Blogging:
With a group of friends, I founded the ActiveHistory.ca website in 2009. It has grown into a website that now reaches about half a million visits a year and continues to publish short accessible articles by historians for the wider public.
http://activehistory.ca/
I also helped launch the NiCHE blog in 2011, which has grown into a one of the most read blogs on environmental history.
Historical GIS:
During my PhD, I started using Geographic Information Systems software to better understand the development of the eastern edge of Greater London in the nineteenth century. When I came to the U of S, I worked with some undergraduate students to expand the database to include all the industrial sites we could find for the two first OS maps of London:
Text mining and Geoparsing:
After my PhD, I had the opportunity to work with computational linguists and computer scientists to test geographic text mining software on a large corpus on nineteenth-century documents related to Canada and the British world. Unfortunately, I think the website for the project is dead, but we’ll read about some of our successes and failures later in the term.
Trade statistics databases and visualization:
Over the past 8 years, I’ve been working with students and collaborators to develop a database of British imports during the nineteenth century. This uses a relational database and/or Excel. I work with Tableau and GIS software to visualize the data.
Augmented and Virtual Reality:
I’m currently leading a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) project in partnership with the Western Development Museum, the Canadian Museum of History, Newham Heritage and Heritage 5G to develop augmented reality walking tours and virtual reality experiences focused on the relationship between the nineteenth-century London and Canada.
See an early example here: CLARNICO_SITE by ounkp09 on Sketchfab
COVID 19 Archive:
Prof. Erika Dyck, librarian Craig Harkema and others around the university are working on creating a place to record the experience of COVID 19 in Saskatchewan.