The video presentations of the Sloane Lab Seminar Series 2023 have now been released and you can watch them below. From the 25th of May to the 22nd of June the Sloane Lab organised the seminar series (Re)connecting heritage collections as data, infrastructure and participatory engagement: big dreams, big challenges. The series welcomed a range of speakers interested in the intersections between collections as data, cataloguing histories and critical archival studies, heritage infrastructures, critical digital heritage, and information science. The seminar series was funded by Towards a National Collection and convened by Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt & UCL), Andrew Flinn (UCL), Nina Pearlman (UCL), Andreas Vlachidis (UCL), Jeremy Hill (British Museum), Mark Carine (Natural History Museum), James Baker (University of Southampton) and Alexandra Ortolja-Baird (University of Portsmouth). Please note, not all speakers gave permission for the whole of their presentation to be recorded.
25th of May, 2023
Speakers:
- Kathleen Lawther
Freelance Curator/Collections Researcher
“People make the data: Museum Makers, people-centred cataloguing and collections as data” - Florence Okoye
Qualitative researcher, User Experience and Service designer, Natural History Museum
“Approaches for anti-colonial narratives through digital collections”
1st of June, 2023
Speakers:
- Koraljka Golub
Professor, iInstitute, Linnaeus University, co-leader of LNU’s Digital Humanities Initiative, programme coordinator for M.A. in Digital Humanities “Subject access in online information services for humanities: the case of LGBTQI fiction” - Inna Kizhner
Research Fellow, Digital Humanities Lab, Haifa University
“Exploring epistemic bias in museum collections”
8th of June, 2023
Speakers:
- Lucille Junkere
Visual artist, educator and researcher with recent research focusing on the legacy of colonialism in African Caribbean textile history
“Cultural Colours Jamaica” - Benjamin Lee
Incoming Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, Kluge Fellow in Digital Studies at the Library of Congress
“Reimagining Search and Discovery for Digital Collections with Machine Learning”
15th of June, 2023
Speakers:
- Ananda Rutherford was unable to join the event on the day due to sickness
- Jane Collings (Stevenson)
Archivist, Archival Cataloguing
“The Shortcomings of and Opportunities for Archival Cataloguing to Create a Fuller Picture of Our Histories”
22nd of June, 2023
- Rosemary Grennan
Mayday Rooms archive
“Leftovers Digital Archive: Somewhere between automation and the handmade” - Amalia S. Levi
Archivist/Cultural heritage Professional, HeritEdge Connection, Bonn University’s Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
“Archival Dependencies: The Cascading Violence of Colonial Records”
We look forward to welcome you to our next Sloane Lab Seminar Series in 2024!