2024/2025
Video Games
Video Games Inform Cultural Artifacts at the Macquarie University History Museum
This project bridges the gap between historians, museums, and digital media by assessing the historical accuracy of popular video games.
Archives
2024/2025
Queer & Trans Heritage
Digital Tours of Queer and Trans Toronto with The ArQuives
An interactive digital experience connects site-specific geographic locations, audio narration, and primary source archival materials to provide a self-guided tour of Toronto’s historic queer and trans neighbourhood.
2024/2025
Indigenous History
Activating Indigenous Photographic History at Deyohahá:ge:
The Six Nations of the Grand River Digitization Photo Project is a collaborative initiative with the GLAM Incubator and Prof. Cara Krmpotich to preserve, reclaim, and revitalize cultural heritage.
2023/2024
Archival data model
Graph-Based Archival Description at the Archives of Ontario
The overall objective of this project is to develop a data model, to select and model a small-scale sample of data drawn from the Archives of Ontario’s datasets, and to thereby test the possibilities and potential benefits for internal staff and public end-users.
2023/2024
Storytelling curriculum & kits
Screen-based Storytelling Kits at the Fredericton Public Library
In collaboration with the GLAM Incubator and Prof. Sara Grimes at the University of Toronto, the Fredericton Public Library will be producing screen-based storytelling kits and a corresponding curriculum to foster digital literacy and creative skill-building in school-aged children.
Spring/Summer 2022
Print and Bookmaking Events & Resources
Uxbridge Historical Centre (UHC)’s Print Shop
Through the support of the GLAM Incubator, Faculty of Information Assistant Professor Claire Battershill and doctoral student J Hughes are developing a collection of resources and events aimed at increasing support for and community access to print-and-bookmaking history, scholarship, and workshops.
Spring 2021
Graduate Level Course
Equity, Empathy & Ethics in Digital Heritage Research and Practice
"Equity, Empathy & Ethics in Digital Heritage Research and Practice" builds upon a partnership spanning Manchester, UK and Toronto, Canada.
2022
Research Project
Our Language Rights
This research project seeks to understand the connections between reading, identity, and community engagement for young Francophones and French-learning youth in Ontario and uses this understanding to help bilingual (or multilingual) youth reimagine and suggest improvements for public library service.