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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Meet the ETCL Team: Archie To

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. Archie joined the lab as a research assistant in May 2023. His main responsibility is fixing bugs and developing new...

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Meet the ETCL Team: Shera Potka

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. Shera is a visiting master’s student from the University of Cologne (Germany) majoring in Media Informatics. She...

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Meet the ETCL Team: Adar Charlton

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. Adar joined the lab as the Acting Coordinator of Operations in March 2023. She provides operational support to the...

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Meet the ETCL Team: Kyle Dase

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. Kyle joined the lab in September 2022 as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow shortly after completing his PhD at USask. He...

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2023 Open Scholarship Awards

Sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and its partners For 2023, 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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Social Knowledge Creation in a New Light

By Maggie Sardino Scrolling through the workshops on the 2022 DHSI website, I instantly felt in over my head. Words like “stylometry”, “tracery”, “retro machines”, and “semantics” made me feel like I was in high school math class again. And I’m a writing major. I kept...

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