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Locating a National Collection
The document outlines efforts to develop a national collection, focusing on digital mapping and the integration of various heritage projects. Key themes include enhancing public access, engaging community groups, and utilizing digital tools and infrastructure to represent and preserve diverse heritage. It emphasizes the importance of location in connecting collections and presents collaborative projects aimed at addressing challenges in digitization.
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- 1. Locating a NationalCollection Dr Gethin Rees Lead curator, digital mapping
- 2. www.bl.uk Towards a NationalCollection 2ahrc.ukri.org/newsevents/news/
- 3. www.bl.uk Foundational projects 3 • HeritageConnector • Provisional Semantics: Addressing the challenges of representing multiple perspectives within an evolving digitised national collection • Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital National Collection • Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure • Deep Discoveries • Engaging crowds: citizen research and heritage data at scale • Locating a National Collection • Preserving and sharing born-digital and hybrid objects from and across the National Collection
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- 5. www.bl.uk Discovery projects impact 5 •Digital search and cataloguing tools for collections • Research capability • Public access and public engagement with heritage
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- 9. www.bl.uk Locating a NationalCollection 9
- 10. www.bl.uk Why is locationimportant? 10 • Reconsituting context for GLAM Audience: Researchers, heritage visitors • Identity and place • Audience: Community groups and schools • Geographical utility • Audience: Heritage visitors
- 11. www.bl.uk How can locationlink collections? 11 • Access GPS-enabled apps Web Maps • Infrastructure Annotation Registry Gazetteers
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- 13. www.bl.uk Foundational project collaboration 13 •Heritage Connector • Provisional Semantics: Addressing the challenges of representing multiple perspectives within an evolving digitised national collection • Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital National Collection • Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure • Deep Discoveries • Engaging crowds: citizen research and heritage data at scale • Locating a National Collection • Preserving and sharing born-digital and hybrid objects from and across the National Collection