Participation and Inclusion with Digital National Collections

Co-Designing the Sloane Lab

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https://doi.org/10.13135/2389-6086/10178

Keywords:

Knowledge Organisation and Visualisation, Participatory Methods, Digital Humanities, Digital Cultural Heritage.

Abstract

The Sloane Lab: Looking Back to Build Shared Collections project is funded by the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council program as part of Towards a National Collection (TaNC), a major investment using digital technology to create a unified national collection of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums in the United Kingdom. The project is focused on the vast collection of Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753) held at the British Museum, Natural History Museum, and British Library. It aims to employ advanced computational and digital humanities approaches augmented by a participatory co-design methodology to reunite the collection records online for the first time.

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Author Biographies

Alda Terracciano, University College London

Alda Terracciano is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London and participatory design consultant at the Sloane Lab (AHRC TaNC Program). She researched the digital economy at Queen Mary, University of London, and is founding chair of Future Histories.

Julianne Nyhan, TU Darmstadt

Julianne Nyhan is chair of Humanities Data Science, and Methodology and managing director of the Institute of History, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. She is also principal investigator of the Sloane Lab and remains a part-time professor of digital humanities at University College London. 

 

Andrew Flinn

Andrew Flinn is a reader in archival studies and oral history in the Department of Information Studies at University College London. He is the deputy principal investigator of Sloane Lab: Looking Back to Build Shared Collections and co-leads the project's participatory work.

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Published

2024-12-19

How to Cite

Terracciano, A., Nyhan, J., & Flinn, A. (2024). Participation and Inclusion with Digital National Collections: Co-Designing the Sloane Lab. Mimesis Journal, 13(2), 609–616. https://doi.org/10.13135/2389-6086/10178

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2024): DRHA

Section

Strategies of Digital Engagement for Cultural Heritage

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