Program for 40th ADE Annual Meeting
The Craft of Documentary Editing
21–23 June 2018
Red Lion Inn 2300 Evergreen Park Drive Southwest Olympia, Washington 98502 Tel: (360) 943-4000
Pre-Program Meetings 2–5 p.m. Wednesday, 20 June 2018 Board Room ADE Council meeting 8–11 a.m. Thursday, 21 June 2018 Board Room ADE Council Meeting
Conference Activities Thursday, 21 June 2018
11 a.m. Ballroom Foyer Registration begins
1:30 p.m. Pine Room Welcome Paul Israel, ADE President Jennifer Stertzer, Local Arrangements Chair
1:45–3:45 p.m. Cedar/Hemlock Room
Session One: Concurrent Showcase and Poster Sessions:
The Development of Digital Documentary Editing Platforms
What is Drupal? What is Omeka? The Jane Addams Papers
The George Washington Financial Papers Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and the Craft of Transcription, E.C. Dijkhof, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands
Presentations by CampEdit Participants
3:45–4 p.m. Break
4–5 p.m. Pine Room Business Meeting
6–8 p.m. North Lawn / Gazebo Area Reception Dinner on your own
Conference Activities Friday, 22 June 2018
8:30 a.m. Registration continues
9–10:30 a.m. Pine Room
Session Two: Editorial Challenges: Old Languages, Marginal Mysteries, New Loves
Martha King, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University, Chair
Translating Spanish Colonial Documents For a 21st-Century Indigenous Audience,Dale S. Brenneman, O’odham-Piipaash Documentary History Project, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona
“Great Affairs sometimes take their Rise from small Circumstances”: Teasing Out Big Stories from Little Scraps, Errant Jottings, and even Whole Documents, Ellen Cohn, Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University
An Online Romance before Online Dating Existed: Editing the Chesnutt-Dow Emails, Elizabeth H. Dow, Independent Scholar
10:30– 11 a.m. break
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Pine Room
Session Three: ADE Seminar on Critical Issues* Creating New Technological and Human Infrastructures: A Forum on the NHPRC-Mellon Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives
Kathryn Blizzard (University of Virginia), moderator
Darrell Meadows, Director for Publications Projects, NHPRC
Patrick Lewis (Kentucky Historical Society): Nineteenth Century Digital Cooperative
Laura Mandell (Texas A&M University): ARCScholar: A Digital Publishing Cooperative
Sara Martin (Massachusetts Historical Society): A 21st-Century Digital Platform for 19th-Century Analog Content
Jennifer Stertzer (University of Virginia): University of Virginia Digital Publishing Cooperative
*Supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), an affiliate of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
12:30– 2 p.m. Lunch on your own
2 –3:30 p.m. Pine Room
Session Four, concurrent session A: Making Cool Stuff: The opportunities and challenges of using multimedia features in a Papers project
Bronwen Arthur, Mary Baker Eddy Papers
Christy Regenhardt, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
Cathy Hajo, Jane Addams Papers
Erica Cavanaugh, Washington Papers
Sharon Nielsen, Joseph Smith Papers
2 –3:30 p.m. Cedar/Hemlock Room
Session Four, concurrent session B: Diaries of the Founding Era
Ondine E. LeBlanc, Massachusetts Historical Society, Chair
George Washington’s Barbados Diary, 1751–52, Lynn Price, The Washington Papers
The Circuit Court Diary of John Jay, Robb K. Haberman, Selected Papers of John Jay
The Diary of John Quincy Adams Neal Millikan, The Adams Papers
3:30–4 p.m. Break
4–5:30 p.m. Pine Room
Session Five, concurrent session A: Whether Bourbon or Documentary Editing, Every Project Needs a Mashbill: A Roundtable Discussion on the Development and Implementation of a Web-based Annotation Tool
Patrick A. Lewis and Whitney R. Smith, Civil War Governors of Kentucky
Ben Brumfield and Sara Brumfield, Brumfield Labs
4–5:30 p.m. Cedar/Hemlock Room
Session Five, concurrent session B: Identifying the Obscure: A Roundtable Discussion on Researching Those Who Lived outside the Historic Record
Kathryn Gehred, The Washington Papers, moderator and participant
Tenisha Armstrong, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers
Christina Carrick, Robert Treat Paine Papers
Victoria Sciancalepore, Jane Addams Papers Project
Hobson Woodward, Adams Family Correspondence
5:30–6 p.m. Break
6–7 p.m. Fir Ballroom Reception (Cash Bar) 7–9 p.m. Fir Ballroom Banquet and Presidential Address
Conference Activities Saturday, 23 June 2018
7:00–8:15 a.m. Board Room ADE Council Meeting
8:30–10 a.m. Cedar / Hemlock Room
Breakfast Presentation: “Olympia Brewing: It’s the Water / It’s the Art,” Karen Johnson, Olympia Tumwater Foundation. Buffet opens at 8:30 a.m.; presentation begins at 9:00 a.m.
10–10:15 a.m. break
10:15 a.m.–Noon. Pine Room
Session Six: Why didn’t I Think of That Before?: Ah Ha! Moments in Documentary Editing
Barbara Oberg, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Chair
Emily de Araujo, Albert Einstein Papers
Charlene Bickford, Emeritus, Papers of the First Federal Congress
Mark Cheathem, Papers of Martin Van Buren
Joe Darowski, Joseph Smith Papers
Victoria Sciancalepore, Jane Addams Papers Project
Melanie Scofield, Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Mary Wigge, The Washington Papers
Noon. CONFERENCE ENDS Post-conference Field Trip: Schmidt House tour and Riverwalk history tour Tour shuttle departs at 1:30 p.m., with scheduled return by 5 p.m.
