Second Report - The Congruence Engine: Digital Tools for New Collection-Based Industrial Histories
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2025-03-30_CongruenceEngine_SecondReport_FINAL.pdf
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Research report
Creator (person)
Boon, Tim
Butterworth, Alex
Graham, Helen
Rees, Arran
Sichani, Anna-Maria
Webb-Bourne, Katerina
Winters, Jane
Date published
2023
Abstract
The capacity to make strong connections between historical objects and sources lies at the heart of this project as it does in the everyday museum and historical practices that it is designed to support. Curators creating displays combine artefacts, images, audio-visual materials and histories often drawn from several heritage organisations. Family and local historians connect records from a diversity of sources that illuminate ancestors and localities so as to establish their genealogy or to understand the past of where they live. Academic historians patiently and critically connect a diverse range of archive sources with existing literature to tell new stories about the past. All rely on connecting different fragments of the past as they sew the quilts of narrative that constitute our local and national histories. The difference with this Towards a National Collection project is that it seeks to make such linkages at the national scale of all collections, enabling access together to significant numbers of relevant items from across many GLAM organisations holding heritage in many media. In place of the two-dimensional ranked list of search engines, we aim, with Congruence Engine, to model a world in which users will be able to explore data neighbourhoods where a great diversity of information about heritage items from many sources that are deeply relevant to their investigations will be readily to hand – museum objects, archive documents, pictures, films, buildings, and the records of previous investigations and relevant activity.
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
UK Research and Innovation | AH/W003244/1 |
UK Research and Innovation | AH/V000802/1 |
Publisher
Science Museum Group
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