Events

Language & Access. Machine Learning for Digital Collections

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.

Designing & Co-Designing Experiences for Digital Collections

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.

Digital Infrastructure

This Towards a National Collection (TaNC) webinar will focus on digital infrastructure development, bringing together researchers from two of our Discovery Projects, The Congruence Engine and The Sloane Lab.

Discovery Projects Second Reports

All of our TaNC Discovery Projects have now published their Second Report. These reports present the primary milestones, achievements and challenges behind the Discovery Projects, and are completely available in our Zenodo community repository.

Towards a National Collection Conference 2023

We are to share the recordings of our first conference, where leaders and decision makers from across the cultural heritage sector, academics and funders with related interests delivered exciting presentations and discussions.

Discovery Projects First Reports

All of our TaNC Discovery Projects have now published their First Report. These reports present the primary milestones, achievements and challenges behind the Discovery Projects, and are completely available in our Zenodo community repository.

Digital Collections Audit Report

Between September 2021 and the end of January 2022, Collections Trust carried out an audit of digital collections in the UK’s leading cultural heritage institutions. The aim of the audit was to understand the number, scale and attributes of digitally-accessible collections across the UK cultural heritage sector that might form part of a future national digital collection infrastructure.

Art UK: Opening Up Access to the Nation's Art

The report details Art UK’s approach to image rights management, together with the technology used to make images available to view online.

A Culture of Copyright: A scoping study on open access to digital cultural heritage collections in the UK

This report gives an overview of focused on how the UK GLAM sector fares in the global open GLAM landscape, what barriers reinforce a culture of copyright and the potential for open GLAM in the UK.

International Benchmarking Review

The focus of this report are digital initiatives worldwide that fall under two categories: initiatives that are as close as possible to the scope and reach of the TaNC programme, meaning initiatives that are multi sectoral, multi collection, and that connect cultural objects and records at a national scale; and initiatives that offer models for best practice in relevant areas.

Online User Research Literature Review: UK Gallery, Library, Archive and Museum (GLAM) Digital Collections

A proper understanding of who uses digital collections and how, is critical for the success of the UK’s galleries, libraries, archives and museums in the information age. This review looks at available work from 2015 to 2021 to compare ways in which users and their behaviours have been categorised, and to identify areas where further discussion is required.

COVID-19 Projects Announcement

The three digital projects were selected as part of TaNC’s ‘Covid-19 Urgency Call’ to provide a critical and time-sensitive evaluation of the digital practice undertaken by museums during the COVID-19 pandemic and provide scalable lessons to inform future museum practice as well as the overall TaNC programme.

Early Report of the Persistent Identifiers Project

The Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure project has delivered a report on their early findings on how to take forward persistent identifiers (PIDs) as a core component of infrastructure in support of joining heritage collections together as a ‘National Collection’.

Digital Public Engagement Strategies

In this webinar speakers from The Smithsonian Transcription Center and The Heritage Lab, shared their digital engagement strategies for engaging the public in collections, research, and education resources.

Copyright and Open Access for Digital Collections: a Roundtable Discussion

In this webinar leading thinkers in the digital copyright sphere participated in a roundtable discussion, sharing their honest views on the purposes of copyright, the re-use of data and digital reproductions in collections, and the revenue, costs and hidden costs behind Open Access.