This reflection examines the potential of combining data, stories and histories to explore the links that emerge from crossing data streams.
My reflection begins with the metaphor of yarn and the intersections that take place between different threads of data. Looking at the projects that everyone has been working on it has become clear that each intersect in some way with each other through place, personality, theme and technology.
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simon66 — 3 years ago
This image was made on a visit to Bradford industrial museum as part of the inaugural Congruence Engine conference 2022.
Until now, historians and curators have become used to a world where it has only been possible to work with a small selection of the sources – museum objects, archive documents, pictures, films, maps, or publications, for example – potentially relevant to the history they want to explore. We hope to overcome this major constraint on the histories that can be created and shared with the wider public in museums, publications and online.
The Congruence Engine project provides us with the opportunity of working in creative ways to tell stories and make links between collections, histories and personal experiences.
It has been interesting observing how other people have been working on their projects and how stories and enquiries have increasingly overlapped and benefitted from collaborations.
The branching out of historical threads has encouraged us to draw across different sets of resources and think about creative interventions. The sue of moving image and sound have become particularly important.