Category: project
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.
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???
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some early thinking about building 'guided tours' through the Aldine collection via IIIF manifests, and the possible scholarly benefits of such a tool.