5. 5@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
•Submit ideas by April.
•Two finalists announced late May.
•Residency June – October.
•Up to £3600 support, technical, curatorial etc.
•Showcase @ Symposium Nov.
•Winner £3000 & Runner up £1000!
Competition
6. 6@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
•Projects already using BL digital content in
interesting and innovative ways.
•Submit projects (previous and new) by
5 September 2016.
•Artistic, Commercial, Research and Learning /
Teaching categories.
•Winners announced @Symposium 7 Nov 16.
•£500 Winner & £100 Runner Up.
Awards
7. 7@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
• Projects already using / used BL digital content and data in
interesting and innovative ways.
• Submit projects (previous and new) by
7 October 2016, individual staff or teams can enter
• Artistic, Commercial, Research and Learning / Teaching
categories.
• Winners announced @Symposium 7 Nov 16.
• £100 shop vouchers to winners
• Details available on intranet soon…
Staff Awards
8. 8@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
•Received 22 entries from around world.
•Equal amount of Digital Humanities and Arts
ideas
•Some commercial and community based
projects
•Considering how we support some of the
entries outside competition
Competition 2016
13. 13@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Finalists
Hannah-Rose Murray
PhD student, University of Nottingham
Black Abolitionist Performances and their Presence in
Britain
Luda Karen Brian
Hannah-Rose
Luda Zhao, Karen Wang (Masters Students at Stanford
University), Brian Do (Harvard Medicine and PhD student)
SherlockNet: Using Convolutional Neural Networks to
Automatically Tag and Caption the British Library
Collection
15. 15@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Dates for diary
•Deadline for Labs Awards, 5 September 2016
•Bitesize update from winners, 21 September 2016
•Deadline for Staff Awards, 7 October 2016
•BL Labs Symposium, 7 November 2016
Editor's Notes
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In a nutshell the project encourages researchers, artists, entrepreneurs, educators and anyone else,
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to ‘experiment’ with our digital collections and data. We are particularly interested in those who have questions which focus on the potential to find and create NEW things through access to the digital content. For example, being able to ask a question across thousands of digitised books or newspapers using computational techniques would not feasible using manual methods. Let’s look at a clear example.
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We have created collection guides detailing some of these digital collections <Click>on our Digital Scholarship site.
<Click>and some on the Labs site.
<Click> Soon data.bl.uk will be the place where people can directly access some of the digital collections we have available.
<Click> Today we have brought data with us, see the guide on how to access it and print outs on the tables.
A pause for thought and reflection however, digital is just a current technology to deliver information. Perhaps in Years to come <Click>we won’t be using the word ‘Digital’ <Click>in front of the word ‘Scholarship’. It will just be ‘Scholarship’, digital tecnology will be part of the EVERYDAY process of research. Any way back to the present.
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One way is by running an annual competition which is open to the world! All you have to do is
<Click>submit and idea by 11 April 2016.
<Click>The two finalists will be announced in late May <Click>and they work with in residence between June and October,
<Click>where they will get up to £3600 financial support, together with technical, curatorial and other types of support.
<Click>The winners will showcase their work and receive their prizes at our symposium on Monday 7th of November.
<Click>£3000 will be awarded to the winner and £1000 for the runner up.
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The next way we try to engage those interested in using our digital content is through our Awards,
<Click>these recognise work already carried out using our digital content.<Click>The deadline for this year is the 5 September. You can submit previous and new projects<Click>in one of four categories: Artistic, Commercial, Research and Teaching & Learning <Click> Winners will be announced on Monday 7th of November
<Click> where each category winner, winning £500 with £100 for the runners up.
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The next way we try to engage those interested in using our digital content is through our Awards,
<Click>these recognise work already carried out using our digital content.<Click>The deadline for this year is the 5 September. You can submit previous and new projects<Click>in one of four categories: Artistic, Commercial, Research and Teaching & Learning <Click> Winners will be announced on Monday 7th of November
<Click> where each category winner, winning £500 with £100 for the runners up.
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One way is by running an annual competition which is open to the world! All you have to do is
<Click>submit and idea by 11 April 2016.
<Click>The two finalists will be announced in late May <Click>and they work with in residence between June and October,
<Click>where they will get up to £3600 financial support, together with technical, curatorial and other types of support.
<Click>The winners will showcase their work and receive their prizes at our symposium on Monday 7th of November.
<Click>£3000 will be awarded to the winner and £1000 for the runner up.
