Re-Defining Open Social Scholarship in an Age of Generative ‘Intelligence’—CAPOS 2025

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) team recently organized the 7th annual gathering of the Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) with the theme “Re-Defining Open Social Scholarship in an Age of Generative ‘Intelligence’ on 2-3 December...

Nuts & Bolts Talk: Alan Colín-Arce on Web Archives and Digital Silences

We are pleased to announce the next talk in the ETCL Nuts and Bolts series, which will take place on Thursday, November 6th, to mark World Digital Preservation Day. This session will feature Alan Colín-Arce, the ETCL’s Mitacs Internship Fellow in Open, Collaborative...

ETCL and HSS Commons at the First Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship

On October 9th and 10th, ETCL team members Ray Siemens, Britt Amell, and Alan Colin-Arce participated at the First Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship at Concordia University in Montreal. As part of the event, we had a booth where we had lively...

**POSTPONED** Nuts and Bolts: Citizen Science, Collective Memory, and Gestapo.Terror.Places

UPDATE (8 September 2025) Unfortunately, due to illness in the lab, we need to postpone today’s ETCL Nuts & Bolts talk to later in September. We are coordinating with our esteemed speaker, Lambert Heller, to reschedule the session in an online format, as he will...

Latest Lab Publication by Alan Colin Arce

Member of the ETCL team, Alan Colin Arce (Graduate Research Assistant) recently published an article in Spanish titled “Humanities and Social Sciences Commons. Herramienta para la colaboración y difusión de resultados de investigación.” In this article, Arce provides...

Meet the ETCL Team: Thomas Sherriff

This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Thomas is a Mitacs Globalink research intern from Cornwall, Great Britain. He joined the lab in May 2025 and will...

Meet the ETCL Team: Veronika Mykhailenko

This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Veronika joined the lab in May 2025 as a Mitacs Globalink Research Intern from Kherson, Ukraine. She will spend three...

Meet the ETCL Team: Ishita Akhter

This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Ishita joined the lab in May 2025 as a Mitacs Globalink Research Intern from Hong Kong. She will be working with the...

2025 Open Scholarship Awards

The Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and its partners, including the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, are delighted to announce the winners, and honourable mentions, for the 2025 Open Scholarship Awards. Award recipients demonstrated exemplary open...

HSS Commons events in Porto Alegre, Brazil

From April 1-5, ETCL Director Ray Siemens and Assistant Director Graham Jensen visited the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, to participate in meetings and a conference hosted by the PUCRS Digital Humanities...

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Walter Scholger on “Teaching Digital Humanities across Europe: Efforts at harmonization of DH content and attribution by European research Infrastructures and National DH organisations”

Please join us for an ETCL-sponsored talk by Walter Scholger, Assistant Director of the Center for Information Modeling – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz (Austria). Details are as follows: When: Wednesday November 15th, 2017,...

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Nuts & Bolts discussion: Sara Humphreys

We'd like to invite you to join us for the first Nuts and Bolts session of the new academic year! The Nuts and Bolts discussions are de​signed to focus on the pragmatics of DH research. Details are below:   Friday, October 13 4:00-5:00 pm The Electronic Textual...

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Post by Dr. Øyvind Eide regarding his time at ETCL

The ETCL had the honour of hosting visiting researcher Dr. Øyvind Eide from Sept. 4-12. He gave two public lectures, on Sept. 6 and 7, entitled "Modelling as an experimental practice in the humanities" and "Digital Humanities and Institutional Structures: U Cologne’s...

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Soft launch, Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI)

We are pleased to announce the "soft launch" of the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI)! C-SKI actively engages issues related to networked open social scholarship: creating and disseminating research and research technologies in ways that are accessible and...

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Talks by Øyvind Eide on Sept. 6 & 7

Please join us for two talks by Øyvind Eide, a professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Cologne who is currently a visiting researcher at the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at UVic. The first talk will be held in Mearns Centre – McPherson Library...

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The ETCL has Moved!

It is with great pleasure that we announce that in January 2017, the ETCL has moved from the Clearihue Building to the McPherson Library in UVic! The move to a more spacious and comfortable area has coincided with the expansion of our team, with more members expected...

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