Making Collections Findable: AI, Metadata, and the Discovery Challenge

Cultural heritage organisations have spent decades building rich, standardised metadata, but are their collections truly discoverable? As AI transforms how users search and interact with digital collections, heritage professionals face a critical question: how do we bridge traditional metadata practices with AI-powered discovery while maintaining the scholarly rigour and contextual depth our collections demand?

Making History Accessible: The Postal Museum's Journey to Public Access for Born-Digital Collections

This presentation will explore how The Postal Museum developed its capacity to preserve and make born digital records accessible. As one of the UK's most significant business archives, holding records designated as being of outstanding national importance, The Postal Museum faced unique challenges in capturing, preserving, and making accessible the digital records of Royal Mail Group plc and Post Office Ltd.  

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From Archive to Primetime

How One Photograph Transformed Hidden History into Global Impact
A journey from a single photograph to worldwide recognition

What Digital Preservation Should Mean for GLAMP 

A descriptive term in search of a clear meaning: 
"Digital preservation" is a term that gets thrown around constantly in cultural heritage circles – but what does it mean, in practice, for galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and performing arts organisations operating within real-world constraints?

Is it different from:

Creating an Online Home For Surgery: Balancing Access, Ethics, and Sustainability in Medical Heritage Digitisation

Rights, Access, and Governance
Lessons from Evolving the V&A's Digital Asset Management Strategy

From Archive to Primetime

How One Photograph Transformed Hidden History into Global Impact
A journey from a single photograph to worldwide recognition

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