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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 […]
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The Sloane Lab Community Fellowships Round One
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 research-led […]
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Traditional botanists and researchers with prior experience of engaging with Sloane catalogues
Photos & details from Sloane Lab’s recent Participatory Activity. Date of Event: 23 Nov. 2022 Place: University College London Description: A workshop to explore the interoperability of the Sloane Lab data with external digital collections using a selection of specimens from Sloane’s Voyage to Jamaica. The activity aims to identify what users might want to do with […]
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The Sloane Lab data challenge: engaging with and aggregating our challenging pasts
Details from Sloane Lab’s recent Participatory Activity. Date of Event: 8 Nov. 2022 Place: University College London, part of MTSR Conference Description: A focus group/workshop using a sample of the Sloane Lab datasets to reflect on technical issues faced in the project and invite participants to apply their own systems/tools to the data. Each activity is followed […]
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Searching for Jamaican plants in the Sloane Lab
Photos & details from Sloane Lab’s recent Participatory Activity. Date of Event: 23 Oct. 2022 Place: Natural History Museum Explorers Family Festival Description: A digital jam on the use of plain English vs/specialised terminology for botanical specimens and their cultural meanings. The activity facilitates knowledge exchange on ways in which non-specialist users engage with Sir Hans Sloane […]
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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 […]
