British Library Labs is led by Mahendra Mahey. It funds digital scholarship projects and develops open source tools. It held a competition in 2013 where Pieter Francois and Dan Norton won for projects mixing digital collections. In 2014, Anna Gerber and Desmond Schmidt won for a text-image linking tool, and Bob Nicholson won for a Victorian meme machine. British Library Labs has released over 1 million images onto Flickr to enable new research.
Presentation for Fujitsu (UK and Ireland Research)labsbl
This document summarizes past and current digital projects at the British Library Labs, including tools developed for text analysis, image linking, sampling texts, tagging images, and mapping crowdsourced data. It also mentions the Alan Turing Institute for data science and knowledge based at the British Library. Competitions and opportunities for collaborative projects are described.
The document describes a presentation given by the British Library Labs at the Open University in Milton Keynes on February 29, 2016. It discusses the British Library Labs' work in digital research methods and projects, competitions, and challenges involving the use of the British Library's digital collections and data. The presentation encouraged attendees to submit project ideas and get involved.
Digital Scholarship and BL Labs at DCDC 2015labsbl
The document summarizes activities at the British Library Labs, which is working to make the Library's digital collections more accessible and usable for research. It highlights several projects that have developed tools and games to engage with collections, such as tagging images crowdsourced from digitized books and developing mobile applications. The Labs is also running competitions and training programs to involve external developers and researchers with its digital assets. The overall aim is to exploit digital content in innovative ways and support digital scholarship.
EuroCALL - Before & After Twitter : the Personal Learning EnvironmentGraham Stanley
This document discusses the use of Twitter in personal learning environments and for English language learners. It outlines how Twitter is being used before and after its introduction, compares personal learning environments (PLEs) to personal learning networks (PLNs) and virtual learning environments (VLEs), and addresses some benefits of Twitter for teachers and learners. The document also introduces learners to using Twitter and addresses barriers to teacher adoption, such as etiquette concerns and perceptions of cliques.
BL Labs Presentation to the Chinese Academy of Social Sceinceslabsbl
This document summarizes a presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library Labs, about working with the digital content and data from the British Library. It discusses the growth of the library's digital collections to over 180 million items, the UK Web Archive, and partnerships to form the Alan Turing Institute for data science. Examples are provided of digital research methods like text mining, visualizations and geotagging applied to the library's collections. Projects are highlighted like using computer vision on 65,000 books, crowdsourcing the tagging of images, and winners of the British Library Labs competitions.
British Library Labs Presentation at the Bodleian and Oxford e-research Centrelabsbl
The British Library Labs is hosting an event to discuss digital experiments and opportunities using their digital collections. They provide an overview of previous competition winners who created tools using BL data. Labs supports various projects and works with researchers and developers to build tools and explore new ways of using the Library's digital content and data. They encourage participants to enter the current competition or awards program.
The document discusses personal learning environments before and after using Twitter. It provides links to resources about personal learning environments and Flickr photo pages. The document promotes using Twitter to expand one's personal learning network and resources.
Presentation for Fujitsu (UK and Ireland Research)labsbl
This document summarizes past and current digital projects at the British Library Labs, including tools developed for text analysis, image linking, sampling texts, tagging images, and mapping crowdsourced data. It also mentions the Alan Turing Institute for data science and knowledge based at the British Library. Competitions and opportunities for collaborative projects are described.
The document describes a presentation given by the British Library Labs at the Open University in Milton Keynes on February 29, 2016. It discusses the British Library Labs' work in digital research methods and projects, competitions, and challenges involving the use of the British Library's digital collections and data. The presentation encouraged attendees to submit project ideas and get involved.
Digital Scholarship and BL Labs at DCDC 2015labsbl
The document summarizes activities at the British Library Labs, which is working to make the Library's digital collections more accessible and usable for research. It highlights several projects that have developed tools and games to engage with collections, such as tagging images crowdsourced from digitized books and developing mobile applications. The Labs is also running competitions and training programs to involve external developers and researchers with its digital assets. The overall aim is to exploit digital content in innovative ways and support digital scholarship.
EuroCALL - Before & After Twitter : the Personal Learning EnvironmentGraham Stanley
This document discusses the use of Twitter in personal learning environments and for English language learners. It outlines how Twitter is being used before and after its introduction, compares personal learning environments (PLEs) to personal learning networks (PLNs) and virtual learning environments (VLEs), and addresses some benefits of Twitter for teachers and learners. The document also introduces learners to using Twitter and addresses barriers to teacher adoption, such as etiquette concerns and perceptions of cliques.
BL Labs Presentation to the Chinese Academy of Social Sceinceslabsbl
This document summarizes a presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library Labs, about working with the digital content and data from the British Library. It discusses the growth of the library's digital collections to over 180 million items, the UK Web Archive, and partnerships to form the Alan Turing Institute for data science. Examples are provided of digital research methods like text mining, visualizations and geotagging applied to the library's collections. Projects are highlighted like using computer vision on 65,000 books, crowdsourcing the tagging of images, and winners of the British Library Labs competitions.
British Library Labs Presentation at the Bodleian and Oxford e-research Centrelabsbl
The British Library Labs is hosting an event to discuss digital experiments and opportunities using their digital collections. They provide an overview of previous competition winners who created tools using BL data. Labs supports various projects and works with researchers and developers to build tools and explore new ways of using the Library's digital content and data. They encourage participants to enter the current competition or awards program.
The document discusses personal learning environments before and after using Twitter. It provides links to resources about personal learning environments and Flickr photo pages. The document promotes using Twitter to expand one's personal learning network and resources.
The British Library Labs provides opportunities for experimenting with the Library's digital collections through competitions and residencies. It aims to build bridges between researchers and data by providing technical support and access to collections. Previous competition winners created tools for linking text to images, sampling audio collections, and generating "Victorian memes." The current competition challenges entrants to propose ideas for working with the Library's over 400 digital collections over a four month residency period.
No more waiting! Tools that work Today to reveal dataset useHeather Piwowar
This document discusses the need to better understand the impact of datasets beyond just citations. It notes that datasets can be engaged with in many ways, such as through views, saves, discussions, and recommendations, by various groups like researchers, teachers, students, and policymakers. It calls for exposing more metrics of engagement, supporting more tools for interacting with datasets at all stages, and making metrics and data more openly available to help reveal how datasets are being used.
This document discusses analyzing data about research data and datasets to better understand their impact. It notes that impact goes beyond just citations and includes many types of engagement like views, saves, discussions, recommendations by different groups. More metrics from different sources need to be exposed about datasets to analyze diverse impacts. The data and metrics also need to be more open through text mining and aggregators. This will help drive more awareness of different types of research products and changes in how they are valued.
British Library Labs - Open University Presentation - 3 April 2014, 1100-1200labsbl
The document summarizes the experiences of the British Library Labs in supporting digital scholarship. It discusses how the British Library works with digital scholars and researchers, providing various resources and tools. The British Library Labs team collaborates with scholars on projects involving digital collections and aims to make more content openly available online through platforms like Flickr. The Labs also runs competitions for researchers to develop tools and applications using library collections.
This document summarizes a presentation given by the British Library Labs at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. The presentation covered several digital research projects utilizing the British Library's digital collections, challenges of working with digital data, and ideas for future experiments. Attendees then participated in an ideas lab brainstorming potential new uses of the Library's collections and pitched their ideas.
1. The document discusses three areas of change in scholarly communication: public access to papers, treating papers as data, and dataset archiving. Attendees of iEvoBio are well-positioned to understand and guide these changes.
2. Preliminary results from a study on researcher attitudes towards data archiving show that some researchers are worried about others using their data without proper recognition or collecting their own data.
3. The key messages are that the world of scholarly communication is changing, attendees can help shape the future by raising expectations, voices, and glasses to change the status quo.
Libraries empowering scholars (and scholarly communication) through #altmetricsHeather Piwowar
This document discusses how libraries can empower scholars and scholarly communication through altmetrics. It notes that traditional research evaluation focuses too much on impact factor and that altmetrics provide additional ways to measure impact, including social media mentions, citations in policy documents or Wikipedia. The document recommends that libraries can help by raising expectations of diverse metrics, advocating for their use in evaluation, and supporting altmetrics tools. This would help move evaluations away from a single-dimensional system and capture different types of research impact.
BL Labs presentation to Business and Marketing Department at the BLlabsbl
The document summarizes a presentation by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library Labs, about working with the British Library's digital content and data. Some key points:
- The British Library has over 180 million digitized items available online, with continued growth through digitization efforts.
- The British Library is partnering with other institutions to create the Alan Turing Institute for data science and knowledge.
- British Library Labs runs competitions and awards for innovative uses of the Library's digital collections and datasets in research, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Examples of past winning projects are described.
- The document highlights several digital research projects and tools that have utilized the Library's collections and datasets in novel ways.
British Library Labs Roadshow 2016 UCL 24 Feb 2016labsbl
The document summarizes a presentation given by the British Library Labs at University College London on February 24, 2016. It promotes the British Library Labs' digital experiments and projects, competitions and awards for using the library's digital collections, and provides information on accessing a mini network area storage device containing some of the library's digital assets. The goal is to encourage more use of the library's digital content and data in innovative ways.
Welcome to the British Library the world's knowledgemakingma
The British Library aims to house the most comprehensive collection of publications from around the world. It receives a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland. Its Dutch language collections contain over 60,000 titles from the 15th century to present day. The collections grow by around 1,800 titles per year and include prints, maps, and manuscripts covering subjects like art, history, literature and contemporary culture. While there is no single Dutch collection, items can be found across the library in various collections through subject searching and digital resources.
Delivered by Richard Boulderstone of the British Library at the Annual Conference of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS), which took place 1-3 June 2009.
The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum built in the 17th century in Agra, India by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as the final resting place for his favorite wife. It took over 20,000 workers 22 years to construct all the elements of the symmetrical complex, including the mosque, front gate, and perfect symmetry of the Taj Mahal itself, making it truly a work of art. This paper model kit contains 82 parts to assemble a replica of the iconic Taj Mahal structure.
The British Library is the national library of Great Britain. Over 16,000 people use the collections each day (on site and online).
Each year:
- The British Library online catalogue generates six million searches
- Nearly 400,000 visit the library’s reading rooms
The document provides information about the history and operations of the British Library. It discusses how the British Library was formed in 1973 by merging various collections that were previously housed in separate buildings. It holds over 25 million printed books and other materials. The new library complex opened in 1997-1998 in London near St. Pancras Station to unite its vast collections under one roof. Plans for the new complex took many years to approve and fund.
British Library Labs 21st Century Curatorship Talklabsbl
The document discusses the British Library Labs program and lessons learned. It provides an overview of how Labs works with stakeholders like researchers and developers. Labs runs competitions to fund projects that experiment with the Library's digital collections. Winners complete residencies to develop tools and services. Lessons include the need to filter large collections, engage curators, address metadata and system issues, and provide flexible access to support digital research.
BL Labs and Channel 4 Presentation at Sunnyside of the Doc 250615labsbl
The document summarizes the British Library's efforts to make its digital content and data more accessible and useful to filmmakers and other users. It discusses the Library's vision to be the most open, creative and innovative cultural institution by 2023. Examples are provided of digital research projects and competitions that have utilized the Library's digitized collections in fields like image tagging, mapping, and analyzing historical recordings. The goal is to harness new technologies and crowdsourcing to generate insights from the Library's vast archives.
The document discusses British Library Labs, which experiments with digital collections and data. It provides information on previous competition winners who developed tools like the Text to Image Linking Tool and Victorian Meme Machine. Labs works with researchers, universities, and other institutions to build bridges between data and researchers. It aims to address the gap between researchers and digital content through technical solutions and engagement. Labs also hosts an annual competition and awards for projects that utilize the Library's digital collections in innovative ways.
The British Library Labs provides opportunities for experimenting with the Library's digital collections through competitions and residencies. It aims to build bridges between researchers and data by providing technical support and access to collections. Previous competition winners created tools for linking text to images, sampling audio collections, and generating "Victorian memes." The current competition challenges entrants to propose ideas for working with the Library's over 400 digital collections over a four month residency period.
No more waiting! Tools that work Today to reveal dataset useHeather Piwowar
This document discusses the need to better understand the impact of datasets beyond just citations. It notes that datasets can be engaged with in many ways, such as through views, saves, discussions, and recommendations, by various groups like researchers, teachers, students, and policymakers. It calls for exposing more metrics of engagement, supporting more tools for interacting with datasets at all stages, and making metrics and data more openly available to help reveal how datasets are being used.
This document discusses analyzing data about research data and datasets to better understand their impact. It notes that impact goes beyond just citations and includes many types of engagement like views, saves, discussions, recommendations by different groups. More metrics from different sources need to be exposed about datasets to analyze diverse impacts. The data and metrics also need to be more open through text mining and aggregators. This will help drive more awareness of different types of research products and changes in how they are valued.
British Library Labs - Open University Presentation - 3 April 2014, 1100-1200labsbl
The document summarizes the experiences of the British Library Labs in supporting digital scholarship. It discusses how the British Library works with digital scholars and researchers, providing various resources and tools. The British Library Labs team collaborates with scholars on projects involving digital collections and aims to make more content openly available online through platforms like Flickr. The Labs also runs competitions for researchers to develop tools and applications using library collections.
This document summarizes a presentation given by the British Library Labs at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. The presentation covered several digital research projects utilizing the British Library's digital collections, challenges of working with digital data, and ideas for future experiments. Attendees then participated in an ideas lab brainstorming potential new uses of the Library's collections and pitched their ideas.
1. The document discusses three areas of change in scholarly communication: public access to papers, treating papers as data, and dataset archiving. Attendees of iEvoBio are well-positioned to understand and guide these changes.
2. Preliminary results from a study on researcher attitudes towards data archiving show that some researchers are worried about others using their data without proper recognition or collecting their own data.
3. The key messages are that the world of scholarly communication is changing, attendees can help shape the future by raising expectations, voices, and glasses to change the status quo.
Libraries empowering scholars (and scholarly communication) through #altmetricsHeather Piwowar
This document discusses how libraries can empower scholars and scholarly communication through altmetrics. It notes that traditional research evaluation focuses too much on impact factor and that altmetrics provide additional ways to measure impact, including social media mentions, citations in policy documents or Wikipedia. The document recommends that libraries can help by raising expectations of diverse metrics, advocating for their use in evaluation, and supporting altmetrics tools. This would help move evaluations away from a single-dimensional system and capture different types of research impact.
BL Labs presentation to Business and Marketing Department at the BLlabsbl
The document summarizes a presentation by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library Labs, about working with the British Library's digital content and data. Some key points:
- The British Library has over 180 million digitized items available online, with continued growth through digitization efforts.
- The British Library is partnering with other institutions to create the Alan Turing Institute for data science and knowledge.
- British Library Labs runs competitions and awards for innovative uses of the Library's digital collections and datasets in research, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Examples of past winning projects are described.
- The document highlights several digital research projects and tools that have utilized the Library's collections and datasets in novel ways.
British Library Labs Roadshow 2016 UCL 24 Feb 2016labsbl
The document summarizes a presentation given by the British Library Labs at University College London on February 24, 2016. It promotes the British Library Labs' digital experiments and projects, competitions and awards for using the library's digital collections, and provides information on accessing a mini network area storage device containing some of the library's digital assets. The goal is to encourage more use of the library's digital content and data in innovative ways.
Welcome to the British Library the world's knowledgemakingma
The British Library aims to house the most comprehensive collection of publications from around the world. It receives a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland. Its Dutch language collections contain over 60,000 titles from the 15th century to present day. The collections grow by around 1,800 titles per year and include prints, maps, and manuscripts covering subjects like art, history, literature and contemporary culture. While there is no single Dutch collection, items can be found across the library in various collections through subject searching and digital resources.
Delivered by Richard Boulderstone of the British Library at the Annual Conference of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS), which took place 1-3 June 2009.
The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum built in the 17th century in Agra, India by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as the final resting place for his favorite wife. It took over 20,000 workers 22 years to construct all the elements of the symmetrical complex, including the mosque, front gate, and perfect symmetry of the Taj Mahal itself, making it truly a work of art. This paper model kit contains 82 parts to assemble a replica of the iconic Taj Mahal structure.
The British Library is the national library of Great Britain. Over 16,000 people use the collections each day (on site and online).
Each year:
- The British Library online catalogue generates six million searches
- Nearly 400,000 visit the library’s reading rooms
The document provides information about the history and operations of the British Library. It discusses how the British Library was formed in 1973 by merging various collections that were previously housed in separate buildings. It holds over 25 million printed books and other materials. The new library complex opened in 1997-1998 in London near St. Pancras Station to unite its vast collections under one roof. Plans for the new complex took many years to approve and fund.
British Library Labs 21st Century Curatorship Talklabsbl
The document discusses the British Library Labs program and lessons learned. It provides an overview of how Labs works with stakeholders like researchers and developers. Labs runs competitions to fund projects that experiment with the Library's digital collections. Winners complete residencies to develop tools and services. Lessons include the need to filter large collections, engage curators, address metadata and system issues, and provide flexible access to support digital research.
BL Labs and Channel 4 Presentation at Sunnyside of the Doc 250615labsbl
The document summarizes the British Library's efforts to make its digital content and data more accessible and useful to filmmakers and other users. It discusses the Library's vision to be the most open, creative and innovative cultural institution by 2023. Examples are provided of digital research projects and competitions that have utilized the Library's digitized collections in fields like image tagging, mapping, and analyzing historical recordings. The goal is to harness new technologies and crowdsourcing to generate insights from the Library's vast archives.
The document discusses British Library Labs, which experiments with digital collections and data. It provides information on previous competition winners who developed tools like the Text to Image Linking Tool and Victorian Meme Machine. Labs works with researchers, universities, and other institutions to build bridges between data and researchers. It aims to address the gap between researchers and digital content through technical solutions and engagement. Labs also hosts an annual competition and awards for projects that utilize the Library's digital collections in innovative ways.
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.
This document summarizes presentations from the British Library Labs about digital projects involving the Library's collections. It describes tools and methods for analyzing, visualizing, geotagging, annotating, and transcribing digitized materials. Examples include a tool for generating statistically representative text samples, a tool for linking text to images, a "Victorian Meme Machine" project, a political meetings mapper, and a "Mechanical Curator Arcade" crowdsourcing game. It also discusses efforts to tag over 1 million digitized images on Flickr using crowdsourcing and games.
British Library Labs Roadshow 2016 Open Data Meetup Bristollabsbl
This document discusses the British Library Labs, which is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It provides information on various digital research methods and projects that British Library Labs supports, including distant reading, text mining, visualizations, and crowdsourcing. Examples are given of past competition winners and award recipients who have created artistic or commercial projects using the British Library's digital collections in interesting ways.
British Library Labs Roadshow 2016 - Presentation at the OU Milton Keyneslabsbl
The document describes a presentation given by the British Library Labs at the Open University in Milton Keynes on February 29, 2016. It discusses the British Library Labs' projects, competitions, and challenges involved in working with the British Library's digital collections and data. The presentation encouraged attendees to submit project ideas and entries to the British Library Labs competitions and awards.
British Library Labs Roadshow 2016 - Wolverhamptonlabsbl
The document outlines a presentation given by the British Library Labs at the University of Wolverhampton on March 4th, 2016. It discusses the British Library Labs' past projects involving digital research methods and computational analysis of the library's vast collection. Examples of past competition winners are provided who developed tools for distant reading, text analysis, and creative reuse of digital assets. Challenges around language, metadata, and copyright are also mentioned.
British Librrary Labs Roadshow 2016 Birminghamlabsbl
The document summarizes a presentation given by BL Labs about their work in digital research and experiments using British Library collections. BL Labs funds residencies for researchers to develop digital projects, holds competitions and awards, and provides examples of past winning projects including a political meetings mapper and a crowdsourced arcade game. The presentation addresses challenges around data quality and access, and emphasizes trying experiments and learning from failures.
British Library Labs - Bodleian - University of Oxfordlabsbl
The British Library holds over 150 million items in its collection and is exploring new digital methods to make this cultural heritage more accessible. The presentation discusses the Library's support for digital scholarship through initiatives like British Library Labs, which funds projects to experiment with digital collections. Examples are provided of Labs projects including tools to sample representative texts and mix digital media items. The goal is to engage more researchers through open data and competitions while better understanding how digital tools can unlock new discoveries within the Library's collections.
British Library Labs Presentation at Nottinghamlabsbl
The document announces the British Library Labs Roadshow for 2016 and provides information about upcoming opportunities for digital projects including a competition and awards program. Individuals are encouraged to submit project ideas or existing work using the British Library's digital collections for cash awards or the opportunity to do a residency at the Library Labs between June and October 2016. Details are given about submission deadlines, previous winners, and how to get in touch with the Library Labs for more information or to discuss potential collaboration.
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 Edge Hill Universitylabsbl
The document discusses the British Library Labs, which explores innovative experiments and future opportunities using the Library's digital collections and data. It provides information on past competition winners who developed tools for text analysis, visualization, and more. It encourages new ideas for competitions and awards, provides access to some of the Library's datasets, and discusses collaborations between Labs and researchers.
The document announces the British Library Labs competition and awards for 2016. It encourages people to submit ideas and projects using the Library's digital collections. The competition offers residencies from June to October 2016 to develop ideas using the Library's technical and other support. The awards recognize existing projects that have used digital content in interesting ways. Winners will be announced in November 2016. Examples of past winning projects are provided.
British Library Labs Presentation Hertfordshirelabsbl
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 to City University Londonlabsbl
This document outlines presentations given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library Labs, about digital experiments and opportunities at the British Library. It discusses past competition winners who developed tools like a text-to-image linking tool and Victorian meme machine. It also provides information about upcoming competitions and awards for developing projects using the Library's digital collections, and gives tips for entering the competitions. Finally, it briefly describes some of the digital collections and datasets available through the British Library Labs.
British Library Labs Presentation at UK Medical Heritage Library Live Lablabsbl
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.
Similar to British LIbrary Labs Presentation to Bodelian Interns (20)
The document advertises the British Library Labs Symposium 2020 funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and British Library, encourages exploring the library's digital collections through various websites, and lists an immersive theater performance called "To those born later" taking place at the Eliot Room in the Knowledge Centre with tickets costing £13 or concessions.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 12_Digital Research team projects updatelabsbl
(1) The British Library's Digital Scholarship team aims to enable the use of the library's digital collections for research, inspiration, creativity, and enjoyment.
(2) The team is cross-disciplinary and supports the creation and innovative use of the library's digital collections.
(3) Recent projects include making Arabic manuscripts searchable through handwriting recognition software, digitizing South Asian printed books from 1713-1914, and exploring optical character recognition for languages like Bengali.
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.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 01_Welcome and Introductionlabsbl
The British Library Labs has been running since 2013 and has supported over 160 projects in 6 years. It works with researchers, artists, and others to run competitions, awards, projects and other engagements exploring digital collections from the British Library and other GLAM institutions. A GLAM Lab is a space in a gallery, library, archive or museum to experiment and innovate with digitized and born-digital collections and data. The keynote speaker at this event will be Armand Leroi, an evolutionary biologist and author who has presented several documentary series on science and biology for BBC and Channel 4.
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
This document summarizes a talk given by Mahendra Mahey on the British Library's digital collections and how they are used for projects. It provides information on the British Library Labs program, which funds and supports projects utilizing the Library's digital content. Examples are given of different types of projects, including research projects analyzing digitized newspapers, music collections, and other materials, as well as artistic and educational projects. Tips are provided on accessing and making use of the Library's digital collections and data.
Building Better GLAM Labs - Opening talk at Museum Big Data Conference - UCL ...labsbl
The document outlines Mahendra Mahey's presentation on exploring the use of big data in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) digital labs. Some key points include:
- Mahendra will give a talk on using big data in GLAM digital labs at the Qatar National Library on April 30, 2019.
- BL Labs at the British Library works with researchers, artists, and others to experiment with digitized and born digital collections.
- Engagement with potential users is important for GLAM institutions to explore uses of their digital content and data.
Building Better GLAM Labs - Keynote at University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, ...labsbl
The document discusses the British Library Labs, a department within the British Library that supports innovative projects using digitized and born digital cultural heritage collections. It provides an overview of the Labs' history, activities, and lessons learned. The Labs engages with researchers, artists, educators and entrepreneurs through competitions, projects, workshops and other events to support over 150 projects annually. It emphasizes that engagement starts with building relationships with people, not just focusing on technology.
The document discusses digital collections at the British Library. It provides information on accessing and working with the Library's digital content, including over 720 digital collections that are either openly licensed and available online or available onsite. It also discusses challenges of access, engagement with researchers, the story behind digitization of collections, and support available through the British Library Labs for working with digital collections.
Building Better GLAM Labs - Keynote Presentation at Simon Fraser Universitylabsbl
The document describes the British Library Labs, a department within the British Library focused on enabling use of the British Library's digital collections through experimentation and innovation. It provides details on the Labs' activities, including supporting digital scholars, developing digital research methods, and growing an international community of over 50 GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) Labs. Challenges addressed include exploring large digital collections at scale, discovering new ways to access and analyze cultural heritage data, and helping navigate users through the Library's resources and processes.
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
The document provides information about a presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs, about the British Library Labs and how it supports access to and use of the Library's digital collections. It discusses the Library's collections, both physical and digital, challenges around accessing digital content, and how the Labs aims to help researchers navigate accessing collections through exploration, query-focused support and wrap-up phases. It also shares examples of open digital datasets and guidance on finding datasets.
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
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
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Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering.pptxDenish Jangid
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
core of India. Mirzapur, with its varied terrains and abundant biodiversity, offers an optimal
environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
cover is essential for various planning and management tasks related to the Earth's surface,
providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
occur natural.
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A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
British LIbrary Labs Presentation to Bodelian Interns
1. British Library Labs
Mahendra Mahey
Manager of British Library Labs
Bodleian, Oxford e-research centre, Bader International Study Centre
Monday 28 July, 2014, 1400 - 1430
Panizzi Room, British Library, St Pancras, London
3. How Labs works…
1 2 3 4 5
BL Labs
Case
Studies
Open
Software
Publications
Tools &
services to
support Digital
Scholarship
Researchers
Developers
Audience
idea
idea
http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collections
Research
question / idea
Competition
Contact
Events
Meetings
and visits
Projects
Experimenting with our
BL Digital
Collections /
Data
Data Driven
Other Digital
Collection / Data
Data engagement
digital collections
Outputs from
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 3
4. Example Digital research methods
Corpus analysis tools
Text Mining
Location based searching
Using Application Programming Interfaces for
datasets e.g. Metadata, Images
Visualisations
Geotagging
Annotation
Crowdsourcing /
Human Computation
Natural Language
Processing
Transcribing
http://labs.bl.uk/Launch+Event (has some examples from researchers)
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 4
5. The winners of the Labs 2013 competition
Two entries chosen in June 2013
They both worked in residence from July to October 2013
with Labs to complete their projects
Pieter Francois (left) and Dan Norton (right)
and each received a cheque for £2000 in November 2013
as winners of the first British Library Lab Competition 2013
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 5
6. Mixing the Library:
The Disc Jockey & the Digital Collection
http://www.tompro.co.uk
http://www.ablab.org/pd/di/
http://www.ablab.org/shetland
Annotation
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
Prototype design
Preview ‘item’
‘Play back’ of ‘items’ (Blue)
and annotations (Yellow)
Selected ‘right’
channel ‘item’
Selected ‘left’
channel ‘item’
http://212.71.253.54:8000/a
Basic functioning prototype:
Living Lab: Library of the Future, see: http://alturl.com/284zw
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 6
8. Winners of 2014
Competition
Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)
Blog: http://goo.gl/ofpNosl
YouTube: http://goo.gl/iseHTE
Anna Gerber and Desmond Schmidt from Queensland University
Victorian Meme Machine
Blog posting http://goo.gl/iJy0aT
YouTube: http://goo.gl/mBTlk2
Bob Nicholson of Edge Hill University
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 8
10. The story of one digital collection…
The story of
68,000 books and
1 million images
and Flickr
Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 10
11. Extracting Images from OCR
Image snipped out
ALTO XML
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs 11
11
Digitisation
<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <mets:mets
xmlns:xsi="http://ww
w.w3.org/2001/XML
Schema-instance"
xmlns:mets="http://w
ww.loc.gov/METS/"
xsi:schemaLocation=
"http://www.loc.gov/
METS/
http://www.loc.gov/
standards/mets/ver
sion18/mets.xsd
info:lc/xmlns/premi
s-v2
Optical
Character
Recognition
Image snipped out
Algorithmically
From ALTO XML
Image taken from page 207 of 'London and its Environs. A
picturesque survey of the metropolis and the suburbs ...
Translated by Henry Frith. With ... illustrations'
12. Face Recognition of 19th Century Faces
The face-recognition algorithm worked
better for female faces than men’s
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 12
13. The Mechanical Curator
http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com
• #similar_to_77576796197_published_date
• #similar_to_77576796197_slantyness
• #similar_to_77576796197_bubblyness_x
• #similar_to_77576796197_bubblyness_y
• #new_train_of_thought
Image from ‘A Lost Estate, by Mary E.Mann,Volume:
02,
Page: 91, 1889, London, Bentley & Son
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 13
14. Flickr Commons – 1,020,418 images!
1,020,418 images!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
Each image has a URL
Some metadata, but you can add tags!
Flickr has an API so researchers and developers can build apps
And query the data
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 14
15. Flickr in numbers
176,026,465 !!!
image views since launch December 13th, 2013
to July 28th 2014
Almost all images seen at least 5 times
90933 tags added
Labs involved a number of funded research projects & 4 grassroots crowdsourcing efforts.
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 15
16. Tagging a million images
- Metadata games and other projects
http://www.metadatagames.org/
http://goo.gl/j6fxac
Cardiff University’s - Lost Visions Project
Games will probably be developed using Flickr sets
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 16
17. Risks of releasing the images
Funny Books for Boys and Girls. Struwelpeter. Good-for-nothing Boys
and Girls. Troublesome Children. King Nutcracker and Poor Reinhold.
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 17
18. Opportunities
– increasing traffic to Library services
Grouping for image
You can purchase
a ‘High Res’ Copy
Download .pdf
User generated
View the item in
the Library Catalogue Tags auto generated
View in the
Library Item Viewer
All illustrations
in book
Other illustrations in books
Published in same year
Tag
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 18
21. Burning Man
http://goo.gl/Htg4XS
David Normal, creating light boxes around the
Burning man, using the British Library’s Flickr Images
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 21
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Hello everyone, &lt;click&gt;my name’s Mahendra Mahey. I have been working at the British Library for over a year and I manage a Digital Lab which is responsible for opening up the British Library’s digital content and data and getting researchers to use it for their research, my colleague Ben O’Steen is responsible for providing a technical lead for the project and supporting researchers who want to use our content and data by providing advice and practical technical support and help. I will talk give an introduction to British Library Labs a brief overview of the surprising things that happened when we worked with one of our digital collections.
1 min 34
The Labs project’s is trying to ‘open up’ the digital content and data (such as digitised books, images and maps) &lt;click&gt;
the British Library has and encourage researchers, particularly in the Arts and Humanities area to ‘Experiment with our digital collections’
&lt;click&gt;
to use it for their scholarly work and ideas and consider research questions that only become possible to ask when you are providing access to large amounts of digital content and data. Our website is available at labs.bl.uk.
The project is kindly funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation.
We work closely with our colleagues in the Digital Research Team (Stella Wisdom, Nora McGregor, James Baker, Aquiles Alencar Brayner and Rossizta Atanassova) colleagues in the Digital Scholarship Department, around the Library and researchers and other colleagues around the UK and world wide.
1min 58 seconds
&lt;click&gt;We adopt a ‘Data Driven’ approach to encourage scholars to do research and development with and across British Library digital collections and data, i.e. here is our stuff… come with some interesting research ideas and questions of what to do with it and we will work with you and try and support you &lt;click&gt;A researcher will have domain knowledge about a subject but not necessarily the technical skills to be provide answers to the questions they are posing. A developer / computer scientist may have the technical skills to deal with large amounts of data but may not have enough domain knowledge to ask the right questions. Sometimes these people exist in the same body and sometimes they need to work together. We want them to come up with an idea and engage with Labs through various mechanisms &lt;click&gt;such as competitions, events (Hack events, workshops, ideas labs and projects). The kinds of methods that are being considered will be looked at in a bit more detail on the next slide Libraries.
Through this process the Library is learning how better to support scholars and to build on existing processes or create new ones, as well as make &lt;click&gt;tools (e.g. APIs etc.) and services. The &lt;click&gt;case studies are some of the outputs we hope to create that will help other research libraries around the world wanting to build Labs for their digital content, &lt;click&gt; others include open software and publications.
180 seconds
So what kinds digital research methods are these digital scholars using especially in the area of Digital Humanities?
&lt;click&gt;For example, searching for items based on and time location can reveal very interesting patterns, e.g. when and where works were published. For example one researcher is looking at the evidence of copy and paste in newspapers in the 19th Century which was a common practice back then. Knowing where and when items might include text from a source can reveal patterns of how the text travelled over time.
&lt;click&gt;Geotagging objects, putting them in space can add new dimensions to the kinds of research questions we might want to ask.
&lt;click&gt;Corpus analysis is the analysis of text in Language and Text mining is about finding patterns in text through computational analysis for example number crunching (a lot of it based on counting words).
&lt;click&gt;Tasks that require humans fall under the area of Crowdsourcing and Human Computation for example e.g. recaptcha is used as a way to get users to contribute to better text from scanned books but typing in the word they think they see in order to get access to a service. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a form of human computation, where tasks are outsourced to humans that computers would find very hard to do.
&lt;click&gt;Annotation involves augmenting an item with additional information, usually text, but not necessarily, e.g. highlighting an area, a drawing etc.
&lt;click&gt;Natural Language processing is used in the analysis of speech, for example.
&lt;click&gt;Similarly transcribing can be the conversion of speech into text through human or computing power to then be used for further analysis.
&lt;click&gt;Providing Application Programming Interfaces or APIs to data can be very powerful ways to access datasets, and can be used by software developers to build software applications on top of them, the term the API economy is now very popular and is fuelling the development of lots of apps for mobile phones
&lt;click&gt;Many researchers want to see the patterns that are emerging in large amounts of data and are now using a number of very powerful tools to visualise data to see patterns.
What is clear is that digital research methods are much more that searching for an individual item in a catalogue and Libraries, publishers, service and content providers have to change to support that.
1 min 20 seconds
A major part of Labs activity is to run an annual competition. We encourage researchers to look at our data, talk to us, and more importantly to talk to each other and submit ideas and project plans of what they could do in a 4-6 month residency at the British Library. This ‘residency model ‘enables researchers to get access to pretty much all the digital content they require without any license restrictions and we get to engage with them deeply to learn about what they want to do and importantly what we need to learn as a library to support digital scholars better. We work in an agile way with the researchers.
&lt;click&gt;We worked with two researchers who won last year’s competition,
&lt;click&gt;Pieter Francois and Dan Norton over a
&lt;click&gt;4 month period to work on their research questions and ideas. Let’s now look briefly at their ideas and what was achieved.
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
&lt;click&gt;. Dan’s interactive approach helps build aesthetic, experimental, or logical links between resources. This project focused on ideas around creating a prototype&lt;click&gt; and what would be the basic building blocks needed to create a simple demonstrator
&lt;click&gt;. Dan is now building on the work he did at Labs and is the resident researcher and artist at the
&lt;click&gt;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.
1 min 30
1 min 31 seconds
We have announced our winners for our 2014 competition in June and are currently working with them, the results will be showcased at a large event on the 3 November 2014 in London. They are:
Anna Gerber and Desmond Schmidt from Queensland University in Australia.
In order to make old printed books and manuscripts accessible to a Web audience, it is essential to display the page image / facsimile of the original document next to its transcription. This allows the user to comment on the text, and to read it clearly, but because original documents are often hard to read, or have different line-breaks than text on a computer screen, it is easy to get lost trying to match up words in the document with words in the transcription. To overcome this, the team are developing semi-automatic methods to generate links that highlight corresponding parts of the page image and the text.
Bob Nicholson, lecturer at Edge Hill University.
The ‘Victorian Meme Machine’ [VMM] will create an extensive database of Victorian jokes that will be available for use by other scholars. Let’s have a look at a video explaining his entry.
1 min 30 seconds
75 seconds
The work of Labs is really about a number of stories, stories about digital collections and about researchers wanting to ask fascinating research questions about them. Let’s now tell you a story about one collection and the intended and unintended consequences of working with it.
The Library digitised 68,000 17th to 19th century books from our collections a few years ago (around 2.7 % of the physical total in that period. We also captured 22 million individual page images, along with full text scans of these images all of which contain untold quantity of useful data such as names of people, places, historical events, dates.
So the question became then, what next? What can 68,000 books tell us?
60 seconds
As the books were scanned for text, this had a fortunate ‘side effect’ the software not only tries to detect the text on the page &lt;click&gt;but also where the images might be. &lt;click&gt;There had already been some interest as part of the competition, Matt Prior attended one of our hack events and when examining our book data and was very interested in the images from the books.
50 seconds
Ben O’Steen, Labs Technical lead, wrote an algorithm to begin to extract all the images that were picked up in the scanning process from the 68,000 books. He did this initially because he had an interest in face recognition algorithms, and wanted to know if algorithms that had been trained on passport photos could be used to detect faces in the images in this collection, many of which were illustrations&lt;click&gt;. He found that it was good at detecting &lt;click&gt;female faces but not men, as men tended to have beards and glasses!
130 seconds
Labs and other members of Digital Research team decided to post an image every hour on a tumblr blog &lt;click&gt;This was the first image that was published. The service was christened with the somewhat controversial name &lt;click&gt;Mechanical Curator (we like to be a little controversial) and said that it was a ‘she’. Our newest staff member churned away day and night posting an image every hour. It posted previously unseen illustrations taken almost at random. The Mechanical curator uses algorithms to chose other similar images based on a number of algorithms it has at hand, for example &lt;click&gt;e.g. published date, &lt;click&gt;slantyness, &lt;click&gt;bubblyness on the x or &lt;click&gt;y axis, or a&lt;click&gt; ‘new train of thought’ if it get’s bored. However, little was known about the actual image, apart from the analytic work of the Mechanical curator.
Meanwhile the algorithm that Ben had written to snip the images from the OCR scans was still churning away, how many were there going to be? The Mechanical Curator could publish them every hour, but was there somewhere we could put them all for people to browse when they wanted. Importantly if we did put them somewhere, could we get people to help us add descriptions to the individual images making them infinitely more discoverable.
65 seconds
How many images do you think we found? &lt;click&gt;Over 1 million images were then put onto &lt;click&gt;Flickr commons.
Why? Because each image would have a &lt;click&gt;URL. Each image had some &lt;click&gt;metadata, i.e. the book and page number it came from.
However the image itself didn’t have any metadata, i.e. was it a picture of a dog? By releasing the images onto Flickr, we could begin to see if people might start adding tags to the images. &lt;click&gt;Flickr has a well known and used API which developers and researchers could start using to build applications on top of or for examining large amounts of them at the same time.
People have already started putting images into sets as you can see from the picture, portraits and ships are very popular.
35 seconds
The site was launched on Friday, December 13, 2013. How many views do you think there have been?
&lt;click&gt;There are have been a staggering 176,026,465 views of the images since December 13th, 2013, figures correct July 28. So Friday the 13th wasn’t so unlucky for us after all!
50 seconds
We are working with &lt;click&gt;Metadata Games to develop branded British Library games rapidly increase the amount metadata that is being added, 3 games have been launched, portrait tag was launched on the 18th of June&lt;click&gt;, e.g. we have lots of ships, maps and portraits to name a few. There is also an Arts and Humanities Research Council Big Data project called Lost Visions, &lt;click&gt;which will be answering detailed research questions about the images and doing some tagging too.
35 seconds
There are risks in this of course, surely lurking in the 1 million are images are sordid and of an offensive nature, especially given some of the views that were around at that time? &lt;click&gt;In the end we decided to not interfere, and take any issues as they may arise on a case-by-case basis. To date we’ve had very few.
50 seconds
Here is the anatomy of a Flickr record, importantly we have created links to many of the Library’s services &lt;click&gt;some of this lovely traffic is going back to the Library and hopefully generating more interest in our services, from downloading a pdf of the book to purchasing a high res scan of the image.
&lt;click&gt;Tags are added from the original book record, including the approximate page number the image came from&lt;click&gt;users of Flickr can add their own tags, and I have mentioned they have already started doing it.
18 seconds
There has been considerable news coverage about the million images released on Flickr commons. &lt;click&gt;The Independent, &lt;click&gt;Wired magazine, &lt;click&gt;The Guardian, &lt;click&gt;Popular Science and the &lt;click&gt;Mail online to name a very few.
15 seconds
There have been several creative uses of the images and can be found at the website above.
The creation of a skateboard which you can buy for $64.
A colouring book!
http://www.playingbythebook.net/2014/03/18/barbapapas-new-house-a-book-so-good-im-featuring-it-for-a-second-time/
A youtube video showing off the pictures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiS1cx38rKk&feature=youtu.be
Burning man is a surprising use of the images we put onto Flickr. Once a year, tens of thousands of participants gather in Nevada&apos;s Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having left no trace whatsoever. This year it is taking place between August 25 to September 1, Nevada, USA, the show ends by burning an effigy of wooden man! &lt;click&gt;
David Normal is using images from your Flickr Commons collection and is working on a set of collages called &quot;Crossroads of Curiosity&quot;. The finished images will be paintings based on these collages that will be presented in full colour as &apos; lightboxes at this year&apos;s Burning Man Festival. These works are part of the festival&apos;s &quot;Caravansary&quot; theme for 2014, and will be presented around the base of the effigy of the Burning Man in the heart of the festival.