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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…
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Warrior women, indigenous knowledge and the legacies of colonialism [Short Film]
British-Jamaican artist Charmaine Watkiss and Sloane Lab Project Curator Alicia Hughes discuss The Warrior’s Way: Safeguarding the natural history of Jamaica, Charmaine’s new work responding to the work of naturalist, physician and slave owner Sir Hans Sloane, whose collections provided the foundation of The British Museum. “And my plant warrior holding this same scroll, she’s…
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(Re)connecting heritage collections as data, infrastructure, and participatory engagement: big dreams, big challenges [Sloane Lab online seminar series]
We are delighted to announce a symposium series commencing on the 25th of May, welcoming 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. Our ambition is to use the series to explore, encourage, and foreground a range…
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The Sloane Lab Community Fellowship Round Two (3 months funded) – Extended
We are seeking to appoint Community Fellows (ten in total until summer 2024) 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…
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Who holds the data? Connecting cultivated plants to specimens in the Sloane Lab
Our upcoming activity is organised in collaboration with the Heritage Seed Library. Its purpose is to understand: 1) the relevance of historical catalogues in contemporary society through represented plants cultivated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in relation to gardeners, members of the Heritage Seed Library, and wider networks; 2) what kind of knowledge…
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Digitality workshop: Loss, absence and contestation in Digital Humanities through the lens of the collection of Hans Sloane [Video Lecture]
In this lecture Prof. Julianne Nyhan (Principal Investigator) presents an introduction to some of the big questions to be grappled with during the AHRC towards a National Collection-funded project “The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections” (2021-24). Our project aims to devise automated and augmented ways, of mending the broken links between…
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Data for the Digital Historian: The Sloane Lab Experience [Video Lecture]
In this lecture, taught as part of the course “Concepts and Context of Digital History” at TU Darmstadt, Dr Daniele Metilli, Research Fellow at the Sloane Lab, introduces students to the use of data as a source for historical research, looking at different kinds of data and forms of scholarship that Digital Humanities (DH) projects…