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welcome to the sloane lab sloane lab about about the sloane lab news updates meet the team sloane collections contact search site framework the sloane lab framework the sloane lab knowledge base data atlas system architecture participatory co design expression of interest statement of practice community fellowships past participatory activities list of contributors resources publications all outcomes presentations video lectures publications youtube channel github repositories external resources welcome to the sloane lab explore sloane s vast collections on the knowledge base which is now live the vast global collection amassed by sir hans sloane in the eighteenth century is often considered to be the founding collection of the uk cultural heritage sector sloane financed his collecting through means that included his gains from the transatlantic trade in enslaved people his investments in private companies such as the royal african company and profits from plantations in jamaica built on the forced labour of enslaved people via the inherited wealth of his wife elizabeth rose other income sources included the substantial sums he earned as a society and royal physician through rent collected on land he owned in london and salaries from public offices the sloane lab is one of five discovery projects of towards a national collection funded by the arts and humanities research council ahrc looking back to build future shared collections develops new technologies including the use of artificial intelligence ai to open up the contents of museums and collections in ways that are more intuitive and relevant to the way the public and academics want to discover and use them the main aim of the sloane lab project is to facilitate digital access to the historical and present day information that describes sloane s collection and to do this we are working to digitise and make searchable the records of the collection held by the british museum natural history museum and british library sloane lab s case study is the vast range of collections from coins to manuscripts and stuffed animals held in a variety of locations that are connected to sir hans sloane aiming to bring segments of these together online for the first time beyond the technological advances the sloane lab hopes to enrich debate on issues such as the contested nature of museum collections and the role of digital tools in foregrounding overlooked or ignored processes like imperialism colonialism slavery loss and destruction that have shaped the uk s national collections until now we have written about the problems that the use of digital methods brings to this debate here alexandra ortolja baird julianne nyhan encoding the haunting of an object catalogue on the potential of digital technologies to perpetuate or subvert the silence and bias of the early modern archive digital scholarship in the humanities volume 37 issue 3 september 2022 pages 844 867 https academic oup com dsh article 37 3 844 6401182 sir hans sloane s catalogue historia plantarum image courtesy of the natural history museum about sir hans sloane during his long life sir hans sloane 1660 1753 amassed an immense and diverse collection perhaps the most significant of the early modern period assembled from c 1680s onwards it included natural history and pharmaceutical objects as well as books manuscripts prints drawings coins and other objects from across the world the collection was built through commercial transactions as well as personal favours and gifts sloane was able to finance his collecting practice over time through means that included his gains from transatlantic slavery including investments in private companies such as the royal african company and profits from plantations in jamaica built on the forced labour of enslaved people via the inherited wealth of his wife elizabeth rose other income sources included the substantial sums he earned as a society and royal physician through rent collected on land he owned in london and salaries from public offices the collection s assembly also depended on a vast network of individuals up and down the social hierarchy and across different cultures many of whom were part of a global trade of goods and people similarly sloane employed many individuals to help him catalogue the different parts of his collection in more than 40 manuscript catalogues these handwritten lists include numbered object descriptions which sometimes put each item in context sometimes giving details of when where and how they were acquired considered to be encyclopaedic this collection was sloane s attempt to encompass the world and its knowledge to collect the world was to know the world and knowledge meant power the knowledge structures such as naming classification and cataloguing systems for different types of objects that sloane and others produced at this time through their collecting practices often systemically silenced the voices and methods of knowledge production of people and cultures that were collected thus the sloane lab project does not view the task of reassembling sloane s collection and information about it in the public space as a technical task only it rather seeks to create connections between collections in order to critically assess and redress the knowledge structures it establishes and avoid perpetuating the problematic aspects of its origins its central purpose and mandate are to explore how digital platforms can draw attention to problematic aspects of our shared cultural heritage and respond to new questions about such a vast and varied collection more information about the sloane collections is available here the sloane lab framework find out about the infrastructure and expertise of the project including policy based recommendations white papers best practice reports methods and approaches to automating semantic and structural annotation of digital cultural heritage browse the framework the sloane lab knowledge base the sloane lab knowledge base allows everyone to discover through a rich interconnected knowledge graph structure sloane s vast collection which includes natural history and pharmaceutical specimens books manuscripts prints drawings coins and other objects from across the world sloane lab knowledge base participatory co design research the participatory element is at the very heart of the sloane lab ensuring that multiplicity of interpretations and contextualisations of the national collection can be intertwined in machine actionable form participatory workshops will be taking place regulargy throughout the project s 3 year duration and will be announced on this website participatory co design research activities sloane lab sloane lab 2024 open toolbar accessibility tools accessibility tools increase text increase text decrease text decrease text grayscale grayscale high contrast high contrast negative contrast negative contrast light background light background links underline 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