By Cara Krmpotich GRASAC is excited to announce that we have received $200,000 from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and Ontario Research Fund to build 20 “Mobile Community Research Kits” – self-contained backpacks that enable digital cultural heritage work to happen in communities, by ...
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New and Renewed Institutional Relationships
from multiple contributors In GRASAC’s inaugural newsletter on March 1, 2020, Laura Peers updated us about her work of renewing GRASAC’s official institutional relationships with museums, cultural centres, galleries, and archives around the world. This work is resulting in new and ...
GRASAC Hack-A-Thon First Pilot
by Irmarie Fraticelli-Rodríguez From Friday, January 22 to Saturday, January 23, a small number of GRASAC members and research assistants took part in a trial run of a "data-a-athon" as a pilot idea for a data science hackathon. Participants from different ...
Preparing for a Public GKS
by Chantelle Perreault As an intern for GRASAC, I have been working as part of a team with fellow interns Olivia White and Kelisha Peters, under the supervision of Dr. Cara Krmpotich. As part of our work, we have been looking into methods of re-presenting the online GKS database in order to ...
Alan Ojiig Corbiere wins Barbara Godard Prize
from York University Every year, the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies awards the Barbara Godard Prize for the best graduate dissertation for outstanding works that advance our knowledge of Canada. For the 2019-20 academic year, the award went to M'Chigeeng historian and researcher Alan Ojiig ...