Approaches to Cross-Collection Searching
Introduction
Ever since the introduction of electronic resources and tools, cultural heritage institutions have been keen on creating digital infrastructures for trans-institutional and transdisciplinary collaboration in different fields of cultural heritage, bringing together specialists from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, scholars, curators, archivists, and conservators. The European Union is strongly supporting this approach, by funding Europeana and more recently the Cultural Heritage Cloud, with the even broader aim of 'fostering a secure and sustainable digital infrastructure, digital skills and uptake of technologies by businesses, in particular SMEs'. During this CERL workshop we will examine different successful approaches to cross-collection searching, with a reflection on what has gone before, the types of infrastructure that can currently be achieved, and what might be developed in the future. Speakers include Saskia Scheltjens, Sally Chambers and Robert Sanderson.
This is a free, hybrid event organised by the CERL and hosted by the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, Hungary. Please send a message to secretariat@cerl.org if you wish to attend (and indicate whether we will see you in Budapest or on the screen).
Programme
Monday 24 March 2025
- 15.30 Welcome
- 15.40 Saskia Scheltjens, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Cross-collection searching: reflections on approaches in the past, present and (perhaps) the future
- 16.10 Robert Sanderson, Yale University LUX: Cross-Collection Discovery at Yale
- 16.40 Factum Foundation on their Selene technology
- 17.10 Marian Lefferts, CERL Cross-Collection Searching at CERL
- 17.25 Questions
Tuesday 25 March 2025
- 9.30 OSZK speaker TBC
- 10.15 Sally Chambers, DARIAH-EU and the British Library Pan-European initiatives to support cross-collections searching, including the Cultural Heritage Cloud
- 11.00 Panel discussion
