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BL Labs Research Award 2016
- 1. Research Allan Sudlow Head of Research Development
- 2. 2@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Reigniting the 'vital spark’: Rediscovering the appeal and repertoire of the Victorian music hall serio-comedienne https://goo.gl/2RTcHA Louise Wingrove
- 3. 3@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital 19th Century Newspaper Analytics https://goo.gl/6NBeAi Paul Fyfe & Qian Ge
- 4. 4@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital British Library Georeferencer Project Maurice Nicholson http://www.bl.uk/maps
- 5. 5@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Scissors and Paste Melodee Beals https://osf.io/nm2rq/
- 6. 6@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Timescape: Kolkata http://www.time-scape.org/ Nandini Das & Supriya Chaudhuri
- 7. 7@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital What's in a library catalogue? Visual analytics applied to the British National Bibliography Luis Martinez-Uribe, Modesto Escobar, Paz Fernández, Luis Zorita Vicente, Marina Fernández & Fernando Martínez http://www.luismart.es
- 8. 8@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Jury’s Special Mention is…
- 9. 9@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital British Library Georeferencer Project Judges Special Mention Maurice Nicholson http://www.bl.uk/maps
- 10. 10@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital The Runner up is…
- 11. 11@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital 19th Century Newspaper Analytics Runner Up https://goo.gl/6NBeAi Paul Fyfe & Qian Ge
- 12. 12@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital The Winner is…
- 13. 13@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital Scissors and Paste Winner Melodee Beals https://osf.io/nm2rq/
Editor's Notes
- Briefly introduce yourself. The BL Labs Research Award recognises outstanding and innovative work that has been carried out using the British Library’s digital collections and data regarding a project or activity which shows the development of new knowledge, research methods or tools. There were 7 entries this year, though you will only cover 6 as one entry was entered in all categories.
- Louise Wingrove is a researcher at the University of Bristol. She used BL’s digitised 19th Century Newspapers collection to investigate the serio-comedienne in the Victorian era. The project has challenged the conventional image of these female entertainers as one dimensional, flirtatious, jingoistic performers to ones of complex, ambiguous reflectors of gender issues and politics.
- ‘Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Analytics’ by Paul Fyfe, Associate Professor of English and Qian Ge, PhD Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, both at North Carolina State University. The project represents an innovative partnership between researchers in English literature, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and data analytics in pursuit of the research question: How can computer vision and image processing techniques be adapted for large-scale interpretation of historical illustrations?
- Maurice Nicholson is a volunteer georeferencer who has worked on the BL Georeferencer project since 2012 and is our top Georeferencer! The Georeferencer project has identified more than 50,000 maps within the BL’s Flickr 1 million collection, of which 20,000+ to date have been physically located, tagged and are available online.
- Scissors & Paste by Melodee Beals, Lecturer in Digital History at Loughborough University. Melodee’s project utilises the British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900 collection to explore the possibilities of mining large-scale newspaper databases for reprinted and repurposed news content. It addresses several key questions, including ‘How much material was it acceptable to reprint in the 19th century with or without attribution?
- Nandini Das is a Professor of English Literature and PI at the University of Liverpool, and an Emeritus Professor of English Literature and PI at Jadavpur University (India). They produced an Augmented Reality App that overlays British Library archival photographs and documentary information about historic buildings in the city of Kolkata, India.
- The project presents a research method and a tool, known as the Network Coincidence Analysis (NCA) framework, and applies it to the BNB dataset providing a way to delve into the data's inherent relationships, discover associations and make comparisons. The NCA framework produced in the project could enable researchers to explore the British National Bibliography, and other bibliographic corpuses, to visually understand the data, discover new trends and take their research in many exciting directions.
- Maurice Nicholson is a volunteer georeferencer who has worked on the BL Georeferencer project since 2012 and is our top Georeferencer! The Georeferencer project has identified more than 50,000 maps within the BL’s Flickr 1 million collection, of which 20,000+ to date have been physically located, tagged and are available online. Maurice comes up and gets a thing. He doesn’t say anything.
- And now on to announcing the runner up of this year’s Research Award: ‘Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Analytics’ by Paul Fyfe, Associate Professor of English and Qian Ge, PhD Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, both at North Carolina State University. Play video acceptance speech from Paul and Qian.
- And now the winner of the Research Award for 2016: Scissors & Paste by Melodee Beals, Lecturer in Digital History at Loughborough University. Come up Melodee. Melodee will give a 6-7 minute presentation about her work and take a couple of questions.