Powering up Digital Editorial Production with LEAF Commons Tools (DHSI 2026)

Description

In this hands-on course participants will learn how to develop and produce a data-rich textual edition using the open-source web-based Linked Editing Academic Framework (LEAF) Commons suite of tools: LEAF-Writer, NERVE, and the Dynamic Table of Contexts. Sessions will involve digital editorial principles and processes. We will concentrate on the editorial workflow (transformation of existing digital images or documents, semantic encoding, linked data annotation generation, publication) and develop mechanisms for effective collaboration and documentation. Learning experiences will be as responsive as possible to participants’ ongoing work – editors with projects anywhere along the production continuum are welcome. By the end of the course participants should have developed skills to make their digital edition processes more efficient, and where tools can (and cannot) aid them in undertaking their own projects.

Instructor(s)

Diane Jakacki is Digital Scholarship Coordinator and Associate Faculty in Comparative & Digital Humanities at Bucknell University. Interests included British performance history, digital scholarly production, and DH pedagogy. She is a co-lead of LEAF (the Linked Editing Academic Framework).