The document discusses the British Library Labs, which funds innovative experiments exploring the library's digital collections and data. It provides information on upcoming competitions and awards for projects utilizing BL data, as well as examples of past winning projects. Guidelines are offered for the competitions. Details are also given on available digital datasets and resources through Labs, including a mini network-attached storage device containing various collection samples available on-site for experimentation.
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.
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
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.
Reveal Digital: innovative library crowdfunding model for open access digita...PaolaMarchionni
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A whirlwind introduction to digital humanities for CDP Digital Humanities: Collections & Heritage - current challenges and futures workshop. February 22, 2018 Imperial War Museum
GIS Day 2015: Geoinformatics, Open Source and Videos - a library perspectivePeter Löwe
Digital audiovisual content has become an important communication channel in Science. The TIB|AV-Portal for audiovisual scientific-technical information meets the requirements to preserve such content and to provide innovative services for search and retrieval. Quality checked audiovisual content from Open Source Geoinformatics communities is constantly being acquired for the portal as a part of TIB's mission to preserve relevant content in applied computer sciences for science, industry, and the general public.
A case study of the BBC engagement with and implementation of Linked Data. Presented at a British Library Linked Data Workshop in London 27th May 2010.
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
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.
Reveal Digital: innovative library crowdfunding model for open access digita...PaolaMarchionni
Slides from a webinar held on 1 Dec 2016 by Jisc and Reveal Digital on Reveal Digital's library crowdfunding model for their Independent Voices digital collection. This includes information on pledging fees for UK universities as negotiated by Jisc Collections. A recording of the webinar is available at https://goo.gl/kEHRrD.
A whirlwind introduction to digital humanities for CDP Digital Humanities: Collections & Heritage - current challenges and futures workshop. February 22, 2018 Imperial War Museum
GIS Day 2015: Geoinformatics, Open Source and Videos - a library perspectivePeter Löwe
Digital audiovisual content has become an important communication channel in Science. The TIB|AV-Portal for audiovisual scientific-technical information meets the requirements to preserve such content and to provide innovative services for search and retrieval. Quality checked audiovisual content from Open Source Geoinformatics communities is constantly being acquired for the portal as a part of TIB's mission to preserve relevant content in applied computer sciences for science, industry, and the general public.
A case study of the BBC engagement with and implementation of Linked Data. Presented at a British Library Linked Data Workshop in London 27th May 2010.
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 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)
BL Labs Presentation at ASyMMuS Workshop on AudioSymbolic Music Similarity M...labsbl
Presentation given on the 8th of July.
ASyMMuS Workshop on AudioSymbolic Music Similarity Modelling
8 July 2015, 10:40
Foyle Suite, Centre for Conservation
British Library
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
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.
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.
Similar to British Library Labs Presentation Hertfordshire (20)
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
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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
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British Library Labs Presentation Hertfordshire
1. http://labs.bl.uk 1
#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation
Exploring Digital Collections and Data: Innovative
Experiments and Future Opportunities at the British
Library,
Thursday, 23rd of April, 2015
University of Hertfordshire
Mahendra Mahey
Manager of British Library Labs
2. http://labs.bl.uk 2
#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation
Exploring Digital Collections and Data: Innovative
Experiments and Future Opportunities at the British
Library,
Monday, 20th
of April, 2015
Edge Hill University
Mahendra Mahey
Manager of British Library Labs
Exploring Digital Collections and Data: Innovative
Experiments and Future Opportunities at the British
Library,
Thursday, 23rd of April, 2015
University of Hertfordshire
Mahendra Mahey
Manager of British Library Labs
3. http://labs.bl.uk 3
#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
How Labs works…
Audience
idea
Experiment OutputsBL Data
Other
Data
idea
No
idea
Dynamic / Creative interaction /
with data, which means ideas
change, get reshaped etc.
idea
Competition Events
Projects
Awards
4. http://labs.bl.uk 4
#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Building Bridges…
• Addressing the gap between researchers and the data
• Technical bridges between data and researchers
• ‘Planning permission’, working with curators, making sure
things are built to time, relations to the locals, several
stakeholders
7. http://labs.bl.uk 7
#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
The Role of Labs
Labs is a space in which new projects and approaches can
be bench-tested; but is an important fragment of an ongoing
negotiation about the role of the institutions of memory and
knowing. And getting that role right is imperative…
Professor Tim Hitchcock, Labs Symposium ,2 November 2014
9. http://labs.bl.uk 9
#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
The Digital Scholar
Digital
NetworkedOpen
Scholar that employs digital, networked and open
approaches to demonstrate their specialism.
10. http://labs.bl.uk 10
#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
12. http://labs.bl.uk 12
#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
13. http://labs.bl.uk 13
#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
17. http://labs.bl.uk 17
#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
18. http://labs.bl.uk 18
#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
19. http://labs.bl.uk 19
#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!
20. http://labs.bl.uk 20
#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!
21. http://labs.bl.uk 21
#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.
22. http://labs.bl.uk 22
#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
26. http://labs.bl.uk 26
#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
What’s on the Mini NAS?
• British National Bibliography – 3.5 million records (2
Gb)
• 90,000 Playbills – 1602 – 1902 (60 Gb)
• ALTO XML (includes METS and MODS) for OCR of
65,000 volumes, 22 million pages mostly from the 19th
Century (909 Gb)
• 1 million images snipped from books put on Flickr (667
Gb)
• 70,000 tagged images (170 Gb)
28. http://labs.bl.uk 28
#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…
•Mechanical Curator and Flickr Images…
•20 June 2015,
Crossroads of Curiosity:
The British Library Meets Burning
Man - http://goo.gl/bK16BJ
50 seconds
<click1>So, the very nature of digital allows us to
<click2>
break down what were previously bound items down into fundamental bits of information and data. These bits of data can be recombined, duplicated and linked to in infinite ways. This is fundamentally changing our view of research.
It’s a bit like the
<click3>
‘Tower of Babble’ sculpture to the right by Brian Dettmer , created by recombining bits from books, words and sentences cut out and put back together in different ways to create something new, surprising and beautiful. This is what scholars are doing with digital content. Let us now move on to what is understood by the term ‘digital scholar’.
50 seconds
In his book, The Digital Scholar: How technology is transforming scholarly practice, Martin Weller suggests that a short hand term should be used to loosely define a Digital Scholar.
First of all,
<click1>
the person does not necessarily need to be a recognised academic or someone who posts online. It is someone who employs
<click2>
digital,
<click3>
networked
<click 4>
and open approaches to demonstrate their specialism.
Let us now look at the area of Humanities, where our scholar Pieter Francois does his work, to investigate the idea of a Digital Scholar a little further.
applying the intuitions of a DJ to working with digital collections (Dan Norton's Mixing the Library, Information Interaction and the DJ)
linking digitised handwritten manuscripts to transcribed texts
creating a database of Victorian humour and attempting to make Victorian jokes funny again (Bob Nicholson's Victorian Meme Machine)
creating statistically representative samples from our book collections using metadata (Pieter Francois's Sample Generator)
65 seconds
Dr Dan Norton was researcher at the University of Dundee and artist in residence at Hangar, Centre for Art and Research, Barcelona. His idea was “Mixing the Library: The Disc Jockey and the Digital Collection” which brought a DJ’s approach to interacting with multi-format digital collections
<click>. Dan’s interactive approach helps build aesthetic, experimental, or logical links between resources. This project focused on ideas around creating a prototype<click> and what would be the basic building blocks needed to create a simple demonstrator
<click>. Dan is now building on the work he did at Labs and is the resident researcher and artist at the
<click>Living Labs: Library of the Future in Barcelona, where he will be working with software developers to continue his work.
Let’s look at a brief video of about Pieter and his entry. Pieter is working with us to extend his work and try to make the tool available in the reading room.
1 min 30
Bob Nicholson is one this year’s competition winners. We are working with him right now to complete his work for our showcase on November 3. I will let him speak for himself.
85 seconds
The picture you can see is inside the main building in London, it’s the King’s Library – King George the Third’s personal library! Sometimes known as the ‘stack’, I walk past this everyday and I sometimes forget that the collections the British Library have are truly staggering! We currently estimate them to exceed <click>150 million items, representing every age of written civilisation and every known language. Our archives now contain the earliest surviving printed book in the world, the Diamond Sutra, written in Chinese and dating from 868 AD….
So some big numbers…
Over …<click>14 million books
<click>60 million patents
<click>8 million stamps
<click>4 million maps
<click>3 million sound recordings
<click>1.6 million music scores
<click>over .3 million manuscripts
<click>0.8 million serials titles (which are of course made up of many many volumes/editions), this is where a lot of our content is, just in case you thought the numbers didn’t add up!
Let’s look at a brief video of about Pieter and his entry. Pieter is working with us to extend his work and try to make the tool available in the reading room.
1 min 30