This project ran last year, with funding from the AHRC Creative Informatics programme, and the final report has been downloaded over 3000 times to date. In October, Jen Ross gave a keynote drawing on project findings at the Digikult conference in Västerås, Sweden. Her talk explored the disconnects between what people in the cultural heritage sector want from their digital futures, and what they expect will happen. In November, Jen, Melissa Terras, and Billy Franks led a workshop for the DARIAH UK day, hosted at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
DARIAH is the European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, and working with the Infrastructure Futures scenarios brought up fascinating issues including the relationship between access and sustainability, the value of small data, structures that support imagination and community, and what becomes possible when we use speculative methods like these to imagine different kinds of futures. More information about this project, and the scenarios themselves, are available at https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/index.php/project/infrastructure-futures-digital-cultural-heritage.