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Re-Defining Open Social Scholarship in an Age of Generative ‘Intelligence’—CAPOS 2025

by Sajib Ghosh | January 9, 2026 | Blog Posts, Events | 0 Comments

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

by Tim Sobie | October 24, 2025 | Events, Nuts and Bolts | 0 Comments

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

by Tim Sobie | October 16, 2025 | Events | 0 Comments

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

by Tim Sobie | September 3, 2025 | Events, Nuts and Bolts | 0 Comments

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

by Sajib Ghosh | May 23, 2025 | Publications | 0 Comments

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

by Sajib Ghosh | May 22, 2025 | Meet the ETCL Team | 0 Comments

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

by Sajib Ghosh | May 22, 2025 | Meet the ETCL Team | 0 Comments

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

by Sajib Ghosh | May 22, 2025 | Meet the ETCL Team | 0 Comments

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

by Tim Sobie | May 15, 2025 | Announcements | 0 Comments

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

by Tim Sobie | April 23, 2025 | Events | 0 Comments

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...

New INKE Postdoctoral Fellows in Open Social Scholarship

Feb 9, 2021 | Announcements

We’re delighted to announce that Graham Jensen (PhD, Dalhousie U) will join the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership for 2021 as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Open Social Scholarship, and that Caroline Winter (PhD, UVic) will continue her work with...

Meet the ETCL Team: Talya Jesperson

Jan 14, 2021 | Meet the ETCL Team

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. Talya has been working as a graduate research assistant at the Lab since Fall 2020. She contributes to the lab’s...

Meet the ETCL Team: Ansh Thayil

Jan 14, 2021 | Meet the ETCL Team

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. Ansh started at the lab in the Fall of 2020 as an undergraduate research assistant. He is a fourth-year computer...

2021 Open Scholarship Awards

Jan 12, 2021 | Announcements

Sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and its partners For 2021, 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...

Job Posting: Technical Assistant (Server Maintenance)

Jan 7, 2021 | Jobs, Previous Opportunities

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (https://etcl.uvic.ca), an interdisciplinary research team on campus, seeks a part-time (typically 10-15 hours per week) U Victoria Research Assistant with technology-oriented interests focusing on digital humanities activities....

Job Posting: Research Assistant

Nov 26, 2020 | Jobs, Previous Opportunities

An interdisciplinary research project on campus seeks a part-time (typically 10-15 hours per week) U Victoria research assistant with technology-oriented interests and qualifications in humanities research, writing, and digital humanities activities--as well as event...

Public Talk, Web Accessibility Workshop & Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon with Honorary Resident Wikipedian Silvia Gutiérrez De la Torre

Oct 15, 2020 | Events, Talks and Presentations, Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, Workshops

The ETCL and University of Victoria Libraries invite you to two events featuring our 2020–21 Honorary Resident Wikipedian, Silvia Gutiérrez De la Torre. All events are online, free, and open to everyone. Wednesday, October 21, 2020 10:00–11:00 Pacific Time Barriers to...

2020–21 Honorary Resident Wikipedian: Silvia Gutiérrez de la Torre

Oct 8, 2020 | Announcements

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL; etcl.uvic.ca) and the University of Victoria Libraries (uvic.ca/library) are proud to welcome Silvia Gutiérrez de la Torre (El Colegio de México) as Honorary Resident Wikipedian for 2020–21. Gutiérrez is the Digital...

Mitacs Globalink Internships for May–July 2021

Sep 9, 2020 | Jobs, Previous Opportunities

We are pleased to announce that the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) has been approved to host two twelve-week undergraduate Mitacs Globalink Internships for May–July 2021: Digital Scholarship Internship: Open Scholarship & Technology Digital Scholarship...