Towards a National Collection (TaNC)

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New AI guidelines launched to help galleries, libraries, archives and museums prepare for the future — Archives & Records Association The Archives and Records Association UK & Ireland (ARA) has today published new open-access guidelines to help the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector prepare their collection...

Today we launch new AI guidelines to help galleries, libraries, archives and museums prepare for the future - read more here: www.archives.org.uk/news/new-ai-...

We’re delighted to welcome Anna-Maria Sichani as TaNC's Senior Researcher for the N-RICH prototype project! Discover more about Anna-Maria, @amsichani.bsky.social, and her wealth of experience in digital humanities research that she brings to our team: tinyurl.com/42zkn6ct

Each month, we feature a session where experts in digital humanities and cultural heritage share their insights. This month Arran Rees and Katrina Foxton share how research methods and value frameworks may lead to improved practices when combining UK heritage data.
Watch here: tinyurl.com/3rd7herx

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The Call for applications for the DISKAH Fellowship scheme 2026-2027 is now OPEN! Funding is available to broaden skills for engagement with Digital Research Infrastructure #DRI in the #ArtsandHumanities research: www.diskah.org/fellowship-2...

Regions set to benefit from new creative industries funding Minister Murray encourages regions to bid for funding in next wave of the Creative Clusters programme, which has boosted Liverpool’s music innovation sector

Good news from @ukri.org for creative industries and the cultural economy

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TaNC is tendering for a supplier to design and deliver a Digitisation Capability Pilot for the N-RICH Prototype project (N-RICH: shorturl.at/5G9eC). For more details, follow this link: shorturl.at/yL1el. To apply, register on the free Public Contracts Scotland portal.

TaNC is tendering for a supplier to design and deliver an environmental & sustainability framework for the N-RICH Prototype. For details, register first on the free Public Contracts Scotland portal & then use this link: tinyurl.com/2fvxtvbz

TaNC is tendering for a supplier to design and deliver a cybersecurity framework for the N-RICH Prototype project (N-RICH: shorturl.at/B0ort). For more details, register first on the free Public Contracts Scotland portal and then follow this link: tinyurl.com/b2x4bjy7

Dive into TaNC’s Discovery Projects Final Reports—full of groundbreaking research, actionable recommendations & inspiring case studies. This work helped shape the vision for N-RICH (shorturl.at/jGK7C). Don’t miss this rich resource of insight and innovation!
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TaNC seeks a Senior Researcher for the National Research Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage (N-RICH) Prototype project. Join us to shape the future of digital cultural heritage! Secondment applications welcome: shorturl.at/rgutY

TaNC is tendering for a Senior Technical Product Advisor to help define the product vision for a national research infrastructure for cultural heritage (N-RICH) Prototype. For details, register first on the free Public Contracts Scotland portal & then use this link: shorturl.at/GRgDj

TaNC is tendering for a Senior Technology Advisor to oversee technical specifications and architecture for N-RICH Prototype project (N-RICH: shorturl.at/B0ort). For more details, register first on the free Public Contracts Scotland portal and then follow this link: shorturl.at/kHfx1

Looking forward to collaborating with AHRC and the GLAM sector to bring this groundbreaking project to life!

#NRICH #DigitalInfrastructure #CulturalHeritage #TaNC

Very exciting! Can't wait to see how this develops

We are delighted to announce the N-RICH Prototype, a 2-year AHRC/UKRI investment in the UK's cultural heritage collections, aiming to enhance & enable research, innovation & growth. Learn more: shorturl.at/B0ort @christophersmith.bsky.social‬

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ICOM IMREC is launching the Research Fellowships in Digital Leadership, supporting museum professionals in advancing digital transformation.
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Find out more: tinyurl.com/2hm9jad7

📣Free, online event in Spanish, 26 Mar 25, 15:00 – 16:30 GMT
Don't miss our Contextos del Sur webinar, examining digital cultural heritage infrastructure in Latin America, including collection management strategies, computational access methodologies, and more: tinyurl.com/49pd3c66

🔥🔥 All the Discovery Projects have now published their Final Report.🔥🔥
The reports are packed with research findings, recommendations & relevant experiences for institutions and researchers.

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On the final leg of our tour of the UK nations, and in less than 2 weeks we'll be concluding our promotional adventures to spread the word about #TowardsDigitalCollections in #Stirling Scotland. Please join us for a free event on Thursday 13th March. Find out more bit.ly/TDC_Stirling
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Towards a National Collection Two-Day Conference 2024 - YouTube The Towards a National Collection (TaNC) conference took place on 20 and 21 November 2024 at the Contact Theatre in Manchester. The conference was a celebrat...

📣Towards a National Collection Conference
Learn about #DigitalCollections & how new digital technologies & research help breaking down barriers between UK #hertiage #collections & enhance opportunities for public engagement. Excited to share recordings of key sessions: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Amplifying potential: developing training to unlock digital collections We live in a digital society where the power of search engines, and increasingly AI, means we are used to having the world’s knowledge at our fingertips. But as GLAM professionals and collections researchers, we know that only a small proportion of collections in UK galleries, libraries, archives and museums are digitised, and available for publics and researchers. The reasons for this are varied, and include lack of funding, resources and the digital skills often necessary to navigate the world of digital collections. We’ll discuss why we think it is so important to support every GLAM organisation to start, continue or enhance their digital collections, and to share their rich and diverse collections in an openly accessible format. We’ll also share how we have approached the challenge to build capacity in a variety of organisational types and sizes, aiming to build both capacity and confidence in working with digital collections.

Great to see the recordings available from last year's Towards a National Collection Conference, including the launch of #TowardsDigitalCollections resources that we are currently promoting around the UK! To access the materials and sign up for an event- bit.ly/TaNC_Training
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At the #TowardsANationalCollection training session with the #TowardsDigitalCollections we did an exercise defining terms related to digital practices. There is so much terminology and concepts we all need to agree on to build a sustainable digital future.
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Great session with the #TowardsDigitalCollections training resources. Learned a lot about how to gain knowledge about your audiences and help inform your business case.
#glam #museum
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Off to @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social for the #TowardsANationalCollection training program Towards Digital Collections in Sheffield.
See you there!

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#GLAM #CulturalHeritage #DigitalCulture #DigitalHumanities

One of the key refrains from the first day of the TaNC conference is that if you can deal with humanities data you can deal with any form of data. Because humanities data is very complex. Good point to keep in mind

Starting second day of TaNC #unlockingcollections Conference with @timboon.bsky.social giving an overview of the Congruence Engine project. Have had the joy of working with this project over the last two years. Hopefully just the start to building connected heritage collections in the UK

Bailey, R., Pereda, J., Michaels, C., & Callahan, T. (2024). Unlocking the Potential of Digital Collections. A call to action. Towards a National Collection. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Screenshot of the UKRI publication titled Unlocking the potential of digital collections A call to action

Great couple of days in Manchester for
the Towards a National Collection #UnlockingCollections event where a series of policy recommendations were launched: zenodo.org/records/1383...
#TaNC #ahrc #UnlockingCollections