Since its inception in 1972, the IEHD has provided training in editorial methods and practice to more than five hundred individuals. While the IEHD has been extremely valuable to attendees, class size and the expense of in-person meetings limited its reach. In January 2020, work began on re-envisioning the IEHD; this process aims to make the IEHD more accessible, both in reaching a larger, more diverse audience and in how we think about and define our work and its outputs. The first part of this process is developing a freely accessible online course, the Fundamentals of Publishing Historical Documents. Stertzer and Hajo will discuss how a team of faculty, technologists, and advisors are developing digital resources and online instruction to reach anyone interested in editing and publishing documents. Amid this course creation work, the project team is also considering next steps and opportunities for growth. Stertzer and Hajo will provide an overview of current planning and work: overhauling the IEHD’s mission statement; developing a collaborative space that facilitates conversation, fosters creativity and innovation, and encourages and welcomes diversity of both practitioner and practice, and; creating an infrastructure that offers instruction and advanced/specialized training as well as hosts an exchange of ideas.

Moderator: Bob Karachuk, Editor and Project Director, Papers of James Monroe

Jennifer Stertzer: @jstertzer

Jennifer Stertzer is the director of the Center for Digital Editing and the Washington Papers and a research associate professor at the University of Virginia. She co-teaches Conceptualizing and Creating Digital Editions at the University of Victoria’s Digital Humanities Summer Institute, serves on the faculty of the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, and is past president of the Association for Documentary Editing.

Cathy Moran Hajo: @CMHajo

Cathy Moran Hajo is the editor and director of the Jane Addams Papers Project at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She formerly worked as associate editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers. She has taught editing at the in-person Institute for many years, and has co-taught Conceptualizing and Creating Digital Editions at DHSI for several years. She was president of the Association for Documentary Editing from 2008-2009.

R. Darrell Meadows, NHPRC Director for Publishing: @rdarrellmeadows

R. Darrell Meadows is a comparative social and cultural historian (Ph.D., 2004, Carnegie Mellon University) deeply interested in how emerging digital technologies are changing the ways historians work and the methods they employ. Meadows is Director for Publishing at the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the grant-making arm of the National Archives and Records Administration. Before joining NHPRC, Meadows was the founding director of the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition and during 2011-2014, served as secretary of the Association for Documentary Editing. His published work has appeared in French Historical Studies, Dix-huitième siècle, and The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This event will be recorded and uploaded to the ADE Youtube Channel.