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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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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Meet the ETCL Team: Paula Johanson

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. Paula has been affiliated with the lab and DHSI since completing her master's degree in Canadian Literature in 2013....

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Meet the ETCL Team: Amanda Madden

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. Amanda is the Honorary Resident Wikipedian for 2023-24. She is an Assistant professor of History in the Department of...

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