Host: Lia Carreira, Palácio das Belas Artes Lisboa, Portugal

Visitor: Daníel Eldjarn Vilhjalmsson, Iceland

‘Expanding Collections’, a collaborative initiative by PdBA Lisboa (Portugal) and the Internet Teapot Studio (Netherlands), is a public-facing online platform designed to foster collaboration between EU-based collection institutions and international creative practitioners. Its goal is to support inclusivity-driven practices that transcend institutional constraints, by offering a data flagging system that helps identify and prioritize critical issues for joint action.

Within the Cross Sectoral Pioneers project, the focus is on laying the groundwork for this platform through the collaboration of data engineer and scientist Daníel Eldjárn Vilhjálmsson and researcher and digital collections specialist Lia Carreira. Together, they will prototype a search tool capable of detecting significant gaps and inconsistencies in Open Datasets from the Cultural and Creative Sectors.

The project will take place in Lisbon at the end of August—stay tuned for the outcomes!

Image by Daniel Eldjarn Vilhjalmsson