Marine heritage project

A new project to reshape the future of UK marine heritage has launched. Exploring underwater shipwrecks using virtual reality is one aspect of the project, which will bring the UK’s rich marine history to life and make it accessible to a global audience. The University of Portsmouth is one of several partners to receive a share of £14.5 million funding to transform online exploration of the UK’s culture and heritage collections through harnessing innovative AI.

Five major ‘Discovery Projects’ are being funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the five-year programme Towards a National Collection, which aims to create new ways for audiences to access and interact with disparate historical collections.

University of Portsmouth academics will work on marine heritage project UNPATH, which aims to devise new ways of searching archives, visualising underwater landscapes and identifying shipwrecks. It also seeks to make maritime archive records accessible for the first time.

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