States; September 2013)
DHSI 2013
Statistics
- 467 registrants (+35 registrants in January and May workshops)
- 21 course offerings (+2 workshops in January and May)
Institute Lectures
- The First Five Kilobytes are the Hardest: George Dyson
- Hopeful Monsters: Design Fiction and the Digital Humanities: Kari Kraus (U Maryland)
Aligned Conferences and Events
- DHSI Conference and Colloquium
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2013-2014 academic year
Leads: Aaron Mauro (ETCL, English)
Presentations:
- All the News That’s Fit to Link: The Problem of Journalism in the Digital Age: David Leach (Writing)
- Interactive Technologies and New Media Art in Victoria: Justin Love (Limbic Media)
- HASTAC Research Panel: Trish Baer (English), Cameron Butt (English), Daniel Powell (ETCL, English) and Jana Millar Usiskin (Maker Lab, English)
- Expanding Our Vision: Images and Gaming: Amy Gooch (Computer Science)
- Chanting monks, chatting whales, laughing rats and browing unfamiliar music – content-aware interfaces for audio signals: George Tzanetakis (Computer Science)
- Digital Innovation and the Modernist/Postmodernist Experimental Novel (Rebecca West/BS Johnson): Richard Lane (VIU, English)
- Teaching the Tour de France Online: Emile Fromet de Rosnay (French)
- Rethinking the Library’s: Inba Kehoe (U Victoria Library)
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2013-2014 academic year
Leads: Matthew Hiebert (ETCL, English)
Presentations:
- User-Testing DH Prototypes: Monica M. Brown (U British Columbia), Teresa Dobson (U British Columbia) and Ernesto Peña (U British Columbia), Richard Cavell (U British Columbia)
- Using Omeka: Exhibiting the Archive Online: Matthew Huculak (MVP, English)
- Media Theory and the Digital Humanities: Marshall McLuhan (English, UBC)
ETCL-sponsored Events
- Wanted on This Voyage: How to Build a Digital Ark, or Experiments in Ark-iving: Brent Nelson (U Saskatchewan) – 30 January 2013 (Victoria, BC, Canada)
ETCL-sponsored Discussion Groups (and Related Workshops)
For the 2013-2014 academic year
Building Public Humanities
Leads: Nina Belojevic (ETCL, English) and Jentery Sayers (English)
- Members: Miriam Bartha (Simpson Center, U Washington), Jon Johnson (English), Lynne Siemens (Public Administration), Katie Tanigawa (MakerLab, English)
Digital Praxis and Graduate Education in the Humanities
Lead: Daniel Powell (English, ETCL)
- Members: Janni Aragon (Political Science), Alyssa Arbuckle (ETCL), Alex Christie (English, ETCL, MakerLab), Janelle Jenstad (English), Erin Kelly (English), Alyssa McLeod and colleagues (Royal BC Museum), Ray Siemens (English, Computer Science), Jana Millar-Usiskin (English, MakerLab), Shaun Wong (ETCL)
Digital Scholarship & Libraries
Leads: Corey Davis (Libraries) and Christine Walde (Libraries)
- Members: Tina Bebbington (Libraries), Stephanie Boulogne (Libraries), Corey Davis (Libraries), John Durno (Libraries), Michael Lines (Libraries), Christine Walde (Libraries), Lara Wilson (Libraries)
Digital Storytelling Across Campuses
Leads: Janni Aragon (Political Science) and Alison Chapman (English)
- Members: Juliann Allison (UC Riverside), Caley Ehnes (English), Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA Director of Scholarly Communications), Himanee Gupta-Carlson (Empire State U), David Leach (Creative Writing), Mia Tulli (JCURA)
Gameful Employments
Leads: Stephen Ross (English) and David Leach (Writing)
- Members: Tina Bebbington (Libraries), Nina Belojevic (ETCL, English), Alex Christie (ETCL, MakerLab, English), Jillian Code (Education), Bruce Gooch (Computer Science), Matthew Jenkins (MWJ Technology Group), Jon Johnson (English), Christer Kaitilia (Gamification Consultant and Author), Clint Lalonde (College Open Textbooks), Scott Leslie (Educational Technology Consultant), Marta Ligocki (Computer Science), Tim Pelton (Education), Leslee Pelton (Education), Colton Phillips (English), Kathy Sanford (Education), Jentery Sayers (English), Ray Siemens (English, Computer Science), Jim Tanaka (Psychology), Brian Thom (Anthropology), George Tzanetakis (Computer Science), Jodie Walsh (Education)
Hello World! Workshop Series (MakerLab)
Lead: Jentery Sayers (English)
- Topics will include: linked data, multimodal authoring (using Scalar), Kinect programming, data visualization, revision control, and critical gaming / gameful design
Toward a School of Digital Humanities / Digital Scholarship
Lead: Ray Siemens (English and Computer Science)
- Members (via UVic representational structures): Jonathan Bengtson (Library), Sue Whitesides (Computer Science), Jentery Sayers (Humanities [DH Ctte]; MakerLab), Stewart Arneil (HCMC), Dan Sondheim (ETCL)
21st Century Literacies (Contd.)
Lead: James Nahachewsky (Education)
- Members: Kathy Sanford (Education), Ray Siemens (English, Computer Science), Daphne Churchill (Westshore Learning Centre), Devon Stokes-Bennett (Westshore Learning Centre)
Digital Geohumanities Working Group (Contd.)
Lead: Janelle Jenstad (English)
- Members: Laurel Bowman (Greek and Roman Studies), John Lutz (History/Office of Community Based Research), Greg Newton (HCMC), Reuben Rose-Redwood (Geography), Stephen Ross (English), Jordan Stanger-Ross (History), Patrick Dunae (History), Elizabeth Grove-White (English), Megan Harvey (History), Joel Legassie (History), Mitchell Lewis Hammond (History), Derek Murray (History), Ian O’Connell (Geography), Chris Petter (Library), Eric Sager (History), Michael Stevens (English)
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century (Victoria, BC, Canada; June 2012)
- Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: E/Merging Reading, Writing, and Research Practices / Fundamentos para el entendimiento del libro y la lectura en la era digital: Lectura, escritura e investigación e/mergentes (Havana, Cuba; December 2012)
DHSI 2012
Statistics
- 424 registrants (+21 registrants in 2-day workshop in March)
- 17 course offerings (+ 2-day workshop in March)
Institute Lectures
- Does it Work?: Where Theory and Technology Collide: Laura Mandel (Texas A&M)
- Feeding our Reading Machines: Adriaan an de Waeel (MITH)
- Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State U), Laura Mandel (Texas A&M), Adriaan van der Weel (Leiden), Sydney Shep (U Wellington), Andrew Stauffer (U Virginia)
Aligned Conferences and Events
- DHSI Conference and Colloquium
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2012-2013 academic year
Leads: Jentery Sayers (English)
Presentations:
- Digital Media Archaelogy: Lori Emerson (U Colorado, Boulder)
- The Impact of Social Media on Software Engineering Research: Margaret-Anne Storey (Computer Science)
- Close reading, distant reading and in between: Visualizing spaces of knowledge in early medieval scholarship: Malte Rehbein (U Wurzburg)
- Does the World Need Another Website? An Insider’s View of Starting a DH Project: Laura Estill (ETCL, English)
- Stitching Together Speculatiobs along the Z-Axis of Algorithmic Culture: Jentery Sayers (English)
- “Textual Performance” in Ulysses: Versioning Print Processes: Matthew Huculak (MVP, English)
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2012-2013 academic year
Leads: Laura Estill (ETCL, English)
Presentations:
- Why the Library Won’t Archive your DH Project: Inba Kehoe (Library), Ken Cooley (Library), John Durno (UVic Library) and Paul Stokes (Chief Information Officer)
- Professor Twitter: Social Media for Academics to Network: Janni Aragon (Political Science)
- Using Digital Tools to Engage Learners: Catherine Caws (French)
- Creative and Critical Approaches to E-Waste: Jentery Sayers (English)
ETCL-sponsored Events
- Long-Term Thinking with Technologies: George Dyson, Barbara Bordalejo (English, U Saskatchewan), Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Anthropology), Jeffrey Foss (Philosophy), David Leach (Writing), Jentery Sayers (English), and Victoria Wyatt (History in Art) – 5 December 2012, in collaboration with UVic and the Maker Lab (Victoria, BC, Canada)
ETCL-sponsored Discussion Groups (and Related Workshops)
For the 2012-2013 academic year
21st Century Literacies
Lead: James Nahachewsky (Education)
- Members: Kathy Sanford (Education), Ray Siemens (English, Computer Science), Daphne Churchill (Westshore Learning Centre), Devon Stokes-Bennett (Westshore Learning Centre)
Digital Geohumanities Working Group
Lead: Janelle Jenstad (English)
- Members: Laurel Bowman (Greek and Roman Studies), John Lutz (History/Office of Community Based Research), Greg Newton (HCMC), Reuben Rose-Redwood (Geography), Stephen Ross (English), Jordan Stanger-Ross (History); with invitations to Patrick Dunae (History), Elizabeth Grove-White (English), Megan Harvey (History), Joel Legassie (History), Mitchell Lewis Hammond (History), Derek Murray (History), Ian O’Connell (Geography), Chris Petter (Library), Eric Sager (History), Michael Stevens (English)
DH-Theory Intersections Group
Lead: Richard J. Lane (MeTA Digital Humanities Lab & VIU Digital Humanities Research Group, Vancouver Island U)
- Members: Emile Fromet de Rosnay (French), Stephen Ross (English), Jentery Sayers (English), Sally Carpentier (English, VIU), Ian Whitehouse (English, VIU)
Humanities Physical Computing
Lead: Jentery Sayers (English)
- Members: Alyssa Arbuckle (English), Ted Hiebert (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, U Washington Bothell), Doug Jarvis (Artist), Alyssa McLeod (English), Daniel Powell (English), Emily Smith (English), Michael Stevens (English)
Issues in Large-Scale, Multi-Site, Collaborative Versioning
Lead: Stephen Ross (English)
- Members: Jentery Sayers (English), Alison Chapman (English), Janelle Jenstad (English), Constance Crompton (ETCL, English), Brendan Gibb (Britec Computer Systems)
Long-Term Thinking with Technologies
Co-Sponsored: UVic, the Maker Lab and ETCL
- Panelists: George Dyson, Barbara Bordalejo (English, U. of Saskatchewan), Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Anthropology), Jeffrey Foss (Philosophy), David Leach (Writing), Jentery Sayers (English), and Victoria Wyatt (History in Art)
TRUTH (Teaching and Research Using Technology in the Humanities)
Co-leads: Catherine Caws (French) and Ulf Schuetze (Germanic & Slavic Studies)
- Members: Ray Siemens (English, Computer Science), Elizabeth Grove-White (English), John Lutz (History), Claire Carlin (French), Emile Fromet de Rosnay (French), Helga Thorson (Germanic & Slavic), Alex D’Arcy (Linguistics), Li-Shi Huang (Linguistics), Karen Tang (Pacific & Asia Studies), Martin Holmes (HCMC), Stewart Arneil (HCMC), and Erik Fleischer (Systems)
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Research Foundations for Understanding Books & Reading in a Digital Age (Kyoto, Japan; November 2011)
DHSI 2011
Statistics
- 218 registrants
- 10 course offerings
Institute Lecture
- Digital Humanities Archive Fever: Matthew Kirschenbaum (U Maryland)
Aligned Conferences & Events
- DHSI Conference and Colloquium
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2011-2012 academic year
Leads: Laura Estill (ETCL, English)
Presentations:
- “And now completely finished”: Rebuilding and Expanding The Map of Early Modern London: Janelle Jenstad (English)
- Mallarmé: Hypertext and Hypermediality: Emile Fromet de Rosnay (French)
- Writing with Sound: Composing Long-Form, Mulimodal Scholarship: Jentery Sayers (English)
- Digital Media Archaeology: Lori Emerson (U of Colorade at Boulder)
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2011-2012 academic year
Leads: Constance Crompton (ETCL, English)
Presentations:
- The Pleasures and Perils of Starting a DH Project: Janelle Jenstad (English)
- Scaling Up: Developing Metrics and Milestones for Small Digital Humanities Projects: Constance Crompton (ETCL, English)
- Working in the Digial Humanities: Ray Siemens (English, Computer Science) and Stephen Ross (English and Cultural, Social, and Political Thought)
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Research Foundations for Understanding Books & Reading in a Digital Age (The Hague, Netherlands; December 2010)
DHSI 2010
Statistics
- 185 registrants
- 9 course offerings
Institute Lectures
- What do Scholars Want? Of Collaboratories, Gender, and DH Evangelism: Susan Brown (U Guelph/U Alberta)
- Voyeur: Seeing What You Get (and Writing About It Too): Stéfan Sinclair (McMaster)
- The State of Digital Humanities: John Unsworth (UIUC)
- Convergences: Libraries, Centers, and Scholarship (Kay Walter (CDRH, U Nebraska-Lincoln
Aligned Conferences and Events
- DHSI Conference and Colloquium
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2010-2011 academic year
Leads: Constance Crompton (ETCL, English)
Presentations:
- Bruce Gooch (Computer Science), John Lutz (History), Meagan Timney (ETCL, English), James Nahachewsky (Education)
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2010-2011 academic year
The series was informal, with regular gatherings taking place at the Grad House.
Event Series
INKE Partnership Events
- Research Foundations for Understanding Books & Reading in a Digital Age (Victoria, BC, Canada; October 2009)
DHSI 2009
Statistics
- 164 registrants
- 9 course offerings
Institute Lectures
- Brave New Digital Language Classroom: Robert Blake (UC Davis)
- How to Win Friends: Donald Bruce (Guelph)
- What the TEI is made of: Daniel O’Donnell (Lethbridge)
- The Text Image Linking Environment: Dot Porter (Dubin, DHO)
- The Issue With Images: Melissa Terras (University College, London)
Aligned Conferences and Events
- DHSI Conference and Colloquium
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2009-2010 academic year
The series was informal, with monthly exchanges taking place in the ETCL meeting space.
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2009-2010 academic year
The series was informal, with regular gatherings taking place at the Grad House.
Event Series
DHSI 2008
Statistics
- 105 registrants
- 7 course offerings
Institute Lectures
- Peopling the Police: A Social Computing Approach to Information Authority in the Age of Web 2.0: Alan Liu (UC Santa Barbara)
- The Atlantic Portal: A Collaborative Achievement: Margaret Conrad (U New Brunswick), Lisa Charlong (U New Brunswick), and Jennifer Whitney (U New Brunswick)
- The World’s Columbian Exposition: A Real-Time Visual Simulation Model Currently Under Construction by the Urban Simulation Team at UCLA: Lisa Snyder (UCLA)
- Synergies: the Changing Face of Digital Humanities in Canada: Michael Eberle-Sinatra (U Montréal)
- Tools Across the Lifecycle of Research: Reflections on an Experiment: Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster)
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2008-2009 academic year
The series was informal, with monthly exchanges taking place in the ETCL meeting space.
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2008-2009 academic year
The series was informal, with regular gatherings taking place at the Grad House.
Event Series
DHSI 2007
Statistics
- 118 registrants
- 7 course offerings
Institute Lectures
- Chad Gaffield (U Ottawa, SSHRC)
- Word types, word tokens, and the language of Shakespearean drama: Hugh Craig (U Newcastle, NSW)
- Everything But the Smell: Toward a More Artefactual Digital Philology: Matthew Driscoll (Arnamagnaean Institute, Copenhagen)
- What is Text Analytis and Why are They Saying Such Wonderful Things About It?: David Hoover (New York U)
- Builder Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Bill Bowen (U Toronto)
- Presense, Flux and Trace: Three Modalities of Representation in Cyberspace: Bertrand Gervais (UQAM)
- Why is there no poetry on the Web? A look at the incompatible differences between written and digital media: Ollivier Dyens (Concordia U)
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2007-2008 academic year
The series was informal, with monthly exchanges taking place in the ETCL meeting space.
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2007-2008 academic year
The series was informal, with regular gatherings taking place at the Grad House.
Event Series
DHSI 2006
Statistics
- 103 registrants
- 7 course offerings
Institute Lectures
- Teresa Dobson (U British Columbia)
- Mutable Sculpture: Intersections of Physical and Virtual Space: Edrex Fontanilla (Brown U)
- Dominic Forest (UQAM)
- Alan Galey (Western U)
- The Dreamweaver Paradox: David Gants (U New Brunswick)
- Sheila Petty (Regina U)
- Christian Vandendorpe (U Ottawa)
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2006-2007 academic year
The series was informal, with monthly exchanges taking place in the ETCL meeting space.
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2006-2007 academic year
The series was informal, with regular gatherings taking place at the Grad House.
Event Series
DHSI 2005
Statistics
- 60 registrants (+10 registrants in August 2005)
- 5 course offerings (+1 special course offering in August 2005)
Institute Lectures
- David Hoover (New York U)
- Lorna Hughes (King’s College, London)
- Willard McCarty (King’s College, London)
- Electronic Text Browsing Interfaces: Stan Ruecker (U Alberta)
- John Unsworth (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Claire Warwick (University College, London)
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2005-2006 academic year
The series was informal, with monthly exchanges taking place in the ETCL meeting space.
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2005-2006 academic year
The series was informal, with regular gatherings taking place at the Grad House.
Event Series
DHSI 2004
Statistics
- 84 registrants
- 6 course offerings
Institute Lectures
- Adrift in a Sea of Information: William Bowen (U Toronto Scarborough)
- The World of the TEI, the TEI in the World: Julia Flanders (Brown U)
- Cybertextuality: Ian Lancashire (U Toronto)
- Multimedia: Aimée Morrison, Stan Ruecker (U Alberta)
- Open Texts, Open Code and Open Research: Developing and Open Text Analytis System Through TAPoR: Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster U)
- Text Analysis: Stéfan Sinclair
- The Public Knowledge Project: John Willinsky
- Robotic Poetics: William Winder (U British Columbia)
- Julia Flanders (Brown U), Ian Lancashire (U Toronto), Aimée Morrison (U Waterloo), John Willinsky (U British Columbia), William Winder (U British Columbia)
Brown Bag Lunches
Digital Scholarship on Tap is an evolution of our previous informal lunchtime series, Brown Bag Lunches, which ran from 2010 to 2018.
For the 2004-2005 academic year
The series was informal, with monthly exchanges taking place in the ETCL meeting space.
Nuts & Bolts
For the 2004-2005 academic year
The series was informal, with regular gatherings taking place at the Grad House.
Visiting Speakers
Series at Vancouver Island University, associated with the Centre for Digital Humanities Innovation
See https://dhsi.org/course-archive/ for a full list of DHSI speakers prior to 2004.
Past Projects
Iter Community
Iter Community facilitates and supports communication, collaboration, and digital project creation for research communities of the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods. It is a social knowledge creation environment: a space to connect with others in the field, create and host digital humanities projects, develop research communities, and collaborate on intellectual endeavours. This project is currently under development and is led by Bill Bowen (Iter, U Toronto Scarborough), Ray Siemens, the ETCL team, and others.
A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript
The Devonshire MS is a poetic miscellany — a “courtly anthology” as Raymond Southall has called it or an “informal volume” as Paul Remley has urged — consisting of 114 original leaves, housing some 185 items of verse (complete poems, fragments, extracts, and annotative rebuttals). It contains a mix of courtly poetry by the canonical early Renaissance poetic figures Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey (“O Happy Dames”); the work of, or transcriptions of the work of others by, prominent court figures Mary Shelton, Margaret Douglas, Mary Howard, Thomas Howard and, perhaps, Anne Boleyn (as per Southall); and transcribed extracts of medieval verses by Chaucer, Hoccleve, and Roos. Physical evidence dates the MS between 1525 and 1559; internal evidence narrows those dates slightly and suggests that the period in which it saw most intense activity (“writing and circulation”) was the mid-1530s. The Devonshire MS encompasses far more than the work of Wyatt and reflects a dynamic group of men and women operating in and around Queen Anne Boleyn’s court in the mid-1530s. As a consequence, this edition of the Devonshire MS is not restricted to representing Thomas Wyatt, but instead, is part of a larger project exploring the dynamics of that group itself as represented textually in the MS. The social edition of the Devonshire MS can be found at en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Devonshire_Manuscript.
Iter: Renaissance Bibliography
In partnership with Iter (Bill Bowen, U Toronto; itergateway.org), the ETCL carried out a one-year study focusing on the collation and description of scholarly online resources for the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The report has been submitted to Iter.
z-axis research
z-axis research is a critical making project that transforms archival maps of modern cities into 3D-printable versions that enable literary interpretations of novels set in those cities. To create these literary maps, the project uses geographic data taken from modernist novels to warp and deform historical maps in 3D. This project is currently under development, led by Alex Christie and the ETCL team and in collaboration with Implementing New Knowledge Environments and the Modernist Versions Project.
PReE: Professional Reading Environment
Currently at a proof-of-concept stage, the Professional Reading Environment project is an attempt to develop an interface for professional reading across large, varied-format data sets, using textual analysis as an organisational principle.
A Study of Professional Reading Tools for Computing Humanists
Siemens, Willinsky, Blake, et al.
Much of the current research on online information resources focuses on information retrieval, particularly the use of search engines to locate desired information. Far less attention has been paid to how the found materials are read and how critical engagement can be enhanced in online reading environments. This paper reports on a study examining whether a set of well-designed reading tools can assist humanities computing scholars in comprehending, evaluating, and utilizing the research literature in their area.
Thirteen computing humanists were interviewed regarding their experience using the reading tools. They were asked which tools, if any, contributed (and to what degree those tools contributed) to their comprehension, evaluation, and interest in utilizing the work they read. Reactions varied widely among users but their responses indicate that the reading tools have the potential to increase readers’ engagement with scholarly material by leading them to a variety of supplementary resources. The reading tools were deemed to be an exceptionally good resource for students or beginners in the field. Participants also identified several issues with the tools themselves, and the web as a whole, that affect the online reading and research experience. (864 pages) View Publication »
A Knowledge-base Toward an Edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
We’ve embarked on creating an electronic knowledge-base that will allow the navigation of critical materials published on Shakepeare’s sonnets from 1972 to the present. Stage 1 of the project has involved the building of a comprehensive bibliography of criticism online, followed by a second stage of collecting and scanning article-length criticism to be compiled as a full-text and image database. Stage 3, currently in progress, involves gathering online resources to add to the database and the encoding of all materials collected. The resulting knowledge-base, which will be responsive to full-text electronic searches, will both be a useful scholarly resource in itself (allowing those involved in our project to uncover swiftly, for example, all references to a particular sonnet in a large critical corpus) and a prototype for larger electronic resources; the techniques we uncover should be adaptable to the requirements of various scopes of different research areas.
While the full text database can’t be shared as a resource, we will be exploring a number of output formats that could be shared with a larger research community. One major output area will be the generation of indices and concordances of the critical texts; we can, for example, make a dynamic index, which could access the full text database and output citations with reference to the articles. Since many end-users will come from home institutions with online access to many of the journals, and with library access to others, these indices will serve as a strong jumping-off point for further research.
Renaissance Knowledge Network (ReKN)
The Renaissance Knowledge Network (ReKN) is a major initiative to create an integrated online research environment tailored to the needs of scholars studying the Renaissance. ReKN is situated within Iter, a not-for-profit partnership dedicated to the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development and distribution of online resources. Integrating three usually discrete activities vital to scholarly work – research, analysis, and production – will allow ReKN to address the growing challenges of diverse, isolated, and siloed digital resources, a bewildering number of tools and platforms devoted to textual analysis, and the increasing number of ways scholarship is produced and disseminated in particular research communities. This initiative is in development and led by the ETCL team in collaboration with Iter and the Advanced Research Consortium.
UVic FrankenWeek
FrankenWeek at the University of Victoria is a series of interdisciplinary events celebrating the history, text, themes, and performance of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. All of the FrankenWeek events are open to the University of Victoria’s students, faculty, and staff, as well as to community members from the greater Victoria area from October 28th to 31st. Click here to learn more about what we did for FrankenWeek this year!
Personas for Open Peer Review
The Personas project envisions an online, open, networked peer-to-peer review environment where “open review articles” get published (after a minimal review process between editor and author and document preparation for online publishing) and can be reviewed by anyone with access to the article or with permissions to contribute comments on the article. Editors, reviewers, and authors can see each other’s comments, respond to them, and engage in conversation. An article can be reviewed at an article level (through a review form) or in the margins (i.e. with Open Annotator). This project is currently under development, led by Nina Belojevic and the ETCL team and in collaboration with the Public Knowledge Project.
The Exeter Manuscript
An early seventeenth-century scribal manuscript of Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) has just come to light, discovered in the summer of 2005. Consisting of sermons and lectures from 1598, this manuscript contains much material that has never been printed. It shows the development of Andrewes’s theological ideas and provides further evidence of the brilliant language and thought of one of the greatest thinkers and writers of the period. A complete digital facsimile of the manuscript was carried out by the UVic Electronic Textual Cultures Lab in the summer of 2005.
Book and Manuscript Projects (Various)
The ETCL is set up to digitise manuscripts, books, and documents for archival purposes. Manuscripts and early printed books that exist in single or few copies can be scanned or photographed and stored on our systems. Possible future uses of these manuscripts include not only preservation, but also dissemination of and access to materials that might not otherwise have been available for research and educational purposes.
“Social Knowledge Creation: Three Annotated Bibliographies”
In 2012-2013 an ETCL team led by Ray Siemens, Alyssa Arbuckle, Nina Belojevic, and Matthew Hiebert, in collaboration with Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE), developed three annotated bibliographies under the rubric of social knowledge creation. The items for the bibliographies were gathered and annotated by members of the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) to form this tripartite document as a resource for students and researchers involved in the INKE team and well beyond, including at digital humanities seminars in Bern (June 2013), Leipzig (July 2013), and New York (September 2013).
Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH-SCHN) website
Formerly COCH/COSH (Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines), this society has recently undergone a name and format change, requiring an overhaul of the previous website. Ongoing challenges include updating content and making the site compliant with the University of Victoria web standards.