Serai

Serai

Natalie Rothman was the principal investigator in Serai, a free and open online collaboratory for scholarship on encounters across ethnolinguistic and religious divides from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period, bringing together researchers and students across institutions, disciplines, and linguistic specializations. It leveraged existing and purpose-built Open Source software to provide the technical infrastructure for producing, exchanging, editing, and annotating in real time new resources in a variety of digital formats and for a range of publics and purposes.

The project, hosted by the University of Toronto Scarborough, involved several doctoral students in the History Department (Stephanie Cavanaugh, Mehmet Kuru, and Ted Adamo) two alumnae (Dr. Alexandra Guerson and Dr. Sarah Loose), and several IT specialists and undergraduate students at the University of Toronto Scarborough. It was funded through the generous support of UTSC and the government of Ontario, and was supported by IITS and the Digital Scholarship Unit at UTSC.

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