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British Library Labs Staff Award 2017
- 1. British Library Labs Staff Award David Sparling Head of Information Technology
- 2. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital The Digital Scholarship team • A cross-disciplinary team of curators, researchers, librarians and technologists supporting the creation and innovative use of digital collections and data • We focus on using computational methods to answer existing research questions and to challenge existing theoretical paradigms….
- 3. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Evolving English: VoiceBank Jonnie Robinson (Lead Curator Spoken English Collection, Sound and Vision) https://goo.gl/S5Eg8w
- 4. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital British Library Time Lapse Films Digitisation of Maps KAR The Klencke Atlas 1660 The Building of Shakespeare in Ten Acts Digitisation of ADD 11831 The Book of Ester 17th Century Wet cleaning of PDP/F 1069 Silk Colours of the Royal East India Volunteers dating from 1777-1779 Creating the Tempest Tangut fragment conservation Painted Silk Sutra Wrapper IOL.MSS.KHOT.S.46 https://goo.gl/Q3NJXh Elizabeth Hunter and Carl Norman Senior Imaging Technicians, St Pancras Studios
- 5. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Picturing Canada and Interactive Map https://goo.gl/o6nphi Phil Hatfield, Lead Curator Digital Map Collections, Contemporary British Joan Francis - Administration Officer, Contemporary British Published Collections https://goo.gl/2FTRCT
- 6. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Web Archiving Week June 2017 http://netpreserve.org/wac2017/ Olga Holownia Programme and Communications Officer for the International Internet Preservation Consortium Andrew Jackson - Web Archiving Technical Lead 3 collaborative events: Datathon with Archives Unleashed Conference with RESAW Digital Conversations with BL Digital Scholarship RESAW.EU Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web WAC & RESAW: 76 conference papers (RESAW + WAC) 2 workshops 108 contributors GA 2017, LAChttp://netpreserve.org/WAC2017/
- 7. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Workflow for processing born digital archives The Carmen Callil Archive: A Hybrid Archive Jonathan Pledge - Curator Contemporary Archives Eleanor Dickens - Cataloguer Contemporary Literary Archive, Malvine Project
- 8. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Implementation of the new British Library Universal Viewer Adrian Arthur - Web Programme Manager Andy Irving - Solutions Architect, Save Our Sounds (SOS) IT Project Peter James - Head of Application Development (South), Remote Services Mia Ridge – Digital Curator, Digital Scholarship Tom Crane – Technical Director, Digerati
- 9. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Asian and African Studies Blog Ursula Sims-Williams, Lead Curator Persian & Turcic Colls Malini Roy, Curator Visual Arts Collections Annabel Gallop, Head of South East Asian Collections http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/
- 10. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Prints & Drawings Team / Picturing Places https://www.bl.uk/picturing-places Felicity Myrone, Lead Curator Western Prints & Drawings Oliver Flory, Grant Lewis, Mercedes Ceron, Alice Rylance-Watson and Sileas Wood
- 11. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Two Centuries of Indian Print https://www.bl.uk/projects/two-centuries-of-indian-print Layli Uddin, Priyanka Basu, Tom Derrick, Megan O’Looney, Alia Carter, Nora McGregor, Nur Sobers khan, Laurence Roger
- 12. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Virtual Tour of the British Library Anthony Grant, Senior Imaging Technician, St Pancras Studios https://goo.gl/AS3K66
- 13. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Geospatial Data Application and Services (GDAS) system upgrade Phil Hatfield - Lead Curator Digital Map Collections Linda Arnold - Stratford - Legal Deposit Liaison Manager Caylin Smith - Legal Deposit Libraries Senior Project Manager https://ldl.themapcloud.com/ (Only works on Library PCs)
- 14. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Battle of Passchendaele posters 2017 https://goo.gl/RHjPVs
- 16. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital British Library Time Lapse Films Digitisation of Maps KAR The Klencke Atlas 1660 The Building of Shakespeare in Ten Acts Digitisation of ADD 11831 The Book of Ester 17th Century Wet cleaning of PDP/F 1069 Silk Colours of the Royal East India Volunteers dating from 1777-1779 Creating the Tempest Tangut fragment conservation Painted Silk Sutra Wrapper IOL.MSS.KHOT.S.46 https://goo.gl/Q3NJXh Elizabeth Hunter and Carl Norman Senior Imaging Technicians, St Pancras Studios
- 17. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital The Runner up is…
- 18. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Picturing Canada and Interactive Map https://goo.gl/o6nphi Phil Hatfield, Lead Curator Digital Map Collections, Contemporary British Joan Francis - Administration Officer, Contemporary British Published Collections https://goo.gl/2FTRCT
- 19. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital The Winner is…
- 20. @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Two Centuries of Indian Print https://www.bl.uk/projects/two-centuries-of-indian-print Layli Uddin, Priyanka Basu, Tom Derrick, Megan O’Looney, Alia Carter, Nora McGregor, Nur Sobers khan, Laurence Roger
Editor's Notes
- Hello, my name is David Sparling, I have just joined the British Library as the Head of Information Technology. It my honour to be hosting the BL Labs Staff Award, which was an idea from Maja (Myah) Maricevic (Mari-say-vitch), Head of Higher Education in 2015. It recognises a current outstanding individual or team who have played a key role in innovative work using the British Library's digital collections and data.
- The awards are run by BL Labs based in the Digital Scholarship department run by Adam Farquhar, <click>which is a cross-disciplinary team of curators, researchers, librarians and technologists supporting the creation and innovative use of digital collections and data <click> It focuses on using computational methods to answer existing research questions and to challenge existing theoretical paradigms….We received 12 nominations for the Staff Awards. I will now introduce the nominees for the Staff Awards.
- Jonnie Robinson has been nominated for a project that few years ago crowd-sourced a digital audio collection of circa 10,000 international voices, accents of English created by members of the public in ‘VoiceBank’ booths located in the Paccar Gallery at St Pancras and in 6 Libraries in Newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool, Norwich, Birmingham and Plymouth or through online submission from all over the world. One of the challenges was to find a text that was easy to read, accessible to all ages, levels of education and language, culturally neutral and most importantly contained all the English vowel and consonant phonemes. Mr Snow from the Mr Men series by Roger Hargreaves was an early front runner because it ticked nearly all the boxes, except culturally perhaps the idea and experience of ‘Snowmen’’ is not known universally around the world. MrTickle won the Mr Men ‘battle’ by adding an additional sentence at the beginning in the BL version. Another part of the project was that users could also ‘donate’ a word they felt was special in their variety of English i.e. examples of local dialect, slang and nonce-words. <35 seconds>
- Elizabeth Hunter and Carol Norman were approached two years ago by the Textile conservator to make a time-lapse film about the conservation processes involved in restoring two 18th century flags. Since then, six films have been published around conservation or setting up of the Shakespeare in 10 Acts exhibition in the Library. The most popular video being the digitisation of the Klenke Atlas, with over 30,000 views on YouTube. All the videos have an accompanying ‘chirpy’ sound track and endeavour to tell a story in around one minute, of incredible work that takes place behind the scenes of the British Library, giving viewers a window into the skilled and often painstaking work that is carried out every day. <39 seconds>
- Phil Hatfield and Joan Francis, developed this project from previous work on the digitisation and access to a collection of Colonial Copyright photographs deposited from Canada on Wikimedia Commons. The output is an interactive map that enables access to the collection by location, providing users with metadata and where possible, access to the rights cleared (public domain) images held on the Library's Wikimedia site. Picturing Canada project received no external funding, and in a short period of time was able to transform access and understanding of a large collection demonstrating how the BL can provide non-text access points to our collections. <46 Seconds>
- Olga (who has the longest job title in BL) co-organised a major international event with Professor Jane Winters, called Web Arching Week in June 2017, in partnership with several organisation. It bought the British Library Web Archive collections and expertise, alongside other national and international collections, organisations and researchers to create a week-long series of events. It included a data hackathon hosted by the BL, with 45 participants form all over the world to dig in to Webarchiving data. There was also a 3-day conference and a Digital Conversations public event on fake news and the web archive. The project showcased not just collections but new tools and methods, research methodologies across disciplines and a critical eye on current events. Andrew Jackson was one of the key contributors to the whole week participating in the hackathon, several presentations through the conference and represented the BL on the Digital Conversation panel. All presentation. <45 seconds>
- Jonathan and Eleanor have established a workflow for capturing, processing, cataloguing and delivering born-digital archive material to readers in the reading rooms for the first time at the British Library. Very few institutions internationally are successfully providing access to their born-digital archives.
- Adrian, Andy, Peter, Mia and Tom Crane from Digerati have been nominated for the successful implementation of a new browser based viewer, the ‘Universal Viewer’ for many of our digitised images. This was a complex project which demonstrated how open source software could be implemented at a National Library, many cultural institutions are using it and also commercial vendors are now starting to use it within their product set. Importantly is uses the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and includes an Application Programming Interface (API).
- Led by Ursula, Annabel and Malini was nominated for the Asian and African Studies blog, for it’s outstanding way of letting people know about our incredible Asian and African collections, including many digitised items.
- Nominated for the new website for to iscover the role and history of topographical views, maps and texts through over 500 examples from the British Library’s collections and beyond, with fresh research in over 100 articles and films from an academic conference hosted by the British Library and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
- This pilot project is digitising 3,000 rare Bengali printed books and is enhancing our catalogue records to automate searching and aid discovery by researchers. It has also been doing some ground-breaking work around Optical Character Recognition of Bengali text organising a competition in the summer to test different technologies.
- Click between the images to create movement. Anthony used a 360 degree camera, that automatically stitches 306 images to make a high definition panoramic image around a case study of a user who can’t get to the Library to access our maps.
- A tool upgrade to be able to see Legal Deposit Maps in the reading rooms.
- Jeremey Nagle and Margaret Makepeace submitted posters on the British Library’s Untold Lives twitter account for 2016 for the Battle of the Somme and now for the Battle of Passchendale for 2017.
- The judges particularly liked this entry as a wonderful way to show the incredible work our people do. Play Silk video <39 seconds>
- We were particularly impressed by this pioneering work by Phil, the first curator from the British Library to work on a digital collection to uploaded on Wikimedia commons.
- Judges felt this a ground breaking project demonstrating the best of how departments in the Library can work together.