An omnibus update of some of the detail descriptive metadata work that our team has been doing over the summer of 2025.

An appreciation of the wealth of digital resources that we take advantage of today, in comparison to what this work would have looked like a generation ago.

It has been some months since we've posted anything new; here's what's going on this spring with Aldus@SFU.

A tale of type design, beginning with Aldus and punchcutter Francesco Griffo in the 15th century, and ending with this website!

We're pleased to share that Aldus@SFU: Remediating Special Collections is now funded, through SSHRC's Insight Development Grant program.

The Aldus@SFU project at Simon Fraser University is looking to hire a research assistant to help with identifying and inventorying parallel digitized collections elsewhere on the Internet.

A second installment on data wrangling, leading to the development of a pipeline from big ugly spreadsheet to structured data on a big collection of web pages, using OpenRefine, python, and Eleventy.

Wrangling metadata for the Aldine collection, and some reflection on tools along the way: thoughts on Notion, OpenRefine, YAML, and other things.

Welcome to Aldus@SFU, a project at Simon Fraser University which digitizes, highlights, and remediates SFU Library's Wosk-McDonald Aldine Collection, comprising ~126 books published by the famed Venetian press of Aldus Manutius between the 1490s and the 1580s.