ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4556-8840

Research interests:

Elina Leblanc is a digital humanist, specialised in digital libraries and digital scholarly editions. She holds a master’s degree in « Patrimoine écrit et éditions numériques » from the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, in Tours. She completed a doctorate in 2019 at the Grenoble Alpes University, under the supervision of Elena Pierazzo and Hervé Blanchon. Her thesis focused on ways to involve users in the design and enrichment of a digital library, through user studies and participatory services such as citizen sciences. This work was part of the project Fonte Gaia, a portal dedicated to Italian studies in the digital era.

From 2020 to 2024, she joined, as a post-doctoral researcher, the project Untangling the cordel, led by professor Constance Carta, at the University of Geneva. She oversaw the digital aspects of the project, from the data preparation to the online publication through a digital library.

From 2024 to 2026, she worked for the SETAF project, led by professor Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci, at the Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation (IHR). She helped with the encoding of the data and developed the website of the project.

Publications:

Articles:

With Brunet Michèle and Levivier Adeline, « E-STAMPAGES : archivage et publication en ligne d’une ectypothèque d’inscriptions grecques », Les Nouvelles d’Archéologie, 2016, p. 24‑27.

« Omeka Classic. Un environnement de recherche pour les éditions numériques scientifiques », RIDE, janvier 2020 <10.18716/ride.a.11.3>.

« Modeling of a Heterogeneous Corpus: The Example of Chapbook Literature », Digital Studies/Le Champ numérique, 2023 <10.16995/dscn.8091>.

With Jacsont Pauline, « Impact of Image Enhancement Methods on Automatic Transcription Trainings with eScriptorium », Journal of data mining and digital humanities, 2023 <10.46298/jdmdh.10262>.

« Building an Interface as an Argument? The Case Study of Untangling the Cordel », Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2024
<https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/18/1/000695/000695.html>.

With Marina Berazategui, Simon Gabay, Pauline Jacsont and Fassaleh Tal, « Exploring Nineteenth-Century Spanish Chapbooks through Topics and Places », Artl@s Bulletin, 14, 1, 2025.

Book chapters:

« Design of a Digital Library from a User Perspective, and its Consequences for the Design of Digital Scholarly Editions: Findings of the Fonte Gaia Questionnaire », in Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces, Roman Bleier, Martina Bürgermeister, Helmut W. Klug, Frederike Neuber and Gerlinde Schneider (dir.), Norderstedt, BoD - Book on Demand, 2018, p. 287-313.

With Jacsont Pauline and Carta Constance, « A Journey through Folk Imagination: A Computer-assisted Study of Woodcuts Transmission », in A new view on images. Transnational, intermedial and computational perspectives on European popular print, Juan Gomis and Jeroen Salman (dir.), London, Palgrave MacMillan, to come.

Conference proceedings:

« Top-Down and Bottom-up Approaches to Identify the Users, the Services and the Interface of a 2.0 Digital Library », in Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Jaap Kamps, Giannis Tsakonas, Yannis Manolopoulos, Lazaros Iliadis, Ioannis Karydis (dir.), Springer, Cham, 2017, p. 632‑639.

« Participatory Indexing in the Eyes of its Potential Users: An Example of a Co-design of Participatory Services in an Academic Digital Library », in Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Mark Hall, Tanja Merčun, Thomas Risse and Fabien Duchateau (dir.), Springer, Cham, 2020.

« Une bibliothèque numérique face à son public : l’exemple de l’enquête utilisateurs du projet Démêler le cordel », Actes du colloque Humanistica 2023, Association francophone des humanités numériques, 2023.

With Jacsont Pauline, « L’ATR en pratique : lumière sur les techniques de transcription automatique à Genève », Actes du colloque Humanistica 2023, Association francophone des humanités numériques, 2023.