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.]
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.
The Bais Yaakov Project
An archive of digitized material tracing the Bais Yaakov movement from modern scholarship to its origins in 1917 Krakow
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.
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.
DH Italian-Canadian Foodways
Using digital mapping and archives to consider the place of food production in Italian-Canadian Cultural identity throughout the last century.
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.
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Histories of North American objects addressing global flows of influence that arise from trade colonialism and migration.
Cabaret Commons
The Cabaret Commons is a work-in-progress gathering place for trans- feminist and queer artists, activists, audiences and researchers.
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 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
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.
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
Hidden Florence
An app that enables users to navigate Florence toggling between a modern and a superbly detailed sixteenth-century map.
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.
Mazgaba Se’elet: Treasury of Ethiopian Images
An image database to support the study of Ethiopian art, architecture and culture.
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.
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).
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
The Veil of Code
Adapting the theories, vocabulary, and techniques of bibliographical inquiry to develop new methods for born-digital textual scholarship.
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.
Canada Declassified
Canada Declassified is a digital repository of government records declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act.
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.
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.
Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat
Website: https://samizdatcollections.library.utoronto.ca/ Description: The Electronic Archive “Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat” (PSDS), launched in 2015, includes the Database of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals, Electronic Editions of selected Samizdat Journals, Illustrated Timelines of Dissident Movements, and Interviews with Activists. The Electronic Archive builds on the research that went into the Database of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals. It represents a number of...
Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections
A digital platform for fostering discussions between scholars and community leaders on relationships between Indigenous Nations and Italian-Canadians.
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.
Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI)
Iconographic index of Baptismal Fonts from early Christian period to the 17th CE.
Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition
A digital critical edition of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies (1664/68).
Visualizing Variation
An open-source code library of prototype interface components for digital scholarly editing and visualization, with a focus on Shakespeare.
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
App Studies Initiative
ASI is a network of scholars studying apps through a range of theoretical and methodological lenses.
The Book and the Silk Roads
This project analyzes premodern book history from a global perspective, transforming the story of human communication.
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.
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.
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.
Canada Declassified
Canada Declassified is a digital repository of government records declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act.
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
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.
Visualizing the Americas
Visualizing the Americas uses official archives to create a decolonial history of the banana from its first cultivation to today.
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.
Mazgaba Se’elet: Treasury of Ethiopian Images
An image database to support the study of Ethiopian art, architecture and culture.
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.
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.
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.
Visualizing Variation
An open-source code library of prototype interface components for digital scholarly editing and visualization, with a focus on Shakespeare.
The Book and the Silk Roads
This project analyzes premodern book history from a global perspective, transforming the story of human communication.
Hidden Florence
An app that enables users to navigate Florence toggling between a modern and a superbly detailed sixteenth-century map.
The Bais Yaakov Project
An archive of digitized material tracing the Bais Yaakov movement from modern scholarship to its origins in 1917 Krakow
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.
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
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.
DH Italian-Canadian Foodways
Using digital mapping and archives to consider the place of food production in Italian-Canadian Cultural identity throughout the last century.
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Histories of North American objects addressing global flows of influence that arise from trade colonialism and migration.
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.
App Studies Initiative
ASI is a network of scholars studying apps through a range of theoretical and methodological lenses.
Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI)
Iconographic index of Baptismal Fonts from early Christian period to the 17th CE.
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.
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.
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.
The Veil of Code
Adapting the theories, vocabulary, and techniques of bibliographical inquiry to develop new methods for born-digital textual scholarship.
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.
Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat
Website: https://samizdatcollections.library.utoronto.ca/ Description: The Electronic Archive “Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat” (PSDS), launched in 2015, includes the Database of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals, Electronic Editions of selected Samizdat Journals, Illustrated Timelines of Dissident Movements, and Interviews with Activists. The Electronic Archive builds on the research that went into the Database of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals. It represents a number of...
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).
Decima
DECIMA is a powerful GIS mapping tool that allows historians to uncover social networks, economic currents, and the sensory life of Florence.
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
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.
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
Cabaret Commons
The Cabaret Commons is a work-in-progress gathering place for trans- feminist and queer artists, activists, audiences and researchers.
Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition
A digital critical edition of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies (1664/68).
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
Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections
A digital platform for fostering discussions between scholars and community leaders on relationships between Indigenous Nations and Italian-Canadians.
Cabaret Commons
The Cabaret Commons is a work-in-progress gathering place for trans- feminist and queer artists, activists, audiences and researchers.
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
Hidden Florence
An app that enables users to navigate Florence toggling between a modern and a superbly detailed sixteenth-century map.
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.
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.
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.
Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat
Website: https://samizdatcollections.library.utoronto.ca/ Description: The Electronic Archive “Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat” (PSDS), launched in 2015, includes the Database of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals, Electronic Editions of selected Samizdat Journals, Illustrated Timelines of Dissident Movements, and Interviews with Activists. The Electronic Archive builds on the research that went into the Database of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals. It represents a number of...
Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections
A digital platform for fostering discussions between scholars and community leaders on relationships between Indigenous Nations and Italian-Canadians.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Book and the Silk Roads
This project analyzes premodern book history from a global perspective, transforming the story of human communication.
DH Italian-Canadian Foodways
Using digital mapping and archives to consider the place of food production in Italian-Canadian Cultural identity throughout the last century.
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
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.
Decima
DECIMA is a powerful GIS mapping tool that allows historians to uncover social networks, economic currents, and the sensory life of Florence.
The Veil of Code
Adapting the theories, vocabulary, and techniques of bibliographical inquiry to develop new methods for born-digital textual scholarship.
Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI)
Iconographic index of Baptismal Fonts from early Christian period to the 17th CE.
The Bais Yaakov Project
An archive of digitized material tracing the Bais Yaakov movement from modern scholarship to its origins in 1917 Krakow
Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition
A digital critical edition of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies (1664/68).
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.
Mazgaba Se’elet: Treasury of Ethiopian Images
An image database to support the study of Ethiopian art, architecture and 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
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.
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.
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Histories of North American objects addressing global flows of influence that arise from trade colonialism and migration.
Visualizing the Americas
Visualizing the Americas uses official archives to create a decolonial history of the banana from its first cultivation to today.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.