Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 575.
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        Date: 2024-05-02 15:07:42+00:00
        From: Max Long <Max.Long@SCIENCEMUSEUM.AC.UK>
        Subject: CfP: Artefacts XXIV, 13-16 October 2024 (London, UK)

Artefacts XXIX, 2024: New Digital Practice for Science and Technology
Collections / /Congruence Engine /End of Project Conference


The ArtefactsConsortium
<https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/our-work/research-public-history/artefacts-consortium/>
is an international network of museum professionals and scholars of the
history of science, technology, and medicine who promote the use of
objects in research. Annual Artefacts meetings, each organised under a
pertinent theme, provide a collegial venue to gather to discuss exciting
work being done with collections in museums and universities across the
globe.

Call for Papers

How are digital techniques changing museum practice: for objects, for
museum workers, for audiences? With digital approaches: Is it becoming
easier for the objects and documents within collections to be found,
researched and displayed? Is the texture of day-to-day museum practice
changing? Are visitors and researchers enabled to have new kinds of
experience in museums or online, or use collections in new ways?

This year’s Artefacts conference will be held*October 13^th -16^th *at
the Science Museum Research Centre, London, back-to-back with the final
conference of the Museum’s /Congruence Engine /digital
collections-linking research project.

Artefacts

For the traditional Sunday-Tuesday Artefacts conference days, we are
inviting contributions on the theme of new digital practice in science
and technology museums. We are looking for contributions (papers,
panels, demonstrations, etc) that reveal the ways in which science
museums internationally are embracing the affordances of new digital
techniques. For example:

• Collections as data
• Uses of machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence (AI)
techniques with catalogue data
• Online complements to exhibitions
• Novel uses of new media -visual or sonic - in exhibition and gallery
contexts
• Virtual- and augmented-reality techniques
• Digital means to enable access to reserve collections
• How museum work is changing because of digital techniques
• Histories of electronic, digital and new media practice in museums

Please submit an outline of up to 300 words per individual paper or up
to 1000 words for whole sessions *by 1^st June*to:
research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk <mailto:research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk>. We
plan to send acceptances no later than mid-August.

Congruence Engine

Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th will be the associated Congruence
Engine <https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/projects/the-congruence-engine>
end of project conference, which is primarily to report the research,
findings and recommendations from the project. This exciting major
three-year project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
under its Towards a National Collection
<https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/>
funding stream has been experimenting with using machine learning and 
other computational techniques to link collections of all kinds for the sake 
of better curation of science collections and to ease historical work using 
those collections for historians of all kinds. Themes will include:

• The ‘social machine’ approach to creating linked industrial collections
• AI and machine learning for data enhancement and collections linkage
• Taxonomies, thesauruses and ontologies for linking collections
• Spatial and geospatial approaches to collections linkage
• Narrative sources and collections linkage
• Responsible and ethical digital collections research
• New historiographies and new curatorial practices

The conference will also see the launch of the Science Museum Group’s
Digital Research Cluster; plenary sessions will address some of the
broader issues and opportunities of the current digital moment.

Attendees are warmly encouraged to attend both sides of the conference.

Organisers: Tim Boon, Nayomi Kasthuri Arachchi, Max Long, Arran Rees,
Nina Webb-Bourne

DR MAX LONG *(he/him)
RESEARCH FELLOW, CONGRUENCE ENGINE PROJECT
Science Museum Group
Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD



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