Are you a Research Software Engineer working with Digital Collections in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, or Museums? Join our user study workshop to collaboratively shape the future of digital collections infrastructure. Your insights will enhance research capabilities and access to cultural heritage resources.

We are excited to invite you to participate in a user study workshop. This workshop aims to bring together a range of research software engineers. Together, we will collaborate to develop user requirements for a future digital collections infrastructure. This infrastructure will cater to the needs of the research community by enabling the storage, use, analysis, and preservation of complex collections data from Galleries, Archives, Libraries, and Museums.

This research is part of the "Towards a National Collection" (TaNC) program, which aims to open up and democratise access to cultural heritage collections across the UK. This user consultation ensures that the program meets the needs of the people who will be using it.

TaNC is a five-year investment from the UK Research and Innovation’s Strategic Priorities Fund, delivered by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). It is designed to take the first steps toward creating the digital infrastructure for a national collection by dissolving barriers between different cultural heritage collections.

The University of Portsmouth Heritage Hub is very grateful that the Alan Turing Institute is hosting this workshop. Hope to see you there. Link to the venue

User Consultation Workshop on Digital Collections