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HDSM hosts Sloane Lab Knowledge Exchange Event (Europe) on 6-7 September 2023

The symposium ‘Connecting, co-designing and engaging with digital collections and infrastructures: challenges and case studies’ will be held in TU Darmstadt on 6-7 September. The event is co-organised by HDSM in cooperation with University College London, the British Museum and the Natural History Museum in the UK under support by the Towards a National Collection Programme of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Registration to attend the event is already over but the book of abstracts will be published after the event and some of the presentations will be recorded and placed in the Openlearnware Environment of TU Darmstadt.

Sloane Lab Knowledge Exchange Event (Europe):  Connecting, co-designing and engaging with digital collections and infrastructures: challenges and case studies

Location: Eckhart-G.-Franz-Saal,Hessisches Landesarchiv – Staatsarchiv Darmstadt (Karolinenplatz 3, 64289 Darmstadt)

Date: 06-07 September 2023

Programme

Day 1: 06 September

09:30 – 10:30 Opening of Symposium

Chair: Julianne Nyhan, TU Darmstadt, Germany

  1. Short welcome by Dean of FB02, Dr. Jens Ivo Engels, TU Darmstadt, Germany
  2. Introduction to TANC by Rebecca Bailey, Director, Towards a National Collection programme, Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK

10:30 – 11:30 “Towards a National collection” Project Showcase

Chair: Alicia Hughes, British Museum, UK

  1. Introduction to Sloane Lab (TaNC Discovery Project)

Sushma Jensari, British Museum, UK

  1. Introduction to the Congruence Engine (TaNC Discovery Project)

Alex Butterworth, Science Museum Group, UK

11:30 – 12:00 Break

12:00 – 13:30 Panel 1: Connecting and Researching Digital Collections: Semantic Web and Data-driven Approaches

Chair: Foteini Valeonti, UCL, UK

  1. How to Create and Use a National Cross-domain Ontology and Linked Open Data Infrastructure on the Semantic Web

Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University, Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG), Finland

  1. Using AI to Broaden Access to Historical Archives

Giovanni Colavizza, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  1. Knowledge Management and AI in Cultural Heritage

Sebastian Schmidt, Metaphacts, Germany

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:00 Panel 2: Connecting and Researching Digital Collections: State of the Art and Future Looks

Chair: Nadezhda Povroznik, TU Darmstadt, Germany

  1. Decentralised Vision: Web3.0 Data Space for Cultural Heritage

Pavel Kats, Executive Director Jewish Heritage Network, the Netherlands

  1. The German National Library: Digital Collections and Services for Researchers

Britta Woldering and Stephanie Palek, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Germany

  1. On the Threshold of Data Culture? The NFDI4Memory Consortium and the Future of German History Research

Torsten Hiltmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

16:00 – 16:30 Break

16:30 – 17:45 Panel 3: Human-centred and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Connecting Collections Past and Present

Chair: Vicky Pickering, Natural History Museum, UK

  1. Digital History and the Politics of Digitisation

Gerben Zaagsma, C2DH, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  1. Heritage Data Collections

Karin de Wild, Assistant Professor in Contemporary Museum and Collection Studies, University of Leiden, the Netherlands

Next Generation Spotlight:

  1. Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Digital Museum Collections through Counterdata Visualisations

Sara Akhlaq, TU Darmstadt, Germany

  1. History of the Museums on the Web: Perspectives for Quantitative Study

Nadezhda Povroznik, TU Darmstadt, Germany

 

18:00 – 20:00  Reception

Buffet and drinks served at the Welcome Hotel (Karolinenplatz 4, Darmstadt)

 

Day 2: 07 September

09:30 – 11:15 Panel 4:  Creative and Knowledge-led Engagements with Digital Collections

Chair: Alda Terraciano, UCL, UK

  1. Algorithmic Perspectives to Enhance (Critical) Human Perspectives in the Vast Faces of Cultural Heritage Archives

Valentine Vogelman, Dutch National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands

  1. The European Museum Collections of Aboriginal Material (EMCAM) Dataset

Frieda Schmidt, University of Greifswald, Germany

  1. Finding New Ways to Open up Digital Collections: The NEO Collections Approach

Antje Schmidt, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany

Next Generation Spotlight:

  1. Yrene Matchinda, TU Berlin, Germany

11:15 – 11:45 Break

11:45 – 13:00 Structured discussion with participants regarding future work

Chair: Andrew Flinn, UCL, UK

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Focus group discussion

Chair: Marco Humbel, UCL, UK

Focus group discussion to enquire into interest into digital collections as data infrastructures projects, to be conducted in German, with invited colleagues from German heritage organisations.

List of Heritage Institutions in attendance of the Knowledge Exchange Event

  • Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Germany
  • Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt, Germany
  • Frankfurter Archiv der Revolte, Germany
  • Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, Germany
  • Institute for the History of Frankfurt (ISG), Germany
  • Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany
  • Stadtarchiv Darmstadt, Germany
  • Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, Germany
  • Hessisches Wirtschaftsarchiv, Germany
  • Schlösser Hessen, Germany
  • Hessen Kassel Heritage, Germany
  • Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Germany
  • ETH Bibliothek Zürich, Switzerland
  • British Museum, UK
  • Science Museum Group, UK
  • Natural History Museum, UK

 


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