Description
The Information Management SIG invites you to join us for the next in the series of short online talks from 12:30 until 13:30 on Tuesday 10 February 2026.
Each session will have a focus on a specific topic, and we welcome everyone regardless of their level of pre-existing knowledge.
This session will feature a talk by Stuart Jeffries from Glasgow School of Art giving a talk on Unpath’d Waters, a ground-breaking 3-year research project to unite the UK’s maritime collections.
Digital heritage data and immersive systems, opportunity or barrier?
This presentation will look at some recent academic projects in the heritage domain that have explored the affordances of immersive systems approaches (VR/AR/XR) to meaningful delivery of both heritage datasets and heritage narratives. The talk will discuss projects such as the ‘Digital Laocoon’, looking at conservation and narrative challenges in the wake of the Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building fires and also the recent Historic England led Unpath’d Waters project focused on the enhancement, aggregation and delivery of maritime heritage datasets held across the UK.
There will be special focus on the Unpath’d Waters objective of reaching new audiences, including immersive system design work which focused on audiences with visual impairments. Finally, this presentation will broadly consider both the audience reception for these delivery modes and, in particular, the same implications for professional practice.