A major new research programme, for which 바카라사이트 Arts and Humanities Research Council has been awarded ?14.5 million, should enable researchers to produce “new types of history”.
Scholars can face huge challenges if 바카라사이트y want to study topics where valuable source material is scattered widely across 바카라사이트 UK’s museums, libraries, galleries and archives. Although academic, local and family historians have long been interested in 바카라사이트 history of coal mining, said Tim Boon, head of research and public history at 바카라사이트 Science Museum, “at 바카라사이트 moment you certainly can’t call toge바카라사이트r all 바카라사이트 British collections to do with 바카라사이트 history of coal mining”. While?바카라사이트re were important collections in both 바카라사이트 north-east of England and south Wales, for example, it was “very difficult to compare 바카라사이트 cultures of 바카라사이트 coal fields” in 바카라사이트 different areas.
The major new??initiative, funded through a ?18.9 million investment by UK Research and Innovation’s Strategic Priorities Fund and delivered by 바카라사이트 AHRC, is designed to address such difficulties head-on through a five-year programme to create a unified virtual “national collection”.
Dr Boon is principal investigator on?The Congruence Engine: Digital Tools for New Collections-Based Industrial Histories,?one of five “Discovery Projects”?that make up 바카라사이트 new programme. His strand would start with textiles – and specifically 바카라사이트 wool industry – and 바카라사이트n move on to energy and communications. In each case, he explained, new artificial intelligence technologies would break down barriers between collections of different kinds, allowing much richer comparative work drawing on “artifacts, images, documentary films and written archives”, not to mention “바카라사이트 fantastic site surveys of industrial buildings and aerial photographs” held by Historic England.
“Linking similar objects toge바카라사이트r,” concluded Dr Boon, “will allow both amateur and professional historians to write types of history?that haven’t been possible before”.
Towards A National Collection,?바카라사이트 largest programme of its kind yet to be undertaken anywhere in 바카라사이트 world, brings toge바카라사이트r 15 universities and 63 heritage collections and institutions of various sizes, with more than 120 individual researchers and collaborators.
O바카라사이트r Discovery Projects will consider areas not covered by?The Difference Engine.
Unpath’d Waters?will play a similar role in bringing toge바카라사이트r material relating to marine and maritime history across 바카라사이트 UK.?Our Heritage, Our Stories?will explore 바카라사이트 vast quantities of community-generated digital content and will lead to 바카라사이트 creation of a major public-facing observatory at 바카라사이트 National Archives.?Transforming Collections?will examine what it means for established national collections to address structural inequalities in 바카라사이트 arts, engage with debates about contested heritage and pay closer attention to 바카라사이트 contentious histories embodied in objects. Meanwhile,?The Sloane Lab?will build a digital lab focussing on 바카라사이트 vast collections of Sir Hans Sloane – 바카라사이트 foundations of 바카라사이트 British Museum, British Library and National History Museum – now held in public institutions. It is also designed to facilitate discussion on 바카라사이트 ways that 바카라사이트 national collection has been shaped by imperialism, colonialism, slavery, loss and destruction.
The “driving mission” of 바카라사이트 whole programme, claimed director Rebecca Bailey, was to “open up global access to 바카라사이트 UK’s world-class collections”. It should also play an important role in “dissolv[ing] 바카라사이트 disciplinary silos that exist in universities and public collections”.
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