Research
Critical digital humanities scholars are widely dispersed across the University of Toronto’s many divisions and three campuses. The central mandate of the Digital Humanities Network and the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative is to build and strength our research network. Faculty members have created over 40 digital humanities projects and labs over the past several years, and more are being founded each month. Do you have a project that you’d like to see listed here? Let us know by filling out this form [link to come.]
Cabaret Commons
The Cabaret Commons is a work-in-progress gathering place for trans- feminist and queer artists, activists, audiences and researchers.
The Veil of Code
The Veil of Code adapts the theories, vocabulary, and techniques of bibliographical inquiry to develop new methods for born-digital textual scholarship.
LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory
The LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory connects scholars, activists, and archives across Canada and the U.S. to produce a collaborative, digital history hub for gay, lesbian, queer, and trans* oral histories.
Age of Vedanta Project with the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT)
The “Age of Vedanta” Project transcribes descriptive catalogues of Vedānta manuscripts to the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT).
Federated Academic Digital Imaging System (FADIS)
FADIS is a freely available repository and delivery system to support the image-based teaching of art, architecture, and visual culture.
Visualizing Variation
An open-source code library of prototype interface components for digital scholarly editing and visualization, with a focus on Shakespeare.
Sex Work and the Queen City: Mapping Toronto’s Sex Trade History, 1865-1915
Brothels and historic sites researched by students in Professor Laurie K. Bertram’s seminar “The Oldest Profession in Canada”, Department of History, University of Toronto
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations documents Ojibwe responses to Christianity through multimedia storytelling that spans the early Canadian colonial expansion of Treaty 3 territory into the present.
Dragoman Renaissance Research Platform
A companion project to E. Natalie Rothman’s book “The Dragoman Renaissance,” this website explores the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating relations between the Ottoman Empire and its European neighbours, 1550 to 1730
Mazgaba Se’elet: Treasury of Ethiopian Images
An image database to support the study of Ethiopian art, architecture and culture.
Human Stories
Human Stories hosts free, open-access teaching and learning resources about different kinds of peoples, humans and non-humans who make up the world we live in today, including those who study them.
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
LEME is a database of word-entries from monolingual English dictionaries, bilingual lexicons, technical vocabularies, and other encyclopedic-lexical works, 1480-1755.
Documents of Early England Data Set (DEEDS)
The DEEDS Research Project was founded in 1975 by Michael Gervers, professor of History of the University of Toronto, to create a database of information culled from medieval property exchange documents which would be of interest to social and economic historians.
Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE)
CRANE uses DH technologies–especially modeling, data visualization, and the OCHRE software–to understand the archaeology of the Near East.
The Book and the Silk Roads
This project analyzes premodern book history from a global perspective, transforming the story of human communication.
Lexicon of Science in Asia
The Lexicon of Science in Asia is a fully searchable, multilingual database of scientific terms in Asian languages spoken across the continent, from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Pacific Ocean, designed to bridge gaps in regional language expertise and improve our understanding about how scientific knowledge and technology have been disseminated, translated, and adapted across different parts of Asia.
Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry
The Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry is based on first-hand examination of copies and aims to provide descriptions of all extant editions of all verse in English published for the first time between 1770 and 1835
Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC)
DREC works from the recognition that the current conditions of digital scholarship—the augmented scale, reach, exposure, access—offer research communities the opportunity to defamiliarize and denaturalize our participation in long-standing systems of exploitation and to reorient their work towards non-extractive research habits, protocols and relationships.
Dictionary of Old English (DOE)
The DOE is a dictionary of English vocabulary C.E.600-1150, based on a computerized Corpus comprising at least one copy of each text surviving in Old English.
Representative Poetry Online (RPO)
Representative Poetry Online 6.0 is a web anthology of 4,800 poems in English and French by over 700 poets spanning 1400 years
Digital Dostoevsky
Digital Dostoevsky creates an open-access database of Dostoevsky’s works and then use methods of digital text analysis and mapping on those works
Canada Declassified
Canada Declassified is a digital repository of government records declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act.
Visualizing the Americas
Visualizing the Americas uses official archives to create a decolonial history of the banana from its first cultivation to today.
Under Layered Suspicion
Under Layered Suspicion identifies whole-of-government policies and patterns of audit practices that together demonstrate potential biases in Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) audits of Muslim-led charities.
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Histories of objects that faciltated early globalization and cross-cultural exchange in Northern North America, c. 1700s-2000s.
Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI)
Iconographic index of Baptismal Fonts from early Christian period to the 17th CE.
Color and Overtones: A Web-Based Visual Archive of Africans and their Descendants in Latin America
A project to create an online visual archive of representations of blackness throughout Latin American history.
Records of Early English Drama (REED)
Records of Early English Drama (REED) locates, transcribes, and edits historical documents containing evidence of drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony from the Middle Ages until 1642.
Hidden Florence
An app that enables users to navigate Florence toggling between a modern and a superbly detailed sixteenth-century map.
Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP)
The goal of this site is to display, curate, and describe the documents that go into the making of a book.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
A bibliography of more than 1.45 million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.
App Studies Initiative
ASI is a network of scholars studying apps through a range of theoretical and methodological lenses.
Decima
DECIMA is a powerful GIS mapping tool that allows historians to uncover social networks, economic currents, and the sensory life of Florence.
Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature
The Electronic Library of Ukraine Library’s goal is to provide free access to electronic texts of Ukrainian literature to all readers especially students outside Ukraine.
Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition
A digital critical edition of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies (1664/68).
The Bais Yaakov Project
The Bais Yaakov Project is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and digitization of historical material related to the Bais Yaakov movement from its founding in 1917 through today.
Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry
The Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry is based on first-hand examination of copies and aims to provide descriptions of all extant editions of all verse in English published for the first time between 1770 and 1835
Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE)
CRANE uses DH technologies–especially modeling, data visualization, and the OCHRE software–to understand the archaeology of the Near East.
Mazgaba Se’elet: Treasury of Ethiopian Images
An image database to support the study of Ethiopian art, architecture and culture.
Under Layered Suspicion
Under Layered Suspicion identifies whole-of-government policies and patterns of audit practices that together demonstrate potential biases in Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) audits of Muslim-led charities.
Digital Dostoevsky
Digital Dostoevsky creates an open-access database of Dostoevsky’s works and then use methods of digital text analysis and mapping on those works
Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC)
DREC works from the recognition that the current conditions of digital scholarship—the augmented scale, reach, exposure, access—offer research communities the opportunity to defamiliarize and denaturalize our participation in long-standing systems of exploitation and to reorient their work towards non-extractive research habits, protocols and relationships.
Visualizing Variation
An open-source code library of prototype interface components for digital scholarly editing and visualization, with a focus on Shakespeare.
The Veil of Code
The Veil of Code adapts the theories, vocabulary, and techniques of bibliographical inquiry to develop new methods for born-digital textual scholarship.
Sex Work and the Queen City: Mapping Toronto’s Sex Trade History, 1865-1915
Brothels and historic sites researched by students in Professor Laurie K. Bertram’s seminar “The Oldest Profession in Canada”, Department of History, University of Toronto
Canada Declassified
Canada Declassified is a digital repository of government records declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act.
Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP)
The goal of this site is to display, curate, and describe the documents that go into the making of a book.
Age of Vedanta Project with the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT)
The “Age of Vedanta” Project transcribes descriptive catalogues of Vedānta manuscripts to the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT).
Records of Early English Drama (REED)
Records of Early English Drama (REED) locates, transcribes, and edits historical documents containing evidence of drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony from the Middle Ages until 1642.
The Bais Yaakov Project
The Bais Yaakov Project is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and digitization of historical material related to the Bais Yaakov movement from its founding in 1917 through today.
Federated Academic Digital Imaging System (FADIS)
FADIS is a freely available repository and delivery system to support the image-based teaching of art, architecture, and visual culture.
Representative Poetry Online (RPO)
Representative Poetry Online 6.0 is a web anthology of 4,800 poems in English and French by over 700 poets spanning 1400 years
Lexicon of Science in Asia
The Lexicon of Science in Asia is a fully searchable, multilingual database of scientific terms in Asian languages spoken across the continent, from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Pacific Ocean, designed to bridge gaps in regional language expertise and improve our understanding about how scientific knowledge and technology have been disseminated, translated, and adapted across different parts of Asia.
Cabaret Commons
The Cabaret Commons is a work-in-progress gathering place for trans- feminist and queer artists, activists, audiences and researchers.
Dictionary of Old English (DOE)
The DOE is a dictionary of English vocabulary C.E.600-1150, based on a computerized Corpus comprising at least one copy of each text surviving in Old English.
Dragoman Renaissance Research Platform
A companion project to E. Natalie Rothman’s book “The Dragoman Renaissance,” this website explores the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating relations between the Ottoman Empire and its European neighbours, 1550 to 1730
Visualizing the Americas
Visualizing the Americas uses official archives to create a decolonial history of the banana from its first cultivation to today.
Hidden Florence
An app that enables users to navigate Florence toggling between a modern and a superbly detailed sixteenth-century map.
Decima
DECIMA is a powerful GIS mapping tool that allows historians to uncover social networks, economic currents, and the sensory life of Florence.
The Book and the Silk Roads
This project analyzes premodern book history from a global perspective, transforming the story of human communication.
Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature
The Electronic Library of Ukraine Library’s goal is to provide free access to electronic texts of Ukrainian literature to all readers especially students outside Ukraine.
Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition
A digital critical edition of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies (1664/68).
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Histories of objects that faciltated early globalization and cross-cultural exchange in Northern North America, c. 1700s-2000s.
Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI)
Iconographic index of Baptismal Fonts from early Christian period to the 17th CE.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
A bibliography of more than 1.45 million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.
Documents of Early England Data Set (DEEDS)
The DEEDS Research Project was founded in 1975 by Michael Gervers, professor of History of the University of Toronto, to create a database of information culled from medieval property exchange documents which would be of interest to social and economic historians.
Color and Overtones: A Web-Based Visual Archive of Africans and their Descendants in Latin America
A project to create an online visual archive of representations of blackness throughout Latin American history.
Human Stories
Human Stories hosts free, open-access teaching and learning resources about different kinds of peoples, humans and non-humans who make up the world we live in today, including those who study them.
App Studies Initiative
ASI is a network of scholars studying apps through a range of theoretical and methodological lenses.
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations documents Ojibwe responses to Christianity through multimedia storytelling that spans the early Canadian colonial expansion of Treaty 3 territory into the present.
LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory
The LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory connects scholars, activists, and archives across Canada and the U.S. to produce a collaborative, digital history hub for gay, lesbian, queer, and trans* oral histories.
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
LEME is a database of word-entries from monolingual English dictionaries, bilingual lexicons, technical vocabularies, and other encyclopedic-lexical works, 1480-1755.
Dragoman Renaissance Research Platform
A companion project to E. Natalie Rothman’s book “The Dragoman Renaissance,” this website explores the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating relations between the Ottoman Empire and its European neighbours, 1550 to 1730
Records of Early English Drama (REED)
Records of Early English Drama (REED) locates, transcribes, and edits historical documents containing evidence of drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony from the Middle Ages until 1642.
The Veil of Code
The Veil of Code adapts the theories, vocabulary, and techniques of bibliographical inquiry to develop new methods for born-digital textual scholarship.
Visualizing Variation
An open-source code library of prototype interface components for digital scholarly editing and visualization, with a focus on Shakespeare.
Documents of Early England Data Set (DEEDS)
The DEEDS Research Project was founded in 1975 by Michael Gervers, professor of History of the University of Toronto, to create a database of information culled from medieval property exchange documents which would be of interest to social and economic historians.
Human Stories
Human Stories hosts free, open-access teaching and learning resources about different kinds of peoples, humans and non-humans who make up the world we live in today, including those who study them.
Canada Declassified
Canada Declassified is a digital repository of government records declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act.
App Studies Initiative
ASI is a network of scholars studying apps through a range of theoretical and methodological lenses.
Hidden Florence
An app that enables users to navigate Florence toggling between a modern and a superbly detailed sixteenth-century map.
Mazgaba Se’elet: Treasury of Ethiopian Images
An image database to support the study of Ethiopian art, architecture and culture.
Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP)
The goal of this site is to display, curate, and describe the documents that go into the making of a book.
Cabaret Commons
The Cabaret Commons is a work-in-progress gathering place for trans- feminist and queer artists, activists, audiences and researchers.
Federated Academic Digital Imaging System (FADIS)
FADIS is a freely available repository and delivery system to support the image-based teaching of art, architecture, and visual culture.
Age of Vedanta Project with the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT)
The “Age of Vedanta” Project transcribes descriptive catalogues of Vedānta manuscripts to the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT).
The Bais Yaakov Project
The Bais Yaakov Project is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and digitization of historical material related to the Bais Yaakov movement from its founding in 1917 through today.
Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition
A digital critical edition of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies (1664/68).
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Histories of objects that faciltated early globalization and cross-cultural exchange in Northern North America, c. 1700s-2000s.
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
LEME is a database of word-entries from monolingual English dictionaries, bilingual lexicons, technical vocabularies, and other encyclopedic-lexical works, 1480-1755.
Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature
The Electronic Library of Ukraine Library’s goal is to provide free access to electronic texts of Ukrainian literature to all readers especially students outside Ukraine.
Under Layered Suspicion
Under Layered Suspicion identifies whole-of-government policies and patterns of audit practices that together demonstrate potential biases in Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) audits of Muslim-led charities.
Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry
The Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry is based on first-hand examination of copies and aims to provide descriptions of all extant editions of all verse in English published for the first time between 1770 and 1835
Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE)
CRANE uses DH technologies–especially modeling, data visualization, and the OCHRE software–to understand the archaeology of the Near East.
Visualizing the Americas
Visualizing the Americas uses official archives to create a decolonial history of the banana from its first cultivation to today.
Dictionary of Old English (DOE)
The DOE is a dictionary of English vocabulary C.E.600-1150, based on a computerized Corpus comprising at least one copy of each text surviving in Old English.
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations documents Ojibwe responses to Christianity through multimedia storytelling that spans the early Canadian colonial expansion of Treaty 3 territory into the present.
Color and Overtones: A Web-Based Visual Archive of Africans and their Descendants in Latin America
A project to create an online visual archive of representations of blackness throughout Latin American history.
LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory
The LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory connects scholars, activists, and archives across Canada and the U.S. to produce a collaborative, digital history hub for gay, lesbian, queer, and trans* oral histories.
Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI)
Iconographic index of Baptismal Fonts from early Christian period to the 17th CE.
Lexicon of Science in Asia
The Lexicon of Science in Asia is a fully searchable, multilingual database of scientific terms in Asian languages spoken across the continent, from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Pacific Ocean, designed to bridge gaps in regional language expertise and improve our understanding about how scientific knowledge and technology have been disseminated, translated, and adapted across different parts of Asia.
Decima
DECIMA is a powerful GIS mapping tool that allows historians to uncover social networks, economic currents, and the sensory life of Florence.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
A bibliography of more than 1.45 million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.
Representative Poetry Online (RPO)
Representative Poetry Online 6.0 is a web anthology of 4,800 poems in English and French by over 700 poets spanning 1400 years
Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC)
DREC works from the recognition that the current conditions of digital scholarship—the augmented scale, reach, exposure, access—offer research communities the opportunity to defamiliarize and denaturalize our participation in long-standing systems of exploitation and to reorient their work towards non-extractive research habits, protocols and relationships.
Digital Dostoevsky
Digital Dostoevsky creates an open-access database of Dostoevsky’s works and then use methods of digital text analysis and mapping on those works
Sex Work and the Queen City: Mapping Toronto’s Sex Trade History, 1865-1915
Brothels and historic sites researched by students in Professor Laurie K. Bertram’s seminar “The Oldest Profession in Canada”, Department of History, University of Toronto
The Book and the Silk Roads
This project analyzes premodern book history from a global perspective, transforming the story of human communication.