Latest Lab Publication by ETCL Team Members

Members of the ETCL team, including Alan Colin Arce, Graham Jensen, Brittany Amell, and Ray Siemens, recently published an article titled “Multilingualism as Infrastructural Imperative: Language Diversity in Digital Knowledge Commons.” The article is available in...

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...

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Positions Available in the ETCL

Current Positions in the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory (ETCL) Note: We are no longer accepting applications for the positions advertised below. Thank you for your interest, and keep an eye on our website for upcoming opportunities! The ETCL...

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ETCL Paper on the Social Edition

The attached paper, titled "Supporting the Scholarly Edition in Electronic Form," was written by ETCL members Meagan Timney, Cara Leitch, and Ray Siemens. The paper was recently featured in the MLA Panel for the New Variorum Shakespeare Edition and the INKE project,...

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Conference: INKE 2010

Ray, Julie Meloni, and Melanie Chernyk were in the Hague to organize the INKE conference, titled "Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age." You can find more information about this conference...

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ETCL is getting ready to grow again!

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria is about to grow again! In the coming months, we will be actively seeking talented and energetic digital humanists as postdoctoral fellows, as research associates and assistants, and in alternative...

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