Project Sites Gallery
Our approach aligns the underlying data structure, the researcher workbench, and the public interface from the outset. The result is a research website that supports active scholarship, presents complex material clearly to scholarly and public audiences, and remains sustainable well beyond the original funding cycle.
Use the filters below to explore a range of sites we have built across a range of scholarly fields and CMS platforms.
Research Project Websites
WordPress, READ Workbench
AnuBhasha
A site for community engagement and publishing of research outputs.
Engagement site for a collective of scholars of premodern South Asia, working at the Australian National University (ANU) to promote the usage of digital tools to engage scholarly and cultural communities in the study and use of manuscripts and literature.
Partner: ANU
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Isobel Andrews
Drupal
Artists Trajectory Map
Site for the publishing of biographical detail of artists.
ArTM Maps the detailed biographical and exhibition history of thematic groupings of artists.
Partner: Power Publications, USyd
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
Glycerine, Omeka S
Bali Paintings
Partner: USyd
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
Javascript, OpenAI, PHP, WordPress
Codifynd Workbench
Content analysis, assurance and comparison at scale
AI cognitive services enable the discovery of themes and sentiment from ‘big content’ repositories. Codifynd integrates OpenAI technologies with data visualisation in an innovative interface to support knowledge workers in the immediate acquisition of insights: a new capability to build organisational knowledge.
- Design:
- Brant, Ian McCrabb, Marjorie, Yang Li
- Development:
- Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
Glycerine, Omeka S
Curated Collections
ARDC supported infrastructure to publish, preserve, and sustain research collections using Omeka S.
Curated Collections is an ARDC project establishing national infrastructure for publishing and preserving humanities, arts, social sciences, and Indigenous research collections using Omeka S. It supports FAIR data practices, migration of legacy research sites, and the creation of sustainable, searchable digital collections built on shared standards and reusable infrastructure.
Partner: ARDC/SIH
- Design:
- Chloe Maguire, Ian McCrabb, Yang Li
- Development:
- Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Chloe Maguire, Ian McCrabb, Isobel Andrews
Omeka S
Digital Atlas of Creativity in Captivity
Venue for the publishing of research outputs for a project to map the creative outputs of Italian prisoners of war.
Partner: ARC/USyd
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Isobel Andrews
Omeka S
Digital Harlem
The Digital Harlem website presents information, drawn from legal records, newspapers and other archival and published sources, about everyday life in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood in the years 1915-1930.
Partner: USyd
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
Omeka S
Distraction Archive
Explore the Distraction Archive, a digital collection published using Omeka S.
Partner: University of Melbourne
- Design:
- Chloe Maguire
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Chloe Maguire
Omeka S
Expert Nation
Beyond 1914 — The University of Sydney and the Great War is an extensive, searchable database of biographies and archival information about members of the University community involved in the First World War.
Partner: USyd
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Isobel Andrews
Glycerine Aksara, Omeka S
Gandharan Buddhist Texts
A venue for researchers and developers engaged in the study of G?ndh?r? Buddhist manuscripts and inscriptions.
Engagement and publishing site for researchers and developers engaged in the study of G?ndh?r? Buddhist manuscripts and inscriptions, some of the oldest extant Buddhist documents, with the aim of developing digital scholarly editions.
Partner: Praka?, USyd
- Development:
- Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Ian McCrabb
Glycerine
Glycerine Aksara
IIIF research environment for annotation, transcription, and analysis of manuscript collections.
This project redevelops the READ and READ Workbench platforms as a modern IIIF-native research environment. Built using components from Glycerine, it will provide scalable tools for image-based scholarship, enabling annotation, transcription, and analysis of manuscript collections within interoperable cultural heritage infrastructures.
Partner: USyd
- Design:
- Ian McCrabb, Isobel Andrews, Yang Li
- Development:
- Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Ian McCrabb
Glycerine, Jupyter Notebook, JupyterBook, PHP, Vue.js, WordPress
Glycerine Workbench
Collaborative workbench for scholarly image annotation
A workbench for the annotation and publishing of International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) images. Glycerine provides a suite of annotation tools and end-to-end workflows for researchers, curators and students to collaborate on projects across repositories. Sets of annotations can combine semantic tags from domain-specific vocabularies with critical analysis in multiple languages. Annotated images can be published as research outputs in immersive and engaging formats. Glycerine provides API access, an open-source viewer and a comprehensive sustainable framework for repository integration and institutional implementation.
Partner: ARDC
- Design:
- Chloe Maguire, Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Isobel Andrews
Omeka S
Grassroots Activism and Education
Site for publishing research outputs from a study of community organising in Australian education policy.
The GAE website highlights the work of ‘Community organising in Australian education policy, 1970s-1980s ’, a three-year (2020-2023) research project investigating the phenomenon of ‘grassroots’ organising for education reform during this significant period in Australia’s history.
Partner: ARC/USyd
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
Omeka S
Halliday and Hassan Archive
A forthcoming digital archive dedicated to Halliday and Hasan.
- Design:
- Chloe Maguire
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
Omeka S
Holocaust Memory Australia
This project explores how Holocaust memory in Australia has been historically constructed and politically mobilised to influence national debates and social discourse.
This project examines the cultural history of Holocaust memory in Australia. While often invoked to illuminate other injustices, its history is more complex and politically consequential. Through archival and cultural analysis, the study investigates how Holocaust memory has been mobilised for diverse political and social purposes and shaped significant national debates.
Partner: USyd
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Isobel Andrews
Glycerine, Omeka S
Opening Australia’s Multilingual Archive
Venue for engagement with regard to a study of multilingual aspects of narratives about Australia.
Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia brings together historical materials from national and international collections in languages other than English in order rethink and enlarge narratives about Australia that come solely from English-language sources, by showing modern Australia to be a complex multilingual creation.
Partner: ARC/USyd
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu, Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Chloe Maguire, Isobel Andrews
Omeka S, IIIF
Pali Texts
Venue for researchers engaged in the study of Pali Buddhist manuscripts, inscriptions, and texts.
The original Pali texts site was migrated to the Omeka S to provide a collaboration platform for researchers engaged in the study of Pali Buddhist manuscripts, inscriptions, and texts.
Partner: Praka?, USyd
- Development:
- Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
Javascript, PHP
PerformX CMS Workbench
PerformX® Content Workbench automates the migration of existing sites to Drupal
PerformX® Content Workbench automates the migration of large-scale existing sites to the Drupal CMS platform. Conventional content mapping and migration are transformed with paradigm-shifting process improvements and a disruptive cost model. Includes specialized modules for migration to GovCMS.
- Design:
- Ian McCrabb, Marjorie
- Development:
- Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
Drupal
Power Institute
Corporate engagement and publishing site.
Power is Foundation based at the University of Sydney dedicated to understanding the visual world, through art and visual culture. Power supports research, publishes texts, and organises events.
Partner: Power Publications
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu, Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
Javascript, PHP
READ Workbench
Collaboration framework for Indic manuscripts and inscriptions
READ Workbench supports the integration of researchers, resources, tools and processes in the collaborative development of manuscript and inscription corpora for Indic languages. It delivers open source READ philological research capability, configured for individual projects, as SaaS. It provides a scalable framework for institutional collaboration.
Partner: Praka?
- Design:
- Ian McCrabb
- Development:
- Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
Drupal
Site and Space
Venue for publishing research outputs from a study of urban space, art and culture.
Site and Space in Southeast Asia provides interactive mapping to explore the intersections of urban space, art and culture in three cities—Yangon, Penang, and Hu?—through collaborative, site-based research.
Partner: Power Publications
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Isobel Andrews
WordPress
Systemik Solutions
Corporate site for Systemik, an innovative Consulting Group and Digital Humanities Lab
We design, develop, implement and support research solutions for humanities projects: open-source DH platforms, APIs, integrations, and website content management solutions. Our forte is the realisation of effective, engaging and sustainable digital research.
- Design:
- Chloe Maguire, Ian McCrabb, Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
WordPress
TLCMap
Support site for TLCMap, a set of tools that work together for mapping Australian history and culture.
Partner: ARC/UN
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
ArcGIS, Javascript, PHP
TLCMap Workbench
ARDC and ARC supported infrastructure for time layered cultural mapping.
TLCMap makes accessible aggregated data on ‘all’ placenames in Australia, including historical names, based on data from the Australian National Placenames Survey, and the National Composite Gazetteer. Researchers can contribute their own layers of cultural data.
Partner: ARDC, UN
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Yang Li
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Ian McCrabb
Glycerine, Omeka S
Transforming the East
Site for the publishing of research outputs forma study of the beginnings of Sino-Western exchange in the early modern period.
Provides time maps and network graphs to track the transmission of Chinese classic texts throughout Europe and provides detailed metadata and translations.
Partner: ARC/USyd
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
Heurist, WordPress
Upper Indus
Venue for the publishing of research outputs from a study of petroglyphs and inscriptions in the Upper Indus Valley.
Site which combines mapping, generous archive of images, and faceted search across image and inscription annotations for specialist researchers, general scholars, students and the general public.
Partner: SSHRC/WLU
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
Drupal
Womanifesto
Venue for the publishing of research outputs from a program of collaboration with regard to women artists.
Site using faceted search and a network graph to explore the relationships between makers, makings, musings with regards to collectives of women artists across South East Asia.
Partner: Power Publications
- Design:
- Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Isobel Andrews
Omeka S, WordPress
Grandparenting in Australia
This project traces the history of grandparenting in Australia from 1945 to 2025, examining how social change has reshaped the role and producing both a historical account and guidance for family history collection.
This project produces the first historical study of grandparenting in Australia from 1945 to 2025. It examines how longer life expectancy and major social changes—such as shifts in gender roles and multiculturalism—have reshaped grandparental roles. Outcomes include a new historical account of grandparenting and practical guidance for collecting family histories.
Partner: ANU
- Design:
- Chloe Maguire, Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Chloe Maguire
Omeka S
Holocaust Museum Education
This project assesses the long-term impact of Holocaust museum education in Australia, examining how it shapes ethical thinking to improve programs and strengthen responses to antisemitism and social prejudice.
This project evaluates the long-term impact of Holocaust museum education programs in Australia through partnerships with the nation’s three Holocaust museums. Using an innovative methodology, it examines how such programs shape ethical thinking and behaviour, aiming to improve educational strategies and strengthen the role of cultural institutions in addressing antisemitism, extremism, and social prejudice.
Partner: USyd
- Design:
- Chloe Maguire, Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Isobel Andrews
Omeka S
Polio Archive Mapping
This project examines Australian experiences of polio in the 1950s–60s, reconstructing its social impact through oral histories and archives while connecting dispersed collections to strengthen public memory.
This project investigates Australian experiences of poliomyelitis in the 1950s–60s, focusing on families and regional communities. Using oral histories alongside archival sources—welfare records, memoirs, fiction, and medical literature—it reconstructs the social and cultural impact of polio and connects dispersed library, archive, and museum collections to strengthen public memory of the disease.
Partner: UN
- Design:
- Chloe Maguire, Isobel Andrews
- Development:
- Mufeng Niu
- Strategy:
- Ian McCrabb
- Consulting:
- Chloe Maguire, Ian McCrabb, Isobel Andrews
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