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...

Reimagining Digital Scholarship: A New Chapter for the ETCL Nuts and Bolts Series

We are thrilled to announce the revival of the ETCL Nuts and Bolts series. This relaunch will explore emerging methodologies in Digital Humanities, open scholarship, and community-driven research. The Nuts and Bolts discussions are designed to focus on the pragmatics...

Meet the ETCL Team: Jason Ensor

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. Jason is Director of Competitive Intelligence & Analytics at Western Sydney University, where he leads...

Latest Lab Publication

Members of the ETCL team, Dan Tracy (Associated Researcher and former Visiting Scholar) and Graham Jensen (Assistant Director; Digital Humanities Research Lead) recently co-published an article titled “Humanities scholars’ needs for open social scholarship platforms...

HUMA 180 Students Practicum at the ETCL (2024)

In October 2024, the ETCL had the pleasure of hosting two bright and inquisitive students, Ava Strang and Damon Lamontagne, from HUMA 180: Examining Humanities Research (Dean’s Seminar) as part of their course practicum. According to the UVic Humanities Scholars...

Meet the ETCL Team: Stephanie Posthumus

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. Stephanie Posthumus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill...

Meet the ETCL Team: Julien Vallières

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. Julien Vallières serves as the Associate Director of the Montreal-based Centre de recherche sur l’atelier de L’Arche...
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2024-25 Honorary Resident Wikipedian: Amanda Lawrence

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL; etcl.uvic.ca) and the University of Victoria Libraries (uvic.ca/library) are proud to welcome Dr. Amanda Lawrence (RMIT University) as Honorary Resident Wikipedian for 2024–25. Dr. Lawrence is Director of Australian Internet...

Meet the ETCL Team: Lee Napthine

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. Lee joined the lab as a programmer consultant in October 2024. His primary responsibility is to assist with the...

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Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship: Canada

This past June, after wrapping up the activities for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria, some ETCL members traveled to Montreal for the INKE conference Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship: Canada. The event was held at the University of...

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ARDC Digital Research Skills Summit 2024

From May 21-23, Graham Jensen was in Melbourne to participate in the Australian Research Data Commons’ Digital Research Skills Summit. The event was held at the University of Melbourne and included participants from a wide range of digital research and training...

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Meet the ETCL Team: Eduardo Munoz Francisco

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. Eduardo is a Mitacs research intern joining the lab from Mexico. He started in the lab in May 2024 and will stay for...

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Meet the ETCL Team: Brittany Amell

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. Brittany (or Britt) is a MITACS Accelerate Industrial Postdoctoral Fellow in Open, Collaborative Scholarship (Arts...

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Estonia and Poland 2024

Earlier this May, two members of the ETCL team—Director Ray Siemens and Assistant Director / Mitacs Postdoctoral Fellow Graham Jensen—traveled to Estonia and Poland to share their work in open scholarship and learn from others active in this area. Starting in Tallinn,...

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Meet the ETCL Team: Dan Tracy

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. Dan (Daniel) Tracy is the Associate Professor and Head of Scholarly Communication and Publishing at the University of...

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2024 Open Scholarship Awards

Sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and its partners For 2024, we are pleased to be able to award 2 Open Scholarship Awards and 2 Emerging Open Scholarship Awards, as well as a number of honourable mentions in each category. Open Scholarship Awards...

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