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Andrew Flinn

Dr Andrew Flinn is a Reader in Archival Studies and Oral History and Vice Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University College London where he has been teaching archive studies and public history since 2002. He is Deputy Principal Investigator on the Sloane Lab (one of the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council’s Towards a National Collection projects). He is also a Trustee of National Life Stories at the British Library, chair of the UK and Ireland Community Archives and Heritage Group and a member of the ICA’s Section on Archive Education steering group. His research interests include community-based archives, archival activism and social justice, and digital oral history.

Resources

  • Innovations for a Unified Digital Collection - The Sloane Lab Journey

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    This Friday Frontiers presentation provides a rich insight to the design and development of the University College London's Sloane Lab knowledge base, the modelling choices, and priorities in relation to semantics and vocabularies and the range of challenges addressed in the process of aggregation in terms of data disparity, integration facility, conflicting information and inconsistency, uncertainty and data absence.
    Authors
    • Julianne Nyhan
    • Andreas Vlachidis
    • Alda Terracciano
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