Welcome to Congruence Engine investigations

These are experimental, work-in-progress, mainly proof-of-concept investigations using digital tools and computational technologies and aiming to bring together multiple archive, museum, personal, and heritage UK collections with industrial history focus.

These have been developed as part of the AHRC - TaNC-funded Congruence Engine project, which focused, among other things, on exploring what a UK collection of industrial heritage materials might look like.

Experimenting with Optical Character Recognition

Universal Named Entity Recognition (NER) with GLiNER

Zooniverse & Industrial Photographs

Connecting environmental data: Bradford, textiles, and river pollution

Bradford convergence

Linking Textile Machine terms via Wikidata

Museums’ online catalogue-as-data

Uncovering Positionality in data-driven/AI cultural heritage pipelines

Industrial occupations ontology

Visualizing Oral Histories

Data Vis Explorer - Time-based Media (Visualizing Oral History Phase 3)

The Congruent Data Explorer: Conceiving, Designing and Developing a Toolkit for Pre-Topic Modelling Data Preparation