As the project has moved through the process of developing multiple parallel investigations, seeking to understand a range of potential ways in which heritage collections can be connected as part of a future national collection social machine, we have begun to reach a point of convergence and clustering. Below are two forms of clustering. The first is the working investigation clusters that have formed around packages of similar work, and will be used to develop those areas of work through a series of workshops, technical development phases and interactions with collaborators throughout the Bradford Convergence. Each of these clusters are coordinated by one person, but rely on the contributions of many. The second form of clustering relates to the types of work that have been done and are categorised according to how we might communicate the types of approaches we’ve been experimenting with. This clustering will be useful in communicating the work of the project so far to new potential collaborators.
| Cluster A Linking collections | Cluster B Mapping | Cluster C Oral Histories and sound heritage | Cluster D Historic data and connective tissue | Cluster E Social machine | Cluster F Computer vision | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Industrial occupation ontology | Mapping Power Stations | Visualising oral histories | Trade Directories | Personal archives and the national collection | NeRF / Gaussian Splatter | | Deeper catalogue data | Mapping Lost Mills | Connecting workers’ songs | Graces Guide, Lost Mills, and Neo4j development | CMS surveying | Mining review films | | Training NER with object name vocabularies | Global mappings of Parsons and Hattersley orders | | | Gender in archival descriptions | Connecting communications collections visually | | Graphing textiles data with GPT | Mapping Urban Occupations | | | Researcher notes as archival descriptions | Weaving heritage embeddings | | LLMs and heterogeneous data (TagLab) | | | | Decolonising industrial heritage | Domestic Appliances | | Linking Isis and SHOT bibliographies | | | | | |