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.
British Library Labs Presentation at the Accelerating Human Imagination Workshoplabsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey at the Accelerating Human Imagination Workshop at the University of Liverpool in London, 24-25 November 2016. Presentation given on Day 1, 24 November, Second Session Part II: Imagination and Speculative Cultures, 1445 - 1500
Fourth annual BL Labs Symposium, 7 Nov 2016 keynote by Professor Melissa Terras: ‘Unexpected repurposing: The British Library's digital collections and UCL teaching, research and infrastructure’
British Library Labs Presentation at the Accelerating Human Imagination Workshoplabsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey at the Accelerating Human Imagination Workshop at the University of Liverpool in London, 24-25 November 2016. Presentation given on Day 1, 24 November, Second Session Part II: Imagination and Speculative Cultures, 1445 - 1500
Fourth annual BL Labs Symposium, 7 Nov 2016 keynote by Professor Melissa Terras: ‘Unexpected repurposing: The British Library's digital collections and UCL teaching, research and infrastructure’
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.
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.
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs, 1400 - 1430, 2 July 2018
London Psychology Librarians Group Meeting
Dickins Room, Conference Centre,
British Library
Experiences and lessons learned through British Library Labs How have we eng...labsbl
Presentation by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs.
1100 - 1130, Thursday, 17th May 2018,Part of Plenary Session ‘Cultural Innovation: experiences from the field’,
CAMP iC4: A Breeding Ground for Useful Innovation,
BASE Milano, Via Bergognone, 34, Milan, Italy
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 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)
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 12_Digital Research team projects updatelabsbl
Neil Fitzgerald, Head of Digital Research, British Library
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Highlights of some innovative recent and current projects in the Digital Research team at the British Library.
Mahendra Mahey, BL Labs Manager, British Library
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This Award recognises an artistic or creative endeavour that has used the Library’s digital content to inspire, amaze and provoke.
Maja Maricevic, Head of Higher Education and Science, British Library
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This Award recognises a current member of staff, or team, who has played a key role in an innovative project using the Library’s digital content or data.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 08_An update on the ‘Living with machines’ projectlabsbl
Mia Ridge, Digital Curator and Co-Investigator for Living with machines, British Library
The 'Living with machines' project is a collaboration between the British Library and the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 06_An overview of digital preservation at the B...labsbl
Maureen Pennock, Head of Digital Preservation, British Library
An overview of the challenges of preserving an ever-growing and complex set of digital collections and a presentation of the work of the Flashback project.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 05_The Research Awardlabsbl
James Perkins, Research & Postgraduate Development Manager, British Library
This Award recognises a project or activity which demonstrates the development of new knowledge, research methods or tools, using the Library’s digital content.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 04_The story of the GLAM Labs community and how...labsbl
Sophie-Carolin Wagner, Project Manager, Austrian National Library Labs, Austrian National Library
A report on the work to develop a global community of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) Labs and the creation of a handbook for professionals wanting to set up, maintain and ensure digital innovation Labs thrive in their organisations.
Mahendra Mahey, BL Labs Manager, British Library
This Award celebrates quality learning experiences created for learners of any age and ability that use the Library's digital content.
Digital Magical Mystery Tour - British Librarylabsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, BL Labs Manager about the British Library and it's digital collections and how they have been used by the public.
Building Better GLAM Labs - Opening talk at Museum Big Data Conference - UCL ...labsbl
Talk given on 30 April 2019, between 1500 - 1520 at the UCL Qatar Museum Big Data 1st Conference, UCL Qatar, given at the Auditorium, Qatar National Library.
Building Better GLAM Labs - Keynote at University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, ...labsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs entitled 'Building Better GLAM Labs'.
Experiences and lessons learned from the British Library and around the world with Galleries, Libraries , Archives and Museums engaging with researchers, artists, educators and entrepreneurs who want to use digitised and born digital cultural heritage collections and data for innovative projects.
Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library, British Library, London, UK.
Wednesday 27 February 2019, 1330 – 1500 (Keynote)
Talk given on behalf of the British Columbia Research Libraries Group, in the McPherson Library/Mearns Centre for Learning, Digital Scholarship Commons, Room A308, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Building Better GLAM Labs - Keynote Presentation at Simon Fraser Universitylabsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs at Simon Fraser University between 1030 - 1200, Monday 25 February, 2019.
See: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/dh/dhil/bl-labs
For more details.
Introduction to BL Labs and Reading 35,000 Books: The UCD Contagion Project ...labsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey at the Reading 35,000 Books: The UCD Contagion
Project and the British Library Digital Corpus event on 20 February 2019
BL Labs Presentation at Open Science Infrastructures for Big Cultural Datalabsbl
Presentation given in Plovdiv, 13 December 2018 by Mahendra Mahey from British LIbrary Labs.
Fostering Excellence in Scholarship with Big Cultural Heritage CollectionsInsights from British Library Labs
Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs
1630 - 1715, Thursday, 13th December 2018,
Fostering Excellence in Scholarship with Big CH Collections (in Humanities data and their research use session), Open Science Infrastructures for Big Cultural Data, International Advanced Masterclass,Fifth Floor Conference Room, Hotel Trimontium, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
A hands-on data exploration & challenge to become a derived data-set author o...labsbl
Mahendra Mahey, manager of British Library Labs (BL Labs) will examine some of the BL’s digital collections/data & discuss challenges he has had in making the BL's cultural heritage data available openly or onsite at the British Library.
Mahendra will invite delegates to explore data-sets at their leisure, setting a challenge for those who are interested, skilled in exploring, finding patterns and grouping data. They could become data-set authors/creators of derived data-sets, based on pre-existing digital collections/data provided on the day or already available on https://data.bl.uk.
The workshop will conclude with reflections from the delegates and possibly highlighting a number derived data-sets that were generated by participants on the day that could now potentially exist on https://data.bl.uk. If selected, these new derived data-sets will be attributed with the creators' / authors' details and each will have its own cite-able Digital Object Identifier (D.O.I). These new data-sets would then be available for reuse by any researcher in the world.
GUIDANCE FOR THIS WORKSHOP
We strongly recommend you come to this workshop with an appropriate device such as a laptop pre-installed with appropriate tools to analayse different kinds of data-sets, e.g. Microsoft Excel may work with smaller data-sets such as metadata (see other data exploration tools below). If you don't have one, and would still like to attend, please request to 'pair up' with someone who is willing to share and has already signed up.
Other data exploration tools include: Notepad++ (e.g. for viewing text and XML); Open Refine (e.g. for cleaning data); Tableau Public (e.g. for visualising data); Google Fusion Tables (e.g for visualising geo-spatial data); Spacy (e.g. for text and data mining), RStudio (an open source Statistical package), MATLAB (data analysis tool) & NLTK (Natural Language processing).
Please note that this workshop is NOT about training you in using any of these tools, just tools you may be already familiar with to explore and find patterns in our data.
Datatypes you may be examining in this workshop could include: .ZIP, .PDF, .TXT, .CSV, .TSV. .XLS, .XLSX, RDF, .nt, XML (TEI, ALTO and bespoke), .JSON, .JPG, .JPEG, .TIFF and .WARC
Please ensure you are able to read these files on your device before the workshop if you are interested in exploring them during our session.
Slides for session: http://goo.gl/
URL for specific data: http://
Mahendra Mahey tweets at @BL_Labs & @mahendra_mahey
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He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERPCeline George
The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
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British Library Labs Roadshow 2016 UCL 24 Feb 2016
1. 1http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #bldigital labs@bl.uk
http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs
24th
February 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016
Presentation at University College London
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
2. 2http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #bldigital labs@bl.uk
http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
24th
February 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016
Presentation at University College London
3. 3http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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 @UCLDH #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…
6. 6http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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 @UCLDH #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
9. 9http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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
10. 10http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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 @UCLDH #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
13. 13http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #bldigital labs@bl.uk
Learning to support
Digital Experiments better
BL Labs Git Hub Site Re-OCRing Newspapers Flickr API
BL Explore – Search Catalogue Python Code
14. 14http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #bldigital labs@bl.uk
Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
Fail faster
Lots of small experiments!
https://goo.gl/Vlv3Yu
Let yourself reboot!
17. 17http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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
18. 18http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #bldigital labs@bl.uk
Art Treachery – Januz Druz Tag Attack – Antonio Padial
Art Treachery and Tag Attack
20. 20http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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
21. 21http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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
22. 22http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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
23. 23http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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
24. 24http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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
27. 32http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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.
28. 33http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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. 35http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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. 37http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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. 39http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @UCLDH #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!
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My name is Mahendra Mahey and I work on a project called British Library Labs. We are based at the British Library in London, in the Digital Scholarship department and we work closely with the Digital Research team there, 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.
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In a nutshell the project encourages researchers, artists, entrepreneurs, educators and anyone else,
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to ‘experiment’ with our digital collections and data. We are particularly interested in those who have questions which focus on the potential to find and create NEW things through access to the digital content. For example, being able to ask a question across thousands of digitised books or newspapers using computational techniques would not feasible using manual methods.
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.
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<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>
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.
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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.
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So <Click> ‘how’ do we try and engage those who might be interested in the BL’s digital collections and data? <Click>
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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.
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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.
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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>
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<Click> Why is the Library doing this? Well there are many reasons, but essentially it is about…
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…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>
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<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>
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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>
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Video Clip
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34808495
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So focusing back on the competition, let’s look at a few examples from our winners from 2015.
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Katrina Navickas was particularly interested in the <Click>Chartist Movement who were a group who were campaigning for the vote for working people. <Click>They were the biggest popular movement for democracy in 19th century British history, just as this is early picture shows a huge monster meeting at Kennington Common<Click>She wanted to use a combination of manual and computational methods to explore our Digitised Newspapers to find out when and where they met and plot them on map. <Click>and hopefully unearthing new history.
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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>
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
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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
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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>
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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.
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Dina Malkova was the winner of Commercial category. <Click>Inspired by a small digitised fragment of an <Click>illustration of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground original handwritten manuscript<Click>Dina made handmade and bespoke bow ties and cufflinks. <Click>You can still buy these items in the Alice pop up shop in London and of course online on Etsy.
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<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>
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Indexing BL the 1 million & Mapping the Maps – was led by James Heald and collaboration with others <Click>They produced an index of 1 million 'Mechanical Curator collection' images on <Click>Wikimedia Commons from a collection of largely un-described images. <Click>This gave rise to finding 50,000 maps within the collection partially through a map-tag-a-thon <Click>These are now being geo-referenced. <Click>
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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.
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Just to inspire you, I couldn’t resist showing you the animating of some British Library images, using Creature Software by Kestrel Moon, developed by a former PIXAR animator.
Let’s look at the finished work!
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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.
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<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….
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A tweet from Professor Melissa Terras from University College London, <Click>.