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Mass digitised collections of libraries, archives and museums are increasingly conceptualised as data. These are used for creative projects, to increase economic performance or for data-​driven research in the humanities. The various needs place high expectations on the memory institutions as data providers and on the potential of collections as data.
Dr Marco Humbel explores the question of what forms of infrastructure we need in order to fully exploit the potential of Collections as Data. In the UK, the £18.9 million “Towards a National Collection” (TaNC) programme is currently underway. This programme is currently funding five “Discovery Projects” to explore how such Collections as Data infrastructures could look like.
One of these Discovery Projects is the Sloane Lab. The aim of the Sloane Lab is to provide digital access to the information that describes Sir Hans Sloane's extensive collection. In his lecture, Marco Humbel will introduce the ongoing research of the Sloane Lab project. He will focus on the perspectives and challenges of memory institutions when participating in collection as data infrastructures.
Marco Humbel is a research fellow for the Sloane Lab at the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL). His research interests include:
- Open Access and Collections as Data;
- archives of social movements;
- and digital tool criticism for technologies, such as Named Entity Recognition, in the cultural heritage domain.
He completed a vocational education as an Information Specialist at the ETH Library, holds a BSc in Information Science (HTW Chur) and a MSc in Digital Humanities (UCL). His PhD dissertation was titled “The Digitisation and Open Access Politics of Social Movement Archives” (UCL).
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