The British Library Labs project encourages scholars and developers to conduct research and development using British Library collections and data. The project aims to transform digital scholarship through competitions and events where participants can work intensively with the Library's digital content. The initial two-year project is funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. It involves collaborations between the Library's digital curation and access teams and researchers and developers from universities. The Labs project manager provided an overview of the project, including details about upcoming competitions and hack events, available digital collections and APIs, and ways for scholars to engage with the Labs initiative.
Enabling Complex Analysis of Large-Scale Digital Collections: Humanities Rese...James Baker
Talk at Digital Humanities 2016 with Melissa Terras, James Hetherington, David Beavan, Anne Welsh, Helen O'Neill, Will Finley, Oliver Duke-Williams, Adam Farquhar, and Martin Zaltz Austwick.
Abstract http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/2584
The Future of Finding: Resource Discovery @ The University of OxfordChristine Madsen
The report is the culmination of a one-year multi-strand research project, and examines how users of the museums and libraries at the University of Oxford find the information they need (known as “resource discovery”), current practices among other institutions, and trends and possibilities for resource discovery in the future.
Athenaeum21 led the end-user research and needs assessment portion of the project, and then led the synthesis and analysis of the data across all of the research strands, making the recommendations and writing the final report. The report defines the resource discovery strategy for the University for the next 5 years.
“Agile” as Key to Collaboration on NYU Digital Collections Discovery InitiativeLovins, Daniel
Describes how end-user needs were assessed for an NYU digital collections discovery initiative and how these assessments were translated into functional requirements and work packages using agile methodology. Also touches on lessons learned and recommended next steps, both for NYU and for other institutions engaged in similar efforts.
Presentation given to visitors from the University of Sunderland on the 10th of February, 2014 about BL Labs at the British Library in the Panizzi Room.
Enabling Complex Analysis of Large-Scale Digital Collections: Humanities Rese...James Baker
Talk at Digital Humanities 2016 with Melissa Terras, James Hetherington, David Beavan, Anne Welsh, Helen O'Neill, Will Finley, Oliver Duke-Williams, Adam Farquhar, and Martin Zaltz Austwick.
Abstract http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/2584
The Future of Finding: Resource Discovery @ The University of OxfordChristine Madsen
The report is the culmination of a one-year multi-strand research project, and examines how users of the museums and libraries at the University of Oxford find the information they need (known as “resource discovery”), current practices among other institutions, and trends and possibilities for resource discovery in the future.
Athenaeum21 led the end-user research and needs assessment portion of the project, and then led the synthesis and analysis of the data across all of the research strands, making the recommendations and writing the final report. The report defines the resource discovery strategy for the University for the next 5 years.
“Agile” as Key to Collaboration on NYU Digital Collections Discovery InitiativeLovins, Daniel
Describes how end-user needs were assessed for an NYU digital collections discovery initiative and how these assessments were translated into functional requirements and work packages using agile methodology. Also touches on lessons learned and recommended next steps, both for NYU and for other institutions engaged in similar efforts.
Presentation given to visitors from the University of Sunderland on the 10th of February, 2014 about BL Labs at the British Library in the Panizzi Room.
British Library Labs and Competition Presentation at the Open Universitylabsbl
Presentation given at the department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts, The Open University.
Friday 7th June 2013
12:00 - 14:00
CMR01
Open University
British Library Labs Virtual Event - 17 May 2013, 1500GMTlabsbl
British Library Labs presentation given as part of a Google Hangout on the 17 May, 2013 at 1500GMT. The presentation gave some background information to the project and detailed information about the competition.
Slides of the presentations gives as part of the Europeana Research panel "Cultural Heritage Data for Research: A Europeana Research Panel" at DH Benelux 2017 in Utrecht.
New approaches for data acquisition at europeana iiif, sitemaps and schema.o...Nuno Freire
Presentation on experiments at Europeana regarding new methods of aggregating metadata.
Presented at the Seminar Linked Data in Research and Cultural Heritage, on 1st of May 2017.
Supporting the Digital Scholar:Experiences from the British Library Labslabsbl
The presentation will first give a very brief overview of the Library and then tell you a number of ‘stories’ mostly from a Humanities perspective on how researchers did things in the past and how that is changing because of rapid developments in digital technology. With more and more digital content, data, tools and services being made available, researchers are able to ask questions they had never dreamed of before, share their findings in an open way and collaborate, some of them are becoming the ‘digital’ scholar.
It will bring back the story to the British Library, and how the digital scholar is changing the way we do things. It will then move on to the efforts of digitisation across the British Library, giving a whistle stop tour of some of the incredible digital collections we now have and highlight some of the challenges that we face given our historical origins, licensing and technical restrictions. Importantly, it will also try to address how we are trying to tackle some of these challenges. It will outline the work of Digital Scholarship department, created to support the changing research landscape, focusing particularly on the work on the Digital Research Team and that of British Library Labs, both of which sit in the same department. It will point out some of the surprising findings we have discovered and some of the lessons we have learned so far and what we are planning for the future. Finally, it will finish with some important final ‘take away’ messages and The Presentation will be asking you what excites you most about digital scholarship. Hopefully, if there is time, there will be an opportunity to take a few questions too.
WebART: Facilitating Scholarly Use of Web Archives (IIPC, Apr. 2013)TimelessFuture
Presentation at symposium “Scholarly Access to Web Archives: Progress, Requirements and Challenges”, IIPC, April 25, 2013 (Ljubljana, Slovenia). This presentation discusses the results of the WebART project’s first year, in which different research disciplines joined forces to tackle the issue of scholarly access to Web archives. It introduces WebARTist, a novel Web archive search interface, and discusses the potential of scholarly research using Web archives, as well as current barriers to success, based on the experiences gained during a pilot project.
British Library Labs and Competition Presentation at the Open Universitylabsbl
Presentation given at the department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts, The Open University.
Friday 7th June 2013
12:00 - 14:00
CMR01
Open University
British Library Labs Virtual Event - 17 May 2013, 1500GMTlabsbl
British Library Labs presentation given as part of a Google Hangout on the 17 May, 2013 at 1500GMT. The presentation gave some background information to the project and detailed information about the competition.
Slides of the presentations gives as part of the Europeana Research panel "Cultural Heritage Data for Research: A Europeana Research Panel" at DH Benelux 2017 in Utrecht.
New approaches for data acquisition at europeana iiif, sitemaps and schema.o...Nuno Freire
Presentation on experiments at Europeana regarding new methods of aggregating metadata.
Presented at the Seminar Linked Data in Research and Cultural Heritage, on 1st of May 2017.
Supporting the Digital Scholar:Experiences from the British Library Labslabsbl
The presentation will first give a very brief overview of the Library and then tell you a number of ‘stories’ mostly from a Humanities perspective on how researchers did things in the past and how that is changing because of rapid developments in digital technology. With more and more digital content, data, tools and services being made available, researchers are able to ask questions they had never dreamed of before, share their findings in an open way and collaborate, some of them are becoming the ‘digital’ scholar.
It will bring back the story to the British Library, and how the digital scholar is changing the way we do things. It will then move on to the efforts of digitisation across the British Library, giving a whistle stop tour of some of the incredible digital collections we now have and highlight some of the challenges that we face given our historical origins, licensing and technical restrictions. Importantly, it will also try to address how we are trying to tackle some of these challenges. It will outline the work of Digital Scholarship department, created to support the changing research landscape, focusing particularly on the work on the Digital Research Team and that of British Library Labs, both of which sit in the same department. It will point out some of the surprising findings we have discovered and some of the lessons we have learned so far and what we are planning for the future. Finally, it will finish with some important final ‘take away’ messages and The Presentation will be asking you what excites you most about digital scholarship. Hopefully, if there is time, there will be an opportunity to take a few questions too.
WebART: Facilitating Scholarly Use of Web Archives (IIPC, Apr. 2013)TimelessFuture
Presentation at symposium “Scholarly Access to Web Archives: Progress, Requirements and Challenges”, IIPC, April 25, 2013 (Ljubljana, Slovenia). This presentation discusses the results of the WebART project’s first year, in which different research disciplines joined forces to tackle the issue of scholarly access to Web archives. It introduces WebARTist, a novel Web archive search interface, and discusses the potential of scholarly research using Web archives, as well as current barriers to success, based on the experiences gained during a pilot project.
British Library Labs Presentation Given to British Library Stafflabsbl
Presentation given to British Library Staff as part of C21st Curatorship staff talks by Mahendra Mahey (British Library Labs Manager) and Stella Wisdom (Digital Curator)
More than just books - British Library Labs Presentation given at MSc Compute...labsbl
The British Library: More than just books
Exploring new ideas and methods to better understand the cultural and historic heritage held by the Library.
MSc CGE: Games Industry Seminar Series 2013-14
Computing, Room NAB 314, New Academic Building,
29 St James Street, Goldsmiths University of London
Mahendra Mahey
Manager of British Library Labs
Tuesday 4th of February 2014, 1400 - 1415
British Library Labs: Lessons learned in its first yearlabsbl
Presentation given at Online Information 2013
TRACK 2: EXPLOITING SEARCH, RESEARCH & DISCOVERY
Tools and e-resources for researchers
Online Information Show 2013
Victoria Park Plaza Hotel, London, SW1V 1EQ, UK
Wednesday 20th of November, 2013, 1130 - 1200
by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library Labs
British Library Labs Presentation at Elpub 2014, June 20, 2014labsbl
Key note presentation given at ElPub2014, June 20 about the Digital Scholarship department and the work of the Digital Research Team and British Library Labs.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 12_Digital Research team projects updatelabsbl
Neil Fitzgerald, Head of Digital Research, British Library
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Highlights of some innovative recent and current projects in the Digital Research team at the British Library.
Mahendra Mahey, BL Labs Manager, British Library
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This Award recognises an artistic or creative endeavour that has used the Library’s digital content to inspire, amaze and provoke.
Maja Maricevic, Head of Higher Education and Science, British Library
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This Award recognises a current member of staff, or team, who has played a key role in an innovative project using the Library’s digital content or data.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 08_An update on the ‘Living with machines’ projectlabsbl
Mia Ridge, Digital Curator and Co-Investigator for Living with machines, British Library
The 'Living with machines' project is a collaboration between the British Library and the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 06_An overview of digital preservation at the B...labsbl
Maureen Pennock, Head of Digital Preservation, British Library
An overview of the challenges of preserving an ever-growing and complex set of digital collections and a presentation of the work of the Flashback project.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 05_The Research Awardlabsbl
James Perkins, Research & Postgraduate Development Manager, British Library
This Award recognises a project or activity which demonstrates the development of new knowledge, research methods or tools, using the Library’s digital content.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 04_The story of the GLAM Labs community and how...labsbl
Sophie-Carolin Wagner, Project Manager, Austrian National Library Labs, Austrian National Library
A report on the work to develop a global community of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) Labs and the creation of a handbook for professionals wanting to set up, maintain and ensure digital innovation Labs thrive in their organisations.
Mahendra Mahey, BL Labs Manager, British Library
This Award celebrates quality learning experiences created for learners of any age and ability that use the Library's digital content.
Digital Magical Mystery Tour - British Librarylabsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, BL Labs Manager about the British Library and it's digital collections and how they have been used by the public.
Building Better GLAM Labs - Opening talk at Museum Big Data Conference - UCL ...labsbl
Talk given on 30 April 2019, between 1500 - 1520 at the UCL Qatar Museum Big Data 1st Conference, UCL Qatar, given at the Auditorium, Qatar National Library.
Building Better GLAM Labs - Keynote at University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, ...labsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs entitled 'Building Better GLAM Labs'.
Experiences and lessons learned from the British Library and around the world with Galleries, Libraries , Archives and Museums engaging with researchers, artists, educators and entrepreneurs who want to use digitised and born digital cultural heritage collections and data for innovative projects.
Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library, British Library, London, UK.
Wednesday 27 February 2019, 1330 – 1500 (Keynote)
Talk given on behalf of the British Columbia Research Libraries Group, in the McPherson Library/Mearns Centre for Learning, Digital Scholarship Commons, Room A308, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Building Better GLAM Labs - Keynote Presentation at Simon Fraser Universitylabsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs at Simon Fraser University between 1030 - 1200, Monday 25 February, 2019.
See: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/dh/dhil/bl-labs
For more details.
Introduction to BL Labs and Reading 35,000 Books: The UCD Contagion Project ...labsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey at the Reading 35,000 Books: The UCD Contagion
Project and the British Library Digital Corpus event on 20 February 2019
BL Labs Presentation at Open Science Infrastructures for Big Cultural Datalabsbl
Presentation given in Plovdiv, 13 December 2018 by Mahendra Mahey from British LIbrary Labs.
Fostering Excellence in Scholarship with Big Cultural Heritage CollectionsInsights from British Library Labs
Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs
1630 - 1715, Thursday, 13th December 2018,
Fostering Excellence in Scholarship with Big CH Collections (in Humanities data and their research use session), Open Science Infrastructures for Big Cultural Data, International Advanced Masterclass,Fifth Floor Conference Room, Hotel Trimontium, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
A hands-on data exploration & challenge to become a derived data-set author o...labsbl
Mahendra Mahey, manager of British Library Labs (BL Labs) will examine some of the BL’s digital collections/data & discuss challenges he has had in making the BL's cultural heritage data available openly or onsite at the British Library.
Mahendra will invite delegates to explore data-sets at their leisure, setting a challenge for those who are interested, skilled in exploring, finding patterns and grouping data. They could become data-set authors/creators of derived data-sets, based on pre-existing digital collections/data provided on the day or already available on https://data.bl.uk.
The workshop will conclude with reflections from the delegates and possibly highlighting a number derived data-sets that were generated by participants on the day that could now potentially exist on https://data.bl.uk. If selected, these new derived data-sets will be attributed with the creators' / authors' details and each will have its own cite-able Digital Object Identifier (D.O.I). These new data-sets would then be available for reuse by any researcher in the world.
GUIDANCE FOR THIS WORKSHOP
We strongly recommend you come to this workshop with an appropriate device such as a laptop pre-installed with appropriate tools to analayse different kinds of data-sets, e.g. Microsoft Excel may work with smaller data-sets such as metadata (see other data exploration tools below). If you don't have one, and would still like to attend, please request to 'pair up' with someone who is willing to share and has already signed up.
Other data exploration tools include: Notepad++ (e.g. for viewing text and XML); Open Refine (e.g. for cleaning data); Tableau Public (e.g. for visualising data); Google Fusion Tables (e.g for visualising geo-spatial data); Spacy (e.g. for text and data mining), RStudio (an open source Statistical package), MATLAB (data analysis tool) & NLTK (Natural Language processing).
Please note that this workshop is NOT about training you in using any of these tools, just tools you may be already familiar with to explore and find patterns in our data.
Datatypes you may be examining in this workshop could include: .ZIP, .PDF, .TXT, .CSV, .TSV. .XLS, .XLSX, RDF, .nt, XML (TEI, ALTO and bespoke), .JSON, .JPG, .JPEG, .TIFF and .WARC
Please ensure you are able to read these files on your device before the workshop if you are interested in exploring them during our session.
Slides for session: http://goo.gl/
URL for specific data: http://
Mahendra Mahey tweets at @BL_Labs & @mahendra_mahey
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...
BL Labs at Bloomsbury Digital Humanities Group
1. British Library Labs
http://labs.bl.uk
British Library Labs and Digital Humanities
Monday 30th
September 2013, 1400 - 1600
Bloomsbury Digital Humanities Group Meeting
Meeting Room H, British Library, NW1 2DB
London
Mr Mahendra Mahey
British Library Labs Project Manager
Scholarship and Collections, Digital Scholarship
7. http://labs.bl.uk 7
#bl_labs
Labs details…what
• No digitisation involved, just digitized and born digital Library content
• Some content online
• Other in digital form but not online yet
– e.g. too big, needs work, technical challenges, license restrictions
(e.g. onsite access etc.)
• Examine and analyse the content, especially entire collections (i.e.
cross collection research)
• Do research, publish
• Make things, e.g. tools, services, apps etc…
• Transforming processes, services and tools for scholars / developers
using Library digital collections
8. http://labs.bl.uk 8
#bl_labs
Lab details…how
• Competitions, events and various activities
• Creating environment where scholars / developers can
work intensively with Library’s digital collections (winners will
be resident), but not only…
• Encourage research / developers generally to do
interesting things with BL digital content (+other) with and
across collections (a data driven approach)
• Labs is more than the competition!
• Ideas can be pursued by talking to Library staff , scholars /
developers interested in conducting research / making
things, e.g. meetings, events etc., business opportunities
9. http://labs.bl.uk 9
#bl_labs
Labs Competition
• At least 2 Competitions, winners will work ‘in residence’ where
possible
• Review and feedback to examine approach, at the moment
‘Data Driven Research’, i.e. here is our data come and do stuff
with it!
• Focus particularly on cross collection research, research at
scale
• Other research and development encouraged too!
• Help develop tools and services to support digital scholarship
• Any suggestions for next competition? When to visit?
10. http://labs.bl.uk 10
#bl_labs
How Labs works…
BL LabsCompetition
Events
Contact
Software
Publications
Tools and
services to
support Digital
Scholarship
BL Digital
Collection /
Data
idea
BL Digital
Collection /
Data
Other Digital
Collection
idea
idea
idea
idea
11. http://labs.bl.uk 11
#bl_labs
The plan in time…
• Launch Event – 25th
March 2013 – draft details of competition and feedback, launched end
of April
• Virtual 17 May (Video of Hangout Available), more virtual event?
• Hack Event 28/29 May London
• AHRC research network - 'the infinite archive‘, Open University, University of Nottingham,
University of Warwick
• Winners announced at 6 July 2013, York (Digital Heritage Conference)
• Best two ideas work in residence and showcase their work on the 11th
November 2013,
when the next competition will be launched (deadline end of March 2014, work on entry May
to end of October 2014, Nov/Dec Showcase and final event
• Other ideas, look at supporting in other ways e.g. through Labs, other Library departments,
Business opportunities etc.
• Case studies produced around Nov/Dec for first iteration 2013 and second iteration 2014
12. http://labs.bl.uk 12
#bl_labs
BL Labs Services
• Developed for scholars / developers wanting to use digital
Library collections for research and development
• Application Programming Interface (APIs) for data /
collections
• Powerful interface for researchers and developers for
conducting innovative and transformative projects
• We are currently doing an audit of what web services the BL
has.
• Lead by Technical lead
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#bl_labs
Labs Hack Days…
• Bringing researchers, developers, curators and anyone
interested with collections together at events, want to do
more!
• Brainstorming ideas – ideas lab
• Scoping research, ideas, solving problems and developing
prototypes
Brainstorm ideas and group
Consider and choose
Work into the night and show
what has been done
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#bl_labs
Case studies…
• Research generated from the competitions and general
activity of Labs
• Inform the Library / Other libraries around the world about
the issues, challenges, solutions and benefits generated
when using a Labs approach
15. http://labs.bl.uk 15
#bl_labs
Labs Content
• Work with curators to identify those digital collections that
are suitable for Labs
• Focus on those that are copyright cleared at the moment
• Others considered in light of challenges, i.e. in scope for
Labs work
• Engage researchers/developers with these materials
through meetings, road-shows, hack days, promotions
(including competitions and events)
• Have list of 100s of digital collections
• Need a filter
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#bl_labs
British Library Digital Collections
• Most content unique!
• Copyright cleared for research
and non-commercial use?
• Curated?
• Collection Level
Metadata available?
Available
only in
Reading
Rooms
Available
on site
Digital but
not online –
various storage
devices
Available only onsite at the moment
Hack Events, In residence
Digital and
online
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#bl_labs
British National Bibliographic Data
• bnb.data.bl.uk (part of data.bl.uk)
• 2.8 Million individual records
• Available as Linked Open Data, Basic
RDF/XML and Marc21.
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#bl_labs
UK Web Archive Data
• data.webarchive.org.uk/o
pendata
• 32TB subset of the
Internet Archive’s web
collection relating to the
UK.
• Collecting freely since e-
legal deposit
• Comparing events across
media types?
22. http://labs.bl.uk 22
#bl_labs
19th
Century Digitised Books
• 68,000 digitised volumes and their
accompanying JP2, PDF, metadata
and OCR text files
• Many rare or inaccessible books
published between 1789 and 1870
and covers a wide range of subject
areas including philosophy, history,
poetry and literature, travel
• Representative materials here:
britishlibrary19c.tumblr.com
• Text mining? Text is 29Gb
23. http://labs.bl.uk 23
#bl_labs
International Dunhuang Project
• IDP international collaboration
• images of all manuscripts,
paintings, textiles and artefacts
from Dunhuang and
archaeological sites of the Eastern
Silk Road freely available on the
Internet and to encourage their
use through educational and
research programmes
• http://idp.bl.uk/
• Time-lining the silk road?
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Book ordering data…
• Every day thousands of items are ordered up from the
library stacks and delivered to researchers in our reading
rooms. We can provide daily anonymised reports of these
titles including shelfmark information and reading room
location
• Visualising what readers are reading?
Anonymised reader data…
• Anonymised information about our readers
• Big buckets
• Social trends?
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Bringing Text Mining to the Library
Many electronic journals we have negotiated text mining
rights for (50%) journals
A project to get the tools to readers?
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Environment and Nature Sounds
• thousands of recordings from the Sound Archive's unrivalled
natural sounds collection is available for free download as
MP3’s to staff and students UK higher and further education
institutions
• http://sounds.bl.uk/Environment/
• Adding sounds to poetry?
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Ideas from first competition
• Text mining in the reading rooms
• Curatorial – funded through other stream
• Visualising large collections of sound at a glance (thumbnails)
• Using sheet music – combined with AHRC proposal being submitted
now
• Working with a radio archive – possibly funded through another stream
– semantic media
• Serious news
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What’s happening at the moment?
• Working with competition entrants
• Working on first year project deliverables
• Planning for next competition and dissemination
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Dan Norton
• Mixing the Library: The Disc Jockey and the Digital Collection
• Dan Norton is a PhD Researcher, University of Dundee and is Artist in Residence at
Hangar, Centre for Art and Research, Barcelona.
• Building an interface for interacting in digital collections developed from the DJ's
interaction with information. His project uses selecting and mixing as creative behaviours
for exploring, learning, and authoring with digital collections.
• The prototype will demonstrate the interface requirements necessary for collecting,
enriching (organizing, annotating),and mixing information from digital libraries; for building
aesthetic, experimental, or logical links between resources; and for developing ad hoc
visualizations, or publishing annotated data.
• Working on functioning prototype to collect URLs for different media types e.g. text, video,
sound and images, shuffle order and then comparing two digital objects and being able to
annotate in real time
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Pieter Francois
• The Sample Generator for Digitised Texts
• Pieter Francois is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford.
• The ‘Sample Generator for Digitized Texts’ is a relatively simple piece of software which
connects one or more major catalogues or bibliographies with one or more collections of
digitized texts through the metadata.
• The main aim is to tell the story of over a million nineteenth-century books through a
structured sampling of 68,000 books, focus is on travel routes/accounts
• Creating demonstrator which searches across 1.8 million records and where possible find
highly significant digital samples for further research from the books we have digitised so
far
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Images from the 19th
Century books
From late 1600s
From 1700s
600,000 small images so far
(estimated)!
Work on going with
BL Labs Technical Lead
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The Mechanical Curator!
• Just launched, lot’s of interest!!
• Randomly selected small illustrations and ornamentations,
posted on the hour.
• Rediscovered artwork from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th
Century books.
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Distribution of the use of DDC in BnB
Work by Ben O’Steen, BL Labs Technical Lead
Looking at the metadata for the books they have limited
metadata for subject classification
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Engaging with Labs
• ENGAGE
• Submit your name, contact details and lets speak!
• AHRC Big Data Call, a number of requests to use BL
Collections / Data if successful
• Next competition? Launch 11 November!
• Just talk to us, work with our collections!
• Ideas labs, workshops and hack events
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Speak to me: 0207 412 7324
Email me: mahendra.mahey@bl.uk or labs@bl.uk
Labs Website: http://labs.bl.uk/
Twitter: @BL_Labs
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Jiscmail: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=BL-LABS
Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
What next?