Over the past few months, and especially in light of the  Heritage Connector & Congruence Engine, London, 3 August 23  held at the Science Museum, we’ve been noticing a connected, but individually distinct group of investigations emerging that we are keen to cohere in some way. Whilst each investigation will do their work relatively independently from each other, this page is designed to enable everyone to have at least, a general overview of the other investigation’s aims and objectives, and the sorts of data they’ll be working with (with full acceptance that this may change either slightly or significantly).

The plan is:

• Each investigation has a page with a summary of the proposed work below.
• During w/c 11 or 18 September, each investigation to have a catch up with Alex and Arran to get a sense of how what the initial findings of the investigation are.
• Arran will arrange a special technical investigations meeting for all of us during w/c 16 October to share findings from the first phase of your investigations with the view to exchanging ideas, cross-fertilising, and forward planning.

Automated collections linkage - 21 Nov 23

Investigations

Weaving Heritage Collections through Embeddings Project Proposal

Exploration of LLMs to map large heterogeneous datasets

Visualise Oral History

Graphing Diverse Textiles Data with IndexGPT: Investigation Notes

Ongoing work to understand how these technical investigations can be rooted in the realities of institutional data creation, enriching and sharing practices. Kunika, Jamie, Arran and Alex to do some active thinking on this.