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——地点的参考和表示，例如物品的制造和使用地点或它们所描绘和描述的地点——以新的方式连接不同的藏品，并吸引研究人员和公众。通过范围界定、讲习班和受众研究，该项目将确立最佳做法，并为发展一个国家发现系统提供技术建议。在这个系统中，可以很容易地从各种来源发现与感兴趣的主题有关的物体，在其历史环境的背景下表现出来，并参考时间和景观。目前，从用户体验的角度来看，发现跨多个机构和馆藏的藏品可能存在问题，需要复杂的文本框搜索或商业搜索引擎。然而，在经典领域，由研究人员、科学家和策展人组成的Pelagios网络开发了一种方法，该方法使用词典参考，将不同馆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，收藏信托的原型聚合器表明，使用地理位置搜索文化遗产收藏是可行的。该项目建立在这些方法的基础上，对聚合器的结果进行范围改进，并探索以可访问和有意义的形式为公众消费呈现位置的方法。一个关键的问题是，如何将基于地点的Pelagios方法与收藏信托聚合器汇集的基于空间的文化遗产数据资源最好地结合起来。为了测试和扩大这一雄心，参与组织将开展一系列专题和技术案例研究，以测试该方法对潜在用户的技术可行性和吸引力，最终形成对可扩展性的理解。该项目旨在了解利益相关者、机构、学术和公众的需求，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，该基础设施将集合连接起来，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件，当前和潜在的可用选项，并对潜在的解决方案提出建议，所有这些都将在项目报告中描述。该报告将构成一项战略，提供进展的途径，概述潜在的障碍，为下一阶段的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用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他们的元数据，并以一致和联合的方式展示这些元数据。Pelagios在分散的、“选择加入”的合作伙伴参与模式方面取得了成功。我们的项目将探讨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发展对如何使用基于位置的界面来使收藏变得有意义的理解，在内容发现方面引领一场超越基于文本的搜索的运动。位置提供了一个范例，提供了一个共同的线索，从中我们可以了解到使用其他共性（如人物、时间或主题）连接集合的更广泛机会。

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.