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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…
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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…