Archived Projects
Mapping Ararat: An Imaginary Jewish Homelands Project
Archived Project Website: http://www.mappingararat.com/ Description: Mapping Ararat is an augmented reality project that navigates through an imaginary Jewish homeland. It offers the user/participant the tools to imagine an alternative historical...
Make Believe: The Secret Library of M. Prud’homme
Archived Project Website: http://www.prudhommelibrary.ca/ Instagram: prudhommelibrary Description: Make Believe showcases forged and faked objects created through collaborations between Canadian writers and artists. The workshops associated with the digital and...
Serai: Premodern Encounters
Archived Project Website:http://serai.utsc.utoronto.ca/ Description: As an explicitly trans-disciplinary space, Serai offers researchers, teachers, and students at all stages of their careers a digital meeting place where they can share resources, exchange ideas, and...
Linked Parliamentary Data Project (LiPaD)
Archived Project Website: https://www.lipad.ca/ Description: The first machine-readable and fully searchable historical transcript of Parliamentary Debates (“Hansard”), which provides a 150-year running record of Canadian political history. We have linked these data...
Digital Tools for Manuscript Study
Archived Project Website: https://digitaltoolsmss.library.utoronto.ca/ Twitter: @digitaltoolsmss Description: This project addresses two key needs of manuscript scholars: annotation and collation (that is, the formulaic description of a book’s three-dimensional...
The Juba Project: Early Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain, 1842-1852
Archived Project Website: https://library2.utm.utoronto.ca/otra/minstrels/ Description: The Juba Project, named after early minstrelsy's most famous and most unusual early practitioner, explores this phenomenon both from a historical and a dramaturgical perspective....
Representative Poetry Online (RPO)
Website: https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/ Description: Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 4,700 English poems by 723 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by...
Omeka Gym
Archived Project Website: https://omekagym.omeka.net/ Description: Omeka Gym provides not only tutorials but an infrastructure for hands-on learning. Using a small digital collection based on a medieval manuscript (depictions of angels in British Library MS Add....
Federated Academic Digital Imaging System (FADIS)
Website: https://fadis.library.utoronto.ca/about.html Description: The Federated Academic Digital Imaging System (FADIS) is a consortial learning management and courseware system developed for image based teaching of art, architecture and visual culture. The...