Sloane Lab Logo
  • About
    • About the Sloane Lab
    • News & Updates
    • Meet the Team
    • Sloane Collections
    • Contact
    • Search Site
  •  Framework
    • The Sloane Lab Framework
    • The Sloane Lab Knowledge Base
    • Data Atlas
    • System Architecture
  •  Participatory Co-design
    • Expression of Interest
    • Statement of Practice
    • Community Fellowships
    • Past Participatory Activities
    • List of Contributors
  • Resources & Publications
    • Presentations
    • Video Lectures
    • Publications
    • YouTube Channel
    • GitHub Repositories
    • External Resources

Sloane Lab News & Updates

  • 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
    June 7, 2023

    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…

    Read the article →

  • (Re)connecting heritage collections as data, infrastructure, and participatory engagement: big dreams, big challenges [Sloane Lab online seminar series]

    (Re)connecting heritage collections as data, infrastructure, and participatory engagement: big dreams, big challenges - Sloane Lab online seminar series
    April 28, 2023

    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…

    Read the article →

  • The Sloane Lab Community Fellowship Round Two (3 months funded) – Extended

    April 4, 2023

    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…

    Read the article →

  • Who holds the data? Connecting cultivated plants to specimens in the Sloane Lab

    March 29, 2023

    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…

    Read the article →

  • Digitality workshop: Loss, absence and contestation in Digital Humanities through the lens of the collection of Hans Sloane [Video Lecture]

    Digitality workshop Loss, absence and contestation in Digital Humanities through the lens of the collection of Hans Sloane - Prof Julianne Nyhan
    March 7, 2023

    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…

    Read the article →

  • Data for the Digital Historian: The Sloane Lab Experience [Video Lecture]

    Data for the Digital Historian: The Sloane Lab Experience by Dr. Daniele Metilli, University College London, UK
    February 2, 2023

    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…

    Read the article →

  • The Sloane Lab Community Fellowships Round One

    December 6, 2022

    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…

    Read the article →

  • Traditional botanists and researchers with prior experience of engaging with Sloane catalogues

    Sloane Lab co-design participants at the UCL workshop
    November 24, 2022

    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…

    Read the article →

  • The Sloane Lab data challenge: engaging with and aggregating our challenging pasts

    November 9, 2022

    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…

    Read the article →

  • Searching for Jamaican plants in the Sloane Lab

    Sloane Lab co-design participants at the Natural History Museum
    October 24, 2022

    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…

    Read the article →

←Previous Page
1 2 3
Next Page→

Sloane Lab

Sloane Lab © 2024

Open toolbar Accessibility Tools

Accessibility Tools

  • Increase TextIncrease Text
  • Decrease TextDecrease Text
  • GrayscaleGrayscale
  • High ContrastHigh Contrast
  • Negative ContrastNegative Contrast
  • Light BackgroundLight Background
  • Links UnderlineLinks Underline
  • Readable FontReadable Font
  • Reset Reset