Congruence Engine - core research questions:
- How might we employ Systemic Participative Action Research to ensure that a united collection is able to serve the needs of users, both professional and lay?
- What new opportunities might arise for the practice of history and for the museum-visiting general public from a national collection realised in the ways explored in this project?
- What collaborations with other Discovery Projects will best ensure the aims of TaNC are met?
Collections data and AI
- How can the AI techniques of Heritage Connector be extended to support real-world historical enquiry?
- What contribution can partially-automated AI techniques make to the creation of a national collection?
- What difficulties are experienced when making different data sources interoperable?
- What degrees of (ir)relevance in results are acceptable to users, and how can these be refined?
- What new discovery tools can be developed to serve the needs of researchers and the public?
Digital Humanities
- How do tech choices affect research processes and introduce biases, with what ethical implications?
- How do visualisation and digital mediation / remediation affect historical practice, including historians’ qualitative and quantitative readings?
- How can participatory co-design enhance digital effectiveness?
- How can Digital Humanities’ translating function between the digital work and non-digital participants best work?
Action Research