Digital Humanities in the Memory Institution: The Challenges of Encoding Sir Hans Sloane’s Early Modern Catalogues of His Collections

Catalogues are the core documents of museum structure and meaning. Yet no significant computational analysis has been made of how catalogues from the early modern period are constructed or of the way their structure and content relate to the world from which collections are assembled. The Leverhulme...

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Main Authors: Alexandra Ortolja-Baird, Julianne Nyhan, Kim Sloan, Martha Fleming, Victoria Pickering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2019-06-01
Series:Open Library of Humanities
Online Access:https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4581/