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British Library Labs Presentation at Edge Hill University
- 1. http://labs.bl.uk 1 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation Exploring Digital Collections and Data: Innovative Experiments and Future Opportunities at the British Library, Monday, 20th of April, 2015 Edge Hill University Mahendra Mahey Manager of British Library Labs
- 2. http://labs.bl.uk 2 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation Exploring Digital Collections and Data: Innovative Experiments and Future Opportunities at the British Library, Monday, 20th of April, 2015 Edge Hill University Mahendra Mahey Manager of British Library Labs Exploring Digital Collections and Data: Innovative Experiments and Future Opportunities at the British Library, Monday, 20th of April, 2015 Edge Hill University Mahendra Mahey Manager of British Library Labs
- 3. http://labs.bl.uk 3 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk How Labs works… Audience idea Experiment OutputsBL Data Other Data idea No idea Dynamic / Creative interaction / experimentation with data, which means ideas change, get reshaped etc. idea Competition Events Projects Awards
- 4. http://labs.bl.uk 4 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Building Bridges… • Addressing the gap between researchers and the data • Technical bridges between data and researchers • ‘Planning permission’, working with curators, making sure things are built to time, relations to the locals, several stakeholders
- 5. http://labs.bl.uk 5 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Digital Scholarship Digital Research Access & Reuse Group © Developers/ Technical Staff Universities & wider e.g. companies, start-ups, independent scholars, artists, etc. Stakeholders involved in Labs United Kingdom The World BL Labs Curators / Researchers Digital Content Advisory Board Project Board British Library Researchers
- 6. http://labs.bl.uk 6 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Digital Scholarship Digital Research Access & Reuse Group © Developers/ Technical Staff Universities & wider e.g. companies, start-ups, independent scholars, artists, etc. Stakeholders involved in Labs United Kingdom The World BL Labs Curators / Researchers Digital Content Advisory Board Project Board British Library Researchers
- 7. http://labs.bl.uk 7 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk The Role of Labs Labs is a space in which new projects and approaches can be bench-tested; but is an important fragment of an ongoing negotiation about the role of the institutions of memory and knowing. And getting that role right is imperative… Professor Tim Hitchcock, Labs Symposium ,2 November 2014
- 8. http://labs.bl.uk 8 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Digital is changing research Data broken down recombined and duplicated Image: Tower of Babble, Book Sculpture by Brian Dettmer
- 9. http://labs.bl.uk 9 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk The Digital Scholar Digital NetworkedOpen Scholar that employs digital, networked and open approaches to demonstrate their specialism.
- 10. http://labs.bl.uk 10 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 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 Natural Language Processing Using Application Programming Interfaces for datasets e.g. Metadata, Images Transcribing Crowdsourcing / Human Computation
- 11. http://labs.bl.uk 11 #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
- 12. http://labs.bl.uk 12 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Previous Competition Winners Desmond Schmidt Text to Image Linking Tool - TILT Mixing the Library, Information Interaction and the DJ Dan Norton Victorian Meme Machine - VMM Bob Nicholson Sample Generator Pieter FrancoisAnna Gerber
- 13. http://labs.bl.uk 13 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Dan Norton: Mixing the Library: The Disc Jockey & the Digital Collection http://www.tompro.co.uk http://www.ablab.org/shetland http://www.ablab.org/pd/di/ Prototype design Annotation Preview ‘item’ Selected ‘right’ channel ‘item’ Selected ‘left’ channel ‘item’ Collection ‘stalks’ made of ‘items’. Each ‘item’ is a URL. The order of the ‘items’ can be ‘shuffled’ and sent to the ‘left’ or ‘right’ channels ‘Play back’ of ‘items’ (Blue) and annotations (Yellow) Living Lab: Library of the Future, see: http://alturl.com/284zw
- 14. http://labs.bl.uk 14 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Pieter Francois: Sample Generator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK80Jy0ijkA More from Pieter Later…
- 15. http://labs.bl.uk 15 #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
- 16. http://labs.bl.uk 16 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk YouTube: http://goo.gl/mBTlk2 Bob Nicholson: Victorian Meme Machine
- 17. http://labs.bl.uk 17 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Competition 2015 •http://labs.bl.uk •International competition closes April 30th 2015 •Think of an idea of what to do with our data •We choose two and work with them as researchers in ‘residence from’ June to end of October 2015 (expenses paid up to £3600) •Showcase work on November 2 and win prize of up to £3000
- 18. http://labs.bl.uk 18 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Why work with the British Library? > 150million items!! > Fish and Chip Fridays > Legacy > Kudos > Work with Curators > Staff level access > CV > Pursue interests > Help shape BL King’s Library
- 19. http://labs.bl.uk 19 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Tips for competition (1) •Look at previous winning examples or those that were shortlisted for an idea of style, word length etc. •Communicate with us •Don’t leave it too late!
- 20. http://labs.bl.uk 20 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Tips for competition (2) •Look at the judging criteria…research question, technical, curatorial and legal factors •Think of ‘invisible’ criteria – what’s good for the BL other researchers •Publicity, Useful, Wider applicability •Be realistic in your plan – only four months •Look at the data if you can before you submit!
- 21. http://labs.bl.uk 21 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Awards 2015 •Work that uses our digital collections •Recognition of outstanding work in one of three areas: Research, Creativity and Entrepreneurship •Closing date 14th of September 2015 •Shortlist Monday 12th of October 2015 •Winners announced on November 2, 2015, £500 per category.
- 22. http://labs.bl.uk 22 #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 http://data.bl.uk in phase 2
- 23. http://labs.bl.uk 23 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Sifting through British Library Digital Collections Available only in Reading Rooms due to © Available on site only at the moment due to © Digital but not online – various storage devices Available only onsite, (at the moment), local events, researchers in residence, remote access where possible Digital & online British Library online behind paywall We have over 400 digital collections and many are not listed
- 24. http://labs.bl.uk 24 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Access to our data Wireless Access Point Ethernet Cable u:opendata p:opendata u:guest p:guest smb://10.0.0.1/ ftp://10.0.0.1 opendata 1 2
- 25. http://labs.bl.uk 25 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Mini NAS guide - http://goo.gl/78ITT0
- 26. http://labs.bl.uk 26 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk What’s on the Mini NAS? • British National Bibliography – 3.5 million records (2 Gb) • 90,000 Playbills – 1602 – 1902 (60 Gb) • ALTO XML (includes METS and MODS) for OCR of 65,000 volumes, 22 million pages mostly from the 19th Century (909 Gb) • 1 million images snipped from books put on Flickr (667 Gb) • 70,000 tagged images (170 Gb)
- 27. http://labs.bl.uk 27 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk It’s messy but fascinating!
- 28. http://labs.bl.uk 28 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Labs not just a competition! •Collaboration in many other projects – 3 Big Data Humanities Data AHRC Projects, National Endowment of Humanities, Visibility tool – Peter Balman, Big Data Experiment, Working with Artists… •Mechanical Curator and Flickr Images… •20 June 2015, Crossroads of Curiosity: The British Library Meets Burning Man - http://goo.gl/bK16BJ
- 29. http://labs.bl.uk 29 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk David Normal: Crossroad of Curiosity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3SBxO34Zlc
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’.
- 50 seconds In his book, The Digital Scholar: How technology is transforming scholarly practice, Martin Weller suggests that a short hand term should be used to loosely define a Digital Scholar. First of all, <click1> the person does not necessarily need to be a recognised academic or someone who posts online. It is someone who employs <click2> digital, <click3> networked <click 4> and open approaches to demonstrate their specialism. Let us now look at the area of Humanities, where our scholar Pieter Francois does his work, to investigate the idea of a Digital Scholar a little further.
- applying the intuitions of a DJ to working with digital collections (Dan Norton's Mixing the Library, Information Interaction and the DJ) linking digitised handwritten manuscripts to transcribed texts creating a database of Victorian humour and attempting to make Victorian jokes funny again (Bob Nicholson's Victorian Meme Machine) creating statistically representative samples from our book collections using metadata (Pieter Francois's Sample Generator)
- 65 seconds Dr Dan Norton was researcher at the University of Dundee and artist in residence at Hangar, Centre for Art and Research, Barcelona. His idea was “Mixing the Library: The Disc Jockey and the Digital Collection” which brought a DJ’s approach to interacting with multi-format digital collections <click>. Dan’s interactive approach helps build aesthetic, experimental, or logical links between resources. This project focused on ideas around creating a prototype<click> and what would be the basic building blocks needed to create a simple demonstrator <click>. Dan is now building on the work he did at Labs and is the resident researcher and artist at the <click>Living Labs: Library of the Future in Barcelona, where he will be working with software developers to continue his work.
- Let’s look at a brief video of about Pieter and his entry. Pieter is working with us to extend his work and try to make the tool available in the reading room. 1 min 30
- Bob Nicholson is one this year’s competition winners. We are working with him right now to complete his work for our showcase on November 3. I will let him speak for himself.
- 85 seconds The picture you can see is inside the main building in London, it’s the King’s Library – King George the Third’s personal library! Sometimes known as the ‘stack’, I walk past this everyday and I sometimes forget that the collections the British Library have are truly staggering! We currently estimate them to exceed <click>150 million items, representing every age of written civilisation and every known language. Our archives now contain the earliest surviving printed book in the world, the Diamond Sutra, written in Chinese and dating from 868 AD…. So some big numbers… Over …<click>14 million books <click>60 million patents <click>8 million stamps <click>4 million maps <click>3 million sound recordings <click>1.6 million music scores <click>over .3 million manuscripts <click>0.8 million serials titles (which are of course made up of many many volumes/editions), this is where a lot of our content is, just in case you thought the numbers didn’t add up!
- Let’s look at a brief video of about Pieter and his entry. Pieter is working with us to extend his work and try to make the tool available in the reading room. 1 min 30