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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 […]