(Re)connecting heritage collections as data, infrastructure and participatory engagement: big dreams, big challenges (Sloane Lab Seminar Series 8th June 2023)

This series welcomes a range of speakers interested in the intersections between collections as data, cataloguing histories and critical archival studies, heritage infrastructures, critical digital heritage, and information science. Speakers: Lucille Junkere, Visual artist, educator and researcher. Recent research focusses on the legacy of colonialism in African Caribbean textile history. Title: Cultural Colours Jamaica Benjamin Lee, incoming Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, as well as a Kluge Fellow in Digital Studies at the Library of Congress Title: Reimagining Search and Discovery for Digital Collections with Machine Learning. Please note not all speakers gave permission for their whole talk to be recorded.