Opening Australia’s Multilingual Archive
This project mobilises Australia’s underused non-English language archives to reinterpret migrant and settler histories, examining how language shapes identity and belonging, and developing a framework for understanding cultural pluralism in Australia.
University of Sydney
Glycerine Server, Editor and Viewer deployed to support scholarly and community annotation of primary source texts.
Gandharan Manuscripts
The Buddhist manuscripts of ancient Gandhāra (1st century BCE–3rd century CE), written in Gāndhārī language and Kharoṣṭhī script, are among the earliest surviving witnesses to Buddhist thought.
University of Sydney
Glycerine Server and custom Glycerine app to annotate each character and generate a digital edition with a transliteration, translation, glossary and palaeography.
Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
Gandhāran Buddha and Bodhisattva statues are among the earliest anthropomorphic images of the Buddha; this project undertakes an art-historical analysis of their iconography to clarify the doctrinal and ritual meanings embedded in these forms.
Art Gallery of NSW, Chau Chak Wing Museum, National Gallery of Australia, Peshawar University, Power Institute, The Met.
Glycerine Workbench and Viewer deployed to implement and publish scholarly and gallery annotation sets across institutional collections.
Upper Indus
Upper Indus inscriptions and petroglyphs carved on river boulders form a unique archaeological record of travel, devotion, and cultural exchange along ancient trans-Himalayan routes, now threatened through dam construction.
Wilfrid Laurier University, Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Glycerine Workbench, Viewer and Plugin deployed to implement and publish petroglyph and inscription annotation sets.
Dialogue with difficult objects
This project develops tools and methods to support dialogue around controversial museum objects, using the Eureka Flag as a case study, producing strategies and a transferable framework for inclusive engagement and debate.
Australian National University
Glycerine Workbench and Viewer deployed to implement and publish curatorial and community annotation sets.
Pali Kuthodaw
The Pali Canon engraved on 729 marble stelae at Kuthodaw Pagoda constitutes the world’s largest book and a monumental 19th-century effort to preserve the Theravāda Buddhist scriptures in durable material form.
University of Sydney
Glycerine Server, Editor and Viewer deployed to support scholarly annotation of individual texts with roman transliteration of Pali texts.
Eikon Basilike
This project analyses and annotates marginalia across multiple copies of Eikon Basilike held in Australian library collections, revealing patterns of readership, political reception, and interpretive engagement with this influential seventeenth-century royalist text.
Australian National University
Glycerine Workbench and Viewer deployed to implement scholarly annotation sets of layers of marginalia.
Transforming the East
This project examines Jesuit translations of the Confucian classics, tracing their dissemination and influence on Enlightenment thought, and reconstructing the textual and intellectual networks that enabled early philosophical exchange between Europe and China.
University of Sydney
Glycerine Workbench, Viewer and Plugin deployed to implement and publish Latin translations of Confucian manuscripts.
Relic Inscriptions
Gandhāran relic inscriptions—highly formulaic artefacts at the nexus of monastic and state authority—illuminate the ritual practice of relic establishment between roughly 150 BCE and 200 CE.
University of Sydney
Glycerine Server and custom Glycerine app to annotate each character and generate a digital edition with a transliteration, translation, glossary and palaeography.
Creativity in Captivity
This project maps cultural production by Italian prisoners of war (1940–47), developing a transnational perspective on captivity, migration, and wartime encounters, and highlighting creative practice as a source of resilience and cross-cultural understanding.
University of Sydney
Glycerine Server, Editor and Viewer deployed to support scholarly annotation of art works.
Mapping Municipalities
This project annotates historical maps of Melbourne municipalities using town clerks’ correspondence from the Public Records Office Victoria and the State Library Victoria, revealing administrative networks and local governance shaping urban development.
University of Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, Public records Office Victoria
Glycerine Workbench and Viewer deployed to implement scholarly annotation sets.
