If technology was the answer, what was the question? Digitisation and digital engagement with scientific collections

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• Catherine Eagleton (University of St Andrews)
• Thursday 02 November 2023, 15:30-17:00
• Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

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McConnell Lecture

Digital access to collections is transforming the ways people access and use our galleries, libraries, archives and museums. New technologies and tools are opening up new possibilities for access to scientific collections by the people for whom we steward them, but we need to make choices about which technologies to use, and for what purposes.

This lecture draws on examples from recent research and digital engagement projects, and on material in Whipple collections and elsewhere. It will argue that we need better to understand who the audiences are for digitised collections, and what they want to do with them, if we are to maximise their potential while avoiding replicating and reinforcing the limitations and inequities of the past.

This talk is part of the Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science series.

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