Datum: 03.12.2024
Uhrzeit: 18:00 bis 19:45 Uhr
Ort: Online
Diese Veranstaltung wird organisiert durch das Format:
Kommunikationsformate
Veranstalter:
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz
Exploring collections as data: the Sloane Lab
Looking back to build future shared collections
On December 3rd at 18:00, Prof. Dr. Julianne Nyhan (Chair of Humanities Data Science and Methodology, TU Darmstadt, and Managing Director of the Institute of History, TU Darmstadt, Germany) will speak on “Exploring collections as data: the Sloane Lab. Looking back to build future shared collections.” The Sloane Lab seeks to integrate historical and contemporary cataloguing systems for Sloane’s collections, tackling challenges of data integration and cultural sensitivity by collaborating with communities to develop a Knowledge Base that supports decolonized, multivocal, and contextually enriched access to the collection’s information. The presentation will offer insights into the design and development of the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base, detailing modelling choices, semantic and vocabulary priorities, and the challenges faced in data aggregation, such as data disparity, integration complexity, conflicting and inconsistent information, uncertainty, and data gaps. Following the lecture, there will be an open discussion session.
Please register here to receive the Zoom link:
https://tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u50tfu-urjkqGtCtP54DlzHwJP3HMw_mjBWzA
flyer for the lecture is attached, and a more detailed description is available via the registration link.
For more information about the mission and offerings of the Sloane Lab, visit https://sloanelab.org/.
The presentation is part of the lecture series “HERMES Open Colloquium”, organized by TU Darmstadt and the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz. If you are interested in further events in this series, please feel free to sign up for the newsletter.
Please note:
The lecture itself will be recorded but not the introduction and discussion. Only the video and microphone of the presenters will be shown during the recording.
About the Contributors:
Bio – Andreas Vlachidis
Dr. Andreas Vlachidis is Associate Professor in Information Science at UCL’s department of information studies, teaching modules in Information Science Technology and in Natural Language Processing and Text Analysis. He is Co-Investigator and Technical Lead of the Sloane Lab, leading the project’s aims on data unification, aggregation, and knowledge base development. His research is interdisciplinary and draws from Information Science, Humanities and Computer Science. His main research interests are in Information Extraction, Semantic Data Modelling and Metadata. He is interested in the application of Natural Language Processing and Semantic Technologies for advancing information integration, FAIR data use and interoperability. He is also interested in text mining and conceptual data modelling within the broader areas of humanities, cultural heritage, and social sciences.
Bio - Julianne Nyhan
Prof. Dr. Julianne Nyhan is Chair of Humanities Data Science and Methodology, TU Darmstadt and and Managing Director of the Institute of History, TU Darmstadt, Germany. She remains a part-time Professor of Digital Humanities, UCL, UK, where she leads the Arts and Humanities Research Council Towards a National Collection-funded “The Sloane Lab: looking back to build future shared collections”. Her research interests include digital oral history; the role of non-canonical histories in challenging exclusionary knowledge hierarchies and epistemologies; and digital and participatory approaches to the representation, and where appropriate, contestation of absence in the historical archive. She has published widely, especially the history of digital humanities and oral history and she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK.
Bio - Andrew Flinn
Dr Andrew Flinn is a Reader in Archival Studies and Oral History in the Department of Information Studies at UCL. He is the Deputy Principal Investigator of Sloane Lab: Looking back to build shared collections and co-leads the project’s participatory work. He writes and does research on community heritage and digital oral history.
Bio - Alda Terracciano
Dr Alda Terracciano is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL and Participatory Design Consultant at The Sloane Lab (AHRC TaNC Programme). She researched on digital economy at Queen Mary, University of London, and is founding chair of Future Histories, the first independent archive of African, Asian and Caribbean performing arts in the UK.