Research Groups: Institutes, Labs and Centers

GLAM Incubator

The GLAM Incubator is a research and support hub that connects galleries, libraries, archives, and museums with industry partners, researchers, and students to advance the development of seedling projects that benefit cultural institutions, industry, and the research and teaching goals of universities worldwide. The overarching goal of the Incubator is to provide support to experimental projects that benefit the GLAM industries and engage faculty and students. It can offer space, administrative assistance, research expertise, equipment, event facilitation, funding, and knowledge mobilization.

Director: Denise Birkhofer

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Affiliated faculty members

Denise Birkhofer

Assistant Professor

Javed-Mostafa

Javed Mostafa

Professor

Professor Matt Ratto

Matt Ratto

Professor

Recent News

Illustration of a toolkit for the Graph-Based Archival Description at the Archives of Ontario

A GLAM makeover for the Archives of Ontario 

Thanks to the GLAM Incubator, the Archives of Ontario has been able to move full speed ahead with a pilot project that will make archival material both easier to discover and more accessible  Constrained by tradition and technology, archival descriptions have historically focused on two things: the records themselves and the people and organizations that […]

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GLAM Incubator seeks new projects

The Faculty of Information’s GLAM Incubator has put out a call for projects for 2024-2025. The GLAM Incubator is a research and support hub that connects galleries, libraries, archives and museums with the University of Toronto and its industry partners to lend resources and expertise to projects benefitting the broader GLAM sector, such as cutting-edge programming, […]

Joyce Sowby

Sustaining lifelong passions with a legacy gift 

An alumna’s generous donation supports research and innovation in cultural heritage  Joyce Sowby spent her long life actively engaged with books, art and history so it’s fitting that the unrestricted gift she left to the Faculty of Information will go to support its GLAM Incubator, whose mission is to work with community partners to address […]