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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.

Prof. Dr. Julianne Nyhan is Chair of Humanities Data Science and Methodology, TU Darmstadt and Managing Director of the Institute of History, TU Darmstadt, Germany. She remains a part-time Professor of Digital Humanities, UCL, UK, where she leads the Arts and Humanities Research Council Towards a National Collection-funded “The Sloane Lab: looking back to build future shared collections”. Her research interests include digital oral history; the role of non-canonical histories in challenging exclusionary knowledge hierarchies and epistemologies; and digital and participatory approaches to the representation, and where appropriate, contestation of absence in the historical archive. She has published widely, especially the history of digital humanities and oral history and she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK.

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Dr. Andreas Vlachidis is Associate Professor in Information Science at UCL's department of information studies, teaching modules in Information Science Technology and in Natural Language Processing and Text Analysis. He is Co-Investigator and Technical Lead of the Sloane Lab, leading the project's aims on data unification, aggregation, and knowledge base development.  His research is interdisciplinary and draws from Information Science, Humanities and Computer Science. His main research interests are in Information Extraction, Semantic Data Modelling and Metadata. He is interested in the application of Natural Language Processing and Semantic Technologies for advancing information integration, FAIR data use and interoperability. He is also interested in text mining and conceptual data modelling within the broader areas of humanities, cultural heritage, and social sciences.

Dr Alda Terracciano is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL and Participatory Design Consultant at The Sloane Lab (AHRC TaNC Programme). Her research interests include black and Asian theatre in the UK; community archives and critical heritage; immersive technologies, participatory research and socially engaged artistic practice. She researched on digital economy at Queen Mary, University of London, and is founding chair of Future Histories, the first independent archive of African, Asian and Caribbean performing arts in the UK.

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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.

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Resources

Innovations for a Unified Digital Collection - The Sloane Lab Journey