Locating a National Collection (LANC)
Lead Research Organisation:
British Library
Department Name: Collections and Curation
Abstract
This project will help cultural heritage organisations to use geospatial data - references and representations of location, such as where objects were made and used or the places they depict and describe - to connect diverse collections and engage research and public audiences in new ways. Through scoping, workshops and audience research the project will establish best practice and provide technical recommendations for the development of a national discovery system whereby objects about a topic of interest can be readily discovered from a variety of sources, represented in the context of their historic environment, and referenced in time and landscape.
At present, discovering collections across multiple institutions and collections can be problematic in terms of user experience, requiring complex text-box searches or commercial search engines. However, in the field of Classics, The Pelagios Network of researchers, scientists and curators has developed a methodology that uses gazetteer referencing to link research data across diverse collections with considerable success, building a community of partners and stimulating new research perspectives. Similarly, the Collections Trust's prototype aggregator demonstrates that searching across cultural heritage collections using geographic location is feasible. This project builds on these methods, scoping improvements to the aggregator's results and exploring ways to present location in an accessible and meaningful form for public consumption. A key question is how the place-based Pelagios methodology can best be integrated with space-based cultural heritage data resources brought together by the Collections Trust aggregator. To test and scope this ambition, participating organisations will work on a set of thematic and technological case studies that will test the technical feasibility and appeal of the approach to potential users, ultimately developing an understanding of scalability.
The project aims to understand the requirements of stakeholders, institutional, academic and public, in order to inform content selection, technical decisions and maximise impact. It will investigate how we can use location to build a common infrastructure that links collections and render this content accessible and meaningful to different audiences. The objective is to understand the technical components required, the current and potential options available and to make recommendations for potential solutions, all of which will be described in the project report. The report will constitute a strategy, offering pathways for progress and outlining potential barriers to inform developments in the next phase of Towards a National Collection and across the cultural heritage sector more broadly. It will encourage cultural heritage organisations to take up a common geospatial approach and will provide a roadmap to enable diverse organisations to enrich their metadata and expose this in a consistent and joined-up way.
Pelagios has had success with a decentralised, 'opt-in' model of partner engagement. Our project will explore whether distributed or centralised models of integration and cooperation are relevant to the integration of cultural heritage organisations. It will develop understanding within the cultural heritage sector of how location-based interfaces can be used to make collections meaningful, spear-heading a movement beyond text-based searches in the discovery of content. Location offers an exemplar, offering a common thread from which we can learn about wider opportunities in connecting collections using other commonalities such as person, time or subject.
At present, discovering collections across multiple institutions and collections can be problematic in terms of user experience, requiring complex text-box searches or commercial search engines. However, in the field of Classics, The Pelagios Network of researchers, scientists and curators has developed a methodology that uses gazetteer referencing to link research data across diverse collections with considerable success, building a community of partners and stimulating new research perspectives. Similarly, the Collections Trust's prototype aggregator demonstrates that searching across cultural heritage collections using geographic location is feasible. This project builds on these methods, scoping improvements to the aggregator's results and exploring ways to present location in an accessible and meaningful form for public consumption. A key question is how the place-based Pelagios methodology can best be integrated with space-based cultural heritage data resources brought together by the Collections Trust aggregator. To test and scope this ambition, participating organisations will work on a set of thematic and technological case studies that will test the technical feasibility and appeal of the approach to potential users, ultimately developing an understanding of scalability.
The project aims to understand the requirements of stakeholders, institutional, academic and public, in order to inform content selection, technical decisions and maximise impact. It will investigate how we can use location to build a common infrastructure that links collections and render this content accessible and meaningful to different audiences. The objective is to understand the technical components required, the current and potential options available and to make recommendations for potential solutions, all of which will be described in the project report. The report will constitute a strategy, offering pathways for progress and outlining potential barriers to inform developments in the next phase of Towards a National Collection and across the cultural heritage sector more broadly. It will encourage cultural heritage organisations to take up a common geospatial approach and will provide a roadmap to enable diverse organisations to enrich their metadata and expose this in a consistent and joined-up way.
Pelagios has had success with a decentralised, 'opt-in' model of partner engagement. Our project will explore whether distributed or centralised models of integration and cooperation are relevant to the integration of cultural heritage organisations. It will develop understanding within the cultural heritage sector of how location-based interfaces can be used to make collections meaningful, spear-heading a movement beyond text-based searches in the discovery of content. Location offers an exemplar, offering a common thread from which we can learn about wider opportunities in connecting collections using other commonalities such as person, time or subject.
Planned Impact
In examining how to create a location-based discovery system the project will lay the foundations for a major step change in the connectivity and accessibility of UK cultural heritage and its potential to support and stimulate research, innovation and public engagement. The engagement work package investigates how to provide value and benefits to cultural heritage and public stakeholders from the project's outset. As a stand-alone initiative, the project will have immediate utility value for the participating organisations (British Library, Historic Royal Palaces, National Trust, English Heritage, Historic England, Historic Environment Scotland, MOLA, Portable Antiquities Scheme). Its outputs - which include an open dataset, a prototype user interface and the final report - will leave a legacy of improved geospatial literacy, enriched or interoperable metadata, software and stronger connections between IROs. The stand-alone project can help to develop understanding of how location-based interfaces can make our collections meaningful, spear-heading a movement beyond text-based searches in the discovery context. Moreover, the long-term aim is to provide all cultural heritage institutions with the means to connect their collections through location from national institutions with substantial online presences to regional or local institutions that might contribute a few key items only. The diversity of institutions participating at this stage demonstrates a breadth in existing interest and enables the project to provide a scalable strategy. Institutions would derive significant utility and prestige value through new and innovative uses of content, raised profile and meaningful web presence.
A developed system in a subsequent phase has the potential to impact on a range of public stakeholders, those selected for in-depth study in our engagement phase include heritage visitors, schools and academic researchers. The key utility value offered to these groups is the ability to discover objects from a variety of sources connected to a location of interest, that they might not come across otherwise. Location offers a meaningful topic that diverse groups can identify with. A developed system would help individuals to use collections to enhance their knowledge of where they live or work, for example. Place and community go hand in hand; by fostering connections between them, the project aims to provide an exemplar for the generation of engaging stories and building of tangible links between overlooked groups and local pasts that underscore notions of community empowerment. Improved understanding of location brings tangible social benefits and opportunities to engage with groups with low participation rates living in institutions' local areas and/or beyond metropolitan centres. Such engagement has an economic impact, improvements in discoverability and contextualisation will help to increase interest in heritage site visits, exhibition visits and on-site use of collections. A prototype user interface will explore a range of innovative access options like mobile, embeddable widgets and web maps for presenting content. Tailoring content by filtering could provide benefits in education by embedding location data within other materials. York-based schools and facilitators from the Historical Association that already work with HRP will evaluate how such a system might work in Key Stage 2-4 History and Geography curriculum (Local history, Tudors) as well as in the geography curriculum (Towns and countryside). Pelagios has successfully engaged researchers working in Classics including archaeologists, numismatists, historians, art-historians and linguists, demonstrating that contextualising content offers learning value, helping researchers find new content and make innovative connections. Our project hopes to appeal to the humanities and social sciences more broadly, fostering connections between similarly diverse disciplines and collections.
A developed system in a subsequent phase has the potential to impact on a range of public stakeholders, those selected for in-depth study in our engagement phase include heritage visitors, schools and academic researchers. The key utility value offered to these groups is the ability to discover objects from a variety of sources connected to a location of interest, that they might not come across otherwise. Location offers a meaningful topic that diverse groups can identify with. A developed system would help individuals to use collections to enhance their knowledge of where they live or work, for example. Place and community go hand in hand; by fostering connections between them, the project aims to provide an exemplar for the generation of engaging stories and building of tangible links between overlooked groups and local pasts that underscore notions of community empowerment. Improved understanding of location brings tangible social benefits and opportunities to engage with groups with low participation rates living in institutions' local areas and/or beyond metropolitan centres. Such engagement has an economic impact, improvements in discoverability and contextualisation will help to increase interest in heritage site visits, exhibition visits and on-site use of collections. A prototype user interface will explore a range of innovative access options like mobile, embeddable widgets and web maps for presenting content. Tailoring content by filtering could provide benefits in education by embedding location data within other materials. York-based schools and facilitators from the Historical Association that already work with HRP will evaluate how such a system might work in Key Stage 2-4 History and Geography curriculum (Local history, Tudors) as well as in the geography curriculum (Towns and countryside). Pelagios has successfully engaged researchers working in Classics including archaeologists, numismatists, historians, art-historians and linguists, demonstrating that contextualising content offers learning value, helping researchers find new content and make innovative connections. Our project hopes to appeal to the humanities and social sciences more broadly, fostering connections between similarly diverse disciplines and collections.
Publications
Rees G
(2022)
Discovering the local in national cultural heritage collections. How web maps can help the UK public engage with their 'own places'
in Information, Communication & Society
Rees G
(2022)
Locating a National Collection (LaNC)
Rees G
(2022)
Locating a National Collection Final Report
Rees G
(2021)
Locating a National Collection interim report
Description | The project's engagement work package ran from June 2020 to May 2021 in collaboration with National Trust and Historic Royal Palaces. It aimed to engage with stakeholders to understand requirements, capabilities and desires in using location data to create connections between digital records of cultural-heritage collections. - The first phase aimed to understand the views of cultural heritage professionals through thirteen interviews with individuals working in technical and strategic roles. - The second phase aimed to understand public audiences, their attitudes to heritage and location and their propensity to engage with digital technologies. It adopted a two-stage structure consisting of a quantitative survey (992 people representative of the UK population on age, region and gender) and qualitative focus groups (25 participants with differing interests in heritage and technology.). Key findings of this engagement work are: - Geography motivates the public to engage with collections. Geographical concepts like proximity, identity and travel can build tangible connections between the public and collections. - Geographical scale is key to understanding these connections and heritage with local relevance was found to be particularly engaging. Interest in local scale went beyond where people reside to encompass genealogy and memory. - An understanding of geographical scale can help organisations to utilise the breadth of their collections and engage the UK population living in diverse parts of the UK. - Connecting GLAM and Historic environment records held particular public appeal. - The public already use web-map interfaces for utilitarian or close-ended tasks. Organisations can draw on this experience when designing innovative methods for accessing collections. - Cooperation with schools and exam boards offers considerable opportunities to broaden the audience of the national collection. Geographical information from cultural heritage collections can foster deeper engagement for pupils with the history curriculum through local heritage, visits or use of maps. - Audience research should be designed to result in actionable audience motivations that connect specific audiences with implementable technologies. The project's infrastructure work package ran from November 2021 to June 2022. Focused on learning through exploratory technical work, the package consisted of two phases: - The first, scoping phase, focused on understanding the project partners' location data. We have researched methods of deriving and aligning data, developing a prototype tool to transform data to an open web standard that we have extended, Linked Places, based on OGC and W3C standards. In doing so, we have developed four datasets that exemplify different approaches to alignment and the use cases discussed in the engagement work package. - In the second phase, the Austrian Institute of Technology developed a map interface that visualises data structured according to the Linked Places standard. This adopts a front-end only design. Key findings from the infrastructure work package include: - Historic environment organisation's digital records contain coordinates or grid references making the effort to integrate them in location-based interfaces minimal. - GLAM digital records infrequently contain coordinates although it is possible to derive them, for example, from locations occurring in the text of archives. - Coordinates offer a straightforward method of connecting digital heritage records. The resulting connections can be unexpected and might not surface using other methods. - Accommodating different use-cases such as discovery and research insight within a single map viewer is challenging. Cultural Heritage institutions cannot rely on a single interface but rather require a set of interfaces based on user motivations. - Adopting a front-end only design provides a sustainable and cost-effective route to hosting interfaces. However, data that conform to this standard must either be hosted alongside the code for web applications or made available through bespoke APIs. - Web maps offer an effective interface for accessing the national collection in certain use cases. In the context of your Pathways to Impact statement how do you now envisage your research outcomes being taken forward; please consider academic and non-academic routes. Please explain briefly (we recommend no more than 200 words) how the outcomes might be taken forward and by whom, bearing in mind your answer to the next question on sector. |
Exploitation Route | The engagement work investigated how geography and maps could be used to engage public audiences and meet the needs of cultural heritage organisations. The project's engagement outputs - including presentations, a journal article and final report - have communicated these findings to the UK cultural heritage sector and beyond. Findings related to types of audiences, collections data and interface design can help the project's partner organisations (British Library, Historic Royal Palaces, National Trust, English Heritage, Historic England, Historic Environment Scotland, MOLA, Portable Antiquities Scheme) and the wider cultural heritage sector to broaden engagement with collections. The project's infrastructure work package has provided software which others can use to connect their collections using location (Locolligo) and visualise the results on maps (Peripleo). The software has provided a pathway through which academic researchers and cultural heritage professionals can create maps of their collections using an interface designed specifically for cultural heritage and make their breadth discoverable. Our software has been taken up by several research projects in the Pelagios network. Further impact on research and public audiences can be realised by institutions taking up our findings and creating location-based interfaces in the next phase of Towards a National Collection and beyond. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | https://britishlibrary.github.io/locating-a-national-collection |
Description | Locating a National Collection aimed to have an impact on two groups: cultural-heritage professionals and the public. As a scoping project in Towards a National Collection, the research outlines a pathway to public impact. However, by influencing the work of cultural-heritage professionals - including those employed in the second phase of Towards a National Collection programme and beyond - the project has achieved impact on its own terms. The potential societal impacts resulting from public engagement with the geography of heritage are manifest. Place and community go hand in hand: fostering connections through heritage can generate engaging stories and build tangible links between overlooked groups and local pasts that underscore notions of community empowerment. An improved understanding of location brings opportunities to engage groups with low participation rates living in institutions' local areas and/or beyond metropolitan centres. Such engagement has an economic impact as improvements in discoverability and contextualisation will help to increase interest in heritage site visits, exhibition visits and on-site use of collections. Locating a National Collection's engagement work package researched these societal benefits and their relationships to cultural benefits through location-based technologies with focus groups. The project has communicated the findings through the project report, a journal article and more than eight presentations to cultural heritage professionals. Through this work, the second round of projects in Towards a National Collection are taking steps to understand audience engagement through geography. Furthermore, the UK's cultural heritage sector as a whole is investing more in geographical data, for example, institutions such as the British Museum working to add coordinate data and gazetteer data to their database to help create maps. Such investment is only the first step to realising the societal impacts outlined above. The findings of engagement work influenced the two pieces of software developed towards the end of the project: Peripleo web maps and the Locolligo curation tool. We have promoted this software amongst cultural heritage professionals through eight project presentations with the aim of increasing spatial literacy, the use of geographical data and knowledge of mapping technologies. In turn this can improve the use of cultural heritage collections and geographical knowledge amongst the public. Presentations have been delivered at the British Museum, British Library, Maps Curators' Group and at the Towards a National Collection forum on place. Furthermore, we have organised three practical tutorials in the use of the software delivered to cultural heritage professionals. Tutorials in the use of Peripleo included practical sessions on creating maps delivered at Linked Pasts and the British Library. The project's mapping software has been adopted, and in some cases further developed, by several academic institutions including Yale University, University of Chicago and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Impact outside academic institutions includes maps created by the Fitzwilliam Museum and the National Library of Israel. The ability to set and gather metrics will help to understand usage of Peripleo in time. |
First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Impact Types | Cultural |
Title | Locating a National Collection - Schools survey and interview |
Description | Questions posed as part of a survey of schools (teachers and pupils) conducted by Locating a National Collection and funded by the AHRC. The survey consisted of a series of questions to be completed anonymously online via Google Forms by teachers and pupils in response to an invitation on the Historical Association website. The survey was intended to take around around 15 minutes. The survey aimed to investigate attitudes and behaviours in two areas: history/cultural heritage and digital technologies, with a clear focus on location and eliciting responses to both class room and out of school behaviours. Teachers were invited to participate in a follow-up interview posing more indepth questions about engagement with heritage in teaching, use of sources, use of technology and ways of improving accessibility for schools and their understanding of history. The research has been led by Historic Royal Palaces in collaboration with the British Library and the National Trust. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | There is no obvious impact yet, but indicative results from the survey be useful as a basis for future grant applications working with schools on this topic and recommendations will be made in the final report for heritage organisations to consider. |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/6346868 |
Title | Locating a National Collection Linked Pasts workshop dataset |
Description | Data created as part of the Linking Geo-Data through Test and Play workshop held in the Linked Pasts 2020 symposium. The workshop presented symposium attendees with three tools Heritage Connector, World Historical Gazetteer, and Living with Machines' Deezy Match. Each of which forms a critical step in a workflow for aligning and enriching cultural heritage collections metadata using geo-data. Each tool was showcased at a 1-hour demo. Participants then went away and used the tool to work with cultural heritage datasets courtesy of British Library, Historic Environment Scotland, and Historic England. Participants then came back together at a second session and to ask questions, provide feedback and share back data. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | 213 researchers attended the workshop where the dataset was made available. |
URL | https://github.com/LinkedPasts/LaNC-workshop |
Title | Locating a National Collection Our Place audience survey results |
Description | Results of an audience survey conducted by Locating a National Collection and funded by the AHRC. The research has been led by the National Trust in collaboration with the British Library and Research Bods, a market research company who have delivered results using the NT's 'Our Place' online audience research platform. The survey consisted of a series of questions to be completed over the web by 992 members of the public in around 15 minutes. The survey aimed to investigate attitudes and behaviours in two areas: cultural heritage and digital technologies, with a clear focus on location in each. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The survey was only conducted in late 2020 and so no impact has arisen from interpreting the results yet. |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4582250 |
Description | Mark16 use of Peripleo |
Organisation | Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We assisted the Mark16 project to implement our Peripleo interface to visualise their research data. MARK16 is a SNSF PRIMA project on five years (2018-2023) that develops a new research model in digitized biblical sciences, based on a test case found in the New Testament: the last chapter of the Gospel according to Mark. The project wanted to make a map and we provided the code and some pointers as to how they might achieve this. |
Collaborator Contribution | The Mark16 Research Scientist offered feedback on the Peripleo map interface's documentation and on methods to make deployment of the interface more straightforward. |
Impact | The Mark16 project have made their instance of Peripleo available here: https://dataviz-mark16.sib.swiss/#/?/?/?/mode=points The Mark16 project has taken up a web map interface designed for cultural heritage output and used this within a theological and digital humanities project. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Sloane Lab community Fellowship |
Organisation | University College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | My application for a Sloane Lab project Community Fellowship was successful. Sloane Lab is funded by the AHRC as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. As part of the fellowship I shall use the methods developed on LaNC to align and visualise museum and library collections drawing on Peripleo and Locolligo software. |
Collaborator Contribution | Sloane Lab project are providing expertise and data as well as somewhere to host the software outputs. |
Impact | None so far |
Start Year | 2024 |
Title | Locolligo: Historical Geodata Curator |
Description | Locolligo is a single-page, browser-based javascript application [in the early stages of development] for the formatting, linking, and geolocation of datasets, with a particular focus on Cultural Heritage. The greatest barrier to the visualisation, sharing, and linking of datasets that have a locational facet is the variety of ways and formats in which information has been collected, recorded, and stored. Locolligo seeks to dissolve that barrier. At present its usefulness is limited to curating datasets used in our project, but the numerous adaptations made to accommodate the diverse datasets are useful exemplars for the future development of a more generically-useful tool. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | The software has allowed datasets of far greater complexity to be curated, more flexibly and much more quickly, than would otherwise have been possible. It is only through having such datasets that we have been able to test and efficiently develop the project's dataset visualisation tool. |
URL | https://github.com/docuracy/Locolligo |
Title | Peripleo |
Description | Peripleo is a prototype application for the discovery and spatial visualisation of collection data, originally an initiative of the Pelagios Network and developed early in 2022 as part of the British Library's Locating a National Collection project (LaNC). LaNC was a Foundation project within the AHRC-funded Towards a National Collection Programme. The main development code (https://github.com/britishlibrary/peripleo-lanc) can be found here alongside the template for producing your own version (https://github.com/britishlibrary/peripleo). The development code contains several of the project's linked datasets structured in a variant of the Linked Places standard. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
URL | https://bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/datasets/519981d9-bdeb-4c0b-8729-16927d48f517 |
Description | British Cartographic Society Map Curators Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation to the Map Curators Group of the British Cartographic Society to communicate the potential for discovering digitised map content using the project's Peripleo map interface. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Locolligo tutorial at British Library |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Twenty three people attended an instruction session in how to use the geographical data curation tool, Locolligo on 19/1/23. Led by project researcher Stephen Gadd the session was held remotely as a 'Hack and Yack', part of the British Library's digital scholarship training programme. Participants learnt how to format, link, and geolocate datasets. Several colleagues are interested in applying the software to British Library catalogue data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Peripleo tutorial at British Library |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Twelve people attended an instruction session in mapping cultural heritage and humanities data using Peripleo software. Led by project development partner Rainer Simon the session was held remotely as a 'Hack and Yack', part of the British Library's digital scholarship training programme. Participants learnt how to create Linked Data, add these to a map and serve this on the web. Participants expressed an interest in creating their own maps and provided feedback on the interface's design. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Peripleo tutorial at Linked Pasts conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Fifteen people attended an instruction session in mapping cultural heritage and humanities data using Peripleo software. Led by project PI Gethin Rees the session was held remotely as part of the Linked Pasts conference. Participants learnt how to convert their spreadsheets to Linked Data, add these to a map and serve this on the web. Following the course a participant from the University of Chicago went on to create an interactive map of inscribed Roman statutes using Peripleo. They also included an introduction to the software in an undergraduate course titled "Digital Humanities for the Ancient World". One student has implemented Peripleo for their final project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Presentation as part of TaNC Discovery Projects workshop at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation to raise awareness of the value and potential of place as a method of organising and searching digital content. Forty participants from TaNC discovery projects attended this in-person seminar on 1/12/23 that summarised project findings. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Presentation at British Museum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Gethin Rees gave a talk on LaNC as part of a workshop on adding coordinate data to the British Museum catalogue. The British Museum are interested in creating maps of their objects on their website. The British Museum have used an internal grant to enrich their Egyptian place records with coordinates. Following the talk I successfully applied for a Sloane Lab fellowship to link and visualise British Museum and British Library data using software developed by LaNC. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Presentation to British Library's cross-organisation Open House |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation to disseminate engagement findings across staff as a whole at the British Library. Over 200 attended. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Tutorial at Linked Pasts 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 32 people attended an instruction session in mapping cultural heritage and humanities data using Peripleo software. Led by project PI Gethin Rees the session was held remotely as part of the Linked Pasts 2023 conference. Participants learnt how to convert their spreadsheets to Linked Data, add these to a map and serve this on the web. Following the workshop we have had meetings with the Leaf project at Bucknell University and with Ashmolean Museum Oxford/British School at Athens (Arthur Evans archive) who wish to use Peripleo software in their projects. The Cambridge University Library have implemented Peripleo for their collections see https://gewit-hring.com/blog/peripleo-01/ and https://irisbox.github.io/Peripleo-testac/#/13.97/1.0061/51.9675/mode=points+selected=http%3A%2F%2Fw3id.org%2FConstable-Mapping-aaa%2F1b18718a-af9b-4327-b2f5-cf137d707a3d |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://linkedpasts.hcommons.org/ |
Description | iiif lightning talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Lightning talk on use of Peripleo to visualise iiif annotations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |