Dr Gethin Rees, Lead Curator of Digital Mapping at the British Library illustrates the partnership working behind the Locating a National Collectin Project

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Dr Gethin Rees
Lead curator, digital mapping

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Towards a National Collection
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Foundational projects
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• Heritage Connector
• Provisional Semantics: Addressing the challenges of representing
multiple perspectives within an evolving digitised national collection
• Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital
National Collection
• Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure
• Deep Discoveries
• Engaging crowds: citizen research and heritage data at scale
• Locating a National Collection
• Preserving and sharing born-digital and hybrid objects from and across
the National Collection

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Discovery projects
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Discovery projects impact
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• Digital search and cataloguing tools for collections
• Research capability
• Public access and public engagement with heritage

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finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/856759
mapservices.historicengland.org.uk/printwebservicehle/StatutoryPrint.svc
93092/HLE_A4L_NoGrade%7CHLE_A3L_NoGrade.pdf
nationaltrust.org.uk/dunwich-heath-and-beach

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Locating a National Collection
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Why is location important?
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• Reconsituting context for GLAM
Audience: Researchers, heritage visitors
• Identity and place
• Audience: Community groups and schools
• Geographical utility
• Audience: Heritage visitors

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How can location link collections?
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• Access
GPS-enabled apps
Web Maps
• Infrastructure
Annotation
Registry
Gazetteers

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Pelagios.org
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Foundational project collaboration
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• Heritage Connector
• Provisional Semantics: Addressing the challenges of representing
multiple perspectives within an evolving digitised national collection
• Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital
National Collection
• Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure
• Deep Discoveries
• Engaging crowds: citizen research and heritage data at scale
• Locating a National Collection
• Preserving and sharing born-digital and hybrid objects from and across
the National Collection