A few notes:

In attendance: Arran, Tim B, Tim S, Helen, Stefania, Will, Alex, John, Jamie, Jonathan A

Reflection workshop happened in London on 27 July. From that we took a number of things away.

• We understand Congruence Engine more as a process rather than a product.
• Mini investigations were helpful, but keen to continue experimenting with 'walking alongside'
• How we work as a distributed team continues be of key interest to the project. We are the Congruence Engine.
• Ideas around 'Connective Tissue' as the type of data that help connect collections emerged, and a recognition that there are different periods of time, or Time Horizons, where living memory and forms of social history are easier to extract - but that shouldn't mean we just focus there.

We discussed the next steps that were coming out of the mini-inquiries, and how a number of the inquiries were connecting and feeding into eachother:

• People-occupations-machines. Now interested in working to scope out a potential Wikidata project on occupations to see if that can help with some of our reflections on 'Connective Tissue'. Close connections with Alex's more holistic descriptions of occupations. Could be considered an initial experiment with linked data.
• Oral histories. Now interested in exploring making some of the BHRU oral histories more accessible for fuzzy matching or pattern recognition. Doing so by investigating speech to text technologies, or through digitisation of the oral history summaries. Also interested in folk songs and music as a way to look at histories before oral history recordings.
  • Tim Smith interested in continuing to explore the question of aesthetics and ways of connecting beyond data.
  • Paul Craddock to continue investigations with Tim and Stefania. Meeting Tim B soon.
• The Saltaire Community. Interested in continuing to develop models of changing family relationships and career paths, and understanding more about where people came to Saltaire from and how societies and charities developed around the town - working with Colin Coates and Caroline Perry.
• Belle Vue Studio. A few people have agreed to be a part of the experiment (via Tim Smith) and there is a meeting next week to actively considered the ethics of the research, and how our consent model could and would work for such a piece of work.

We shared the initial thinking about the co-production workshop in October, and reflection workshop in December. This included a call for participation being drafted by Helen and Arran.

Note from Tim B for active consideration around the types of research question we haven't yet asked, and that the cotton industry is better reflected in museum collections.