Collecting and Collections: Lives and Digital Afterlives
Workshop III concerning the afterlives, use and reconstruction of early modern collections is designed to benefit scholars interested in digital humanities.
We will explore digital approaches to survey collections over time, assisted by the Royal Society-Google Cultural Institute partnership. How can we data-mine and use tools to integrate extant databases? How did the norms of early modern academies of scientific journal publication, priority of discovery and ‘matters of fact’ shape the organisation of knowledge? How do we consider those early modern models in digital reconstructions of early collecting?
Speakers include:
Min Chen (Oxford), Mary-Ann Constantine (Wales), Natasha David (Google), Michelle DiMeo (Hagley), Louisianne Ferlier (The Royal Society), Rainer Godel (Leopoldina), Rob Iliffe (Oxford), Neil Johnston (TNA), Suhair Khan (Google), Nigel Leask (Glasgow), Miranda Lewis (Oxford), Alice Marples (Oxford), Alessio Mattana (Turin), Brent Nelson (Saskatchewan), Julianne Nyhan (UCL), Torsten Roeder (Leopoldina), Anna Marie Roos (Lincoln), Giacomo Savani (University College Dublin), Cornelis Schilt (Oxford), Tom Scott (Wellcome), Aron Sterk (Lincoln), Matthew Symonds (CELL, UCL). For The Royal Society, including directions to the venue, please access the website here.
The conference programme is available here and below. Paper abstracts are also available.
See the discussion of the event at the Royal Society’s blog.
Day One, Thursday 14 November 2019
The Royal Society
6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
9:45 – 10:20 Registration and Coffee, Marble Hall
10:20 –10:30: Welcome
Kohn Centre, The Royal Society
Part I: The Digital Turn: Early Modern Texts and Manuscripts
10:30 – 11:30 Plenary I
Rob Iliffe and Cornelis Schilt
The Newton Project, Oxford
11:30 – 12:00
Miranda Lewis, Oxford
Early Modern Letters Online
12:00 – 12:30
Giacomo Savani, University College Dublin, and Alessio Mattana, University of Turin Scientific and Antiquarian Images and Texts in ECCO
12:30–1:30 Lunch, Marble Hall
1:30 – 2:30 Plenary II
Matthew Symonds, CELL, University College London
An archaeology of reading: early modern library reconstruction through digitisation
Part II: (Re) Combining Early Modern Collections Digitally
2:30 – 3:00
Michelle Di Meo, Hagley Museum and Library
Recreating Early Modern Digital Collections: Five Tips and Five Challenges
3:00 – 3:30
Louisiane Ferlier, The Royal Society
The Royal Society Digital Collection
3:30–4:00 coffee break, Marble Hall
4:00 – 5:00 Plenary III
Rainer Godel and Torsten Roeder, Leopoldina
Digital Humanities at The Leopoldina Academy and Center of Science Studies: definitions, data modelling and analyses
5:00 – 6:00:
Brent Nelson, University of Saskatchewan
Reconstructing the Ark: Best Practices for Digital Curation of Object-Oriented Collections
6:00-6:30
Aron Sterk and Anna Marie Roos, Lincoln
Exhibit Opening: A Face from the Archives: Emanuel Mendes da Costa, Georgian Collector, Antiquarian and Naturalist
PUBLIC EVENT
7:00-8:00 Collecting for Charity Benefit Concert
82 Degrees Violin and Cello Public Concert
The Kohn Centre, The Royal Society
Suggested Donation £10
Maider Lacalle, Senior Corporate Development Manager, Coram.
Day Two: Friday 15 November 2019, The Royal Society
9:45-10:00 Registration and Coffee, Marble Hall
10:00 – 11:00 Plenary IV. Julianne Nyhan, University College London
Enlightenment Architectures
The Kohn Centre, The Royal Society
Part III (Re) Combining Modern Collections Digitally
11:00 – 12:00 Tom Scott, Wellcome Collection
Lessons and thoughts on (re) combining digital collections
12:00–12:45 Lunch, Marble Hall
12:45 – 1:45 Neil Johnston, The National Archives, UK
Record Revelations: Beyond 2022 and the virtual reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland
Part IV: Collections in Storytelling: Real and Virtual
1:45 – 2:15 Mary Ann Constantine, Wales and Nigel Leask, Glasgow
Romantic-era travel for a digital age: Thomas Pennant and the Curious Travellers Project
2:15 – 2:45 Alice Marples, Oxford
The Royal Society Repository
2:45–3:00 Coffee Break
Part V: Innovation in Collections and Digital Humanities
3:00 – 4:00 Plenary V. Min Chen, Oxford
Visualisation Techniques and the Bespoke in Digital Humanities
4:00 – 5:00 Suhair Khan and Natasha David, Google The Google Art and Culture Platform
