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The Sloane Lab Knowledge Base in a nutshell
Writes Dr. Daniele Metilli, Research Fellow in Advanced Data Architectures. The Sloane Lab technical team has recently developed a prototype of the Sloane Lab knowledge base. The knowledge base aims to unify the dispersed data of the Sloane collection and it can be seen as the combination of a data model, which describes the main…
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Sloane Lab Student Placement Report: Ray Analysis
Writes Dr Victoria Pickering, Post-Doc Research Fellow (Natural History Museum). Kexin Li, a UCL student in MSc Digital Humanities worked with the NHM team on a part time basis for six weeks. The NHM work package continues to be focused on mobilising data from Sloane’s copy of John Ray’s Historia Plantarum, the publication in which he…
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Towards a Network Analysis of Hans Sloane’s Collection: A Preliminary Study
Daniele Metilli (they/them) is a Research Fellow in Advanced Data Architectures for Digital Humanities at UCL Department of Information Studies. In the Sloane Lab project, they are working to manage the collected knowledge, model it through Semantic Web technologies, and publish it as Linked Data for further exploration and reuse. On the 14th of September…
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The Sloane Lab team presented at Universeum Conference 2022
Dr Nina Pearlman (Sloane Lab Co-I) and Marco Humbel (Sloane Lab Research Fellow) at the Universeum Conference 2022 Poster Session The Sloane Lab team presented at the Poster Session of Universeum Conference 2022 at the beginning of July. The delegates from the project team reported that the presentation was very well received. They were encouraged by the…
