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    National Collection as Social Machine: Modelling Through Action Research
    (2023-05-16)
    Graham, Helen
    This is the transcript of a presentation given by Helen Graham at the Towards a National Collection Conference 2023 held at the British Museum on 26th April. The presentation was collaboratively developed by Tim Boon, Alex Butterworth, Helen Graham and Arran Rees and opens up the role of action research in supporting the practical and conceptual dimensions of conceptualising national collection as social machine.
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    Giving Voice to Hidden Connections: Insights from the Oral History Investigation
    (2022-10-27)
    Zardini Lacedelli, Stefania
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    Craddock, Paul
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    Popple, Simon
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    Smith, Tim
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    Zoom into the Past: Mapping Across Scale
    (2023-10-25)
    Belteki, Daniel
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    Congruence Engine: The Summation
    (2025-02-27)
    Boon, Tim
    We want to make all UK heritage collections fully accessible together, not just institution-by institution as now, to those who would use them. The means to achieve this are their digital records. But, because of the history of heritage organisations, our current records are ill-suited for this purpose: in the main, they are thin, inconsistent and isolate collections items from the contexts in which they make sense. In Congruence Engine, we have therefore experimentally created ways to link collections with historical data as well as with each other, techniques that in various ways overcome these weaknesses. Because the creation of useful collections linkage requires the agency of its potential users, and because computing techniques are fallible, UK collections linkage requires a social machine for the task: a human-technical approach that mobilises human motivation and thereby overcomes machine incapacities. Many of our techniques employ machine learning, with the result that we have within our grasp the capacity to overcome decades of limited investment in collection documentation. But, because we are using these techniques, we confront a series of ethical issues that demand to be researched, even as we press for the resources to create user interfaces and scalable prototypes for a future infrastructure, which together can reveal the potential of what we have glimpsed.
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    The Congruence Engine North Star
    (2022-03-24)
    Rees, Arran
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    Graham, Helen
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    Reflecting on the Textiles Pilot
    (2022-08-22)
    Graham, Helen
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    Rees, Arran
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