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
- Short welcome by Dean of FB02, Dr. Jens Ivo Engels, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- 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
- Introduction to Sloane Lab (TaNC Discovery Project)
Sushma Jensari, British Museum, UK
- 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
- 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
- Using AI to Broaden Access to Historical Archives
Giovanni Colavizza, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 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
- Decentralised Vision: Web3.0 Data Space for Cultural Heritage
Pavel Kats, Executive Director Jewish Heritage Network, the Netherlands
- The German National Library: Digital Collections and Services for Researchers
Britta Woldering and Stephanie Palek, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Germany
- 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
- Digital History and the Politics of Digitisation
Gerben Zaagsma, C2DH, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Heritage Data Collections
Karin de Wild, Assistant Professor in Contemporary Museum and Collection Studies, University of Leiden, the Netherlands
Next Generation Spotlight:
- Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Digital Museum Collections through Counterdata Visualisations
Sara Akhlaq, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- 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
- 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
- The European Museum Collections of Aboriginal Material (EMCAM) Dataset
Frieda Schmidt, University of Greifswald, Germany
- Finding New Ways to Open up Digital Collections: The NEO Collections Approach
Antje Schmidt, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
Next Generation Spotlight:
- 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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