Connect, Collaborate, and Explore the World of Documentary Editing
Interested in documentary editing or making historical documents more accessible? Get connected to a global email forum, digital publishing cooperatives, and training opportunities. Whether you’re just exploring or looking to deepen your skills, you’ll find ways to join the conversation, learn from others, and get involved in the wider editing community.
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI)
The Digital Humanities Summer Institute is a learning-and-community institute for digital humanities. It offers intensive seminars, lectures, and events, fosters open scholarship, and supports inclusion and ethics. The program includes courses, institutional partnerships, and resources for attendees.
eLaboratories
eLaboratories is a digital platform that supports the editing, annotation, and publication of historical documents. It provides tools, resources, and collaborative spaces for scholars, editors, and institutions working to preserve, interpret, and widely share primary sources online for research, teaching, public engagement, and interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration worldwide.
Primary Source Coop
The Primary Source Cooperative is a grant-funded initiative hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society. It provides a collaborative, consensus-governed platform for scholars, researchers, and institutions to publish, edit, annotate, and share digital editions of archival materials, focusing on American history from 1789 to 1914.
UVA Digital Publishing Cooperative
The UVA-DPC is a Mellon- and NHPRC-funded initiative led by UVA’s Center for Digital Editing and UVA Press. It develops sustainable infrastructure, workflows, and tools for creating, publishing, preserving, and widely sharing digital scholarly editions, supporting access, discovery, and long-term usability across the humanities.
SEDIT-L
The Scholarly Editing Forum (SEDIT-L) is an email discussion list for those interested in documentary editing and related subjects. It has about 250 subscribers worldwide, including most of the membership of the ADE. It provides a fast and efficient means of communicating with other documentary editors, allowing subscribers to share news and announcements, discuss common problems, and mobilize in response to issues of concern.
To subscribe to SEDIT-L on the web, go to the list’s website at https://listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=SEDIT-L and select the link “Join or leave the list” and submit the resulting form. Or subscribe by email by sending a message to listserv@listserv.umd.edu, with the subject line blank and the following text in the message body: ‘sub sedit-l your full name’. The host of the list is the University of Maryland and the list manager is Erica Zimmer (ezimmer@bu.edu).
Related Links
- American Council of Learned Societies
- American Historical Association
- Association of American University Presses
- Digital Public Library of America
- H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences On-line
- Library of Congress
- Modern Language Association
- National Archives
- National Council on Public History
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Historical Publications and Records Commission
- National Humanities Alliance
- Organization of American Historians
- Society for American Archivists
- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
- Text Encoding Initiative
University Programs
Documentary editing is taught at various universities through academic programs, hands-on project training, and specialized fellowships. Many Public and Applied History programs also include related courses. Institutions interested in being listed can contact the ADE webmaster.
- Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), The Institute for American Thought, offers a Program in Professional Editing
- The Editorial Institute at Boston University offers a program in editorial methods and techniques. Students are encouraged to focus on a variety of topics (history, art, music, literature, religion, etc.) and to work with different types of materials such as manuscripts and letters from special collections. Emphasis is placed on developing and publishing a special edition from the research.
- George Mason University, MA in History, Concentration in Applied History
- University of North Carolina – Charlotte
- University of Southern Mississippi, Public History Certificate and Digital Humanities Badge.
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