Atlascine is an open-source online platform for annotating, mapping, and exploring transcribed audiovisual media. It enables the geographical and thematic visualization of stories through an interactive map, offering innovative ways to navigate within and across narratives. By foregrounding spatial relationships and trajectories, Atlascine facilitates the analysis of how stories unfold across places. The platform has been used both as a research and exhibition tool in fields such as oral history, film studies, and urban studies, and is well suited to qualitative research projects and story-based public exhibitions.
2026-04-11
Dr. Sepideh Shahamati will be presenting her work on mapping evictions in Parc-Extension (Montreal) - including the Atlas of Intangible Heritage she has developed with Atlascine - at three events in this month : [...]
This atlas traces video-recorded life stories of members of the Rwandan-Canadian diaspora. It offers new ways of transmitting, sharing and studying personal and collective stories, using place as an entry point.
Working with oral history and place-based research-creation methods, La Ville Extraordinaire foregrounds the urban knowledge of four diverse groups of older Montrealers through the mapping of about 80 interviews.
This project maps 17 oral history interviews about the life and work of artist Jean-Paul Riopelle. This digital audiovisual archive deepens our understanding of the life and career of this world-renowned artist.
A research project dedicated to mapping the memories and the intangible heritage of Parc-Extension, a diverse neighbourhood in Montreal, that is experiencing rapid gentrification.
"This project examines the position of the itinerant entertainer or musician in the political economy of Montreal. Urban and social transformations are explored from the vantage point of this itinerant figure through the mapping of oral history interviews of buskers."
"Without tangible markers, Irish histories and their contributions are at risk of being forgotten."