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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
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…
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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…
