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- 1. Digital Scholarship andBritish Library Labs DCDC 15 Workshop 1: Collecting and connecting for research – British Library Quay Theatre, The Lowry, Salford Quays Tuesday 13th of October 2015 Mahendra Mahey Manager of British Library Labs
- 2. http://labs.bl.uk 2 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 180Million Items How much is digitised?
- 3. http://labs.bl.uk 3 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Growthof the digital content
- 4. http://labs.bl.uk 4 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Howmuch? 1-2 %
- 5. http://labs.bl.uk 5 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Changingresearch fundamentally Image: Tower of Babble, Book Sculpture by Brian Dettmer Data broken down recombined and duplicated
- 6. http://labs.bl.uk 6 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk DigitalScholar Digital NetworkedOpen Scholar that employs digital, networked and open approaches to demonstrate their specialism.
- 7. http://labs.bl.uk 7 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk DigitalScholarship • Getting the Library used to the fact it is not just physical content we deal with • Innovative models to exploit digital content, services and tools • Offer training and support to BL staff to increase capacity • Involvement in internal and external digital projects • Engage communities Adam Farquhar Head of Digital Scholarship British Library
- 8. http://labs.bl.uk 8 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk DigitalScholarship Training Programme • 101 What is Digital Scholarship? • 103 Digitisation at British Library • 104 Communicating our collections online • 105 Crowdsourcing in Libraries, Museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions • 107 Data Visualisation for Analysis in Scholarly Research • and Digital Mapping • 109 Information Integration: Mash-ups, API’s and The Semantic Web • 110 Managing digital research information • 114 Foundations in working with Digital Objects: From Images to A/V • 115 Metadata for Electronic Resources: Dublin Core, METS, MODS, RDF, XML • 118 Cleaning up Data • 119 Programming in Libraries
- 9. http://labs.bl.uk 9 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk BritishNational BibliographyUK Web Archive Data 19th Century Books Environmental Sounds Book ordering and anonymised reader data Resonance FM 10 year Community Arts Radio Show Datasets, Books / Text, Images / Music, Maps, Sounds, Multimedia http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collections To be http://data.bl.uk/ Endangered Archives Programme http://eap.bl.uk/
- 10. http://labs.bl.uk 10 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Accessto our data Our ‘Portable’ Mini Network Area Storage For a guide: http://goo.gl/78ITT0
- 11. http://labs.bl.uk 11 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Libcrowds Crowdsourcingcatalogue cards http://www.libcrowds.com/ Pinyin and Indonesian Card Catalogue 1278 cards in 2 weeks Metadata in catalogue
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- 13. http://labs.bl.uk 13 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Offthe Map Competition 2013 Pudding Lane Productions, 6 second-year students, De Montfort University, Leicester, won first prize. http://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0 http://puddinglanedmuga.blogspot.co.uk Created an interpretation of 17th Century pre-fire London
- 14. http://labs.bl.uk 14 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Offthe Map Gothic Competition 2014 http://puddinglanedmuga.blogspot.co.uk Created an interpretation of 17th Century pre-fire LondonCreated a Fonthill Abbey inspired game using Oculus Rift http://nixgamedevblog.blogspot.co.uk http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHwTeam Nix, - Jackson Rolls-Gray, Sebastian Filby and Faye Allen from the University of South Wales, won first prize.
- 15. http://labs.bl.uk 15 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Alice’sAdventures Off the Map 2015 Using Digitised Asset Packs relating to Alice in Wonderland Competition closed 22 June, Winners announced in late Oct. http://gamecity.org/alices-adventures-off-the-map/ http://goo.gl/YKrhMD
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- 17. http://labs.bl.uk 17 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Fundedby the Andrew Mellon Foundation
- 18. http://labs.bl.uk 18 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk TheRole of Labs Labs is as much as being a space in which new projects and approaches can be bench-tested; but is important as a fragment of an ongoing negotiation about the role of the institutions of memory and knowing. And getting that role right is imperative… Tim Hitchcock, Professor of Digital History, University of Sussex 2 November 2014
- 19. http://labs.bl.uk 19 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Competition Tellus your ideas of what to do with our digital content Awards Show us what you have done with our digital content Projects Talk to us about working on collaborative projects
- 20. http://labs.bl.uk 20 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk DanNorton (2013): Mixing the Library: The Disc Jockey & the Digital Collection http://www.tompro.co.uk http://www.ablab.org/shetland http://www.ablab.org/pd/di/ Prototype design Annotation Preview ‘item’ Selected ‘right’ channel ‘item’ Selected ‘left’ channel ‘item’ Collection ‘stalks’ made of ‘items’. Each ‘item’ is a URL. The order of the ‘items’ can be ‘shuffled’ and sent to the ‘left’ or ‘right’ channels ‘Play back’ of ‘items’ (Blue) and annotations (Yellow) Living Lab: Library of the Future, see: http://alturl.com/284zw
- 21. http://labs.bl.uk 21 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk AnnaGerber and Desmond Schmidt: (2014) Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4bjZSJ4cY&feature=youtu.be Desmond Schmidt Anna Gerber
- 22. http://labs.bl.uk 22 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk BobNicholson (2014) Victorian Meme Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0 http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
- 23. http://labs.bl.uk 23 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk KatrinaNavickas (2015) Political Meetings Mapper Katrina Navickas
- 24. http://labs.bl.uk 24 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Storyof just *one* digital collection What can 65,000 books tell us? Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
- 25. http://labs.bl.uk 25 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk PieterFrancois (2013): Sample Generator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK80Jy0ijkA Focus on European travel in 19th Century Tool produced statistically represent samples of texts based on search criteria http://goo.gl/YFnZmu
- 26. http://labs.bl.uk 26 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Snippingout images from 65,000 Digitised Books Face recognition Mechanical Curator Flickr Worked better for female faces than men’s Press http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com > 300,000,000 views > 380,000 tags http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/ 1,020,418 images need tagging! Creative uses of images http://goo.gl/qPPgxX
- 27. http://labs.bl.uk 27 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Tagginga million images Harnessing Crowdsourcing http://www.metadatagames.org/ http://goo.gl/j6fxac Cardiff University’s Lost Visions Project James Heald Mario Klingemann Chico 45 Use computational methods Human Tagger Top British Library Flickr Commons Taggers
- 28. http://labs.bl.uk 28 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk CrowdsourcingDigitised Maps Flickr http://www.bl.uk/maps/
- 29. http://labs.bl.uk 29 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk AdamCrymble (2015) Mechanical Curator Arcade What if crowd sourcing looked like this? http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W Drawing on downtime Drawing on scarcity of access Drawing on energy reserved for ‘play’ http://itch.io/jam/britishlibrary
- 30. http://labs.bl.uk 30 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk PeterBalman’s Visibility Tool (2014) Technology Strategy Board Understanding value / impact of making the BL’s data open / in the public domain Peter Balman developed an analytics dashboard for the Library showing what is happening to our Flickr Images Initial Pitch: https://www.vimeo.com/94067983 Challenge details: http://goo.gl/Hb6l4A
- 31. http://labs.bl.uk 31 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk Crossroadsof Curiosity at the British Library until Nov 23 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3SBxO34Zlc
- 32. http://labs.bl.uk 32 #bl_labs labs@bl.uk BenO’Steen Technical Lead Hana Lewis Project Officer Digital Research / Digital Curators Labs Team Rossitza Atanassova Nora McGregor Stella Wisdom Aquiles Alencar Brayner Mia Ridge Acknowledgements
Editor's Notes
- #4 Why is it increasing? Digitisation, Web Archive more and more born digital, e-legal deposit.
- #6 50 seconds <click1>So, the very nature of digital allows us to <click2> break down what were previously bound items down into fundamental bits of information and data. These bits of data can be recombined, duplicated and linked to in infinite ways. This is fundamentally changing our view of research. It’s a bit like the <click3> ‘Tower of Babble’ sculpture to the right by Brian Dettmer , created by recombining bits from books, words and sentences cut out and put back together in different ways to create something new, surprising and beautiful. This is what scholars are doing with digital content. Let us now move on to what is understood by the term ‘digital scholar’.
- #8 "The production, use and integration of digital content, services and tools to facilitate scholarship and research. Allow research areas to be investigated in new ways, using new tools, leading to new discoveries and analysis to generate new understanding
- #15 Play 26 seconds to 1 minute 1 seconds
- #23 Play all the way through…
- #24 Possibly using our maps
- #26 Let’s look at a brief video of about Pieter and his entry. Pieter is working with us to extend his work and try to make the tool available in the reading room. 1 min 30
- #29 The British Library began a project to crowdsource the georeferencing of its scanned historic mapping in 2011 by partnering with Klokan Technologies. Over 8,000 maps have already been "placed" by participants checked for accuracy and approved for reviewers. We are currently on the sixth release, which features over 50,000 maps from the 17th, 18th, and 19th-century book illustrations http://www.bl.uk/maps/ Video explanation: https://vimeo.com/36419466
- #31 Add image of Peter Balman