I provide some examples of cross-sector collaboration from the UK, and include some examples of different models for international collaboration. Invited presentation for the Chinese Association of Museums, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2017
Connected heritage: How should Cultural Institutions Open and Connect Data?Mia
Keynote for the International Digital Culture Forum 2017, Taichung, Taiwan, August 2017
I approach the question by describing the mechanisms organisations have used to open and connect data, then I look at some of the positive outcomes that resulted from their actions. This is not a technical talk about different acronyms, it's about connecting people to our shared heritage.
This presentation will discuss how the structured data, together with the semantically indexed/mined entities in semi-structured and unstructured data, are contributing to researches beyond libraries, especially in digital humanities. It aims to explore the opportunities and strategies to use, reuse, share, and effectively elaborate the smart data -- generated or to be generated -- in libraries.
The Clarke Studios Collection in TCD Library: A study in collaboration - Mar...CONUL Conference
Presented at the CONUL Conference, July 2015, Athlone, Ireland by Marta Bustillo, Tim Keefe, Trinity College Dublin.
Abstract
"This paper will discuss the Clarke Stained Glass Studios Collection, a collaborative project between the Library at Trinity College Dublin and the Digital Repository of Ireland. The project is digitising, cataloguing and making accessible to researchers and the wider public the business archives and the designs for stained glass windows of the Clarke Stained Glass Studios, held in the Manuscripts & Archives Research Library at Trinity College Dublin. The collection will be available both through the Digital Collections site at Trinity College Dublin, and through the Digital Repository of Ireland.
The paper will explore the relevance of a research-collection based approach to digitisation of library materials; the value of a digitisation project of this kind for teachers, researchers and the general public; the challenges facing such projects; and how these can be resolved through effective collaborations with internal and external partners. The challenges include issues such as the management of the copyright and orphan works workflow; deciding on an appropriate level of description for the digitised materials; metadata mapping; and promoting the collection to the right audience. The strategies to face those challenges include collaboration with library cataloguers, subject librarians and academics; tapping on the expertise of associated projects such as the DRI; and organising research symposia to promote the digital collection internally and externally. The literature on digital collections projects in university libraries will be reviewed in order to provide an international context to our case study.
"
Biography
Dr. Marta Bustillo is Assistant Librarian in the Digital Resources and Imaging Services Department in Trinity College Library, working as Metadata Cataloguer for the Clarke Studios Digitisation Project. Marta has a Ph.D. in Art History from Trinity College Dublin, and an M.A. in Information and Library Management from Northumbria University. She has managed digitisation projects at the library of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and the Fleet Library at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.
Tim Keefe is a recent transplant to Ireland from the United States and is the head of the Digital Resources and Imaging Services (DRIS) Department at Trinity College Dublin.
CRIG 2017 Improving digital library services with user researchVernon Fowler
Modern libraries provide a burgeoning array of digital services, all experienced through a myriad of touch-points. To name a few: catalogue; discovery layers; website; LibGuides; Learning Management Systems; chat; Skype; social media; YouTube; blogs; portals; email...
It's a complex picture! A dichotomy of implementing innovative new services while maintaining legacy ones rarely results in seamless, unified library experiences. Using unconnected touch-points often leads to broken user experiences. A good user experience requires research.
To increase satisfaction and delight library users, adopt an approach that gathers evidence, generates insights, and informs decision-making for iterative, incremental changes. This presentation explores some tried and tested user research methods to gather both qualitative and quantitative data from students and staff throughout all stages of project life-cycles. It aims to inspire you with examples of user research initiatives undertaken at Deakin University Library, including co-design workshops for a better homepage, and preliminary results from a longitudinal happiness tracking survey for continuous improvement.
Attendees will take away a digital set of research method cards templates, and tips for conducting quality user research to improve project outcomes at their libraries.
Building an international infrastructure for research data - Jisc Digital Fes...Jisc
Research data infrastructures exist at the national and international level and with the increasing amount of international research collaboration it is crucial that these are joined up.
This session showcased collaborative work that Jisc and its partners are undertaking to create a pan-European e-infrastructure solution through the EC funded EUDAT project.
SURFSara outlined the approach to research data infrastructure in the Netherlands alongside Jisc's approach for a UK infrastructure.
Connected heritage: How should Cultural Institutions Open and Connect Data?Mia
Keynote for the International Digital Culture Forum 2017, Taichung, Taiwan, August 2017
I approach the question by describing the mechanisms organisations have used to open and connect data, then I look at some of the positive outcomes that resulted from their actions. This is not a technical talk about different acronyms, it's about connecting people to our shared heritage.
This presentation will discuss how the structured data, together with the semantically indexed/mined entities in semi-structured and unstructured data, are contributing to researches beyond libraries, especially in digital humanities. It aims to explore the opportunities and strategies to use, reuse, share, and effectively elaborate the smart data -- generated or to be generated -- in libraries.
The Clarke Studios Collection in TCD Library: A study in collaboration - Mar...CONUL Conference
Presented at the CONUL Conference, July 2015, Athlone, Ireland by Marta Bustillo, Tim Keefe, Trinity College Dublin.
Abstract
"This paper will discuss the Clarke Stained Glass Studios Collection, a collaborative project between the Library at Trinity College Dublin and the Digital Repository of Ireland. The project is digitising, cataloguing and making accessible to researchers and the wider public the business archives and the designs for stained glass windows of the Clarke Stained Glass Studios, held in the Manuscripts & Archives Research Library at Trinity College Dublin. The collection will be available both through the Digital Collections site at Trinity College Dublin, and through the Digital Repository of Ireland.
The paper will explore the relevance of a research-collection based approach to digitisation of library materials; the value of a digitisation project of this kind for teachers, researchers and the general public; the challenges facing such projects; and how these can be resolved through effective collaborations with internal and external partners. The challenges include issues such as the management of the copyright and orphan works workflow; deciding on an appropriate level of description for the digitised materials; metadata mapping; and promoting the collection to the right audience. The strategies to face those challenges include collaboration with library cataloguers, subject librarians and academics; tapping on the expertise of associated projects such as the DRI; and organising research symposia to promote the digital collection internally and externally. The literature on digital collections projects in university libraries will be reviewed in order to provide an international context to our case study.
"
Biography
Dr. Marta Bustillo is Assistant Librarian in the Digital Resources and Imaging Services Department in Trinity College Library, working as Metadata Cataloguer for the Clarke Studios Digitisation Project. Marta has a Ph.D. in Art History from Trinity College Dublin, and an M.A. in Information and Library Management from Northumbria University. She has managed digitisation projects at the library of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and the Fleet Library at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.
Tim Keefe is a recent transplant to Ireland from the United States and is the head of the Digital Resources and Imaging Services (DRIS) Department at Trinity College Dublin.
CRIG 2017 Improving digital library services with user researchVernon Fowler
Modern libraries provide a burgeoning array of digital services, all experienced through a myriad of touch-points. To name a few: catalogue; discovery layers; website; LibGuides; Learning Management Systems; chat; Skype; social media; YouTube; blogs; portals; email...
It's a complex picture! A dichotomy of implementing innovative new services while maintaining legacy ones rarely results in seamless, unified library experiences. Using unconnected touch-points often leads to broken user experiences. A good user experience requires research.
To increase satisfaction and delight library users, adopt an approach that gathers evidence, generates insights, and informs decision-making for iterative, incremental changes. This presentation explores some tried and tested user research methods to gather both qualitative and quantitative data from students and staff throughout all stages of project life-cycles. It aims to inspire you with examples of user research initiatives undertaken at Deakin University Library, including co-design workshops for a better homepage, and preliminary results from a longitudinal happiness tracking survey for continuous improvement.
Attendees will take away a digital set of research method cards templates, and tips for conducting quality user research to improve project outcomes at their libraries.
Building an international infrastructure for research data - Jisc Digital Fes...Jisc
Research data infrastructures exist at the national and international level and with the increasing amount of international research collaboration it is crucial that these are joined up.
This session showcased collaborative work that Jisc and its partners are undertaking to create a pan-European e-infrastructure solution through the EC funded EUDAT project.
SURFSara outlined the approach to research data infrastructure in the Netherlands alongside Jisc's approach for a UK infrastructure.
Digital transformations: new challenges for the arts and humanities - Andrew ...Jisc
‘Digital Transformations’ is one of four major stretegic themes currently being developed by the Arts and Humaniies Research Council.
In this presentation, the Theme Leader Fellow will explore some of the work that has been undertaken by projects funded within this strand and will consider how they reflect the wider possibilities and challenges presented to the arts and humanities by such developments as data analytics, linking of data, visulalisation and the internet of things. The way in which the arts and humanities can also offer a distinctive perspective on such issues as identity, authenticity, cretivity and the digital economy will also be discussed.
The Tribal Approach Academia Takes to Research Data ManagementLIBER Europe
This presentation by Dr Danny Kingsleywas part of the "Research Data Support Meets Disciplines: Opportunities & Challenges" workshop at LIBER's 2017 Annual Conference in Patras, Greece. For more information, see www.libereurope.eu
Adaption—The Changing Nature of Libraries (Part 1 of 1), Roger SchonfeldAllen Press
Video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV58tFYgA2g&index=4&list=PLybpVL27qHff3BVHuNXqYsqTs2e98_MpT
Sometimes survival means being faster, stronger, or smarter. Sometimes it requires flexibility, alertness, and the ability to adapt. Academic libraries are in the midst of a digital transformation, but in this transitional period some real tensions demand strategic nuance. An expert in the changing roles of the library, scholarly publisher, and learned society, keynote speaker Roger Schonfeld will lead us through the three tensions underlying the changing library environment. Each of these tensions is a budgetary tension, and each of them is a systems tension, and for each of them the library would benefit from a more sophisticated engagement by publishers and vendors.
Ingrid Dillo - Digital humanities challenges and the Research Data Alliancedri_ireland
Presentation given by Ingrid Dillo, Deputy Director at DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services, Netherlands) and member of RDA Technical Advisory Board, as part of the panel session “Digital data sharing: the opportunities and challenges of opening research” at the Digital Humanities conference, Krakow, 15 July 2016. The presentation looks at challenges with managing research data from digital humanities and the RDA.
'Libraries, Media & The Semantic Web hosted by the BBC' event 28th March 2012 at BBC White City.
http://www.meetup.com/LondonSWGroup/events/56987682/
Accompanying video now at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6VwJLNTUyM
Challenges and opportunities for academic librarieslisld
Research and learning behaviors are changing in a network environment. What challenges do Academic libraries face? What opportunities do they have? A presentation given at a symposium on the future of academic libraries at the Open University.
An overview of what EDINA has to offer to researchers in UK HE and FE. Presented by Nicola Osborne and Lisa Otty at Supporting Digital Scholarship in CHSS on 2 December 2015
About the Webinar
The development and rising popularity of the massive open online course (MOOC) presents a new opportunity for libraries to be involved in the education of patrons, to highlight the resources libraries provide and to further demonstrate the value of the library to administrators. There are, of course, a host of logistics to be considered when deciding to organize or support a MOOC. Diminished library budgets and staffing levels challenge libraries both monetarily and administratively. Marketing the course, mounting it on a site, securing copyright permissions and negotiating licensing for course materials, managing the course while in progress and troubleshooting technical problems add to the issues that have caused some libraries to hesitate in joining the MOOC movement. On the other hand, partnerships such as that between Georgetown University and edX, itself an initiative of Harvard and MIT, allow a pooling of resources thereby easing the burden on any one library. In some cases price breaks for certain course materials used in MOOCs can help draw students to the course, though the pricing must still be negotiated by the course organizer. A successful MOOC, such as the RootsMOOC, created by the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University and the State Library of North Carolina, can bring awareness of library resources to a broad audience.
In the end, libraries must ask whether the advantages of participating in a MOOC outweigh the challenges. The speakers for this webinar will consider these issues surrounding MOOCs and libraries and try to answer the question of whether the impact of libraries on MOOCs has been realized or is still brewing.
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
MOOCS: Assessing the Landscape and Trends of Open Online Learning
Heather Ruland Staines, Director Publisher and Content Strategy, ProQuest SIPX
The RootsMOOC Project or: that time we threw a genealogy party and 4,000 people showed up
Kyle Denlinger, eLearning Librarian, Wake Forest University Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Rebecca Hyman, Reference and Outreach Librarian, Government and Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina
MOOCS and Me: Georgetown's Experience with MOOC Production
Barrinton Baynes, Multimedia Projects Manager, Gelardin New Media Center, Georgetown University Library
Presentation by Stuart Macdonald of the Edinburgh University Data Library at the Graduate School of Social and Political Science Induction, 15 and 16 Septeber, 2011, University of Edinburgh
Presentation at EMTACL10, http://www.ntnu.no/ub/emtacl/
Guus van den Brekel
Central medical library, UMCG
Virtual Research Networks: towards Research 2.0
In the next few years, the further development of social, educational and research networks – with its extensive collaborative possibilities – will be dictating how users will search for, manage and exchange information. The network – evolved by technology – is changing the user's behaviour and that will affect the future of information services. Many envision a possible leading role for libraries in collaboration and community building services.
Users are not only heavily using new tools, but are also creating and shaping their own preferred tools.
Today's students are incorporating Web 2.0 skills in daily life, in their social and learning environments.
Tomorrow's research staff will expect to be able to use their preferred tools and resources within their work environment.
Today's ánd tomorrow's libraries should support students and staff in the learning and research process by integrating library services and resources into their environments.
Digital transformations: new challenges for the arts and humanities - Andrew ...Jisc
‘Digital Transformations’ is one of four major stretegic themes currently being developed by the Arts and Humaniies Research Council.
In this presentation, the Theme Leader Fellow will explore some of the work that has been undertaken by projects funded within this strand and will consider how they reflect the wider possibilities and challenges presented to the arts and humanities by such developments as data analytics, linking of data, visulalisation and the internet of things. The way in which the arts and humanities can also offer a distinctive perspective on such issues as identity, authenticity, cretivity and the digital economy will also be discussed.
The Tribal Approach Academia Takes to Research Data ManagementLIBER Europe
This presentation by Dr Danny Kingsleywas part of the "Research Data Support Meets Disciplines: Opportunities & Challenges" workshop at LIBER's 2017 Annual Conference in Patras, Greece. For more information, see www.libereurope.eu
Adaption—The Changing Nature of Libraries (Part 1 of 1), Roger SchonfeldAllen Press
Video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV58tFYgA2g&index=4&list=PLybpVL27qHff3BVHuNXqYsqTs2e98_MpT
Sometimes survival means being faster, stronger, or smarter. Sometimes it requires flexibility, alertness, and the ability to adapt. Academic libraries are in the midst of a digital transformation, but in this transitional period some real tensions demand strategic nuance. An expert in the changing roles of the library, scholarly publisher, and learned society, keynote speaker Roger Schonfeld will lead us through the three tensions underlying the changing library environment. Each of these tensions is a budgetary tension, and each of them is a systems tension, and for each of them the library would benefit from a more sophisticated engagement by publishers and vendors.
Ingrid Dillo - Digital humanities challenges and the Research Data Alliancedri_ireland
Presentation given by Ingrid Dillo, Deputy Director at DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services, Netherlands) and member of RDA Technical Advisory Board, as part of the panel session “Digital data sharing: the opportunities and challenges of opening research” at the Digital Humanities conference, Krakow, 15 July 2016. The presentation looks at challenges with managing research data from digital humanities and the RDA.
'Libraries, Media & The Semantic Web hosted by the BBC' event 28th March 2012 at BBC White City.
http://www.meetup.com/LondonSWGroup/events/56987682/
Accompanying video now at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6VwJLNTUyM
Challenges and opportunities for academic librarieslisld
Research and learning behaviors are changing in a network environment. What challenges do Academic libraries face? What opportunities do they have? A presentation given at a symposium on the future of academic libraries at the Open University.
An overview of what EDINA has to offer to researchers in UK HE and FE. Presented by Nicola Osborne and Lisa Otty at Supporting Digital Scholarship in CHSS on 2 December 2015
About the Webinar
The development and rising popularity of the massive open online course (MOOC) presents a new opportunity for libraries to be involved in the education of patrons, to highlight the resources libraries provide and to further demonstrate the value of the library to administrators. There are, of course, a host of logistics to be considered when deciding to organize or support a MOOC. Diminished library budgets and staffing levels challenge libraries both monetarily and administratively. Marketing the course, mounting it on a site, securing copyright permissions and negotiating licensing for course materials, managing the course while in progress and troubleshooting technical problems add to the issues that have caused some libraries to hesitate in joining the MOOC movement. On the other hand, partnerships such as that between Georgetown University and edX, itself an initiative of Harvard and MIT, allow a pooling of resources thereby easing the burden on any one library. In some cases price breaks for certain course materials used in MOOCs can help draw students to the course, though the pricing must still be negotiated by the course organizer. A successful MOOC, such as the RootsMOOC, created by the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University and the State Library of North Carolina, can bring awareness of library resources to a broad audience.
In the end, libraries must ask whether the advantages of participating in a MOOC outweigh the challenges. The speakers for this webinar will consider these issues surrounding MOOCs and libraries and try to answer the question of whether the impact of libraries on MOOCs has been realized or is still brewing.
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
MOOCS: Assessing the Landscape and Trends of Open Online Learning
Heather Ruland Staines, Director Publisher and Content Strategy, ProQuest SIPX
The RootsMOOC Project or: that time we threw a genealogy party and 4,000 people showed up
Kyle Denlinger, eLearning Librarian, Wake Forest University Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Rebecca Hyman, Reference and Outreach Librarian, Government and Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina
MOOCS and Me: Georgetown's Experience with MOOC Production
Barrinton Baynes, Multimedia Projects Manager, Gelardin New Media Center, Georgetown University Library
Presentation by Stuart Macdonald of the Edinburgh University Data Library at the Graduate School of Social and Political Science Induction, 15 and 16 Septeber, 2011, University of Edinburgh
Presentation at EMTACL10, http://www.ntnu.no/ub/emtacl/
Guus van den Brekel
Central medical library, UMCG
Virtual Research Networks: towards Research 2.0
In the next few years, the further development of social, educational and research networks – with its extensive collaborative possibilities – will be dictating how users will search for, manage and exchange information. The network – evolved by technology – is changing the user's behaviour and that will affect the future of information services. Many envision a possible leading role for libraries in collaboration and community building services.
Users are not only heavily using new tools, but are also creating and shaping their own preferred tools.
Today's students are incorporating Web 2.0 skills in daily life, in their social and learning environments.
Tomorrow's research staff will expect to be able to use their preferred tools and resources within their work environment.
Today's ánd tomorrow's libraries should support students and staff in the learning and research process by integrating library services and resources into their environments.
Brief overview of digital activity at the Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove, and strategic thinking behind this.
Delivered at the 'Welcome to the Digital Age' event at the Royal Engineers' Museum, 9 July 2013.
Largely notable for obscure cake metaphors and use of the phrase 'counter-curatorial'.
Update and forward plan for ENUMERATE - Digitisation intelligence for EuropeNicholas Poole
Presentation to the European Member States Expert Group on digitisation, digital preservation and online access to cultural heritage, looking at the outcomes and next steps with the ENUMERATE project to create intelligence about digitisation for Europe.
Enabling digital scholarship through staff training: the British Library's ex...Mia
A talk at the DH Lab at the University of Exeter in February 2019.
The British Library's Digital Scholarship Training Programme provides colleagues with the space and support to
develop the necessary skills and knowledge to support emerging areas of modern scholarship. Their familiarity with the foundational concepts, methods and tools of digital scholarship in turn helps promote a spirit of innovation and creativity, encouraging digital initiatives within the Library and with external partners. Finally, the programme of events helps nourish and sustain an internal digital scholarship community of interest/practice.
In this talk, Digital Curator Dr. Mia Ridge will share some of the lessons the team have learnt about delivering Digital Scholarship training in a library environment since it began several years ago, and some of the challenges they still face.
Rethink research, illuminate history with the British LibraryMia
Join Dr Mia Ridge, Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections at the British Library, to discover how research and technology can create a richer picture of our past. Living with Machines is a collaborative project between the Alan Turing Institute, universities and the British Library – home to the world’s most comprehensive research collection. Together, they are using data science and digital history methods to analyse millions of historical documents and understand the impact of mechanisation in the 19th century. Their initial approach has focused on specific regions like Yorkshire that will help tell us the story of industrialisation in Britain.
The 'Living with machines' project is a collaboration between the British Library and the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. This presentation introduces the project and highlights some early explorations and work.
Festival of Maintenance talk: Apps, microsites and collections online: innova...Mia
Talk for the Festival of Maintenance in Liverpool https://festivalofmaintenance.org.uk/ My talk notes http://www.openobjects.org.uk/2019/09/festival-of-maintenance-talk-apps-microsites-and-collections-online-innovation-and-maintenance-in-digital-cultural-heritage/
Hopes, dreams and reality: crowdsourcing and the democratisation of knowledge...Mia
Crowdsourcing projects have generated millions of data points through volunteer contributions of classifications, tags and other information about cultural heritage and scientific collections. However, to what extent have crowdsourcing and citizen science projects democratised knowledge about the past within 'official' collections and knowledge management systems? And how would infrastructures and policies in cultural heritage organisations need to change to allow deeper integration with knowledge captured through citizen science projects?
Infrastructural Tensions: Infrastructure, Implementation, Policies
The event is a collaboration between Digital Humanities Uppsala, Uppsala University Library, the Department of Archives, Museums and Libraries (ALM), and Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice.
In search of the sweet spot: infrastructure at the intersection of cultural h...Mia
A short paper for a panel on 'Data Science & Digital Humanities: new collaborations, new opportunities and new complexities' at Digital Humanities 2019, Utrecht.
Living with Machines at The Past, Present and Future of Digital Scholarship w...Mia
Short paper on the Living with Machines project for a panel at the Digital Humanities 2019 conference in Utrecht, Netherlands. Living with Machines is a research project using data science with historical sources and questions at scale to rethink the impact of technology on the lives of ordinary 19thC people
A modest proposal: crowdsourcing in cultural heritage benefits us all.Mia
Projects like In the Spotlight http://playbills.libcrowds.com encourage people to pay close attention to historic playbills while transcribing text to help make them more discoverable. Crowdsourcing cultural heritage tasks can create new relationships between cultural organisations and the public, while creating moments of curiosity that help people understand the past and present. Isn't it time you tried crowdsourcing?
A provocation for the British Library Labs 'Building Library Labs around the world' event, with folk from national, state and university libraries with existing or planned digital 'Labs-style' teams.
Crowdsourcing at the British Library: lessons learnt and future directionsMia
Digital Humanities Congress, University of Sheffield, September 2018.
The British Library has been experimenting with crowdsourcing since it launched the Georeferencer (http://www.bl.uk/georeferencer/) in 2012. It launched an updated platform for crowdsourcing in late 2017. Currently the platform supports two projects, In the Spotlight (http://playbills.libcrowds.com/, transcribing information from the Library's historic collection of theatre playbills) and Convert-a-Card (https://www.libcrowds.com/collection/convertacard, converting printed card catalogues into digital records).
This presentation will provide a case study of the implementation of this crowdsourcing platform, considering how the design of behind-the-scenes processes such as metadata workflow, and visible outputs such as the user experience and conversations with participants, were informed by lessons learnt from past projects. The platform is integrated with new Library infrastructure that publishes images in IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework, http://iiif.io/about/) and has pioneered the use of web annotations for crowdsourced data.
It will discuss how and why In the Spotlight was designed with a balance between productivity (the number of tasks completed) with enjoyment and opportunities for engagement (whether discussing interesting playbills on the forum or social media, or investigating aspects of theatre history) in mind. It will also look at the integration of crowdsourced data into the Library's catalogues, and how the project has changed in response to requests and feedback from participants.
The presentation will include a progress update on the project, and discuss how we applied best practices like usability testing and Europeana's Impact model (https://pro.europeana.eu/what-we-do/impact). It will finish with a preview of future plans for the platform, including the ability for library staff to build their own projects with digitised collections in compatible formats. Reducing the technical overhead for launching a pilot project could be immensely valuable - but how will we ensure that anyone starting a project understands that crowdsourcing is more about people than it is about technology?
Crowdsourcing 'In the Spotlight' at the British LibraryMia
Presentation for Discovery/Participation Panel: User Generated & Institutional Data Transcription projects at EuropeanaTech https://pro.europeana.eu/page/europeanatech-2018-programme
A talk for the CILIP MMIT group at their 'The wisdom of the crowd? Crowdsourcing for information professionals' event, Heritage Quay, University of Huddersfield, March 2018
Museums+Tech conference 2017: Museums and tech in a divided world, Imperial War Museum London
Friday November 3 2017
http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/museumstech-2017/
Historical thinking in crowdsourcing and citizen history projectsMia
The TL;DR version: repeated exposure and active attention to primary materials can develop some historical skills; more learning happens through observing and participating in discussion.
Presentation for Creating Historical Knowledge Socially: New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Undertaking Research with Citizen Scholars
Washington DC, October 2017
Abstract: This 20-minute presentation examines the extent to which crowdsourcing and 'citizen history' projects and discussion platforms enable and encourage the practice of historical thinking. It takes the definitions of historical thinking set out by scholars and institutional bodies and the American Historical Association's 'core competencies' for students in history courses and degree programs as cues for an extensive trace-ethnographic analysis of participant discourse on crowdsourcing and digital community history platforms. This analysis found evidence for the development of historical thinking, situated learning and collective knowledge creation through participation in online communities of practice. Crowdsourcing project forums support many of the behaviours considered typical of communities of practice, including problem solving, requests for information, seeking the experience of past behaviours, coordinating actions, documenting shared knowledge and experiences, and discussing developments. This paper draws on research undertaken for my 2015 PhD, Making digital history: The impact of digitality on public participation and scholarly practices in historical research, in which I explored the ways in which some crowdsourcing projects encourage deeper engagement with history or science, and the role of communities of practice in citizen history.
Wish upon a star: making crowdsourcing in cultural heritage a realityMia
Keynote for the Digikult 2017 conference. The success of crowdsourcing projects that have transcribed, categorised, linked and researched millions of cultural heritage and scientific records has inspired others to try it their own organisations. We can look to 'star' projects for ideas, but what it's really like to run a crowdsourcing project?
For Beyond the Black Box, University of Edinburgh, February 2017
As the datasets used by humanists become ever larger and more readily accessible, the ability to render and interpret overwhelmingly large amounts of information in graphically literate ways has become an increasingly important part of the researcher’s skillset. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the core principles of scholarly data visualisation and shown how to use a variety of visualisation tools.
Visualisations may sound like the opposite of a black box, as they display the data provided. However, aside from 'truthiness' of things on a screen, lots of invisible algorithmic decisions affect what appears on the screen. Data used in visualisations is increasingly generated algorithmically rather than manually. What choices is software making for you, and whose world view do they reflect? Algorithms are choices - if you can't read the source code or access the learned model, how can you understand them?
Introduction to information visualisation for humanities PhDsMia
Training workshop for the CHASE Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age programme. (
This session will give you an overview of a variety of techniques and tools available for data visualisation and analysis in the humanities. You will learn about common types of visualisations and the role of exploratory and explanatory visualisations, explore examples of scholarly visualisations, try some visualisation tools, and know where to find further information about analysing and building data visualisations.
Digitised Manuscripts and the British Library's new IIIF viewer Mia
The British Library's implementation of the IIIF-based Universal Viewer. Presentation for 'Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: British Library and Beyond', London, November 2016
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
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Cross-sector collaboration for digital museum and library projects
1. Cross-sector collaboration for digital
museum and library projects
Dr. Mia Ridge, @mia_out
Digital Curator, British Library
Chinese Association of Museums
Taipei, Taiwan, August 2017
2. Collaboration through…
• MCG, MCN: informal support through practitioner
groups
• Culture24's Let's Get Real: action research
• Finland100, BnF: selective digitisation
• Sharing audience data: MHM, Audience Agency
segments
• UK Libraries taskforce
• Sector-wide approach: DCMS #CultureIsDigital
• Europeana – international collaboration on shared
infrastructure
3. About me
• Worked in web/database/digital teams in
Museum Victoria (Australia), Museum of
London (UK), Science Museum Group (UK),
British Library; freelance consultancy
• Chair of the Museums Computer Group (2011-
2017)
• Member of Executive Council for the
Association for Computing in the Humanities
(2013-2017)
5. Practitioner groups
• Museums Computer
Group (1982, UK)
• 'Connecting,
supporting, inspiring
museum technology
professionals'
• Annual conference and
email discussion list -
1700 subscribers
http://museumscomputer
group.org.uk/
• Museum Computer
Network (1967, US)
• 'Advancing digital
transformation in
museums'
• Annual conference and
email discussion list
http://mcn.edu/
6. MCG discussion list
• Discussion forums: space for informal sharing
of best practice, lessons learnt, new tech
• Sample subjects in July, August 2017:
Bringing collections together, Digital Archives and
Archaeology, intranets, eCommerce / Shopify, games
in libraries, social media influencers, ticketing and
membership systems, support for old web browsers,
contactless donation, VR on a budget, maintaining
gallery interactives, 3D digitisation, crowdsourcing,
Minecraft, manuscript digitisation, rebranding
http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/
8. Culture24's Let's Get Real
• First programme inspired by MCG discussion
• 'Action research' format means participants
undertake and report on activities in their
organisation e.g. on their website
• Format creates 'official' space for participants
to think more strategically, experiment and
learn together
• Supported by Culture24 staff and expert
consultants
9. Culture24's Let's Get Real
• Phase 1: How to evaluate success online?
• Phase 2: Digital Engagement
• Phase 3: Is your content fit for purpose?
• Phase 4: What's the story?
• Phase 5: What's the brand?
• Phase 6: Creating social value
• Let's Get Real – Young Audiences (Engaging
children and young people online)
10. Culture24's Let's Get Real
Cross-sector data gathered through:
• Shared social media metrics to understand the
effectiveness of your organisation's posts
• Applying the same Google Analytics user
segments across a range of websites to
benchmark visitor behaviours
• Running a one-question survey on why people
were visiting a museum or venue website
Experiments include A/B testing of content
12. 'A Tale of Two Countries' by the
Finnish Institute in London
Digitised historical
material about the
'shared history of
Finland and
Britain and their
cultural, political and
economic relations'
www.taleoftwocountries.fi
13. Manuscript digitisation with shared
standards
• BL and BnF each
digitising 400 medieval
manuscripts
• Using common
technical standard
(IIIF)
• Digitisation funded by
the Polonsky
Foundation
17. Audience Agency 'Audience Finder'
• Organisations funded by Arts Council England
must contribute data; Audience Finder site
helps people prepare standardised data.
– Surveys: demographics, motivations
– Box Office data: how far in advance do people
book, how many book together, how much do
they spend, how often do they book?
– Website: visitor profiles and locations
21. Libraries Taskforce
• Enabling 21st century libraries as 'vital
community hubs' providing access to services
and support
• Delivering recommendations from
'Independent Library Report for England'
including 'a national digital library network'
• Find out more:
https://librariestaskforce.blog.gov.uk/
22. Libraries Taskforce 'core dataset for libraries'
Consistent dataset to
enable decision-making
to improve local library
services, demonstrate
impact on core
outcomes, inform
national advocacy
https://librariestaskforce.blog.gov.uk/
2017/07/20/a-core-dataset-for-
libraries/
Data on:
• Individual libraries
• Users
• Events
• Visits
• Staff
• Volunteers
• Public Lending Right (physical and
e-books)
• Stock
• Finance
• Impact
24. Single Library Digital Presence
Working towards a national 'standards-based
digital platform', co-produced with library
authorities, staff, readers to:
• Make libraries easier to find and use online,
offline, increasing the number of people who
can use the library; increasing how much each
individual uses the library
• Help overcome the 'digital divide'
• Saving staff time; reducing costs
26. DCMS #CultureIsDigital
• DCMS = Department for Digital, Culture,
Media and Sport
• 'How can culture and technology can work
together to drive audience engagement,
unleash the creative potential of technology
and boost the capability of cultural
organisations?'
• https://cultureisdigital.dialogue-app.com/
27. DCMS #CultureIsDigital
• Access and Participation
– How can digital content and distribution support new
forms of engagement and attract more diverse audiences?
• Cultural Infrastructure
– How can we position the UK as a world leader in digitised
collections and digital cultural content?
• Cultural Content and Technology
– How can we encourage innovation between content and
technology?
• Skills, IP and Business Models
– How can we build the digital skills and capability needed to
drive innovation and ensure financial resilience?
28. Desire for…
• Efficiencies of scale – common services like
events listings, donations, digital preservation
• Training tailored to cultural organisations (e.g.
social media marketing, data analytics, VR, 3D)
• Lack of digital leadership from CEO, senior
management and trustees?
• Rights frameworks appropriate for both new
and orphan works
31. Europeana
• No direct digitisation. Aggregates metadata
and thumbnails.
• Organisations had to figure out how to extract
and share collections records with national or
thematic aggregators.
• Tension between quality vs quantity of records
• Portal or platform?
32. 'Big data' and cultural organisations
• Lots of hype, not many cultural projects?
• 'Digital scholarship' researchers applying
methods like data mining, machine learning to
digitised text and images
• Sentiment analysis applied through social
media tools
• Analytics applied to commercial data systems
33. 谢谢
Questions and comments?
Dr Mia Ridge @mia_out
Digital Curator, British Library
Chinese Association of Museums
Taipei, Taiwan, August 2017
Editor's Notes
Thank you for the invitation to speak. Today I will provide some examples of cross-sector collaboration from the UK. I've also included some examples of different models for international collaboration. You'll know more about projects with Taiwanese collections or institutions than I will, and I'm looking forward to learning more in the discussion.
An overview of the examples I'll be looking at today
Museums Computer Group (MCG)
Museum Computer Network (MCN)
Why am I here talking about this? Long-term digital museum and library practitioner. Blog at http://www.openobjects.org.uk/ Research and publications mentioned at http://www.miaridge.com/
Combination of in-person events and discussion forums helps create community. As groups open to anyone interested, they connect the people responsible for devising strategies, implementing them by selecting or building software, running social media campaigns and education programmes, etc with each other. Wide-ranging discussions give people a sense of what other roles entail, and frequent job postings give people an opportunity to progress in their career and share experience between organisations.
About 400 posts so far this year from a range of contributors. Archive goes back to 1998.
Effective in providing support and inspiration, at its best, but inconsistent – can depend on people being able to ask questions that both make sense to others and can be answered online. MCG committee worked hard to encourage constructive tone, discourage meanness on the list. The rest of the internet may be nasty, but the list should be a safer space. Less traffic as some conversation moved to social media, but still going very strong.
Began in 2010, also North American versions more recently.
Began in 2010, now includes projects in North America.
Organisations contribute funds but also staff time. It's hard to find time to be more strategic or think about applying new methods to your work, but the 'action research' format means you are responsible for implementing some changes in your organisation. As an official work project, it's easier to block out the time required. It also means you have the support of your peers. It provides a chance to stop and assess the effectiveness of practices you might take for granted.
The projects to date.
Phase 4: develop a more coherent approach to online publishing.
Phase 3: Is your content fit for purpose? Get better at using digital tactics and building their own digital capacity. We all need to be better at understanding changing audience behaviours and to re-evaluate our current use of digital tactics.
Phase 2 report's recommendations provide invaluable insights and are a snapshot of the wider struggle the cultural sector faces to significantly improve its digital services. The Social Media Framework - a framework that summarises the relevant social media measurement methodologies, metrics and tools, based on specific strategic objectives. Social media tools comparison – a comparison of the tools identified during the project that can be used to track different social media channels.
Some examples to make it more concrete… Each phase devised activities appropriate to the research question and participants
Two models for collaboration through digitisation. Digitising items of interest to a specific country or theme can be a more lightweight way of cooperating than building shared infrastructure together.
The Finnish Institute in London supported a Finnish researcher working in the library to select items suitable for digitisation. She also had the opportunity to observe work of a range of departments in the BL.
Working directly with the library makes it easier to select items, as checking for copyright, conservation needs and other restrictions can take a lot of time.
800 manuscripts from the years 700-1200 CE from the collections of the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Original language is mostly French or Latin, so not easy for most of us to read! The websites created will help the general reader appreciate the manuscripts.
Find out more: http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2016/10/england-and-france-700-1200-manuscripts-from-the-biblioth%C3%A8que-nationale-de-france-and-the-british-li.html
Using existing standards like IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework, http://iiif.io/) means existing data mapping and publishing infrastructure can be used, and that the outputs can be re-used. It provides deep zoom and allows items to be embedded in other pages with all their metadata. There are a range of different viewers available for IIIF images, and the same image can be viewed in different viewers, depending on the user's needs, including annotating images and comparing images side-by-side (e.g. two manuscript versions of the same text). This is an example from the IIIF Mirador viewer.
In this example, an illuminated image was cut from a manuscript sometime in the past. Two different institutions might end up with part of the manuscript, but they can be recombined in the viewer to provide a view of the complete manuscript. (This also means the writing on the back of the image can be seen in the context of the whole page.)
Morris Hargreaves McIntyre created 'sector-specific segmentation system for culture and heritage organisations'. Not based on demographics, but on why people engage with cultural heritage. For a fee, you can include diagnostic questions in your visitor surveys to help understand who's visiting your venue (and who's not). Segments - groups of individuals with similar needs, wants, attitudes and motivations - can be targeted with specific marketing messages or products.
Find out more: http://mhminsight.com/culture-segments
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/npompm-funding-relationships-2015-18/npompm-funding-requirments
https://audiencefinder.org/about/
https://www.theaudienceagency.org/insight/data-collection-in-audience-finder
Seems particular useful for performing arts, especially touring companies who don't have their own box office etc systems.
They also have their own segments… 'Audience Spectrum profiles the population at household and post-code levels and can be used as a tool for prospecting and data-tagging as well as profiling and mapping.' https://www.theaudienceagency.org/audience-spectrum
Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) also collect audience data. 'The Taking Part survey is a continuous face to face household survey of adults aged 16 and over and children aged 5 to 15 years old in England. It has run since 2005 and is the main evidence source for DCMS and its sectors. The survey’s main objectives are to:
provide a central, reliable evidence source that can be used to analyse cultural and sporting engagement, providing a clear picture of why people do or do not engage.
meet the needs and interests of everyone who uses Taking Part data.
underpin further research on driving engagement and the value and benefits of engagement. The survey is commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and three partner organsiations (Arts Council England, Historic England and Sport England).'
Background: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/taking-part-survey
Interactive visualisation: https://public.tableau.com/profile/taking.part.survey#!/vizhome/Dataanalysistools-Home/TakingPartSurvey
2014 report recommended the 'provision of a national digital resource for libraries, to be delivered in partnership with local authorities', and a taskforce to provide a strategic framework. Digital network could help with basic things like providing wifi; overcoming disadvantages of distance for rural libraries; provide efficiencies and better customer service through shared services.
'Our ambition is for everyone to:
choose to use libraries, because they see clear benefits and positive outcomes from doing so
understand what library services offer, and how they can make the most of what's available to them
be introduced to new ideas and opportunities, then given confidence and quick and easy access to tools, skills and information they need to improve their quality of life
receive trusted guidance through the evolving information landscape and build the skills needed to thrive in a changing world'
https://librariestaskforce.blog.gov.uk/2016/12/01/introducing-libraries-deliver/
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/388989/Independent_Library_Report-_18_December.pdf
As part of their work, 'establishing a core data set to support decision making'. 'We want the core dataset to be something which all library services will be encouraged to collect, use and publish. A consistent dataset can be used to help inform and improve local library service delivery, as well as being used for advocacy purposes at a local and national level (when aggregated). There may, of course, also be other data which authorities choose to collect in addition to this for their own local purposes.' https://librariestaskforce.blog.gov.uk/2017/07/20/a-core-dataset-for-libraries/
'We want to show the impact of libraries around the 7 Outcomes described in Libraries Deliver: Ambition: cultural and creative enrichment, increased reading and literacy, improved digital access and literacy, helping everyone to achieve their full potential, healthier and happier lives, greater prosperity and stronger, more resilient communities.'
A sample of reporting with collected data e.g. libraries per head of local population, how far they have to travel to get to a library branch. https://england.librarydata.uk/
Find out more: http://goscl.com/wp-content/uploads/151130-DigitalPlatformFinalReport.pdf
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/single-library-digital-presence-steering-group-terms-of-reference/single-library-digital-presence-steering-group-terms-of-reference
Report: 'a standards-based digital platform is the only viable technology for realising recent strategic goals articulated by leaders for England's public libraries' 'primary mode of service on this platform must be co-production -- among library authorities, and among library staff, national and local partners, and importantly, end users. We show how new digital divides have made the mission of libraries -- literacy, learning, and community inclusion -- as relevant as it ever was. And that in order to provide an energetic response, libraries must invite their users into their digital spaces: their catalogues, their websites, their ebook readers, their online events calendars. We argue that these two measures, a standards-based digital platform and co-production of services, will reinvigorate libraries and create substantial, tangible outcomes in literacy, digital and social inclusion, health, education, and economic participation'
UK government is keen on the 'digital economy'
#CultureisDigital is a conversation between Government, tech companies and the cultural sector, led by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Background: https://librariestaskforce.blog.gov.uk/2017/07/13/cultureisdigital/
Responses: https://cultureisdigital.dialogue-app.com/
Using a website https://cultureisdigital.dialogue-app.com/ to collect responses to the four questions outlined above. Also have seconded experts to the project to lead discussion.
The consultation is still open, and this is a very quick and dirty analysis… Some findings in common with the Libraries report. There's a danger of siloed thinking about infrastructure, platforms, software as a service, as people post from their organisational perspective. Wider #CID project needs to ask when does it make sense to share infrastructure, and when is it more effective to work alone? Teasing out posts from the perspectives of performing arts organisations, archives, museums, etc, to understand where they appear to have commonality but don't, and where commonality exists but isn't immediately apparent will require some thought. It's still not clear when shared platforms for digitised content offer the most benefits across the sector (narrowly or broadly defined)? Who would benefit from a shared platform and who has the resources to manage bespoke systems? How should shared infrastructure be funded? Who's capable of building it and acting as a service provider to the rest of the sector?
How can you maximise the benefits of mixed ecosystems, where some orgs have their own digital services and others are yet to start? What lessons can we learn about data aggregation and the levels of support needed at the institutional level from Europeana and CultureGrid?
There are worries about failing to keep up with audiences (who arrive, smart phone in hand). Underlying questions like 'do you need tech expertise in-house?' 'What skills does the sector lack?' are intermingled with expressions of already being asked to do too much in the time available.
Looking through submissions, there's a tantalising sense that new audiences, better relationships are just out of reach, if only they (physical venues, cultural organisations) could find the right technology to reach them. Or somehow use the data they have more effectively.. Is there an underlying worry about how to meet current goals more effectively without getting distracted by shiny new technologies? It's hard to get new tech right - look at all the money wasted on apps. However, perhaps the benefit of apps isn't always directly related to use, but lies in PR value of letting people know you exist and that you're not what they might expect.
Orphan works are those where the creator/rights holder is unknown or untraceable. Risk-averse organisations often won't put them online in case someone claims them.
Explore 53,255,628 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe.'
http://www.europeana.eu/
Here's a sample of search results for 'Taichung' - sound files recording frog species, fashion / social history items, library documents…
Began in 2005 as the 'European Digital Library', launched 2008 to share Europe's cultural heritage for 'enjoyment, education and research'
'At Europeana we work with thousands of European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education and research.'
Aggregation model can suffer when originating sites change their links, update or remove content - links back to the site may fail.
The Europeana model put all the work on the cultural heritage organisation, who may not have had the resources to map their internal metadata structures to Europeana's data model and figure out Z39.50 or OAI-PMH transfer protocols.
Funders had certain expectations which might have made the architecture less effective. Quantity useful for funders, quality better for users. A destination portal operates very differently than a platform upon which people could build services…
I'm not aware of many examples working with really 'big' data. However, there are some examples within the sector working with other research questions, commercial or outreach goals, so big data methods are all around us.
