Comprehensive Collecting by Heritage Centre will enable us to continuously expand and maintain a collection that encompasses all facets of maritime history from 1760 to the present. This includes ships and shipbuilding, navigation, trade routes, cultural exchanges, technology and innovation, social impacts, maritime law, and safety, all relevant to the work of Lloyd’s Register (LR) and the Foundation.
We are also Safeguarding Knowledge as we preserve and collect historical knowledge to facilitate learning from the past, integrating this knowledge into the collections and resources offered by the Heritage Centre.
In this way we secure and ensure the long-term future of the LR corporate archives. Systematically and consistently capture data and insights from LR and Foundation activities for future use.
About Theme 1: The Lloyd’s Register Collection – Safeguarding Old Knowledge, and Corporate Memory
Preservation and Sustainability:
- Best Practice Conservation: Implement best practice conservation and preservation techniques for all items in the collection. Ensure that objects and archives are conserved and properly documented according to UK accreditation standards.
- Sustainable Practices: Commit to sustainable practices in storage, digitisation, and operations.
Trust and Accessibility
- Authenticity: Ensure due diligence in collecting authentic and well-provenanced objects and archives and ensuring appropriate ownership and intellectual property rights are entailed in order to build long term public value and sustain the international credibility of and trust in the Foundation.
- Open Access Policy: Balance accessibility with intellectual property rights, ensuring open data initiatives to the utmost wherever appropriate. Optimise welcome and access for all stakeholders and interested people to the Lloyds Register Building
- Digitisation: Offer digitised resources for global access while optimising advanced search functionalities and user-friendly interfaces. Utilise digital resources to offer access through multiple languages and accessible platforms or AI engines. Transform resources into datasets (e.g. Casualty Returns, World Fleet Statistics, and Lloyd's Register of Ships)