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ASyMMuS Workshop on Audio
Symbolic Music Similarity Modelling
8 July 2015, 10:40
Foyle Suite, Centre for Conservation
British Library
Mahendra Mahey
Manager of British Library Labs

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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

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BL Labs Team
Mahendra Mahey - Manager
@mahendra_mahey
Ben O’Steen - Technical Lead
@benosteen
Hana Lewis- Project Officer
@HanaHistories

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Competition
Tell us your ideas of what to do with our digital
content
Awards
Show us what you have done with our digital
content, deadline in Sep 2015
Projects
Talk to us about working on collaborative projects,
e.g. supporting DML, ASyMMus and other projects

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Adam Crymble (@adam_crymble)
Image Credit: Sam Howzit
Drawing on downtime
Drawing on scarcity of access
Drawing on energy reserved for ‘play’
http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W
Adam Crymble
Crowdsourcing Arcade
BL Labs Competition Winner 2015

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Political Meetings Mapper
BL Labs Competition Winner 2015
Katrina Navickas

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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

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Crowdsourcing Flickr and Other
Digitised Maps
http://www.bl.uk/maps/

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Crossroads of Curiosity at the
British Library until Nov 8 2015

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Visibility - Technology Strategy Board
Competition Winner 2014
Understanding value / impact of making the BL’s
data open / in the public domain
Peter Balman developed an analytics dashboard for
the Library showing what is happening to our Flickr
Images
Initial Pitch: https://www.vimeo.com/94067983
Challenge details: http://goo.gl/Hb6l4A