Locating a National Collection (LANC)

该项目将帮助文化遗产组织使用地理空间数据--位置的参考和表示，例如物体在哪里制造和使用，或者它们描述和描述的地方--来连接不同的收藏品，并以新的方式吸引研究和公众受众。通过范围界定、讲习班和受众研究，该项目将建立最佳做法，并为开发国家发现系统提供技术建议，以便从各种来源容易地发现与感兴趣的主题有关的物体，在其历史环境中展示，并在时间和景观中参考。目前，在多个机构和藏品之间发现藏品在用户体验方面可能存在问题，需要复杂的文本框搜索或商业搜索引擎。然而，在古典学领域，由研究人员、科学家和馆长组成的Pelagios网络开发了一种方法，利用地名录参考将不同收藏的研究数据联系起来，取得了相当大的成功，建立了一个合作伙伴社区，并激发了新的研究视角。同样，收藏品信托基金的原型聚合器表明，使用地理位置搜索文化遗产收藏品是可行的。这个项目建立在这些方法的基础上，确定了对聚合器结果的改进范围，并探索了以可访问和有意义的形式呈现位置以供公众消费的方法。一个关键问题是，以地点为基础的Pelagios方法如何才能最好地与收藏品信托聚合器汇集的天基文化遗产数据资源相结合。为了测试和确定这一雄心的范围，参与组织将致力于一系列主题和技术案例研究，以测试该方法的技术可行性和对潜在用户的吸引力，最终发展对可伸缩性的理解。该项目旨在了解利益相关者的要求，包括机构、学术和公众，以便为内容选择、技术决策和最大限度地发挥影响提供信息。它将研究我们如何使用位置来构建一个公共基础设施，将集合联系起来，并使这些内容对不同的受众来说是可访问的和有意义的。目标是了解所需的技术组成部分、现有的和潜在的备选办法，并就可能的解决办法提出建议，所有这些都将在项目报告中加以说明。该报告将制定一项战略，提供取得进展的途径，并概述潜在的障碍，以便为下一阶段国家收藏和更广泛的文化遗产部门的发展提供信息。它将鼓励文化遗产组织采取共同的地理空间方法，并将提供一个路线图，使不同的组织能够丰富其元数据，并以一致和联合的方式展示这一点。佩拉吉奥斯已经成功地采用了一种分散的、选择加入的合作伙伴参与模式。我们的项目将探索分布式或集中式的整合与合作模式是否与文化遗产组织的整合相关。它将在文化遗产部门内加深对如何利用基于位置的界面使收藏有意义的理解，带头在发现内容方面超越基于文本的搜索。地点提供了一个范例，提供了一个共同的线索，我们可以从中了解更广泛的机会，使用其他共性，如人，时间或主题连接收藏。

This project will help cultural heritage organisations to use geospatial data - references and representations of location, such as where objects were made and used or the places they depict and describe - to connect diverse collections and engage research and public audiences in new ways. Through scoping, workshops and audience research the project will establish best practice and provide technical recommendations for the development of a national discovery system whereby objects about a topic of interest can be readily discovered from a variety of sources, represented in the context of their historic environment, and referenced in time and landscape. At present, discovering collections across multiple institutions and collections can be problematic in terms of user experience, requiring complex text-box searches or commercial search engines. However, in the field of Classics, The Pelagios Network of researchers, scientists and curators has developed a methodology that uses gazetteer referencing to link research data across diverse collections with considerable success, building a community of partners and stimulating new research perspectives. Similarly, the Collections Trust's prototype aggregator demonstrates that searching across cultural heritage collections using geographic location is feasible. This project builds on these methods, scoping improvements to the aggregator's results and exploring ways to present location in an accessible and meaningful form for public consumption. A key question is how the place-based Pelagios methodology can best be integrated with space-based cultural heritage data resources brought together by the Collections Trust aggregator. To test and scope this ambition, participating organisations will work on a set of thematic and technological case studies that will test the technical feasibility and appeal of the approach to potential users, ultimately developing an understanding of scalability.The project aims to understand the requirements of stakeholders, institutional, academic and public, in order to inform content selection, technical decisions and maximise impact. It will investigate how we can use location to build a common infrastructure that links collections and render this content accessible and meaningful to different audiences. The objective is to understand the technical components required, the current and potential options available and to make recommendations for potential solutions, all of which will be described in the project report. The report will constitute a strategy, offering pathways for progress and outlining potential barriers to inform developments in the next phase of Towards a National Collection and across the cultural heritage sector more broadly. It will encourage cultural heritage organisations to take up a common geospatial approach and will provide a roadmap to enable diverse organisations to enrich their metadata and expose this in a consistent and joined-up way. Pelagios has had success with a decentralised, 'opt-in' model of partner engagement. Our project will explore whether distributed or centralised models of integration and cooperation are relevant to the integration of cultural heritage organisations. It will develop understanding within the cultural heritage sector of how location-based interfaces can be used to make collections meaningful, spear-heading a movement beyond text-based searches in the discovery of content. Location offers an exemplar, offering a common thread from which we can learn about wider opportunities in connecting collections using other commonalities such as person, time or subject.