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Last Seen is relaunched! Directed by Judith Giesberg at Villanova University, Last Seen recovers stories of families separated by slavery. Search thousands of ads taken out by former slaves, help transcribe them, & see how educators use them in the classroom. Kudos to Agile's Anneliese Dehner for the new look & navigation. https://informationwanted.org

We're delighted to announce the launch of the Louisiana Slave Conspiracies website, which Agile's Bill Kennedy and Quinn Dombrowski have worked on for the past several years under the direction of Bryan Wagner at the University of California, Berkeley. LSC a collaborative research project dedicated to preserving, digitizing, transcribing, translating, and analyzing manuscripts related to two slave conspiracies organized at the Pointe Coupée Post in the Spanish territory of Lo...uisiana in 1791 and 1795. The website uses a custom facing-page display to present French and Spanish manuscripts alongside original transcriptions and English translations, permitting users to search, browse, and navigate among documents and interactive maps derived from a database tracking persons, places, and assertions. You can visit the site here: https://lsc.berkeley.edu/

Happy new year! Jennifer Guiliano & I are thrilled to share the first issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a journal peer reviewing digital scholarship. Fol...low along & submit your work! We’ll have more reviews all year long as our experiment continues. https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v1-i1 See more

So impressed by the massive effort that the DH crew at Carnegie Mellon has undertaken to curate community-sourced contributions to the Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook. Agile's Bill Kennedy and Matt Milner delivered the design for its Jekyll-based platform. Many thanks to the Mellon Foundation for its investment in DH and to Scott Weingart, Matthew Lincoln, and Susan Grunewald for their exceptional collegiality and invitation to collaborate. Take a tour and reach out to the folks at CMU if you have something to contribute to the collection. https://cmu-lib.github.io/dhlg/

Islandora 8.1 has been released. So much gratitude for all of the hard work across the Islandora community! https://islandora.ca/content/islandora-8-now-available

Delighted to see the relaunch of SpeakOut, an oral history site dedicated to the history of the LGBTQIA+ community at Dartmouth College. Grateful to work with fabulous collaborators at Dartmouth Library. Kudos to Agile's Matt Milner for tireless Omeka theme wrangling! https://exhibits.library.dartmouth.edu/s/SpeakOut/page/home

Archive/Counter-Archive is delighted to present the events for York University's Graduate Program in Film 2019 Summer Institute: Archive/Counter-Archives, focus...ing on media archives and archiving practices, convened by Philip Hoffman, Janine Marchessault, and Michael Zryd. Our schedule includes screenings, master classes, and lectures with special guests such as Matthias Müller, Ali Kazimi, Yvonne Ng, and Suzanne Morrissette. Events will be held at York University and the TIFF Bell Lightbox, and are FREE/open to the public! Visit our website for up-to-date info: https://counterarchive.ca/summer-institute-archivecounter-a

We're so honoured to be part of the official website launch for Archive/Counter-Archive! Kudos to Agile's Bill Kennedy & Eugenia Catroppa for stellar work, and huge thanks to York University's A/CA team Janine Marchesseault, Sennah Yee, & Aimee Mitchell & Queen's University webhosts Centre for Advanced Computing. Check it out at https://counterarchive.ca

Check out the new editorial features in Scalar 2.5.

The first of seven annual SpokenWeb conferences will take place at SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver on May 30-31st, 2019. The theme is RESONANT PRACTICES IN COMMUNITIES OF SOUND. Please visit and respond to the Call for Papers here:

Congratulations Rosie Le Faive on this new Islandora initiative!

Are you currently publishing a scholarly digital documentary edition? Or perhaps in the planning stages, evaluating options and thinking about platform features... and design? We are interested in learning more about the tools and platforms in use or under reviewas well as what editors look for when evaluating optionsand invite your participation in a survey (see below link). This survey was developed as part of a workshop, The Development of Digital Documentary Editing Platforms, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and hosted by the Center for Digital Editing (University of Virginia) and Jane Addams Papers Project (Ramapo College of New Jersey). For more information about the workshop, this survey, and next steps, please contact the Center for Digital Editing. We thank you for your participation!

Delighted to see @zachmortice cover Agile’s collaboration with @PennDesign and @ed_archives on Journey to the Sea Ranch in @landarchmag

We are extremely proud of our ongoing consultation with Gale Cengage on the design & development of their Digital Scholar Lab. Watch for Marc Cormier, Wendy Kurtz, and Sarah Ketchley's demos of the DSL at a campus, conference, classroom, or library near you. Kudos to Matt Milner, Milena Radzikowska, and Cliff Wulfman on the Agile team! https://www.gale.com/primary-sources/digital-scholar-lab

We're thrilled to launch Journey to the Sea Ranch, an Omeka S site completed in partnership with the Environmental Design Archives at Berrkeley and Architectural Archives at Penn's School of Design, with funding from the NHPRC. Check out the exhibits powered by the @StoryMapJS and @TimelineJS Omeka modules built by Agile's Bill Kennedy & Alan Stanley! http://searanch.ced.berkeley.edu

Kudos and ovations to Agile Humanities member and design partner Milena Radzikowska on the announcement of her award for graphic design teaching http://mtroyalinfodesign.ca/mru-prof-given-inaugural-grap/

Fabulous questionnaire and practical advice on logo design from our friends at Two Hot Soups.

Time is now for SSL certificates.

We have a new social media strategy at 889 Queen Street West. Give us a ring.

Very excited and proud to be launching the website for the @HASTAC 2019 gathering on unceded Musqueam territory. We will be accepting presentation and panel abs...tracts until Oct. 15. Thanks to all who have helped to make this a reality! Particularly Jentery Sayers, the HASTAC team and Diamond Point for the brilliant logo. See more

Agile is pleased to launch the first iteration of The Deleuze Seminars, directed by Daniel Smith at Purdue: https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/

Agile is proud to partner with UVa on this digital publishing co-operatives project. Many thanks to Jennifer Stertzer for inviting us to participate.

Excited for the release of "The Digitally Agile Researcher" - Available on 11/30/2017. Order here: digitallyagile.com/buy

Reading up on Semiotic: a React framework for D3 data viz.

Agile’s developer network had a major growth spurt in early 2017. Welcome aboard Quinn Dombrowski, Matt Milner, Ryan Deschamps, and Cliff Wulfman! http://agilehumanities.ca/about/

So pleased to share oars on this beta release of D3.js data viz for In the Same Boats. Up ahead we'll be scaling up from six to ... sixty? Reach out to the leads Alex Gil and Kaiama Glover to sign on board.

"Agile’s experience in usability testing and UX design, especially for book discovery, will be an asset to the eCampusOntario Open Publishing project, as will our network’s long history in digital and print book design, production, and distribution." http://agilehumanities.ca///eCampusOntario-open-publishing

Agile is teaming up with the University of Virginia Law Library to redesign its Digital 1828 Catalogue & bookshelf data visualization. Huge thanks to our UVA collaborators Jim Ambuske, Loren Moulds, and Melissa Gismondi and to the Jefferson Trust for the funding to make it all happen. http://agilehumanities.ca//digital-1828-catalogue-collecti