The British Library Labs is hosting an event to discuss digital experiments and opportunities using their digital collections. They provide an overview of previous competition winners who created tools using BL data. Labs supports various projects and works with researchers and developers to build tools and explore new ways of using the Library's digital content and data. They encourage participants to enter the current competition or awards program.
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British Library Labs Presentation at the Bodleian and Oxford e-research Centre
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#bl_labs labs@bl.ukFunded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation
Exploring Digital Collections and Data: Innovative
Experiments and Future Opportunities at the British
Library,
Wednesday 15th
of April, 2015
Bodleian and Oxford e-research Centre
Mahendra Mahey
Manager of British Library Labs
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How Labs works…
Audience
idea
Experiment OutputsBL Data
Other
Data
idea
No
idea
Dynamic interaction with data,
and experimentation means
ideas change, get reshaped etc.
idea
Competition Events
Projects
Awards
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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
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The Role of Labs
Labs is as much as being a space in which new projects and
approaches can be bench-tested; but is important as a
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
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The Digital Scholar
Digital
NetworkedOpen
Scholar that employs digital, networked and open
approaches to demonstrate their specialism.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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
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Access to our data
Wireless Access Point
Ethernet Cable
u:opendata
p:opendata
u:guest
p:guest
10.0.0.1For a guide:
http://goo.gl/78ITT0
Or Hand out…
opendata
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What’s on the Mini NAS?
• British National Bibliography – 3.5 million records
• 90,000 Playbills – 1602 – 1902
• ALTO XML for OCR of 65,000 volumes, 22 million pages
mostly from the 19th
Century
• 1 million images snipped from books put on Flickr
• 70,000 tagged images
• Explore! If you want large amount contact us!
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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
50 seconds
<click1>So, the very nature of digital allows us to
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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
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‘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’.
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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,
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the person does not necessarily need to be a recognised academic or someone who posts online. It is someone who employs
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digital,
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networked
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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)
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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.
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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