The document discusses the British Library Labs, which runs competitions and awards for innovative projects using the Library's digital collections and data. It provides information on past winning projects, upcoming competitions and awards, available datasets, and tips for participating in the competitions. The Labs also collaborates on other projects beyond the competitions and encourages exploration and experimentation with the digital collections and data.
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.
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.
Manufacturing pasts: opening Britain's industrial past to new learners and ne...tbirdcymru
I presented this short paper at the ALT-C 2012 Conference on 11 September 2012 in Manchester, UK. This paper is an early report on the Manufacturing Pasts project http://www.le.ac.uk//manufacturingpasts
Manufacturing Pasts: Opening Britain's Industrial Past to New Learners and Ne...tbirdcymru
This presentation was given at the ALT-C Conference in Manchester, UK, on 11 September 2012. It describes the work of the Manufacturing Pasts project, which digitises and creates open learning materials on the topic of British industrial history.
Network visualisations and the ‘so what?’ problemMia
A provocation for the 'Network analysis and the cultural heritage sector' workshop in Luxembourg, 8 June 2016. Talk notes are available at http://www.openobjects.org.uk/2016/06/network-visualisations-problem/
Presented at the AAO 2013 Conference - a discussion on building a Digital Scholarship Unit at the University of Toronto Scarborough Library. Covers the conference questions of "should you; could you; and why would you digitize"
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
This talk was provided by Professor George Meadows of the University of Mary Washington during a NISO webinar on Makerspaces held on Wednesday, Dec 14, 2016
Making scholarly publications accessible onlineJonathan Bowen
Developing and monitoring communities has become increasingly easy on the web as the number of interactive facilities and amount of data available about communities increases. It is possible to view connections on social and professional networks in the form of mathematical graphs. It is also possible to visualise connections between authors of academic papers. For example, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, and Academia.edu, now have large corpuses of freely available information on publications, together with author and citation
details, that can be accessed and presented in a number of ways. In mathematical circles, the concept of the Erdős number has been introduced in honour of the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, measuring the collaborative distance" of a person away from Erdős through links by co-author. Similar metrics have been proposed in other fields. The possibility of exploring and
improving the presentation of such links online in the sciences and other fields will be presented as a means of improving the outreach and impact of publications by academics across
different disciplines. Some practical guidance on what is worthwhile in presenting publication information online are given.
ACS National Meeting - Libraries as Hubs for Emerging Technologies - 14_0813jeffreylancaster
Presentation at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, CA, entitled, "Libraries as Hubs for Emerging Technologies" presented on August 13, 2014
Manufacturing pasts: opening Britain's industrial past to new learners and ne...tbirdcymru
I presented this short paper at the ALT-C 2012 Conference on 11 September 2012 in Manchester, UK. This paper is an early report on the Manufacturing Pasts project http://www.le.ac.uk//manufacturingpasts
Manufacturing Pasts: Opening Britain's Industrial Past to New Learners and Ne...tbirdcymru
This presentation was given at the ALT-C Conference in Manchester, UK, on 11 September 2012. It describes the work of the Manufacturing Pasts project, which digitises and creates open learning materials on the topic of British industrial history.
Network visualisations and the ‘so what?’ problemMia
A provocation for the 'Network analysis and the cultural heritage sector' workshop in Luxembourg, 8 June 2016. Talk notes are available at http://www.openobjects.org.uk/2016/06/network-visualisations-problem/
Presented at the AAO 2013 Conference - a discussion on building a Digital Scholarship Unit at the University of Toronto Scarborough Library. Covers the conference questions of "should you; could you; and why would you digitize"
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
This talk was provided by Professor George Meadows of the University of Mary Washington during a NISO webinar on Makerspaces held on Wednesday, Dec 14, 2016
Making scholarly publications accessible onlineJonathan Bowen
Developing and monitoring communities has become increasingly easy on the web as the number of interactive facilities and amount of data available about communities increases. It is possible to view connections on social and professional networks in the form of mathematical graphs. It is also possible to visualise connections between authors of academic papers. For example, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, and Academia.edu, now have large corpuses of freely available information on publications, together with author and citation
details, that can be accessed and presented in a number of ways. In mathematical circles, the concept of the Erdős number has been introduced in honour of the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, measuring the collaborative distance" of a person away from Erdős through links by co-author. Similar metrics have been proposed in other fields. The possibility of exploring and
improving the presentation of such links online in the sciences and other fields will be presented as a means of improving the outreach and impact of publications by academics across
different disciplines. Some practical guidance on what is worthwhile in presenting publication information online are given.
ACS National Meeting - Libraries as Hubs for Emerging Technologies - 14_0813jeffreylancaster
Presentation at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, CA, entitled, "Libraries as Hubs for Emerging Technologies" presented on August 13, 2014
Working with News Data across different media: A workshoplabsbl
The aim of the News Data workshop is to bring together researchers, developers and content owners to look at different kinds of British Library news data and how they may be used. There will be a number of short presentations from projects either using BL news data or with which we are collaborating on news data-related work.
The key aims are to illustrate the extent of our news collections, to demonstrate ways in which their data can be re-used for research, and to encourage cross-media analysis of news datasets (i.e. print, TV, radio, web). The event will be followed by a news hackathon which will be run on Monday 16th of November, 2015 at the British Library.
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.
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
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
A hands-on data exploration & challenge to become a derived data-set author o...
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#bl_labs labs@bl.ukFunded by thed Andrew Mellon Foundation
Exploring Digital Collections and Data: Innovative
Experiments and Future Opportunities at the British
Library, Third Round Table
Thursday 2nd of April, 2015
University of Edinburgh / Digital Humanities
Network Scotland
Mahendra Mahey
Manager of British Library Labs
2. http://labs.bl.uk 2
#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
How Labs works…
Audience
idea
Experiment OutputsBL Data
Other
Data
idea
No
idea
Dynamic interaction with data,
and experimentation means
ideas change, get reshaped etc.
idea
Competition Events
Projects
Awards
3. http://labs.bl.uk 3
#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Building Bridges…
• Technical bridges between data and researchers - Ben
• ‘Planning permission’, working with curators, making sure
things are built to time, relations to the locals, several
stakeholders…Mahendra / Ben
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#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
The Digital Scholar
Digital
NetworkedOpen
Scholar that employs digital, networked and open
approaches to demonstrate their specialism.
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#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Digital research methods
http://labs.bl.uk/Launch+Event (has some examples from researchers)
Corpus analysis tools
Text Mining
Visualisations
Location based searching
Geotagging
Annotation
Natural Language
Processing
Using Application Programming Interfaces for
datasets e.g. Metadata, Images
Transcribing
Crowdsourcing /
Human Computation
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#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Previous Competition Winners
Desmond Schmidt
Text to Image Linking Tool - TILT
Mixing the Library,
Information Interaction and the DJ
Dan Norton
Victorian Meme Machine - VMM
Bob Nicholson
Sample Generator
Pieter FrancoisAnna Gerber
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#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Dan Norton: Mixing the Library:
The Disc Jockey & the Digital Collection
http://www.tompro.co.uk
http://www.ablab.org/shetland
http://www.ablab.org/pd/di/
Prototype design
Annotation
Preview ‘item’
Selected ‘right’
channel ‘item’
Selected ‘left’
channel ‘item’
Collection ‘stalks’ made of ‘items’. Each ‘item’ is a URL.
The order of the ‘items’ can be ‘shuffled’ and sent to the ‘left’ or ‘right’ channels
‘Play back’ of ‘items’ (Blue)
and annotations (Yellow)
Living Lab: Library of the Future, see: http://alturl.com/284zw
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#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Competition 2015
•http://labs.bl.uk
•International competition closes April 30th 2015
•Think of an idea of what to do with our data
•We choose two and work with them as
researchers in ‘residence from’ June to end of
October 2015 (expenses paid up to £3600)
•Showcase work on November 2 and win prize of
up to £3000
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#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Awards 2015
•Work that uses our digital collections
•Recognition of outstanding work in one of three
areas:
Research, Creativity and Entrepreneurship
•Closing date 14th of September 2015
•Shortlist Monday 12th of October 2015
•Winners announced on November 2, 2015, £500
per category.
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#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Why work with the British Library?
> 150million items!!
> Fish and Chip Fridays
> Legacy
> Kudos
> Work with Curators
> Staff level access
> CV
> Pursue interests
> Help shape BL
King’s Library
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#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Tips for competition (1)
•Look at previous winning examples or
those that were shortlisted for an idea of
style, word length etc.
•Communicate with us
•Don’t leave it too late!
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#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Tips for competition (2)
•Look at the judging criteria…research question,
technical, curatorial and legal factors
•Think of ‘invisible’ criteria – what’s good for the
BL other researchers
•Publicity, Useful, Wider applicability
•Be realistic in your plan – only four months
•Look at the data if you can before you submit!
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#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
British National BibliographyUK Web Archive Data
19th Century Books
Environmental Sounds
Text-mining of
electronic journals
Book ordering and
anonymised reader
data
Resonance FM
10 year Community
Arts Radio Show
Datasets, Books / Text, Images /
Music, Maps, Sounds, Multimedia
http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collections
http://data.bl.uk in phase 2
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#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Access to our data
Wireless Access Point
Ethernet Cable
u:opendata
p:opendata
u:guest
p:guest
10.0.0.1For a guide:
http://goo.gl/78ITT0
Or Hand out…
opendata
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#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
What’s on the Mini NAS?
• British National Bibliography – 3.5 million records
• 90,000 Playbills – 1602 – 1902
• ALTO XML for OCR of 65,000 volumes, 22 million pages
mostly from the 19th Century
• 1 million images snipped from books put on Flickr
• 70,000 tagged images
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#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Labs not just a competition!
•Collaboration in many other projects
– 3 Big Data Humanities Data AHRC Projects, National
Endowment of Humanities, Visibility tool – Peter
Balman, Big Data Experiment, Working with
Artists…
•20 June 2015, Crossroads of Curiosity: The
British Library Meets Burning Man
•Mechanical Curator and Flickr Images…(see
Ben’s Talk)