RESEARCH
PROJECTS

Lab of Excellence in Digital Asset Management (LED) will focus on Scholarly, Research and Creativity that advances the adaptation of digital asset management through innovation. Focus research efforts will be on four key areas of importance to DAM: technology and innovation; workflows and automation; business models and management; and societal impact.

For more information about the upcoming projects please contact Dr Reem El Asaleh

Ongoing projects

Building a Digital Asset Management (DAM) Prototype System for Mapping Ontario’s Black Archives (MOBA)

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Collaborators:

  • Dr. Cheryl Thompsons, Director of MOBA and The Laboratory for Black Creativity Associate Professor, Performance, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University

  • Dr. Reem El Asaleh, Director of LED, Associate Professor, Graphic Communications Management, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University

  • Neal Bilow, Founder and CEO of Terentia

Mapping Ontario’s Black Archives (MOBA) is an Ontario Early Researcher Award-funded project (2021-26) that has three objectives.

  • To create a comprehensive inventory of Black Ontarian archival collections

  • To examine, using storytelling, how archives are used by creative communities

  • To evaluate, over a five-year period, how we can bridge the knowledge gap between Black archival collections and Black history in the province.

Building a digital asset management system (DAM) prototype system for MOBA objective

  • To build a prototype DAM that transforms MobaProjects.ca's current digital infrastructure (content management system (CMS) site) into a DAM-enabled site that can store, preserve, and display MOBA's current research data and future archival holdings.

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