John travelled to Europe in June 2026 to go to the Publishing studies conference, By the Book, in Mainz, Germany. Here is a version of the presentation John delivered there, introducing the Aldine project to the pub-studies community, and talking about what a digital book-history project looks like coming from Publishing Studies.

We have a new design treatment for the site. Here are some notes on the design, the process of implementing it, and some reflections on process and goals.

With the metadata and the digitized facsimiles nearing completion, we've started re-considering how this website is arranged, how it looks, and how it works. Here are some notes and reflections on our decision making, and how it is implemented in Eleventy.

Using OpenRefine (again) to wrangle big ugly spreadsheets into nice tidy YAML data: cautionary tales and successes both!

More on treating Greek text properly, with lessons learned in practice: on fonts, glyphs, and long lists of book titles.

Some reflections on the challenge of working with catalogue and bibliographic metadata for books from 500 years ago, well before modern library standards existed. What even are some of these books???

Some discoveries and musings about the rendering of Greek typography on the web, and how mixing Greek and latin text presents some interesting challenges.

Minghui's reflections on a summer-term RA-ship with the Aldus@SFU project, during which we tasked her with tracking down all sorts of data minutiae from libraries, digital collections, and authority files around the world.

JT's reflections on a summer-term RAship developing and integrating some tools for the project -- including our IIIF viewer app -- and developing a system for wrangling the big, ugly spreadsheets we used to gather metadata for the volumes in the collection, turning that spreadsheet data into a set of tidy YAML data files for this online website.