Latest Lab Publication by ETCL Team Members

Members of the ETCL team, Graham Jensen, Sajib Ghosh, Archie To, and Ray Siemens have recently published an article “Open Infrastructure and the Threat of ‘Vanishing’ Journals” exploring a pressing issue in the digital humanities landscape: the fragility of...

Meet the ETCL Team: Franco Guglielmoni

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. Franco Guglielmoni is a Mitacs Globalink research intern from Brazil. He joined the lab in January 2026 and will...

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...

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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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Meet the ETCL Team: Olga Ziminova

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. Olga joined the lab initially in January 2020 as an Open Knowledge Practicum Fellow. Currently she is working as a...

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HUMA 180 Students Practicum at the ETCL (2023)

In October 2023, the ETCL was delighted to host Natalie Hutchinson and Mattia De Coene, two students from “HUMA 180: Examining Humanities Research (Dean’s Seminar)” for their course practicum. By its own description, “The course introduces outstanding first-year...

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Meet the ETCL Team: Faraz Forghan-Parast

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. Faraz joined the lab in September 2023 as a Digital Scholarship Fellow. He is currently working on his project "On a...

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Meet the ETCL Team: Raey Costain

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. Raey joined the lab in September 2023 as a Digital Scholarship Fellow. They are currently developing trauma-informed...

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