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Dear Colleagues, Apologises for cross posting!
Funded by UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, Towards a National Collection is supporting research that breaks down the barriers that exist between the UK’s outstanding cultural heritage collections, with the aim of opening them up to new research opportunities and encouraging the public to explore them in new ways. The Discovery Projects represent the most substantial part of Towards a National Collection and our call aims to fund up to five projects over a maximum of 36 months within a total funding envelope of up to £15m. The indicative limit for each project is £3 million (80 per cent fEC).
Following the success of our May webinars, we will be hosting four more webinars in August 2020. These webinars will be in two formats. The first will be “Introduction” webinars and will replicate the first run of the ones held in May and June. These are targeted at those who were unable to make those initial sessions. The second will be “Support” webinars are aimed at those who attended those sessions and are at a more advanced stage with their proposals). The dates and times of the webinars are below.
(INTRODUCTION webinar) Tuesday 11th August 2020 – 1000-1200 BST
(SUPPORT webinar) Wednesday 12th August 2020 – 1030-1230 BST
(SUPPORT webinar) Tuesday 18th August 2020 – 1400-1600 BST
(INTRODUCTION webinar) Wednesday 19th August 2020 – 1400-1600 BST
The introduction webinars will re-run the format we delivered in early June, for those who were unable to attend at that time. An introductory presentation will be followed a Q&A and a series of partnership development speed dating sessions to allow academics and others to hold brief discussions with one or more of the Independent Research Organisations. Due to limits please select a maximum of 2 IROS
The IRO speed daters for the 11th August currently are (British Library, English Heritage, Historic Environment Scotland, National Gallery, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), Victoria & Albert Museum).
The IRO speed daters for the 19th August currently are (British Museum, English Heritage, National Museums Livepool, National Gallery, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), Victoria & Albert Museum).
The support webinars, for those already familiar with the Call, will focus more on the practical elements of building partnerships and devising costs. There will be presentations from two of the Foundation Projects (Heritage Connectors & Engaging Crowds), sharing their early lessons, as well as a presentation from AHRC on some of the practical and procedural elements. All presentations will be followed by an open Q&A. The presentation titles are the following:
Jane Winters is Professor of Digital Humanities and Pro-Dean for Libraries and Digital at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is a Co-Investigator for the Towards a National Collection Foundation project Heritage Connector, in partnership with the Science Museum Group and the V&A. Jane has led or co-directed a range of digital projects, including Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities, Traces Through Time: Prosopography in Practice across Big Data, and Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data. Currently, she is a partner in the CLEOPATRA project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network, which is exploring how we can study significant transnational political and cultural events as they unfold online. Jane's research interests include digital history, born-digital archives (particularly the archived web), the use of social media by cultural heritage institutions, and open access publishing. She has published most recently on Non-Print Legal Deposit and web archives, born-digital archives and the problem of search, and the archiving and analysis of national web domains.
Pip Willcox is Head of Research at The National Archives (TNA) and leads the Towards a National Collection Foundation project, Engaging Crowds: citizen research and heritage data at scale. Pip leads on research strategy and delivery at TNA, and heads its Research and Academic Engagement department. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research into all aspects of our collections and activities is at the heart of what TNA does, as we become a digital archive by instinct and design and seek to generate new knowledge that advances understanding in archives, the wider research community and society as a whole. With a background in digital scholarship and library and archive collections, Pip has designed and delivered collaborative research in fields including web science, history, and heritage collections, engaging national and international partners from academia, industry, and the public. Pip has developed strategies and networks to share tools, collections, and expertise in digital scholarship, and led teaching and training at foundational and advanced levels.
If you would like to learn more about the project or join our mailing list see here.
Best wishes,
Colin
Dr Colin McDowall | Communications and Events Co-ordinator | Towards a National Collection
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