This collection of essays proceeds from selected presentations shared at the 2017 and 2018 Conference and Colloquia hosted by the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). Founded in 2001, DHSI is the largest international digital humanities training summit and is hosted annually by the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). What began as an informal gathering of early-career scholars desiring to build community and learn computational humanities skills has grown into a formal institute drawing over 800 participants each year. DHSI is spearheaded by the ETCL’s Director Dr. Ray Siemens, Associate Director Alyssa Arbuckle, and Coordinator Jannaya Friggstad Jensen, and features an international group of nearly 100 expert instructors who teach weeklong courses in a specialized area of digital humanities. Over its 20 year history, DHSI has become an essential (and often cherished) professional development opportunity for many digital humanities practitioners. 

[This publication is the introduction to a special issue of proceedings from the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2018 & 2019 Conference and Colloquium proceedings, Victoria, BC, Canada.]

Original publication: Seatter, Lindsey, Alyssa Arbuckle, and John Barber. 2020. “Introduction to Digital Humanities Summer Institute Special Issue.”IDEAH: Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in the Arts & Humanities 1: n.p. https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.ebddfbe3