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- 1. 1http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs 14th March 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016 Presentation at KDL Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- 2. 2http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 14th March 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016 Presentation at KDL
- 3. 3http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Distant Reading – Adam Crymble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4y-_VoXdA
- 4. 4http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk One of Largest Library’s in the World 180 million* items 1-2 %* digitised * estimate
- 5. 5http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Managing expectations: Looking for very specific things digitally •There won’t always be the treasure you expect at the end of a digital journey! •Only a small amount of content is digitised! •Compromise is needed in terms of what you want and what you might actually get •Be prepared to go on a journey •Destination might be very different to what you initially envisaged
- 6. 6http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk http://www.bl.uk/subjects/digital-scholarship http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collections Soon…http://data.bl.uk Mini Network Area Storage Device (NAS) guide: http://goo.gl/E8aRyQ In 20 years time…
- 7. 7http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital 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
- 8. 8http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk How?
- 9. 9http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk •Submit ideas by 11 April 2016. •Two finalists announced late May 2016. •Residency June – October 2016. •Up to £3600 in support, technical, curatorial etc. •Showcase @ Symposium Monday 7Nov 16. •Winner £3000 & Runner up £1000! Competition
- 10. 10http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk •Those who have already been using our digital content in interesting and innovative ways. •Submit projects (previous and new) by 5 September 2016. •Artistic, Commercial, Research and Learning / Teaching categories. •Winners announced @Symposium 7 Nov 16. •£500 Winner & £100 Runner Up. Awards
- 11. 11http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Projects & Ideas •Ideas change once you try to access, examine and use the data! •Talk to us about working on potential ideas / projects.
- 12. 12http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Why is the Library doing this?
- 13. 13http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk 2013 Pieter Francois Dan Norton 2014 Desmond Schmidt Bob Nicholson 2015 Katrina Navickas Adam CrymbleDina MalkovaMario Klingemann Spatial Humanities Project at Lancaster University James Heald Who and Why? Please refer to the Winners’ Hand out
- 14. 14http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Learning how to support Digital Experiments better BL Labs Git Hub Site Re-OCRing Newspapers Flickr API BL Explore – Search Catalogue Python Code
- 15. 15http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Fail faster / better, don’t focus on one thing, lots of small experiments! https://goo.gl/Vlv3Yu Let yourself reboot!
- 16. 16http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Competition
- 17. 17http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Katrina Navickas (2015) Political Meetings Mapper http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.uk Labs Symposium 2015 (33 mins) https://goo.gl/Qq78Oa Interview 2015 (4 mins) https://goo.gl/BSA3be The Chartist Newspaper http://goo.gl/vOLSnH Chartist Monster Meeting
- 18. 18http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Chartists Un-Covered History in London Chartist’s London Walking Tour 21 Sep 15 The Red Lion Pub, Soho Chartists Re-enactment Chartist’s Meeting Locations in London Chartist’s Meetings Heatmap in London
- 19. 19http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Chartists Re-enactment London https://goo.gl/BSA3be
- 20. 20http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Adam Crymble (2015) Crowdsource Arcade What if crowd sourcing looked like this? http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W Game Jam - http://goo.gl/OH9pOZ 30 mins talk Labs Symposium (2015) https://goo.gl/7z0j8p 5 min interview (2015) https://goo.gl/SSRsdd http://goo.gl/0APpE8
- 21. 21http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Art Treachery – Januz Druz Tag Attack – Antonio Padial Art Treachery and Tag Attack
- 22. 22http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Awards
- 23. 23http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Curious Images Event 2014 https://goo.gl/ubL0AO Labs Symposium 2015 https://goo.gl/gRZ5Ia 44 Men who Look 44 (Notice the direction faces) Tragic Looking Women Collage Art Artistic Mario Klingeman - Quasimondo Read more: http://goo.gl/dM8ieA
- 24. 24http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Commercial Etsy project by Dina Malkova https://www.etsy.com/shop/DinaMalkova Labs Symposium 2015 https://goo.gl/OfJujM Read more: http://goo.gl/pbxZUv
- 25. 25http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/spatialhum.wordpress/ Labs Symposium 2015: https://goo.gl/ZCU56a Research Spatial Humanities: Lancaster University Combining Text and Geographic Information http://goo.gl/yZ3xCJ Investigating geographical representation of disease in digitised 19th Century newspapers
- 26. 26http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Special Jury’s Prize James Heald – Wikimedia and Map work https://goo.gl/WYZCB2 http://goo.gl/HNQq5e https://goo.gl/VPgffL https://commons.wikimedia.org/ Labs Symposium (2015) https://goo.gl/djtm1b
- 27. 27http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Other projects see later http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/ http://www.crossroadsofcuriosity.comhttps://goo.gl/KHxCcI http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com
- 28. 28http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Lessons… •Huge appetite to use BL digital content & data (see Flickr Commons stats later). •Identifying / bridging gaps for researchers to use BL data. •Labs can help researchers navigate through the Library to get the data they want.
- 29. 29http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Finally… •Try and examine, use our data and talk to us about your ideas and projects! •Consider entering the Competition and Awards! •You never know you might….
- 30. 30http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Change the world with … British Library digital content
- 31. 31http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Accessing the Mini NAS Mini Network Area Storage Device (NAS) guide: http://goo.gl/E8aRyQ Find the ‘opendata’ wireless access point and join it. The passphrase is ‘opendata’ Accessing data folders Username:guest Password:guest Or use ftp://10.0.0.1/
- 32. 32http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk
- 33. 33http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital 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)
- 34. 34http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk It’s messy but fascinating!
- 35. 35http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Ideas Lab •Get into groups of 2-6 •Read the instructions in the Ideas Lab Pack •We are around to help and advise. •Enjoy it and have fun!
- 36. 36http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Pitching your ideas •Pitch for 2 minutes •Feedback
- 37. 37http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @kingsartshums#bldigital labs@bl.uk Goody bag!
Editor's Notes
- #2 25 Seconds (68 Words) My name is Mahendra Mahey and I work on a project called British Library Labs. We are based at the British Library in London, in the Digital Scholarship department and we work closely with the Digital Research team there, Mia Ridge is here today from that team today. It’s been running for three years now and is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- #3 33 Seconds (100 Words) In a nutshell the project encourages researchers, artists, entrepreneurs, educators and anyone else, <Click> to ‘experiment’ with our digital collections and data. We are particularly interested in those who have questions which focus on the potential to find and create NEW things through access to the digital content. For example, being able to ask a question across thousands of digitised books or newspapers using computational techniques would not feasible using manual methods. I am here to talk about our project and hopefully INSPIRE YOU to use the British Library’s digital content in some way in your work by showing some of what others have done. <Click>
- #4 Adam Crymble was doing his PhD research on Distant Reading at King’s College. He won a competition to explain his thesis in 2 minutes in the PhD Comics competition. Examples like this will hopefully INSPIRE YOU to use the British Library’s digital content in some way in your work by showing some of what others have done.
- #5 17 Seconds (53 Words) <Click>The British Library is one of the largest Library’s in the world <Click> with an estimated 180 million physical items, with only a small proportion being digitised. <Click>We estimate this is around 1-2%, but no one really knows exactly how much. However, increasingly more items are being stored as ‘born’ digital, such as the UK Web Archive<Click>
- #7 35 Seconds overall We have created collection guides detailing some of these digital collections <Click>on our Digital Scholarship site. <Click>and some on the Labs site. <Click> Soon data.bl.uk will be the place where people can directly access some of the digital collections we have available. <Click> Today we have brought data with us, see the guide on how to access it and print outs on the tables. A pause for thought and reflection however, digital is just a current technology to deliver information. Perhaps in Years to come <Click>we won’t be using the word ‘Digital’ <Click>in front of the word ‘Scholarship’. It will just be ‘Scholarship’, digital tecnology will be part of the EVERYDAY process of research. Any way back to the present.
- #9 6 Seconds (20 Words) So <Click> ‘how’ do we try and engage those who might be interested in the BL’s digital collections and data? <Click>
- #10 41 Seconds (123 Words) One way is by running an annual competition which is open to the world! All you have to do is <Click>submit and idea by 11 April 2016. <Click>The two finalists will be announced in late May <Click>and they work with in residence between June and October, <Click>where they will get up to £3600 financial support, together with technical, curatorial and other types of support. <Click>The winners will showcase their work and receive their prizes at our symposium on Monday 7th of November. <Click>£3000 will be awarded to the winner and £1000 for the runner up.
- #11 15 Seconds (45 Words) The next way we try to engage those interested in using our digital content is through our Awards, <Click>these recognise work already carried out using our digital content.<Click>The deadline for this year is the 5 September. You can submit previous and new projects<Click>in one of four categories: Artistic, Commercial, Research and Teaching & Learning <Click> Winners will be announced on Monday 7th of November <Click> where each category winner, winning £500 with £100 for the runners up.
- #12 8 Seconds (24 Words) The final way to engage with our digital collections and data is to simply examine and use our data. We have learnt ideas usually change when we have done this. Talk to us about projects or ideas you would like to work on whether it’s for the competition, awards or something else.<Click>
- #13 5 Seconds (15 Words) <Click> Why is the Library doing this? Well there are many reasons, but essentially it is about…
- #14 21 Seconds (63 Words) (LEAVE as Automatic) …the library is learning WHO wants to use our digital content and most importantly WHY? What you can see are just the winners of our competition and awards for the last 3 years. There are so many more people who have been engaging with the Labs. I will give a flavour of some of the work carried out and later we will talk about this engagement in more detail. <Click>
- #15 20 Seconds (62 Words) <Click>Labs is learning important lessons on how we are supporting researchers who want to experiment with our digital content using digital methods. <Click>We are learning what we are doing right.<Click>Understanding what researchers want, <Click>learning if we provide the appropriate services, tools and resources to support them. Trying to understand where the gaps are <Click>and what we should be doing in the future. <Click>
- #16 20 Seconds (62 Words) The Labs is a place where we do many small experiments quickly. Most importantly it’s where it’s OK to make mistakes and learn from them. Fail faster and fail better! Perhaps Jimmy Wales’ advice (founder of Wikipedia) can sum what we have learned time and time again.<Click> 40 Seconds Video Clip http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34808495
- #17 7 Seconds (21 Words) So focusing back on the competition, let’s look at a few examples from our winners from 2015.
- #18 21 Seconds (65 Words) Katrina Navickas was particularly interested in the <Click>Chartist Movement who were a group who were campaigning for the vote for working people. <Click>They were the biggest popular movement for democracy in 19th century British history, just as this is early picture shows a huge monster meeting at Kennington Common<Click>She wanted to use a combination of manual and computational methods to explore our Digitised Newspapers to find out when and where they met and plot them on map. <Click>and hopefully unearthing new history.
- #19 33 Seconds (101 Words) Katrina’s previous research has primarily focussed on the North of England.<Click>She was surprised to learn that many Chartists’ meetings were held in London. See the map of Chartists’ meetings in London and heat map where they met most. <Click>The map at the bottom left shows the route of a walking tour she organised in London visiting sites where the Chartists met.<Click> The photo at the bottom right is a Historical re-enactment of a Chartist meeting that took place in the Red Lion pub. Let’s take a peek at have happened …
- #20 54 Seconds Video from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lx0CL_dsQs From 2.13 – 3.07 – 54 seconds <Click> From 1.18 – 3.09 – Longer clip – 1 minute 51 seconds
- #21 27 Seconds (82 Words) Adam Crymble <Click>wanted to harness the power of playing fun games on arcade machines to help with crowdsourcing the tagging of un-described images. He particularly wanted to engage a younger audience into crowdsourcing .<Click>On the right you can see a replica 1980’s arcade machine we built and <Click>and on the bottom left some tagging games that were developed through a ‘Games Jam’ for the machine. <Click>. Let’s take a closer look at two of the games…<Click>
- #22 79 Seconds Video Clip We are close to installing the machine at the National Video Arcade in Nottingham to see how successful the games will be. If you’re interested in having the machine in your institution, please contact us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoCgHo2rwN4 (Switch on Subtitles) 1.47 – 3.06 1 min 19 seconds <Click> From 1.47 to 2.28 – Art Treachery – 41 seconds From 2.28 to 3.06 – Art Attack – 38 seconds Total for both clips – 1 min 19 seconds
- #23 9 Seconds (25 Words) Now on to our Awards, these recognise work *already* carried out using our digital content. Last year’s categories were Artistic, Entrepreneurial and Research. <Click>
- #24 37 Seconds (112 Words) The artistic winner was Mario Klingemann otherwise known as ‘Quasimondo’ . He tries to use computers to generate art or do clever and interesting things such as find images. He worked a lot a collection of un-described images largely from the 19th Century. <Click> Here you can see a picture of a 44 men he found algorithmically who looked around 44<Click>notice how the eyes of the faces change from left to right. <Click>Bottom Left is an attempt to use code to find images of <Click> ‘Tragic looking women’ and <Click>Top Right above is an attempt to create computer art by snipping bits of images together computationally.
- #25 26 Seconds (78 Words) Dina Malkova was the winner of Commercial category. <Click>Inspired by a small digitised fragment of an <Click>illustration of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground original handwritten manuscript<Click>Dina made handmade and bespoke bow ties and cufflinks. <Click>You can still buy these items in the Alice pop up shop in London and of course online on Etsy.
- #26 12 Seconds (37 Words) <Click>The research winner were a Spatial Humanities group of researchers from Lancaster University <Click>who focussed on analysing digitised newspapers to establish when and where diseases were mentioned in the Victorian Era and <Click>plotting them on a map to look for patterns.<Click><Click>
- #27 18 Seconds (56 Words) Indexing BL the 1 million & Mapping the Maps – was led by James Heald and collaboration with others <Click>They produced an index of 1 million 'Mechanical Curator collection' images on <Click>Wikimedia Commons from a collection of largely un-described images. <Click>This gave rise to finding 50,000 maps within the collection partially through a map-tag-a-thon <Click>These are now being geo-referenced. <Click>
- #28 24 Seconds (74 Words) Labs has been involved in countless other projects outside the competition and awards, I haven’t got time to go into the details, but I will whet your appetite by mentioning again, the 1 million undescribed images, how we found them and why we <Click>put them through the Mechanical Curator and <Click>Flickr Commons, <Click>How David Normal’s art installation in the Poet’s circle at St Pancras London came to be, <Click> the terrible jokes of the Victorian Meme Machine all of which will be discussed in some detail.
- #29 28 Seconds (86 Words) We have learned many lessons. I will touch on a few briefly here. <Click>There is a tremendous appetite from researchers, artists, entrepreneurs and others who want to use our digital content/data (see our Flickr Commons Image statistics later). <Click> We are identifying and bridging gaps for researchers to access BL data.<Click> and helping researchers navigate through the Library’s systems and processes to get to it. <Click>At our first roadshow, student Alison Pope suggested that BL Labs acts like a human API (or access point) connecting people to the BL’s digital data.
- #30 20 Seconds (61 Words) <Click>Examine and use our data and talk to us about your ideas and projects.<Click>Consider entering the Competition and Awards <Click>You never know YOU might….
- #31 9 Seconds (28 Words) A tweet from Professor Melissa Terras from University College London, <Click>.