Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting)

if you are interested in digital heritage, co-designing experiences for digital collections and the use of new digital methods and tools, don’t miss our Towards a National Collection (TaNC) Discovery Project Webinar Series 2024. We have some great speakers lined up and look forward to welcoming you in the coming weeks. These online events are free and open to everyone, and we encourage you to share this invitation with anyone who may be interested.
            
Discovery Project Webinar: Designing and Co-Designing Experiences for Digital Collections
06 March | 14:00 - 15:30 GMT
BOOK A PLACE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tanc-discovery-project-webinar-cgdc-co-design-processes-with-communities-tickets-828375703027

This Towards a National Collection (TaNC) webinar provides a platform for researchers from our Unpath’d Waters and Our Heritage, Our Stories Discovery Projects to share unique insights into co-designing virtual reality environments, transcribing co-design, working with community generated digital content (CGDC) and more.

•	Jonathan Combey, Royal Museums Greenwich: To err is human: Transcription accuracy in co-design
•	Ashleigh Hawkins, The National Archives: The UK General Data Protection Regulation and the re-use of community generated digital content (CGDC): Capturing the people of today in the cultural heritage data of tomorrow
•	Scott Carballo, Glasgow School of Art: The co-design of the Unpath’d Navigator

Jonathan Combey will open the webinar with a presentation on transcription accuracy in co-design processes, exploring for example which information can be gained from detailing pauses, hesitations, and repetitions. Ashleigh Hawkins will discuss the inclusion of personal data in community generated digital content (CGDC) and the challenges this presents to re-use and aggregation of CGDC within the current legal framework. Scott Carballo will talk about the Unpath Navigator – an immersive virtual reality system which allows the exploration of multimodal maritime datasets and how the technical development of this resource has been informed by an extensive co-design process with three target audiences. The session will conclude with Q&As.

Towards a National Collection: https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/
Discovery Projects: https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/Discovery_Projects
Unpath’d Waters: https://unpathdwaters.org.uk/ Unpath Navigator: https://unpathdwaters.org.uk/designing-connecting-immersing/
Our Heritage, Our Stories: https://ohos.ac.uk/

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Discovery Project Webinar: Language and Access. Machine Learning for Digital Collections
13 March | 14:00 - 15:30 GMT
BOOK A PLACE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tanc-discovery-project-webinar-nlp-knowledge-graphs-biased-language-tickets-828860272387?aff=oddtdtcreator 

This Towards a National Collection (TaNC) webinar will explore how machine learning technologies may enhance discoverability of digital collection content and contribute to a better understanding of biased language, bringing together researchers from two of our Discovery Projects, Our Heritage, Our Stories and Transforming Collections.

•	Tehmina Goskar: Decolonising Arts Institute, UAL: Learning the biased languages of benevolence, equity and the machine
•	Youcef Benkhedda: Unlocking community-generated digital content: enhancing discoverability with advanced NLP and knowledge graphs

The webinar will begin with Tehmina Goskar, discussing her collaboration with the Creative Computing Institute to experiment with machine learning to better understand biased languages of benevolence and equity in organisational texts of public art collections, and how this might inform long-standing and systemic concerns about bias and discrimination. Youcef Benkhedda will talk about cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) techniques and how they may be used to enhance the discoverability of community-generated digital content (CGDC) in digital collections. There will then be an open Q&A session.

Towards a National Collection: https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/ 
Discovery Projects: https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/Discovery_Projects 
Our Heritage, Our Stories: https://ohos.ac.uk/ 
Transforming Collections: https://www.arts.ac.uk/ual-decolonising-arts-institute/projects/transforming-collections


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Discovery Project Webinar: Heritage Data Practices & Decentralisation 
19 March | 14:00 - 15:30 GMT
BOOK A PLACE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tanc-discovery-project-webinar-heritage-data-practices-decentralisation-tickets-828601949737 

This Towards a National Collection (TaNC) webinar will focus on navigating responsible data practices and decentralization in digital cultural heritage, bringing together researchers from two of our Discovery Projects, The Congruence Engine and The Sloane Lab.

•	Foteini Valeonti, University College London: Decentralising digital humanities
•	Anna-Maria Sichani, University of London: From collections-as-data to responsible data: data documentation and ethics in digital cultural heritage

The webinar will begin with Foteini Valeonti, discussing a synthesis of web3-related technologies for digital humanities infrastructures, exploring opportunities of decentralisation and open access data storage, as well as associated risks and challenges. Anna-Maria Sichani will talk about data-related infrastructure requirements in cultural heritage institutions, exploring data-specific issues, from legacy and inconsistent datasets’ descriptions, resistance to standardisation to hidden bias and positionality in various data-related processes.

Towards a National Collection: https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/ 
Discovery Projects: https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/Discovery_Projects
The Congruence Engine: https://ceblog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/ 
The Sloane Lab: https://sloanelab.org/  


Sophie Dietrich
Programme Coordinator 
Towards a National Collection

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