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BL Labs Presentation to the Chinese Academy of Social Sceinces
- 1. British Library Labs Working with the British Library’s Digital Content and Data Monday 29th June 2015 Mahendra Mahey Manager of British Library Labs Presentation to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- 2. http://labs.bl.uk 2 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 180 Million Items
- 3. http://labs.bl.uk 3 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Digitisation at the British Library
- 4. http://labs.bl.uk 4 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Growth of the digital library
- 5. http://labs.bl.uk 5 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk UK Web Archive
- 6. http://labs.bl.uk 6 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Digital is changing research Data broken down recombined and duplicated Image: Tower of Babble, Book Sculpture by Brian Dettmer
- 7. http://labs.bl.uk 7 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk7 Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Knowledge Quarter •Partners include Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, University College London, Warwick •Initially funded at £42m over 5 years •Headquartered @ British Library •Part of Knowledge Quarter
- 9. http://labs.bl.uk 9 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk British National BibliographyUK Web Archive Data 19th Century Books Environmental Sounds Text-mining of electronic journals Book ordering and anonymised reader data Resonance FM 10 year Community Arts Radio Show Datasets, Books / Text, Images / Music, Maps, Sounds, Multimedia http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collections
- 10. http://labs.bl.uk 10 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Competition Tell us your ideas of what to do with our digital content Awards Show us what you have done with our digital content Projects Talk to us about working on collaborative projects
- 11. http://labs.bl.uk 11 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Mahendra Mahey Manager of British Library Labs https://goo.gl/lLsiaY/ @mahendra_mahey
- 12. http://labs.bl.uk 12 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Ben O’Steen Technical Lead of British Library Labs @benosteen
- 13. http://labs.bl.uk 13 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Hana Lewis Project Officer British Library Labs
- 14. http://labs.bl.uk 14 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Example Digital research methods http://labs.bl.uk/Launch+Event (has some examples from researchers) Corpus analysis tools Text Mining Visualisations Location based searching Geotagging Annotation Crowdsourcing / Human Computation Natural Language Processing Using Application Programming Interfaces for datasets e.g. Metadata, Images Transcribing
- 15. http://labs.bl.uk 15 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Story of just *one* digital collection What can 68,000 books tell us? Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
- 16. http://labs.bl.uk 16 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Snipping out images from 65,000 Digitised Books Face recognition Mechanical Curator Flickr Worked better for female faces than men’s Press http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com > 260,000,000 views > 380,000 tags http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/ 1,020,418 images need tagging! Creative uses of images http://goo.gl/qPPgxX
- 17. http://labs.bl.uk 17 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Tagging a million images Harnessing Crowdsourcing http://www.metadatagames.org/ http://goo.gl/j6fxac Cardiff University’s Lost Visions ProjectAdam Crymble BL Labs 2015 Competition Winner What if crowd sourcing looked like this? http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W Dr awing on downtime Drawingonscar cityofaccess Drawing on energy reserved for ‘play’ James Heald Mario Klingemann Chico 45 Use computational methods Human Tagger Top British Library Flickr Commons Taggers
- 18. http://labs.bl.uk 18 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Crowdsourcing Flickr and Other Digitised Maps http://www.bl.uk/maps/
- 19. http://labs.bl.uk 19 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Political Meetings Mapper BL Labs Competition Winner 2015 Katrina Navickas
- 20. http://labs.bl.uk 20 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Victorian Meme Machine BL Labs 2014 Competition Winner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0Bob Nicholson http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
- 21. http://labs.bl.uk 21 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Burning Man 2014 – David Normal Crossroads of Curiosity
- 22. http://labs.bl.uk 22 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk David Normal Interview https://youtu.be/Q3SBxO34Zlc
- 23. http://labs.bl.uk 23 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Crossroads of Curiosity at the British Library until Nov 8 2015
- 24. http://labs.bl.uk 24 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk What stories can other digital collections tell us?
- 25. http://labs.bl.uk 25 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Anna Gerber and Desmond Schmidt: Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4bjZSJ4cY&feature=youtu.be
- 26. http://labs.bl.uk 26 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Working with Students • Worked on clearing access to digital content, specifically Chinese Maps
Editor's Notes
- 50 seconds <click1>So, the very nature of digital allows us to <click2> break down what were previously bound items down into fundamental bits of information and data. These bits of data can be recombined, duplicated and linked to in infinite ways. This is fundamentally changing our view of research. It’s a bit like the <click3> ‘Tower of Babble’ sculpture to the right by Brian Dettmer , created by recombining bits from books, words and sentences cut out and put back together in different ways to create something new, surprising and beautiful. This is what scholars are doing with digital content. Let us now move on to what is understood by the term ‘digital scholar’.
- Knowledge Quarter partnership of 35 academic, cultural, research, scientific and media organisations in and around the King’s Cross and Euston area of the capital.
- Possibly using our maps
- Needs Bob’s Picture And link to Mechanical Comedian
- Play from 2m 14 seconds to 3 m 18 seconds