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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: