Our Heritage, Our Stories (OHOS)
Linking community-generated digital content to develop the people’s national collection
The intellectual and economic investment in community-generated digital content (CGDC) is immense and its rich and diverse content is one of the UK’s prime cultural assets, but it is 'critically endangered' due to technological and organisational barriers. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (as part of the Towards a National Collection programme), Our Heritage, Our Stories (OHOS) responds to this urgent challenge. The academic team consists of researchers in digital humanities, archives, history, linguistics and computer science at the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester. Closely collaborating with The National Archives (TNA), we are using cutting-edge approaches from cultural heritage, humanities and computer science to dissolve existing barriers and develop scalable linking and discoverability across CGDC and the collections of TNA.