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Finding Women in the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base [Online Exhibition, Dataset, & Research Guide]
A Guide to Finding Women in the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base, available to download here We are pleased to announce the release of three new resources — an online exhibition, dataset, and research guide — developed by Dr Rosalind White, Sloane Lab Community Research Fellow at University College London, as part of her project In…
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Sloane Lab at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Invited by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Technical Co-I of the Sloane Lab Associate Professor Andreas Vlachidis delivered a seminar on Sloane Lab at CUHK’s Digital Scholarship Lab, hosting also a workshop on the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base. Video recordings of both the seminar and the workshop are available on the Sloane Lab YouTube…
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The Sloane Lab Knowledge Base goes Live! Plus Video Tutorials
We are very excited to announce that the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base has now been made available to the public! You can access it through our website, or by visiting knowledgebase.sloanelab.org. In order to make the most of our Knowledge Base we recently published a series of 3 video tutorials explaining functionality and features. Video…
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In the Margins of Early Modern Science: Pioneering Women in Sloane’s ‘Paper Museum’
Sloane Lab Community Fellow Dr Rosalind White is a cultural historian who specialises in uncovering ‘lost’ stories through object-led archival research. Her PhD, funded by the AHRC, explored natural history’s influence on Victorian literature and culture, emphasising the overlooked contributions of women, children, and working-class naturalists. As a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham on…
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Sloane Lab and HDSM Darmstadt Seminar Series 2024: Critical and creative engagement with historical data
We are delighted to announce the second edition of the Sloane Lab symposium series commencing on the 16th of April 2024, facilitated in collaboration with the Humanities Data Science & Methodology (HDSM) Oberseminar of TU Darmstadt, the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH) and the UCL Institute for Advanced Studies (UCL IAS). This seminar invites…
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Rethinking Web Maps to present Hans Sloane’s Collections
Gethin Rees is Lead Curator for Digital Mapping at the British Library and a Sloane Lab Community Fellow. The following post was first published on the Digital Scholarship Blog of the British Library. I have recently started a community fellowship working with geographical data from the Sloane Lab project. The project is titled A Generous Approach…
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Collections as Data infrastructures: Perspectives from the United Kingdom [Video Lecture]
On 30th November 2023, Dr Marco Humbel, Research Fellow at the Sloane Lab, was invited to speak at the ETH Library’s 17:15 Colloquium in Zurich. In this talk Marco explores the question of what kind of infrastructures are needed to reap the potential of collection data. The presentation introduces the Sloane Lab project and the TaNC programme.…
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The Sloane Lab Community Fellowship Round Three (2 positions)
We are seeking to appoint Community Fellows (2 positions available) to contribute to “The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections”, led by University College London (UCL) in partnership with the Technische Universität Darmstadt, British Museum (BM) and Natural History Museum (NHM). The fellow will undertake creative, critical, practice and/or research-led projects with…
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Sloane Lab Symposium: Connecting, co-designing and engaging with digital collections and infrastructures
On the 6th and the 7th of September the Sloane Lab hosted in collaboration with Humanities Data Science and Methodology (HDSM), TU Darmstadt a 2-day symposium titled “Connecting, co-designing and engaging with digital collections and infrastructures: challenges and case studies”. The symposium took place at the Hessisches Landesarchiv-Staatsarchiv in Darmstadt, Germany, and it was funded…
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Sloane Lab Seminar Series 2023: (Re)connecting heritage collections as data, infrastructure and participatory engagement [Video Presentations]
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…
