Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: School of Humanities
Abstract
The national collection is distributed throughout communities, localities, and national organisations. In the past two decades communities have adopted digital technologies to gather and record their collections in a form of 'citizen history' that has created a truly democratic and vast reservoir of new knowledge about the past. This reservoir could immeasurably enrich our national and global understanding but remains largely untapped, hard to find, and at risk of disappearing altogether.
The intellectual and economic investment in community-generated digital content (CGDC) is immense and its rich and diverse content is one of the UK's prime cultural assets, but it is 'critically endangered' due to technological and organisational barriers. CGDC has proved extraordinarily resistant to traditional methods of linking and integration, meaning that resources often funded and produced by the public stand alone or are inaccessible. Diverse community-focused voices, sustaining the fragile histories of communities in transition, have effectively been silenced within our shared national collection. Existing solutions to this problem involving bespoke interventionist activities are expensive, time-consuming and unsustainable at scale, whilst any unsophisticated computational integration of this data would result in a lowest-common-denominator solution which would erase the meaning and purpose of both CGDC and its creators.
The Our Heritage, Our Stories project responds to this urgent challenge by bringing together a powerful partnership, including researchers in digital humanities, archives, history, linguistics, and computer science at our HEI partners, the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester, with world-leading archive and digital infrastructure development at The National Archives (TNA), the project's lead IRO. This team will bring cutting-edge approaches from cultural heritage, humanities and computer science to dissolve existing barriers and develop scalable linking and discoverability across CGDC and the collections of TNA. We will collaborate in this process with leading UK heritage organisations, including Tate, the British Museum, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, and a network of smaller regional and local heritage organisations holding digital content created by and relating to communities. Our geographic range is essential for a truly national approach which engages with every part of the UK.
Our project will use multidisciplinary methods to make previously unfindable and unlinkable CGDC discoverable within the national collection, while respecting and embracing its complexity and diversity by co-designing and building sophisticated automated tools to make it searchable and connected. We will showcase its new accessibility to the world through a major new public-facing Observatory at TNA where people can access, reuse, and remix this newly integrated content. As we dissolve barriers and add meaningful links across these collections, we will make them accessible to new and diverse audiences and open them up for research - demonstrated via multidisciplinary case studies - and embed new strategies for future management of CGDC into heritage practice and training. Public engagement is a driving theme in our project, which will be developed on principles of co-production and participatory design.
The lasting legacies of this project will be the wealth of previously siloed, hidden, and fragmented CGDC it will situate and render discoverable. By so doing, we will revolutionise our understanding of the past, and the methods and means to achieve this, by developing cutting-edge tools, AI methods, historical and linguistic research, and new frameworks for sustainable archival practice. By enabling CGDC to be re-used and reimagined, we will help it survive and be nourished, for the future and for our shared national collection.
The intellectual and economic investment in community-generated digital content (CGDC) is immense and its rich and diverse content is one of the UK's prime cultural assets, but it is 'critically endangered' due to technological and organisational barriers. CGDC has proved extraordinarily resistant to traditional methods of linking and integration, meaning that resources often funded and produced by the public stand alone or are inaccessible. Diverse community-focused voices, sustaining the fragile histories of communities in transition, have effectively been silenced within our shared national collection. Existing solutions to this problem involving bespoke interventionist activities are expensive, time-consuming and unsustainable at scale, whilst any unsophisticated computational integration of this data would result in a lowest-common-denominator solution which would erase the meaning and purpose of both CGDC and its creators.
The Our Heritage, Our Stories project responds to this urgent challenge by bringing together a powerful partnership, including researchers in digital humanities, archives, history, linguistics, and computer science at our HEI partners, the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester, with world-leading archive and digital infrastructure development at The National Archives (TNA), the project's lead IRO. This team will bring cutting-edge approaches from cultural heritage, humanities and computer science to dissolve existing barriers and develop scalable linking and discoverability across CGDC and the collections of TNA. We will collaborate in this process with leading UK heritage organisations, including Tate, the British Museum, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, and a network of smaller regional and local heritage organisations holding digital content created by and relating to communities. Our geographic range is essential for a truly national approach which engages with every part of the UK.
Our project will use multidisciplinary methods to make previously unfindable and unlinkable CGDC discoverable within the national collection, while respecting and embracing its complexity and diversity by co-designing and building sophisticated automated tools to make it searchable and connected. We will showcase its new accessibility to the world through a major new public-facing Observatory at TNA where people can access, reuse, and remix this newly integrated content. As we dissolve barriers and add meaningful links across these collections, we will make them accessible to new and diverse audiences and open them up for research - demonstrated via multidisciplinary case studies - and embed new strategies for future management of CGDC into heritage practice and training. Public engagement is a driving theme in our project, which will be developed on principles of co-production and participatory design.
The lasting legacies of this project will be the wealth of previously siloed, hidden, and fragmented CGDC it will situate and render discoverable. By so doing, we will revolutionise our understanding of the past, and the methods and means to achieve this, by developing cutting-edge tools, AI methods, historical and linguistic research, and new frameworks for sustainable archival practice. By enabling CGDC to be re-used and reimagined, we will help it survive and be nourished, for the future and for our shared national collection.
Organisations
- University of Glasgow (Lead Research Organisation)
- MANCHESTER HISTORIES (Collaboration)
- Kinloch Historical Society (Collaboration)
- National Library of Wales (Collaboration)
- British Museum (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Glasgow Disability Alliance (Collaboration)
- Wikimedia UK (Collaboration)
- Software Sustainability Institute (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University of Glasgow (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER (Collaboration)
- Association for Learning Technology (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES (Collaboration)
- National Library of Scotland (Collaboration)
- Archives Plus (Collaboration)
- Tate (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Digital Preservation Coalition (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (Collaboration)
- Surrey History Centre (Collaboration)
Publications
Alexander, A.
(2024)
Our Heritage, Our Stories: Developing AI Tools to Link and Support Community-Generated Digital Cultural Heritage
in Journal of Documentation
Barker H.
(2024)
Our Heritage, Our Stories: Valuing and Accessing UK Digital Citizen History
in History Workshop
Benkhedda Y.
(2023)
Integrating community-generated digital content into the UK national collection
Benkhedda Y.
(2024)
Enriching the Metadata of Community-Generated Digital Content through Entity Linking: An Evaluative Comparison of State-of-the-Art Models
in LaTeCH-CLfL 2024 - 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, Proceedings of the Workshop
Benkhedda, Y.
(2025)
Our Heritage, Our Stories (OHOS) White paper 2: Metadata Crosswalks beyond Discovery
Foster-Jones R.
(2025)
OHOS Community Fund:
| Title | The Ground is Not Unchanging |
| Description | Artist/filmmaker Mina Heydari-Waite and 16 mm specialist Lydia Beilby led a series of workshops, filmmaking classes, and exhibitions under the title "The Ground Is Not Unchanging". For the workshop, diverse participants chosen by application engaged in a guided discussion about their own familial and community archives. The group then worked together to make a short film on 16 mm about the workshop's "living archive" of objects--- materials participants were asked to bring, which were meaningful to them under the themes of migration, loss, and home. The workshop upheld OHOS aims to investigate the different types of community archives and CGDC that exist within the UK, and in this instance foregrounded individuals with experiences of racism, forced migration, gender-based violence and poverty. The workshop also taught participants about the Post-Custodial Model of archiving and gave them experience working with 16 mm film which is costly and unlikely to be accessible to early career artists. Finally, the film has been scanned and archived at the archives of the hosting organisation, Offline. The workshop brought a bold new way of creating CGDC to the OHOS offering --- an archive made through considered objects brought together to form a new narrative. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | The workshop upheld OHOS aims to investigate the different types of community archives and CGDC that exist within the UK, and in this instance foregrounded individuals with experiences of racism, forced migration, gender-based violence and poverty. The workshop also taught participants about the Post-Custodial Model of archiving and gave them experience working with 16 mm film which is costly and unlikely to be accessible to early career artists. Finally, the film has been scanned and archived at the archives of the hosting organisation, Offline. The workshop brought a bold new way of creating CGDC to the OHOS offering --- an archive made through considered objects brought together to form a new narrative. |
| URL | https://drive.google.com/file/d/12upqsjHTy3pEcyPxkjur0UxaNxSDt3g9/preview |
| Title | Wiki Walk - A Beginner's Guide |
| Description | OHOS Community Fund Award recipient Glasgow Building Preservation Trust (GBPT) teamed up with migrant-led community organisation Migrant Voice to host a series of "WikiWalks". These are designed to teach participants how to set up their own Wikibase instance, empowering them to record, upload and describe their own photographs of the areas they call home. Each participant gained their own small archive of photographs as well as a new digital and archiving skill. A short film was also commissioned for the project, which acts as a record of the workshops and a How-To Guide for creating a Wikibase instance. This event was an excellent example of how OHOS provided digital skills to empower underrepresented communities to preserve their archives using the post-custodial model.The CGDC produced during Wiki Walks were photographs taken of Garnethill Park and the surrounding area which were then uploaded onto Wikimedia. This not only allowed participants to tell stories about places that matter to them and feel an integral part of their new community's history, but also created a digital archive of the changing and often precarious Glasgow city landscape. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | An easy, how-to guide to help the public create a Wikibase instance. The film empowers underrepresented communities to preserve their archives using the post-custodial model. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaLLwSs9lHs |
| Description | - What were the most significant achievements from the award? The objectives of the project are two-fold: to create AI based approaches for integrating disparate digital heritage into a national collection; and to scope and develop best practice for communities creating digital heritage. Our technical outputs are on-track to deliver robust and replicable tools and workflows by the end of the project, with prototypes already completed. Our research will also deliver a series of best practice guidelines in a variety of formats in order to deliver our academic objectives. - To what extent were the award objectives met? If you can, briefly explain why any key objectives were not met. The project is still ongoing, however we are on-track to deliver all key objectives, despite significant delays in technical delivery, which have all been addressed and resolved. - How might the findings be taken forward and by whom? We have identified a large group of stakeholder communities (archives and other heritage organisations, funders, technical developers, and NGOs) and we are actively working with them to codevelop and identify effective methods for embedding our findings in community heritage practice, e.g., the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) will provide a long-term platform for our archival preservation toolkits. |
| Exploitation Route | The grant is still active, however, we are actively pursing impact strategies and developing technical and methodological outputs that will have transformative impacts in a number of areas. Anticipated outputs and the stakeholders they will impact include: - community archives who will benefit from our guidance documentation, training, and toolkits, which will enable the archival sector to develop new approaches to working with and sustaining community generated digital content (CGDC). - national and international heritage organisations who will be able to utilise our technical approaches, legal frameworks, and workflows for integrating CGDC into larger collections. - academics working with CGDC will be able to utilise our ethical frameworks for working with community generated material. - academics in the key disciplines represented by the project will benefit from the key tools and methods generated. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Creative Economy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
| URL | http://www.ohos.ac.uk |
| Description | Details of emerging economic and societal impact arising from the award that you are reporting on (including how it has evolved): Our project has still not concluded, however, we anticipate significant economic and societal impact in a number of key areas: - funders currently invest enormous sums of money in community heritage projects that face challenges of discoverability and sustainability. We are co-creating policy focused guidelines for funders to ensure project findings can be embedded into the future design of funding streams for community heritage. - the ethical and privacy issues associated with community digital heritage make it challenging for reuse by academic researchers, reducing the value of this heritage. By providing evidence based approaches for discovering and using this material we are lowering the barriers to its inclusion in the historical narrative. - community heritage is managed by poorly funded local organisations that lack guidance in developing digital resources, our project outputs will fill this gap. A summary of how the findings from your award are impacting the public, private or third/voluntary sectors, and elsewhere: Our project entirely targets the public sector, specifically archives and heritage organisations and NGOs working in community heritage. We have scoped the needs of these communities with regard to technical approaches, guidelines, and methods required for creating and sustaining digital heritage. Challenges overcome to achieve impact: - data governance - ethics and rights - engagement with a very disparate community - scalability of approaches - different legal bases for processing data across HEIs and IROs - complexity of engaging organisations across multiple sectors - austerity politics have depleted local heritage organisations and national heritage institutions to the extent that they have limited capacity to engage with Toward a National Collection projects Significant impact within academia, for example the nucleation of a new research area: - Our research is intended to increase the usage of community heritage across the academic disciplines. - We have developed significant findings for the use of AI with community heritage data, which will be taken forward in further research. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Community Archives Digital Preservation Toolkit |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/implement-digipres/community-archives-dp-toolkit |
| Description | PRONI & OHOS Mission Statement |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14753595 |
| Description | Digital Humanities Data Hive: Accessing Humanities Data At Scale |
| Amount | £93,320 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/W007584/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Title | Internal database of metadata by collaborating archives |
| Description | The database holds all the collacted metadata for the OHOS project which will be enriched in the AI pipeline. It contains data from 5 community archive partners that is indexed in OpenSearch. Users will eventually be able to view the data through the main project output "the Observatory". |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The data forms the basis for development of the user interface which is being built on top of the dataset. |
| Title | Internal dataset of manually annotated community-generated digital content |
| Description | A sample of materials from People's Collection Wales (PCW) was manually annotated to create a dataset of CGDC for training and comparison with NLP performance on CGDC materials. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The creation of this gold-standard dataset will enable performance testing of standard NLP methods and tools on community-generated data, providing a benchmark against which to assess adjustment made to the NLP approaches. This will also enable improved training of standard models on the specific domain of CGDC. |
| Title | OHOS AI Pipeline Output : Historical Text and Named Entity Mentions from Community-Generated Digital Content |
| Description | The repository contains the AI pipeline processing output of different community-generated digital content (CDGC) from the following sources: Morrab Library Photographic Archives, Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre, Sharing Wycombe's Old Photographs, Surrey History Centre, The Widecombe Archive, A People's Story of Wales. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This output has been used to build the Observatory, for sophisticated Knowledge Graphs that enable cross-collection navigation and discovery, for advanced visualisations, and to populate a Wikibase for community heritage. As a dataset, it will also be incredibly valuable as the basis for further development of AI in particular, and digital innovation more broadly. |
| Title | OurHeritageOurStories / cgdc_annotations |
| Description | This GitHub repository hosts experimental data related to the accepted LaTeCH-CLfL 2024 paper titled: "Enriching the Metadata of Community-Generated Digital Content through Entity Linking: An Evaluative Comparison of State-of-the-Art Models" |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset allowed the project to showcase progress at conference proceedings. It will encourage peer review and further development of the model. |
| URL | https://github.com/OurHeritageOurStories/cgdc_annotations |
| Description | Collaboration on further project bid - Digital Humanities Data Hive: Accessing Humanities Data At Scale (funded by AHRC) |
| Organisation | Digital Preservation Coalition |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | During discussions with project partners, the need for further projects to develop digital humanities infrastructure became apparent. The Our Heritage, Our Stories research team therefore researched and wrote a funding proposal for a further scoping project investigating the current DH data landscape. The aim of this scoping project is to generate a business case and project plan for the Digital Humanities Data Hive that lays out its feasibility and high-level specification and addresses its value, challenges, barriers, opportunities, sustainability, and costs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners on Our Heritage, Our Stories contributed their expertise and insight on Digital Humanities data to produce and support this further funding proposal. Their detailed knowledge of the current DH data landscape, and its strengths and limitations, served to initially establish the need for further research. They also contributed their knowledge to the development and refinement of the proposal, ensuring the scoping project proposed would appropriately and comprehensively survey existing approaches and infrastructure. |
| Impact | A full project bid was produced by this collaboration with partners on Our Heritage, Our Stories. This bid was submitted to the AHRC's funding call 'Digital Research Infrastructure' in September 2021 and was successfully funded, with work on this project currently ongoing. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Collaboration on further project bid - Digital Humanities Data Hive: Accessing Humanities Data At Scale (funded by AHRC) |
| Organisation | National Library of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | During discussions with project partners, the need for further projects to develop digital humanities infrastructure became apparent. The Our Heritage, Our Stories research team therefore researched and wrote a funding proposal for a further scoping project investigating the current DH data landscape. The aim of this scoping project is to generate a business case and project plan for the Digital Humanities Data Hive that lays out its feasibility and high-level specification and addresses its value, challenges, barriers, opportunities, sustainability, and costs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners on Our Heritage, Our Stories contributed their expertise and insight on Digital Humanities data to produce and support this further funding proposal. Their detailed knowledge of the current DH data landscape, and its strengths and limitations, served to initially establish the need for further research. They also contributed their knowledge to the development and refinement of the proposal, ensuring the scoping project proposed would appropriately and comprehensively survey existing approaches and infrastructure. |
| Impact | A full project bid was produced by this collaboration with partners on Our Heritage, Our Stories. This bid was submitted to the AHRC's funding call 'Digital Research Infrastructure' in September 2021 and was successfully funded, with work on this project currently ongoing. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Collaboration on further project bid - Digital Humanities Data Hive: Accessing Humanities Data At Scale (funded by AHRC) |
| Organisation | National Library of Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | During discussions with project partners, the need for further projects to develop digital humanities infrastructure became apparent. The Our Heritage, Our Stories research team therefore researched and wrote a funding proposal for a further scoping project investigating the current DH data landscape. The aim of this scoping project is to generate a business case and project plan for the Digital Humanities Data Hive that lays out its feasibility and high-level specification and addresses its value, challenges, barriers, opportunities, sustainability, and costs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners on Our Heritage, Our Stories contributed their expertise and insight on Digital Humanities data to produce and support this further funding proposal. Their detailed knowledge of the current DH data landscape, and its strengths and limitations, served to initially establish the need for further research. They also contributed their knowledge to the development and refinement of the proposal, ensuring the scoping project proposed would appropriately and comprehensively survey existing approaches and infrastructure. |
| Impact | A full project bid was produced by this collaboration with partners on Our Heritage, Our Stories. This bid was submitted to the AHRC's funding call 'Digital Research Infrastructure' in September 2021 and was successfully funded, with work on this project currently ongoing. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | OHOS Community Fund Award Partnership - Endangered Materials Knowledge Programme at the British Museum |
| Organisation | British Museum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The research team have worked closely with the BM and EMKP to highlight areas of interest, directing the partnership by providing expertise and intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The EMKP team are providing their subject matter expertise and access to their facilities at the BM. |
| Impact | EMKP will directly contribute to the writing of the OHOS Post-Custodial model, a key output of the project. The output will be multidisciplinary, relying on museum studies, information studies, policy and best practice. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | OHOS Community Fund Award Partnership - Glasgow Disability Alliance |
| Organisation | Glasgow Disability Alliance |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The research team supported the research, development, and training of staff in applying for funding as part of the OHOS Community Fund. The expertise provided in the field of digital humanities allowed the partnership to be set up. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Glasgow Disability Alliance brought subject matter expertise and access to their wide ranging membership base, allowing for joint cooperation. |
| Impact | The Glasgow Disability Alliance are conducting two workshops on behalf of the OHOS project, where they are recording participants' reflections on their contributions to the GDA's Covid Art Archive. This feeds directly into the project's aims around self-archiving and skills sharing, at a value of £5000. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | OHOS Community Fund Award Partnership - Kinloch Historical Society |
| Organisation | Kinloch Historical Society |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The OHOS team have worked closely with the Kinloch Historical Society to highlight areas of interest, directing the partnership by providing expertise and intellectual input, and co-creating a digital workflow. The OHOS team conducted a two-day workshop with Kinloch Historical Society to provide training around digitising their collections, and exploring key issues including rights, GDPR and digital preservation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Kinloch Historical Society case-study has informed documentation the project will develop about managing and sustaining digital archives, and will be widely applicable to small, independent local archives. |
| Impact | Case-study including digital workflow which is widely applicabe to small, independent local archives. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | OHOS Community Fund Award Partnership - Manchester Histories |
| Organisation | Manchester Histories |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The OHOS team have worked closely with UHRW to highlight areas of interest, directing the partnership by providing expertise and intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Manchester Histories works with a broad range of community groups and archives and contributed to OHOS by scoping community heritage organisations in the North West of England, contributing to our understanding of data and metadata, and providing a number of case studies for our white papers. They also provided their extensive expertise to run workshops with community organisations, contributing to the development of the project's post-custodial model and facilitating greater collaboration with further community groups. |
| Impact | End of project report: https://zenodo.org/uploads/11221641 |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | OHOS and Surrey History Centre collaboration |
| Organisation | Surrey History Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The research team reached out to and started the engagement with the Surrey History Centre through events held in 2023. The research team raised potential ways of collaboration and benefits to the centre in taking part in a partnership with the OHOS project. Intellectual and subject matter expertise and development within the field of computational science, digital humanities, oral histories and archiving is being provided to the Surrey History Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Surrey History Centre are providing data sets for the OHOS project to work with, as well as subject matter expertise on their data set and what considerations should be made on their data. |
| Impact | Surrey History Centre metadata is being directly included in the technical pipeline in the OHOS project, helping to develop and inform the technical solutions required in the project. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories: Project Partnership |
| Organisation | Archives Plus |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The core project team has provided the intellectual expertise, initiative, and connections to allow the partnership to be set up. The research team has utilised existing connections to forge new partnerships, which have led to significant in-kind contributions across the project, far exceeding the funded amount provided by AHRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in turn have used their expertise and networks to facilitate discussions, produce project outputs directly related to the bid, and act as spokespeople for the project as a whole. |
| Impact | Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to 'take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual 'national collection' by dissolving barriers between different collections - opening UK heritage to the world'. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that. The project is multidisciplinary, pulling in expertise across the Higher Education sector in areas of Information Studies, Critical Studies, Oral History and Computer Science, and is working closely with Independent Research Organisations in museums and archives, to provide a broad and informed set of research outputs that will strengthen national collection of the UK. The project is creating outputs in the form of research datasets, AI NLP pipelines, workshops for dissemination, and a set of white papers that will be shared with policy makers to influence good practice. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories: Project Partnership |
| Organisation | Association for Learning Technology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The core project team has provided the intellectual expertise, initiative, and connections to allow the partnership to be set up. The research team has utilised existing connections to forge new partnerships, which have led to significant in-kind contributions across the project, far exceeding the funded amount provided by AHRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in turn have used their expertise and networks to facilitate discussions, produce project outputs directly related to the bid, and act as spokespeople for the project as a whole. |
| Impact | Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to 'take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual 'national collection' by dissolving barriers between different collections - opening UK heritage to the world'. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that. The project is multidisciplinary, pulling in expertise across the Higher Education sector in areas of Information Studies, Critical Studies, Oral History and Computer Science, and is working closely with Independent Research Organisations in museums and archives, to provide a broad and informed set of research outputs that will strengthen national collection of the UK. The project is creating outputs in the form of research datasets, AI NLP pipelines, workshops for dissemination, and a set of white papers that will be shared with policy makers to influence good practice. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories: Project Partnership |
| Organisation | Digital Preservation Coalition |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The core project team has provided the intellectual expertise, initiative, and connections to allow the partnership to be set up. The research team has utilised existing connections to forge new partnerships, which have led to significant in-kind contributions across the project, far exceeding the funded amount provided by AHRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in turn have used their expertise and networks to facilitate discussions, produce project outputs directly related to the bid, and act as spokespeople for the project as a whole. |
| Impact | Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to 'take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual 'national collection' by dissolving barriers between different collections - opening UK heritage to the world'. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that. The project is multidisciplinary, pulling in expertise across the Higher Education sector in areas of Information Studies, Critical Studies, Oral History and Computer Science, and is working closely with Independent Research Organisations in museums and archives, to provide a broad and informed set of research outputs that will strengthen national collection of the UK. The project is creating outputs in the form of research datasets, AI NLP pipelines, workshops for dissemination, and a set of white papers that will be shared with policy makers to influence good practice. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories: Project Partnership |
| Organisation | Manchester Histories |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The core project team has provided the intellectual expertise, initiative, and connections to allow the partnership to be set up. The research team has utilised existing connections to forge new partnerships, which have led to significant in-kind contributions across the project, far exceeding the funded amount provided by AHRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in turn have used their expertise and networks to facilitate discussions, produce project outputs directly related to the bid, and act as spokespeople for the project as a whole. |
| Impact | Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to 'take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual 'national collection' by dissolving barriers between different collections - opening UK heritage to the world'. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that. The project is multidisciplinary, pulling in expertise across the Higher Education sector in areas of Information Studies, Critical Studies, Oral History and Computer Science, and is working closely with Independent Research Organisations in museums and archives, to provide a broad and informed set of research outputs that will strengthen national collection of the UK. The project is creating outputs in the form of research datasets, AI NLP pipelines, workshops for dissemination, and a set of white papers that will be shared with policy makers to influence good practice. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories: Project Partnership |
| Organisation | National Library of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The core project team has provided the intellectual expertise, initiative, and connections to allow the partnership to be set up. The research team has utilised existing connections to forge new partnerships, which have led to significant in-kind contributions across the project, far exceeding the funded amount provided by AHRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in turn have used their expertise and networks to facilitate discussions, produce project outputs directly related to the bid, and act as spokespeople for the project as a whole. |
| Impact | Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to 'take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual 'national collection' by dissolving barriers between different collections - opening UK heritage to the world'. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that. The project is multidisciplinary, pulling in expertise across the Higher Education sector in areas of Information Studies, Critical Studies, Oral History and Computer Science, and is working closely with Independent Research Organisations in museums and archives, to provide a broad and informed set of research outputs that will strengthen national collection of the UK. The project is creating outputs in the form of research datasets, AI NLP pipelines, workshops for dissemination, and a set of white papers that will be shared with policy makers to influence good practice. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories: Project Partnership |
| Organisation | National Library of Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The core project team has provided the intellectual expertise, initiative, and connections to allow the partnership to be set up. The research team has utilised existing connections to forge new partnerships, which have led to significant in-kind contributions across the project, far exceeding the funded amount provided by AHRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in turn have used their expertise and networks to facilitate discussions, produce project outputs directly related to the bid, and act as spokespeople for the project as a whole. |
| Impact | Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to 'take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual 'national collection' by dissolving barriers between different collections - opening UK heritage to the world'. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that. The project is multidisciplinary, pulling in expertise across the Higher Education sector in areas of Information Studies, Critical Studies, Oral History and Computer Science, and is working closely with Independent Research Organisations in museums and archives, to provide a broad and informed set of research outputs that will strengthen national collection of the UK. The project is creating outputs in the form of research datasets, AI NLP pipelines, workshops for dissemination, and a set of white papers that will be shared with policy makers to influence good practice. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories: Project Partnership |
| Organisation | Public Record Office of Northern Ireland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The core project team has provided the intellectual expertise, initiative, and connections to allow the partnership to be set up. The research team has utilised existing connections to forge new partnerships, which have led to significant in-kind contributions across the project, far exceeding the funded amount provided by AHRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in turn have used their expertise and networks to facilitate discussions, produce project outputs directly related to the bid, and act as spokespeople for the project as a whole. |
| Impact | Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to 'take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual 'national collection' by dissolving barriers between different collections - opening UK heritage to the world'. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that. The project is multidisciplinary, pulling in expertise across the Higher Education sector in areas of Information Studies, Critical Studies, Oral History and Computer Science, and is working closely with Independent Research Organisations in museums and archives, to provide a broad and informed set of research outputs that will strengthen national collection of the UK. The project is creating outputs in the form of research datasets, AI NLP pipelines, workshops for dissemination, and a set of white papers that will be shared with policy makers to influence good practice. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories: Project Partnership |
| Organisation | Software Sustainability Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The core project team has provided the intellectual expertise, initiative, and connections to allow the partnership to be set up. The research team has utilised existing connections to forge new partnerships, which have led to significant in-kind contributions across the project, far exceeding the funded amount provided by AHRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in turn have used their expertise and networks to facilitate discussions, produce project outputs directly related to the bid, and act as spokespeople for the project as a whole. |
| Impact | Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to 'take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual 'national collection' by dissolving barriers between different collections - opening UK heritage to the world'. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that. The project is multidisciplinary, pulling in expertise across the Higher Education sector in areas of Information Studies, Critical Studies, Oral History and Computer Science, and is working closely with Independent Research Organisations in museums and archives, to provide a broad and informed set of research outputs that will strengthen national collection of the UK. The project is creating outputs in the form of research datasets, AI NLP pipelines, workshops for dissemination, and a set of white papers that will be shared with policy makers to influence good practice. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories: Project Partnership |
| Organisation | Tate |
| Department | Tate Modern, London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The core project team has provided the intellectual expertise, initiative, and connections to allow the partnership to be set up. The research team has utilised existing connections to forge new partnerships, which have led to significant in-kind contributions across the project, far exceeding the funded amount provided by AHRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in turn have used their expertise and networks to facilitate discussions, produce project outputs directly related to the bid, and act as spokespeople for the project as a whole. |
| Impact | Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to 'take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual 'national collection' by dissolving barriers between different collections - opening UK heritage to the world'. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that. The project is multidisciplinary, pulling in expertise across the Higher Education sector in areas of Information Studies, Critical Studies, Oral History and Computer Science, and is working closely with Independent Research Organisations in museums and archives, to provide a broad and informed set of research outputs that will strengthen national collection of the UK. The project is creating outputs in the form of research datasets, AI NLP pipelines, workshops for dissemination, and a set of white papers that will be shared with policy makers to influence good practice. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories: Project Partnership |
| Organisation | The National Archives |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The core project team has provided the intellectual expertise, initiative, and connections to allow the partnership to be set up. The research team has utilised existing connections to forge new partnerships, which have led to significant in-kind contributions across the project, far exceeding the funded amount provided by AHRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in turn have used their expertise and networks to facilitate discussions, produce project outputs directly related to the bid, and act as spokespeople for the project as a whole. |
| Impact | Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to 'take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual 'national collection' by dissolving barriers between different collections - opening UK heritage to the world'. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that. The project is multidisciplinary, pulling in expertise across the Higher Education sector in areas of Information Studies, Critical Studies, Oral History and Computer Science, and is working closely with Independent Research Organisations in museums and archives, to provide a broad and informed set of research outputs that will strengthen national collection of the UK. The project is creating outputs in the form of research datasets, AI NLP pipelines, workshops for dissemination, and a set of white papers that will be shared with policy makers to influence good practice. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories: Project Partnership |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Department | College of Arts |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The core project team has provided the intellectual expertise, initiative, and connections to allow the partnership to be set up. The research team has utilised existing connections to forge new partnerships, which have led to significant in-kind contributions across the project, far exceeding the funded amount provided by AHRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in turn have used their expertise and networks to facilitate discussions, produce project outputs directly related to the bid, and act as spokespeople for the project as a whole. |
| Impact | Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to 'take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual 'national collection' by dissolving barriers between different collections - opening UK heritage to the world'. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that. The project is multidisciplinary, pulling in expertise across the Higher Education sector in areas of Information Studies, Critical Studies, Oral History and Computer Science, and is working closely with Independent Research Organisations in museums and archives, to provide a broad and informed set of research outputs that will strengthen national collection of the UK. The project is creating outputs in the form of research datasets, AI NLP pipelines, workshops for dissemination, and a set of white papers that will be shared with policy makers to influence good practice. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories: Project Partnership |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Department | School of Computer Science |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The core project team has provided the intellectual expertise, initiative, and connections to allow the partnership to be set up. The research team has utilised existing connections to forge new partnerships, which have led to significant in-kind contributions across the project, far exceeding the funded amount provided by AHRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in turn have used their expertise and networks to facilitate discussions, produce project outputs directly related to the bid, and act as spokespeople for the project as a whole. |
| Impact | Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to 'take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual 'national collection' by dissolving barriers between different collections - opening UK heritage to the world'. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that. The project is multidisciplinary, pulling in expertise across the Higher Education sector in areas of Information Studies, Critical Studies, Oral History and Computer Science, and is working closely with Independent Research Organisations in museums and archives, to provide a broad and informed set of research outputs that will strengthen national collection of the UK. The project is creating outputs in the form of research datasets, AI NLP pipelines, workshops for dissemination, and a set of white papers that will be shared with policy makers to influence good practice. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories: Project Partnership |
| Organisation | Wikimedia UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The core project team has provided the intellectual expertise, initiative, and connections to allow the partnership to be set up. The research team has utilised existing connections to forge new partnerships, which have led to significant in-kind contributions across the project, far exceeding the funded amount provided by AHRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in turn have used their expertise and networks to facilitate discussions, produce project outputs directly related to the bid, and act as spokespeople for the project as a whole. |
| Impact | Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to 'take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual 'national collection' by dissolving barriers between different collections - opening UK heritage to the world'. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that. The project is multidisciplinary, pulling in expertise across the Higher Education sector in areas of Information Studies, Critical Studies, Oral History and Computer Science, and is working closely with Independent Research Organisations in museums and archives, to provide a broad and informed set of research outputs that will strengthen national collection of the UK. The project is creating outputs in the form of research datasets, AI NLP pipelines, workshops for dissemination, and a set of white papers that will be shared with policy makers to influence good practice. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Title | Observatory Interface v2 - Designs and wireframes |
| Description | A set of designs and wireframes for the Observatory user interface, comprising pages for View a record, Search, Search Results, Filtering, Home, About, T&Cs. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The interface is one of the main outputs of the OHOS project, and forms the main basis for interaction for the wider public. |
| Title | Observatory Interface v2 - Prototype |
| Description | A prototype for the OHOS output "the Observatory" so that users can access community generated enriched metadata. The user interface enables users to view, search, and filter community generated digital data. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The prototype signals a major step forward in OHOS realising its bid outputs, forming the main part of the technological requirement of the product. The prototype will be further refined and then publicly released ahead of the end of the project. |
| Title | Remixer v1 - Designs and wireframes |
| Description | A set of designs and wireframes for data visualisations for the Remixer. 1. A map visualisation showing the distribution and aggregation of location of CGDC data 2. A histogram visualisation to show the frequency and distribution of dates in CGDC data. 3. A frequency view of named entities extracted by the AI Lab's NLP pipeline |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | The designs and wireframes for the remixer tool has allowed the project to user test the capabilities of the Observatory software and further refine the designs with users. |
| Description | "Collections as corpora: Insights from Our Heritage, Our Stories" - Conference presentation at Corpus Linguistics 2023 international conference at University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented ongoing research on the Our Heritage, Our Stories project, discussing the value of community content for corpus linguistic research and how such materials might be best represented. Invited audience participation in the project through contributing community data to the research. Follow on discussions were held about a potential short monograph on the topic with the series editor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | "Community discourse and climate: Insights from Our Heritage, Our Stories" - Conference presentation at PALA 2023 international conference at University of Bologna, Bertinoro, Italy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented ongoing research on the Our Heritage, Our Stories project, discussing the potential influence of community content and wider social behaviours/impacts. Invited audience participation in the project through contributing community data to the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | "Integrating language varieties in the Our Heritage, Our Stories project" - Conference presentation at DDHUM 2023 international conference at University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented ongoing research on the Our Heritage, Our Stories project, discussing challenges of integrating community content into institutional frameworks and the benefits to humanities research of integrating such content. Invited audience participation in the project through contributing community data to the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | "Linguistic variation and institutional collections" - Conference presentation at Language & Power 2023 international conference at University of Münster, Münster, Germany. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented ongoing research on the Our Heritage, Our Stories project, discussing how to best represent linguistic variation in institutional collections. Invited audience participation in the project through contributing community data to the research. Questions and discussion arose from the talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | "Moira knows what you did" or Glasgow Disability Alliance Podcast Episode 2 for Our Heritage Our Stories |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Working with the Glasgow Disability Alliance's Digital Inclusion Manager, the OHOS team recorded a podcast featuring 7 CAA contributors. The participants discussed their work and the impacts of Covid on their lives, and the value of GDA's support through that time to the present. The podcast itself formed part of this digital archive. Reporting and evaluation from the GDA confirmed that the participants had improved confidence in their creative work and signed up to further digital and creative inclusion offerings (in line with their mission tagline: "Confident, Connected, Contributing". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mwaMu6cqqbgx9RoFR6EFf |
| Description | "Our stories, in our words: Exploring language varieties in the Our Heritage, Our Stories project" - Conference presentation at PALA 2022 conference at Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-De-Provence, France |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ongoing research on the Our Heritage, Our Stories project was presented to an audience of 30 linguists, describing attempts to link community data into the UK national collection, opening up this material to the public. It also discussed the benefits of a such public-facing resource for linguistic research and writers, and invited project participation from the audience in contributing community materials to this research and resource. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | A series of workshops at the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland focused on the OHOS Community Fund |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A series of workshops were held at the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland focused on the OHOS Community Fund, where invited charities, archives, third sector practitioners and professionals were invited to discuss future collaborations with the Our Heritage Our Stories Community Fund. Five different groups were invited in the first instance in discussion with PRONI (a main project partner). The day led to defining future collaborations and it is likely that some of these groups will join a formal collaboration with the project in the next few months. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Attendance and presentation of poster at the ADHO Digital Humanities 2023 Conference (DH2023), Graz |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Members of the research project attended and presented a poster on the OHOS project to the ADHO Digital Humanities 2023 Conference (DH2023). The conference took place in Graz, Austria, and is a digital humanities conference with Global reach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://dh2023.adho.org/ |
| Description | Being Human Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | With a small budget, teams of participants were challenged to find an object of note and bring it back to the Barras Hunt crew, comprised of volunteers from OHOS, the Pipe Factory, and Glasgow Building Preservation Trust. Working with the crew, the teams built their own stories around the objects, speculating on their connections to the local area, and took part in semi-structured interviews held by the OHOS team. The event built a guerilla community archive which explored hidden connections between objects found at the market and the iconic landmark of the Barras. 3D scans were then taken of the objects. The event upheld OHOS aims by providing a novel way to form and preserve a digital community archive, encouraging residents to consider their own attachments to local heritage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.thepipefactory.co.uk/event/being-human-festival-of-humanities |
| Description | CAHG Connecting Community Archives Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was designed to cover three topics which appealed to non-professional archiving audiences: Digital Sustainability, Best Practice, and Digital Archiving. Each presentation was followed by small breakout groups and feedback sessions. Before the workshop, groups were asked to comment on the details of their collection, and what they hoped to achieve from the day; this was used to build the specifics of the activities. The outcomes from the workshop informed the design of a series of webinars (Nov '24-Jan '25) which support the needs of community archive and heritage groups in setting up or maintaining a digital archive. This event upheld OHOS aims by encouraging connection between smaller community archives, empowering them to skills share about sustainable digital archiving, and digitally preserving their materials. The archives represented hold CGDC as varied as recordings of memories of moving from Kingston, Jamaica to Edinburgh in the mid-winter, to scanned negatives of the artwork of Sandra George, who worked with at-risk youth groups in the city. Thus these archives provide crucial to the preservation of largely untold narratives of the citizens of Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://ohos.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Connecting-Community-Archives-CAHG-Report.pdf |
| Description | Community Archives and Heritage Group Conference - 'Community Archives, Keeping Community at the Heart of Archives and Heritage', |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This large conference brought together various speakers from local authority archives, community archives and related community heritage groups across the UK. The presentations explored the role communities have in creating (digital) archival materials, and the steps that must be taken to preserve these. It became clear throughout that the reasons for attendance for some community groups will contrast with archivists or even other community archives depend on their own unique and varied experiences, problems, and priorities. Participants in the event routinely referenced the work of OHOS and its usefulness in skills-sharing and highlighting the issues faced. The keynote was delivered by OHOS team member and Digital Preservation Coalition representative, Karyn Williamson, who outlined the changes that have been occurring in the sector's relationship with CGDC over several decades. Now, separation between community and mainstream archives is not viable, and a change in mindset is required for collaboration to become the norm. Karyn highlighted the contribution the OHOS project has made to changing this mindset by demonstrating that consistent support when preserving CDGC is possible and extremely worthwhile. Overall, gaining different perspectives from trained archivists and members of community heritage groups was invaluable to the OHOS team, proving the efficacy of collaborative discussions and the urgent need for unification across the sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.communityarchives.org.uk/content/category/conference/2024-conference |
| Description | ContemporarY Ontologies for Digital Archives (YODA) Workshop |
| 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 | This workshop's aims were to foster interdisciplinary collaboration with the aim of preserving CGDC. Participants had in-depth discussion about the integration of linguistic models and the importance of data standards. The OHOS team's aims for the workshop were successfully met, highlighting the successes of the project's Relation Extraction model and the importance of interdisciplinary expertise in linked data approaches |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14562820 |
| Description | Discussion panel: Masterpiece International Art Fair Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Masterpiece International Art Fair themed its symposium on Museums, Research and Discovery. Its panel on Modes of Discovery focussed sharing data between institutions and with the public can lead to types of discovery that might not otherwise be possible. My contribution to the discussion explored collaboration between collections, provenance, public participation in research, how technologies such as machine learning, computer vision and crowdsourcing platforms can generate new ways of understanding and interacting with collections, and how community-generated digital content can be linked to established collections. 70 people attended the online panel and break-out sessions afterwards. The organisers reported a high level of engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvduGhrD8iGNONAcct528BGY8dMI9ejcDO |
| Description | Endangered Materials Knowledge Programme (EMKP), British Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EMKP hosted members of OHOS and the Digital Preservation Coalition at the British Museum, to discuss community needs around documentation of CGDC. Post-custodial archiving was at the forefront of the discussion as this approach is also used by EMKP who challenge traditional heritage value systems, prioritise community voices and encourage project partners to retain their autonomy throughout collaboration. This in turn allows EMKP to work with a myriad of different priorities, ontologies and cultural values that would have otherwise remained unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/uploads/14754922 |
| Description | Engagement and co-design sessions for the Observatory Interface, pipeline, and data governance models with community archive partners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A series of workshops were organised by the research team over the course of one week, where subject matter experts were able to present, show, and update archive collaborators on project progress. The workshop sessions emphasised future opportunities of working together and took onboard initial feedback to shown data models, interfaces, and other project updates. Following the sessions, agreement was reached on the right to publish data in the project interfaces. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Glasgow Artists Moving Image Studios (GAMIS) Workshop. 'The Ground is Not Unchanging' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Artist/filmmaker Mina Heydari-Waite and 16 mm specialist Lydia Beilby led a series of workshops, filmmaking classes, and exhibitions under the title "The Ground Is Not Unchanging". For the workshop, diverse participants chosen by application engaged in a guided discussion about their own familial and community archives. The group then worked together to make a short film on 16 mm about the workshop's "living archive" of objects--- materials participants were asked to bring, which were meaningful to them under the themes of migration, loss, and home. The workshop upheld OHOS aims to investigate the different types of community archives and CGDC that exist within the UK, and in this instance foregrounded individuals with experiences of racism, forced migration, gender-based violence and poverty. The workshop also taught participants about the Post-Custodial Model of archiving and gave them experience working with 16 mm film which is costly and unlikely to be accessible to early career artists. Finally, the film has been scanned and archived at the archives of the hosting organisation, Offline. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://offline-glasgow.org/2024/06/30/the-ground-is-not-unchanging/ |
| Description | Glasgow Building Preservation Trust (GBPT) Workshops + Wikiwalks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with OHOS and two other special interest groups (GDA and Migrant Voices), GBPT arranged Wiki Walk workshops. These encouraged participants to capture images across the city while addressing geographic gaps, specific buildings and monuments. These were then reviewed, selected and uploaded by participants onto Wikimedia Commons, who learned how to document their own views on the city, including metadata and quality descriptions. An instructional film was created as a final output with Wikimedia. As a follow-on, GBPT will be hosting an exhibition of the groups' work at the Centre for Creative Arts and during Glasgow Open Days Festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ohos.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GBPT-Report-Wikiwalks.pdf |
| Description | Glasgow Disability Alliance Workshop + Podcast Recording 2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The OHOS team and GDA reunited to record a second episode of the podcast. With a brand-new panel of participants, the workshop built on the previous workshop to great effect. For example, one participant discussed how differently his poetry could be interpreted when it is read aloud; a preservation challenge, then, of how to maintain written and oral creative work. The workshop was an important way to expose the content and bring its creators together to share their experiences. In this way, the podcast fulfilled the OHOS brief to work with community groups to truly understand their material and its specific preservation challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14756744 |
| Description | Glasgow Disability Allicance (GDA) Workshop + Podcast Recording 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop augmented the Glasgow Disability Alliance's digital Covid Art Archive (CAA) with a reflection on the work, several years on. Hundreds of the Glasgow Disability Alliance's members submitted multimedia creative work to the Archive, which reflected disabled people's experience of the pandemic at a grassroots level. This work was created by members of the GDA either through their own practice, or during online creative workshops held over Zoom during lockdown. The Covid Art Archive is a gold standard of CGDC: truly community-led, layered, and portraying the genuine, varied and frequently unheard viewpoints of individuals who were some of the most affected by the pandemic. The CGDC is made up of poetry, 2D and 3D artwork, songs (both written and recorded), short stories and essays. The GDA have preserved all submissions digitally, and preserved select hardcopy pieces in their offices for exhibition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14756798 |
| Description | Invited presentation by Prof Hughes at the 'Digital Authoring of the Berlin Collections in the Library - Challenges and Perspectives' conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Lorna Hughes gave an invited presentation at the 'Digital Authoring of the Berlin Collections in the Library - Challenges and Perspectives' conference, hosted at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. The talk was named "Re-assessing the digitization lifecycle: digital humanities research and practice in cultural heritage digital projects". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://en.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/news/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_SxA5QO0R5BDs/81541894/154885498 |
| Description | Invited presentation by Prof Lorna Hughes at the University of Michigan Digital Humanities Center: "Linking, sharing and using community generated digital content: using and sustaining citizen histories" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Lorna Hughes gave an invited presentation at the University of Michigan Digital Humanities Center, titled "Linking, sharing and using community generated digital content: using and sustaining citizen histories". The talk led to networking opportunities and further chances to explore the topics of the Our Heritage, Our Stories project which was just beginning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Keynote at the Oxford University Digital Humanities Summer School: "One step up: using digital humanities to bring community generated digital content into a national collection" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Lorna Hughes gave the opening keynote speech at the Oxford University Digital Humanities Summer School, titled "One step up: using digital humanities to bring community generated digital content into a national collection". The speech was an opportunity to highlight the research undertaken by the Our Heritage, Our Stories project and led to further visible and interest in the project outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/main-programme.pdf |
| Description | Keynote lecture for Maltese national project launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pip Willcox, Head of Research at The National Archives, delivered the keynote lecture at the launch of Memorja, the National Oral Sound and Vision archive in Malta. The lecture explored digital public engagement with archival collections, including through citizen research and through co-designing automated methods of linking community-generated digital content to more established collections. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://nationalarchives.gov.mt/en/Pages/Memorja.aspx |
| Description | Keynote talk at the TaNC final conference titled 'Lost in the flood: Finding and using CGDC' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote Talk by Prof Lorna Hughes at the TaNC final conference in Manchester. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/events/conference/towards-national-collection-two-day-conferen... |
| Description | Kinloch Historical Society Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | OHOS met with members of the team at Kinloch Historical Society as part of a process of co-production of a full digital lifecycle for the Community Generated Digital Content (CDGC) held by the Kinloch Historical Society in Balallan, Isle of Lewis. This was designed to be open to community and volunteer input at each stage in the digital lifecycle: selection, digitisation, description, preservation, and use, enabling a sustainable model for creating a community held digital archive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ohos.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Kinloch-Historical-Society-Workshop-Schedule.pdf |
| Description | Manchester Histories/Archives+ workshop series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Manchester Histories hosted four workshops facilitated by their Community Archivist to reveal, share, and celebrate the diverse histories and heritage of Greater Manchester, by exploring various approaches local communities take when dealing with their CGDC. The archive partners were Manchester Hip Hop Archives, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, Friends of Platt Fields, and Manchester Digital Music Archive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14731287 |
| Description | Mellon Centre for Migration Studies + Rural Community Network workshop series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies worked alongside the Rural Community Network to host an outreach and development workshop in December 2024, bringing together migrant and rural communities from across Northern Ireland to discuss and undertake CGDC creation activities on the theme of Home. A final showcase event took place in January 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14775797 |
| Description | Morrab Library and archives visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop with the Morrab Library cemented the collaboration and allowed members of the research team to meet with community archive staff and volunteers in person, to see the archive set up discuss formal next steps. The workshop focused their photo archive where the digitisation equipment is housed. The research team were further able to collect data for inputting into the OHOS AI pipeline. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | National Library Scotland Workshop - Connecting Community Archives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In conjunction with the Community Archives and Heritage Group (CAHG) the NLS hosted a workshop with heritage professionals and community archives from across Scotland. At Kelvinhall, NLS staff presented case studies they have prepared for OHOS on examples of community archives that have been supported and co-developed with NLS. These included Our Stories Scotland, The Tape Letters Project, and Cinema Sgire. Presentations by representatives from Govanhill Baths and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) discussed their own challenges and successes with archiving stories of their own growth and the communities they serve. A larger discussion was held with all attendees, guided to ensure the aim of the workshop was met: to share recent experience of collecting, preserving and providing access to community-generated digital archives/collections. Topics included diverse and novel funding streams, the complications of proprietary systems, Digital Improvement Districts, and ethical consumption guidelines. Outcomes included the production of several case studies for OHOS white papers, and a strengthened connection with CAHG (leading to further events and webinars for the project). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14718323 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 10A: Association for Learning Technology (ALT): Community Heritage and Copyright and post custodial tools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ALT and OHOS co-designed ALT's input to OHOS, through the provision of expert input to key sections of OHOS deliverables relating to community heritage, including expertise on copyright and rights management of CGDC in the post-custodial toolkit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 11: BYO CGDC Datathon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Originally intended as a single event where archives would bring their data, due to long-term effects on the sector by covid and the lack of readily available material for the OHOS AI pipeline in MYC/collaborating institutions, this was replaced by one-to-one data-gathering exercises with community archives that through close collaboration and engagement with the project decided to include their cataloguing metadata into the creation and development of the Observatory. W11A BYO CGDC Datathon - Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre W11B BYO CGDC Datathon - Sharing Wycombe's Old Photographs W11C BYO CGDC Datathon - Surrey History Centre W11D BYO CGDC Datathon - People's Collection Wales W11E BYO CGDC Datathon - The Morrab Library W11F BYO CGDC Datathon - CAIN Archive |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 12A: OHOS final symposium World Digital Preservation Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | OHOS final symposium, held in conjunction with the Digital Preservation Coalition. This event launched and celebrated the OHOS post-custodial archival outputs, which will be sustained over the long term. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.dpconline.org/news/save-the-date-wdpd-2024 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 12B: OHOS final symposium Being Human Festival Community Fund Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | OHOS worked with the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust and The Pipe Factory to host 'Barras Hunt' at Being Human, the UK's premier Arts and Humanities festival. Participants formed teams to purchase an object from the Barras market which they felt told a story about Glasgow. This formed a guerilla archive. Volunteers from all three organisations explained how everyone can form their own archive and gave a basic introduction to how to begin to (digitally) preserve theirs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.thepipefactory.co.uk/event/being-human-festival-of-humanities |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 1: Project Start-Up |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kick-off workshop to introduce project team in person and discuss project roadmap, including tasks, roles, deliverables, and milestones. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14562769 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 2A: CGDC Producers (Connecting Community Archives) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In conjunction with the Community Archives Heritage Group (CAHG), the National Library of Scotland hosted an event targeted at organiser groups within the sphere of community archiving in Scotland with a focus on case studies. Participating organisations included: Glasgow Zine Library, Paisley Heritage, Cupar Museum, Govanhill Baths, Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive, and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Stornoway. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14718323 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 2B: CGDC Producers (What is the Future of CGDC?) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An open event hosted by PRONI and targeted at community groups that hold digital archival material, focused on the current landscape in Northern Ireland and what challenges exist and what solutions could solve them. The workshop brought together over 80 of Northern and the Republic of Ireland's heritage groups to discuss the future of CGDC. With a focus on the specifics of the Irish context, participants were guided through Mentimeter activities to capture their answers to diverse questions on CGDC, and the barriers faced by smaller heritage organisations to digitising their materials, sustainably. Presentations were given by staff from PRONI, the Digital Preservation coalition, OHOS, the Prisons Memory Archive, the CollabArchive, and National Heritage Lottery Fund. Ample networking time also influenced a Mission Statement, published on the PRONI website. The event upheld OHOS aims by investigating the fragility of CGDC across often underrepresented community groups, and empowering organisations to improve its sustainability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14753595 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 3: Evaluating Reuse |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was originally intended to solely focus on how CGDC was (re)used across users, researchers, and producers, and how this fed into project outputs. However, clear differences in project visions meant this workshop primarily focused on aligning understanding of the project aims, objectives, and outputs between the HEIs and our lead IRO partner. This was conducted within a facilitated workshop kicking off our second year on the project, aligning project vision and shared understanding of project goals/outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14718323 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 4: Remixing Tools for CGDC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Exploratory workshop looking at varying approaches to the 'remixing' (i.e. the presentation, analysis, and comparison) of CGDC across diverse archives, materials, and audiences. Conducted as an internal workshop for project team members to discuss visualisation tools for the Observatory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14562810 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 5: Historian Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collaboration-centred event involving local and institutional historians, developing project networks, furthering co-design approach, and informing design of historian-focused elements of the project. Run with Manchester Histories/Archives +. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14731287 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 6A: Post-custodial approaches (Panel discussion at iPres 2024 International Conference on Digital Preservation) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Emerging from the work the project has done through exploring the challenges of sustaining a large number of small-scale, community-based digitisation initiatives, the panel introduced and reviewed post-custodial models of digital preservation and set them in a global perspective. It facilitated a pre-recorded panel made up of community groups, ensuring that they were represented in the discussion. This provoked comment from the in-person panel of practitioners from different contexts, including from Aotearoa / New Zealand where data sovereignty principles have been impactful in the protection of land, culture and knowledge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 6B: Post-custodial approaches (Capturing Language and Dialects and Post-Custodial Practice) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Structured interviews and feedback from the Prisons Memory Archive (PMA), discussing the specifics of building an archive on the lived experience of prisoners at Armagh Gaol and Maze and Long Kesh, Northern Ireland. The holders of the archive also discussed the benefits and challenges of recording material in Gaelic and in the prison's situation-specific dialects. Also, workshop input from Leas Pavillion Archive. This activity contributed to OHOS/W6's aim of developing a post-custodial model for the curation and management of CGDC, via input from diverse stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 7: AI pipeline: Producers & Users |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Day-long workshop held in collaboration with People's Collection Wales, National Library of Wales and Wikimedia to present the OHOS AI pipeline, to discuss the possibilities of future use, management and engagement with the Wikibase by community groups, to identify metadata challenges and technology needs and to co-create approaches to using the OHOS AI pipeline and Wikibase in standalone, sustainable ways to support community heritage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 8A: Ethics & Data Sharing Models workshop (Attendance at TaNC Ethics Workshop) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to TaNC's Ethics workshop, which brought together representatives from the Discovery Projects and the TaNC programme Directorate to discuss how ethics are woven into the structures of the projects and share common learnings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 8B: Ethics & Data Sharing Models (Tate focus groups sessions) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Three focus groups aimed to prepare for the public workshop in May 2024, allowing the project team to garner probable themes and learnings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 8C: Ethics and data sharing models workshop Tate festival (The Archive is a Gathering Place) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A two-day festival called 'The Archive is a Gathering Place' for the public and Tate networks to discuss and consider that approaches should be included in a truly ethical framework toward the inclusion of historically marginalised materials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14750338 |
| Description | OHOS Workshop 9: Language data and Wikidata |
| 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 | This workshop focused on the theme of language data, data ontologies, and digital archives, including reflections on the OHOS project's research around integrating linguistic resources and Wikidata into the processing of CGDC. The hybrid event took the form of a series of talks, followed by a group discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14562820 |
| Description | OHOS dialogue and collaboration with Glasgow Artists Moving Image Studios for the OHOS Community Fund |
| 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 | The OHOS project are engaging with the Glasgow Artists Moving Image Studio to run skills sharing and heritage workshops on their High-8 archive of family footage in Iran and the UK. These workshops will hopefully lead to a defined partnership where funding it given to the organisation to contribute to the wider OHOS aims and goals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | OHOS workshop 10B: Community Archives and Heritage Group Conference and post custodial tools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A collection of archives and heritage professionals presented papers on "keeping community at the heart" of archives and heritage, developing a working group to deliver a series of webinars and scope a Connecting Communities workshop and showcase for heritage professionals, community archives and academics to celebrate and share resources in contemporary archiving practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Ongoing discussion with the Community Archives and Heritage Group (CAHG) Scotland |
| 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 | Our Heritage Our Stories has been engaging with Community Archives and Heritage Group (CAHG) Scotland to find, connect with, and engage with community groups in Scotland. The discussion is facilitating the linking to other heritage organisations in Scotland and beyond, and is likely to lead to formal partnerships in the last year of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023,2024 |
| Description | Our Heritage Our Stories project website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An academic domain was registered to host a project information website - ohos.ac.uk. This website features a project summary, information on project team members, and information on project events. This website will be regularly updated with engagement activities as these take place throughout the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | http://www.ohos.ac.uk |
| Description | Our Heritage, Our Stories project page |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The OHOS project set up our main project webpage, which is also the main hub for our blog posts, our open call for our community fund, and where all inbound enquiries are engaged with. The website will remain live for at least 3 years after the end of the project, and is estimated to have international reach of over 500 people in the course of its lifetime. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023,2024 |
| URL | https://ohos.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Outer Hebrides Heritage Forum Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A half-day workshop with the OHHF, who are an umbrella organisation for community heritage groups in the Outer Hebrides. The workshop discussed the practicalities of digital archiving and preservation. The event provided an opportunity for OHOS to hear direct experience and expertise of the community heritage collections and organisations in attendance, with a particular focus on digital heritage. The group discussed what has been digitised, and how community generated heritage materials can be made digitally available. OHOS was able to better understand how digitisation is implemented in these organisations, and explore the challenges the groups face such as volunteer fatigue, succession planning, funding, changes in technology and cataloguing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ohos.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Kinloch-Historical-Society-Workshop-Schedule.pdf |
| Description | PRONI workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop brought together over 80 of Northern and the Republic of Ireland's heritage groups to discuss the future of CGDC. With a focus on the specifics of the Irish context, participants were guided through Mentimeter activities to capture their answers to diverse questions on CGDC, and the barriers faced by smaller heritage organisations to digitising their materials, sustainably. Presentations were given by staff from PRONI, the Digital Preservation coalition, OHOS, the Prisons Memory Archive, the CollabArchive, and National Heritage Lottery Fund. Ample networking time also influenced a Mission Statement, published on the PRONI website. The event upheld OHOS aims by investigating the fragility of CGDC across often underrepresented community groups, and empowering organisations to improve its sustainability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14753595 |
| Description | Panel discussion about creative industry innovation and OHOS outputs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel about creative industry innovation and OHOS outputs at the BEYOND 2024 conference at the University of Manchester. OHOS also showcased the AI pipeline and its outputs, including visualisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://beyondconference.org/ |
| Description | Participation on behalf of the OHOS project at the Manchester Histories consultation event titled "Lets talk Digital Histories, OHOS and Manchester Histories" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Members of the research team participated in a community archives consultation event, titled 'Lets talk Digital Histories, OHOS and Manchester Histories,' on 24 May 2023, at Manchester Central Library. OHOS did a short talk on project titled 'Our Heritage, Our Stories', with a focus on conversation about digital heritage with attendees. 6 attendees including representatives of local heritage groups, amateur historians and professionals working for Manchester Histories and Manchester City Council. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at "Considering research and data ethics across the TaNC (Towards a National Collection) Discovery projects" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Members of the OHOS research team presented at "Considering research and data ethics across the TaNC (Towards a National Collection) Discovery projects", hosted by the TaNC programme to explore ethical considerations across the programme. It was hosted at the Wellcome Trust in London. The presentation was multidisciplinary in nature, providing an overview on the project's approach to interviews and post custodial methods, ethical use of community generated digital content from an oral history perspective, and how to set up an ethical data framework for the project. The talk led to further discussions and consideration of the ethical use of this material within research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation at History and Archives in Practice 2023, titled "Our Heritage, Our Stories" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Members of the research team presented a the History and Archives in Practice 2023 conference as part of a theme on digitising archives and collections. The conference was attended by academics and heritage practitioners and led to wider visibility on the project and its aims. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://royalhistsoc.org/events/rhs-events-programme-2023/history-and-archives-in-practice-2023/ |
| Description | Presentation at the 7th edition of Workshop on Deep Learning and Large Language Models for Knowledge Graphs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation titled 'Relation Extraction for Constructing Knowledge Graphs: Enhancing the Searchability of Community-Generated Digital Content (CGDC) Collections' at the Workshop on Deep Learning and Large Language Models for Knowledge Graphs in Barcelona, Spain. This paper explored using a zero-shot relation extraction approach to build knowledge graphs from CGDC archives. We used transformer based models like DeBERTa, BART, and T5 to identify 20 relation types from Wikidata, offering a method to improve the searchability of CGDC archives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://genetasefa.github.io/dl4kg2024/ |
| Description | Presentation at the All-Party Parliamentary Committee on Archives, Westminster: "Our Heritage Our stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A presentation was given by Prof Lorna Hughes to the All-Party Parliamentary Committee on Archives at Westminster, titled "Our Heritage Our stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at the Cultural Data Analytics Conference 2023, titled "Integrating community-generated digital content into the UK National Collection" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Members of the research team gave a presentation at the Cultural Data Analytics Conference 2023 conference in Tallin, Estonia, titled "Integrating community-generated digital content into the UK National Collection". The presentation was an opportunity to highlight the technical work the project is undertaking to a wide international audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://cudan.tlu.ee/conference/ |
| Description | Presentation at the DiHeLib Conference titled 'AI and Metadata: lessons learned from the AHRC Our Heritage Our Stories Towards a National Collection Project' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by OHOS PI Lorna Hughes at the DiHeLib Conference at the Jagielloian University, Krakow. The talk launched the OHOS project outputs to an international audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://dihelib.id.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/aktualnosci/konferencje |
| Description | Presentation at the Formal Ontology in Information Systems conference titled 'Refining predicates for relation extraction through Thesaurus integration' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The presentation focused on how thesaurus-based predicates can help refine relation extraction techniques for community-generated digital content. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/ |
| Description | Presentation at the ICAME45 conference titled 'Collecting dialects: institutional collections, community archives, and linguistic diversity' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the ICAME45 conference in Vigo (Spain) on the diversification of linguistic resources using community-generated digital content. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://icame.info/icame-45-june-2024/ |
| Description | Presentation at the IMGA Congress of Maritime History titled 'Remembering the Fishing: Commemorating Coastal Communities Online' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk focused on the value of community-generated digital content as source material for maritime historians interested in the history of coastal communities and memories of deindustrialisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ima-e.imweb.me/19/?q=YToxOntzOjEyOiJrZXl3b3JkX3R5cGUiO3M6MzoiYWxsIjt9&bmode=view&idx=1211883... |
| Description | Presentation at the LaTeCH-CLfL 2024 conference titled Enriching the Metadata of Community-Generated Digital Content through Entity Linking: An Evaluative Comparison of State-of-the-Art Models |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation was given to 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature in St Julian's, Malta, titled "Enriching the Metadata of Community-Generated Digital Content through Entity Linking: An Evaluative Comparison of State-of-the-Art Models". The presentation was an opportunity to present the project's findings to academic peers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2024/ |
| Description | Presentation at the PALA2024 conference titled 'Linguistics, AI, and Archives: Hybrid approaches on the Our Heritage, Our Stories project' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on hybrid approaches developed collaboratively by the linguistic and computer science teams on the OHOS project to improve NLP approaches to understanding the discourse of community archival materials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.pala2024.com/pala2024/ |
| Description | Presentation at the TaNC Webinar: Language & Access. Machine Learning for Digital Collections titled "Unlocking community-generated digital content" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation was given as part of the TaNC Webinar: Language & Access. Machine Learning for Digital Collections titled "Unlocking community-generated digital content" where themes related to the technical pipeline of the project were explored. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tanc-webinar-language-access-machine-learning-for-digital-collections... |
| Description | Presentation at the Working Class Association Conference titled 'Black and Asian Stories of Working Class Community' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk focused on the value of CGDC as a source for exploring the history of race relations in working-class communities in 20th-century Britain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation at the international Digital Humanities conference titled 'One step up: the importance of failure in a large-scale DH project at the crossroads of disciplines and institutions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the OHOS project, the nature of multi-institutional work and on the importance of discussing and celebrating organisational challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://dh2024.adho.org/ |
| Description | Presentation given at the Family Archives and their Afterlives conference, titled "Our Heritage, Our Stories" and the Postmemory of the Second World War |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation was given at the Family Archives and their Afterlives, 1400-present conference, titled "Our Heritage, Our Stories" and the Postmemory of the Second World War. The presentation led to wider exposure of the OHOS project to an academic audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/historycultures/departments/history/events/2023/family-archives... |
| Description | Presentation given at the Our History Society Conference 2023 "Our Heritage, Our Stories: bringing community (oral) histories to the centre of the national collection" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation was given by members of the research team at the Our History Society conference 2023, titled "Our Heritage, Our Stories: bringing community (oral) histories to the centre of the national collection". The conference was attended by academics, public historians and amateur historians from the general public and created a useful space for interaction and networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ohs.org.uk/events/making-histories-together-2023-annual-conference-of-the-oral-history-s... |
| Description | Prof Hughes Paper Presentation at Sheffield Digital Humanities Conference: "Our Heritage, Our Stories: Methods and models for working with Community-Generated Digital Content" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Lorna Hughes gave a paper presentation at the Sheffield Digital Humanities Conference, titled "Our Heritage, Our Stories: Methods and models for working with Community-Generated Digital Content". The talk explored the Our Heritage, Our Stories project and led to wider visible about the project and its aims. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Social Media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The project's Twitter account is the primary interactive means of engaging the public with our activities. It has been used to consolidate our network of researchers, collection users, and information and heritage professionals: it is a platform for sharing ideas and knowledge about the activities of OHOS and the wider 'Towards a National Collection' programme. Additionally, information about research and public events will be advertised via our social media platform. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/OHOS_NatColl |
| Description | Tate workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An ambitious programme of events, The Archive is a Gathering Place was held at Tate, after a series of focus groups with artists, practitioners, and community organisers. This programme builds on Tate's earlier work with community-driven collections, such as the Panchayat Collection. Day One consisted of a series of chaired panels with a broad range of participants, including archivists, artists, and activists from the communities featured in the archives. Day Two was more interactive, allowing visitors to engage in activities such as pamphlet making and a live digitisation workshop. The programme successfully engaged a highly diverse range of practitioners from across Europe, the UK and North America, and included representatives from personal artist's archives to significantly larger collections. The festival upheld OHOS aims by encouraging interdisciplinary skills sharing and acquisition, highlighting underrepresented community archives, and promoting the preservation of CGDC in novel ways. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14750338 |
| Description | Taylor Swift, aye" or Glasgow Disability Alliance Podcast Series Episode 2: Electric Boogaloo for Our Heritage, Our Stories |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The OHOS team and GDA reunited to record a second episode of the OHOS podcast. With a brand-new panel of participants, the workshop built on the previous workshop to great effect. For example, one participant discussed how differently his poetry could be interpreted when it is read aloud; a preservation challenge, then, of how to maintain written and oral creative work. The workshop was an important way to expose the content and bring its creators together to share their experiences. In this way, the podcast fulfilled the OHOS brief to work with community groups to truly understand their material and its specific preservation challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QE0G4ACSNBR0p46mXyyQc |
| Description | The John & Pat Hume Foundation - Quiet Peacebuilders Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Through their collaboration with OHOS, The John & Pat Hume Foundation were able to digitise 34 original tape recordings made by author Barry White from his discussion with John Hume, which are being curated for release in August 2025 to coincide with the fifth anniversary of John Hume's passing. In November 2024, John & Pat Hume also hosted an event to recognise the role of the Quiet Peacebuilders, everyday peace makers who have made a difference in relation to peace and reconciliation in their streets and communities. A video from each of the individual peacebuilders were recorded and have been published on the Hume Foundation website. Each individual message has been planned to be published on their social media channels to coincide with John Hume 87th birthday on 18 January 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9zXBBGMMXw&t=2s |
| Description | The Pipe Factory Business Archives Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | For volunteers of the Pipe Factory, OHOS facilitated an Introduction to Business Archives session through the Scottish Business Collection based at the University of Glasgow to refine the volunteer's skills and prepare them for their upcoming digital archival projects. The Pipe Factory were also the hosts for the OHOS contribution to the Being Human Festival 2024, with the community event 'Barras Hunt' (09/11/24). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.thepipefactory.co.uk/ |
| Description | Welsh Centre for International Affairs (WCIA) Archiveathon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | WCIA facilitated an Archiveathon to co-create and review WCIA's digital 'Peace Heritage' resources and assess the lifecycle of their creation and preservation. The event involved student and community volunteers. This kicked off a wider Welsh programme of Archiveathons held in May-Sept 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Workshop to kick-start the Extracting Keywords from Crowdsourced Collections project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Youcef Benkhedda from the AI Lab participated in a focused discussion around the potential scope for collaboration, research opportunities, and potential value/impact of a research project titled 'Extracting Keywords from Crowdsourced Collections', which is based at the University of Oxford, runs until July 2025 and aims to explore how AI might be used to enhance keyword extraction for online collections, focusing on the Their Finest Hour Online Archive. Youcef contributed by sharing insights from OHOS and suggesting entity linking approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Workshops and dialogue with OHOS and the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A dialogue and working relationship has been established between the OHOS project and the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust (GBPT). The dialogue has led to partnerships being established on GBPT's recommendation and led to direct reporting outputs for the OHOS team. There are also ongoing discussions about formalising the collaboration to allow GBPT to take part in the OHOS Community Fund award, expected in April 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| Description | World Digital Preservation Day - London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | World Digital Preservation Day 2024 saw the launch of the DPC's "Digital Preservation Toolkit for Community Archives", produced by DPC staff with input from OHOS. This toolkit was created to empower community archives in managing and preserving their digital heritage. The Community Archives Digital Preservation Toolkit delivered the projects aims and objectives by providing a practical resource with guidance tailored specifically for community groups, no matter where they are on their digital preservation journey. By adopting a post-custodial approach to digital preservation, the toolkit emphasises collaborative practices, encouraging communities to take ownership of their digital collections while ensuring long-term access and preservation. Overall, its launch on World Digital Preservation Day highlighted the importance of supporting local archives in their preservation efforts, fostering a collective responsibility toward safeguarding cultural heritage in the digital age. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/implement-digipres/community-archives-dp-toolkit |
| Description | iPres Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This major conference saw a panel of OHOS and DPC representatives review post-custodial models of digital preservation and set them in a global perspective. Joined by colleagues from Te Puna Ma¯tauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand, the paper provoked comment from practitioners from different contexts, including from Aotearoa / New Zealand where data sovereignty principles have been impactful in the protection of land, culture and knowledge. It was also important that the voice of the community archives was included. The panel included, Our Stories Scotland, Historic Dunkeld, Assynt Community Trust, Crammond Heritage and Community Land Trust. Since OHOS produced a wide range of outputs documenting the landscape of CGDC, the panel was intended to gather data in order to find out who is creating content and why, barriers they're facing, and how the post-custodial theory and framework would fit into this. This would further contribute to discussions around community archives and gain a better understanding of the post-custodial approach used by community organisations by asking them whether this is the approach they want, whether they want to keep their records or whether they would rather have an established archive hold these. The panel was also conducted to give a global perspective on the subject as well as facilitate opportunity to collaborate in future work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ipres2024.pubpub.org |