The document outlines British Library Labs, its projects, ideas, and events. It discusses British Library Labs' cultural heritage datasets, competitions for projects using its digital content, examples of past award-winning projects, and its upcoming Labs Symposium in November 2016 where people can share ideas for working with the Library's digital collections.
British Library Labs Presentation at the Accelerating Human Imagination Workshoplabsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey at the Accelerating Human Imagination Workshop at the University of Liverpool in London, 24-25 November 2016. Presentation given on Day 1, 24 November, Second Session Part II: Imagination and Speculative Cultures, 1445 - 1500
Fourth annual BL Labs Symposium, 7 Nov 2016 keynote by Professor Melissa Terras: ‘Unexpected repurposing: The British Library's digital collections and UCL teaching, research and infrastructure’
British Library Labs Presentation at the Accelerating Human Imagination Workshoplabsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey at the Accelerating Human Imagination Workshop at the University of Liverpool in London, 24-25 November 2016. Presentation given on Day 1, 24 November, Second Session Part II: Imagination and Speculative Cultures, 1445 - 1500
Fourth annual BL Labs Symposium, 7 Nov 2016 keynote by Professor Melissa Terras: ‘Unexpected repurposing: The British Library's digital collections and UCL teaching, research and infrastructure’
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.
The Digital Research Suite at the British Library - The next step for BL Labslabsbl
Fifth British Library Labs (BL Labs) Symposium, Monday October 30, 2017.
12:05 – 12:15 The Digital Research Suite at the British Library - The next step for BL Labs
Dr Adam Farquhar
Adam will give a brief overview of the next stage of the Labs project.
30+ Tips on how to improve your research impact : PhD Day 2016 Talk @UMCGGuus van den Brekel
Talk on PhD-Day 2016, September 16th 2016
Together with an overview of the worldwide ranking of universities, plus an insight in the “battle” for the researcher, you will get 30+ tips on how to possibly improve your research impact.
The tips will involve practical actions to be taken before ánd after publishing your research. Scientific communication does not stop áfter publishing your research paper. Many strategies can be used to draw attention to your research, to try and improve the reach, and possibly even, the impact of it long-term. Innovations in scholarly communications, like the use of alternative (web)tools, are changing the research environment. It needs an open and more pro-active role of the researcher.
The use of research profiles, author identifiers, open access & data, social media and altmetrics, are just a few topics that will be addressed in this talk.
Fifth British Library Labs (BL Labs) Symposium, Monday October 30, 2017.
Artistic Award
Presented by Jamie Andrews, Head of Culture and Learning at the British Library
This Award recognises an artistic or creative endeavour that has used the Library’s digital content to inspire, amaze and provoke.
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 a Digital Media Lab ALA2013 PresentationJeffrey Fisher
From a 3-hour Digital Media Labs 101 presentation at ALA 2013. This segment focuses on creating a vision for a lab and then making it happen. Jeffrey P Fisher, Fountaindale Public Library Studio 300
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.
The Digital Research Suite at the British Library - The next step for BL Labslabsbl
Fifth British Library Labs (BL Labs) Symposium, Monday October 30, 2017.
12:05 – 12:15 The Digital Research Suite at the British Library - The next step for BL Labs
Dr Adam Farquhar
Adam will give a brief overview of the next stage of the Labs project.
30+ Tips on how to improve your research impact : PhD Day 2016 Talk @UMCGGuus van den Brekel
Talk on PhD-Day 2016, September 16th 2016
Together with an overview of the worldwide ranking of universities, plus an insight in the “battle” for the researcher, you will get 30+ tips on how to possibly improve your research impact.
The tips will involve practical actions to be taken before ánd after publishing your research. Scientific communication does not stop áfter publishing your research paper. Many strategies can be used to draw attention to your research, to try and improve the reach, and possibly even, the impact of it long-term. Innovations in scholarly communications, like the use of alternative (web)tools, are changing the research environment. It needs an open and more pro-active role of the researcher.
The use of research profiles, author identifiers, open access & data, social media and altmetrics, are just a few topics that will be addressed in this talk.
Fifth British Library Labs (BL Labs) Symposium, Monday October 30, 2017.
Artistic Award
Presented by Jamie Andrews, Head of Culture and Learning at the British Library
This Award recognises an artistic or creative endeavour that has used the Library’s digital content to inspire, amaze and provoke.
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 a Digital Media Lab ALA2013 PresentationJeffrey Fisher
From a 3-hour Digital Media Labs 101 presentation at ALA 2013. This segment focuses on creating a vision for a lab and then making it happen. Jeffrey P Fisher, Fountaindale Public Library Studio 300
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
British Library Labs Roadshow 2017 at the University of Birminghamlabsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library Labs at the College of Arts and Law, the University of Birmingham on Wednesday 10th of May, 2017.
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs, 1400 - 1430, 2 July 2018
London Psychology Librarians Group Meeting
Dickins Room, Conference Centre,
British Library
British Library Labs Roadshow - Sussex Humanities Lablabsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library Labs on Friday 5th of May, at Sussex Humanities Lab, 2017 as part of the BL Labs Roadshow 2017
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 Collections Insights 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.
Working with the British Library’s Digital Collections & Data - Insights from...labsbl
Keynote presentation given by Mahendra Mahey at the Research Data Management in Digital Humanities International Conference, 17-18 April, 2018, Doha, UCL Qatar, room 1D02. Entitled: Working with the British Library’s Digital Collections & Data Insights from British Library Labs and an emerging role for Libraries (Keynote speech)
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.
Experiences and lessons learned through British Library Labs How have we eng...labsbl
Presentation by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs.
1100 - 1130, Thursday, 17th May 2018, Part of Plenary Session ‘Cultural Innovation: experiences from the field’,
CAMP iC4: A Breeding Ground for Useful Innovation,
BASE Milano, Via Bergognone, 34, Milan, Italy
Presentation to the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Scienceslabsbl
1100 - 1300, Thursday, 26th April 2018,
British Library Labs and Digital Scholarship at the British Library, Harley Room, British Library, St Pancras, London.
Presentation to the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
by Mahendra Mahey Manager of BL Labs
The Work of British Library Labs and Digital Scholarship Insights from British Library Labs and an emerging role for Libraries
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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.
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
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
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We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
British Library Labs Presentation at UK Medical Heritage Library Live Lab
1. 1@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
British Library Labs, Ideas and Projects
Mahendra Mahey
1300 – 1320, Wednesday, 26th
October 2016
British Library Labs, Ideas and Projects
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.
https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
2. 2@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
3. 3@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Cultural Heritage Datasets
Datasets about our collections
Bibliographic datasets relating to our published
and archival holdings
Datasets for content mining
Content suitable for use in text and data mining
research
Datasets for image analysis
Image collections suitable for large-scale image-
analysis-based research
Datasets from UK Web Archive
Data and API services available for accessing UK
Web Archive
Digital mapping
Geospatial data, cartographic applications, digital
aerial photography and scanned historic map
materials http://data.bl.uk
Official launch November 7, 2016
Discussion list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CULTURAL-HERITAGE-DATASETS
4. 4@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Competition
Awards
Projects
Tell us your ideas of what to do with our digital
content
Show us what you have already done with our digital content in
research, artistic, commercial and learning and teaching
categories
Talk to us about working on collaborative projects
5. 5@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
2016 • 18 institutions visited
• 5000 miles travelled
• 50 presentations & 25 workshops
• 730 researchers
• 250 expressions of interest
• 40 researchers, artists, entrepreneurs &
educators supported
• 60TB of data via post
• 9TB of data via data.bl.uk (Nov 16)
• Nearly half a billion views on BL Flickr
Commons since launch in Dec 2013
7. 7@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Why are doing this?
• Working closely with and listening to those who want use
our digital collections and data for their work and helping to
build services, tools and processes to support them
• We can learn how we are and should be supporting them.
– Is the access to digital collections we provide sufficient?
– Do we have the right tools?
– Do we provide the right support?
– Where are the gaps between what they want and what we
can give?
– How do we build the bridges to overcome them?
– Many more reasons…
8. 8@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Some Lessons Learned so far…
• Everything starts from an idea and conversation!
• Need to have several conversations with several stakeholders and tap
into their tacit knowledge that isn’t always written down.
• Expectations change when researchers see the data, systems and
experience the ‘culture’ of the organisation
• We tend to work with researchers who can be ‘flexible’ with their research
questions and are willing to embrace challenges
• Often misunderstandings because of jargon & different meaning of words
• Embrace dirty data, it may never be perfect!
9. 9@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Some Lessons Learned so far…(2)
• Many researchers have the domain knowledge but lack the technical
skills to use Digital Research methods. Should they be teamed up with
those that have problems that need solving (Computing) or get trained?
• Identifying / bridging gaps for researchers to use data, help them
navigate through the Library to get the data they want
• Huge appetite to use digital content & data (e.g. Flickr Commons stats)
• Start small and simple, but think big!
• Embrace serendipity, work fast, give it energy.
• Learn the lessons, tell the positive stories and move on!
• Fail faster (don’t be afraid), small experiments, reject perfectionism
11. 11@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Finding things in messy data
Mrs Folly
• Clean up manually
• Get ‘ground truth’
• Write code to find things
reliably in it automatically
• Try code on messy content
• Tweak if necessary
14. 14@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Finalists 2016
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 https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Runners up 2016 – Nov 16 – Mar 17
Michael Takeo Magruder
Exploring the British Library’s digital collection of historic
urban maps to create provocative fictional cityscapes for
the Information Age
Data-mining for verse in
eighteenth-century newspapers
Jennifer Batt
University of Bristol
16. 16@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Artistic / Creative Works
http://goo.gl/dM8ieA
Mario Klingeman
http://www.crossroadsofcuriosity.com
David Normal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRgj7Q5OM0
Rob Walker
http://goo.gl/bNxGZZ
Kris Hoffman
https://goo.gl/QilqqT
Jiayi Chong
Ling Low
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcOP1E5bRE0
https://www.facebook.com/RealmlandStory/
Paul Rand Pierce
17. 17@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Commercial (2015)
Etsy project by Dina Malkova
https://www.etsy.com/shop/DinaMalkova
https://goo.gl/OfJujM
Labs Symposium 2015
http://goo.gl/pbxZUv
18. 18@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Commercial (2015) Runner Up
Sarah Wingate-Gray and Kate Lomax
http://goo.gl/s1dVSC
19. 19@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Special Jury’s Prize (2015)
James Heald – Wikimedia and Map work
https://goo.gl/WYZCB2
http://goo.gl/HNQq5e
https://goo.gl/VPgffL
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
https://goo.gl/djtm1b
Labs Symposium (2015)Geotagging maps
54,000 Maps
20. 20@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
More BL Labs ideas for inspiration!
http://labs.bl.uk/Ideas+for+Labs http://labs.bl.uk/Other+Uses+of+Collections
21. 21@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Labs Symposium 2016
• Monday 7 November 2016, 0930 - 1730
• St Pancras, Conference Centre
• FREE, book now!
https://goo.gl/2twnr5
22. 22@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/gy1IU4
Other Labs connected events in 2016
• 7 November – We Are Amused! A Night of Victorian Humour
– https://goo.gl/QASR6K
• 12 November – The Way Ahead? Map Making and Digital Skills for
Geography Teaching
– https://goo.gl/f014YR
• 26 November – Walking Tour
– https://goo.gl/ix1zl2
Editor's Notes
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My name is Mahendra Mahey and I work on a project called British Library Labs. We are based at the British Library in London, in the Digital Scholarship department and we work closely with the Digital Research team there. It’s been running for three years now and is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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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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Sharing our data
Coming up with ideas
Listening and learning
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Katrina Navickas was particularly interested in the <Click>Chartist Movement who were a group who were campaigning for the vote for working people. <Click>They were the biggest popular movement for democracy in 19th century British history, just as this is early picture shows a huge monster meeting at Kennington Common<Click>She wanted to use a combination of manual and computational methods to explore our Digitised Newspapers to find out when and where they met and plot them on map. <Click>and hopefully unearthing new history.
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Dina Malkova was the winner of Commercial category. <Click>Inspired by a small digitised fragment of an <Click>illustration of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground original handwritten manuscript<Click>Dina made handmade and bespoke bow ties and cufflinks. <Click>You can still buy these items in the Alice pop up shop in London and of course online on Etsy.
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Indexing BL the 1 million & Mapping the Maps – was led by James Heald and collaboration with others <Click>They produced an index of 1 million 'Mechanical Curator collection' images on <Click>Wikimedia Commons from a collection of largely un-described images. <Click>This gave rise to finding 50,000 maps within the collection partially through a map-tag-a-thon <Click>These are now being geo-referenced. <Click>
