The document discusses the British Library's efforts in promoting digital scholarship. It outlines the library's mission to support digital scholarship through developing innovative models, training staff, and engaging with user communities. It describes various initiatives like creating a digital scholarship training program, hosting discussions on topics in digital libraries, curating e-manuscripts, and crowdsourcing projects that engage users. The library also aims to enhance research through tools that analyze and link digital collections, and works with partners to provide wider access to collections.
Going, going, gone - Can legal deposit save us from the digital black hole? -...CONUL Conference
Presented at the CONUL Conference, July 2015, Athlone, Ireland by Margaret Flood, Arlene Healy, Trinity College Dublin.
Abstract
The internet has evolved beyond recognition since its advent in 1980s; fundamentally changing the way we live, work and communicate. However its pervasiveness is mirrored by the transient nature of much of the content and the consequent loss of collective memory has been described as the digital black hole. Historically nations have relied on national libraries and other legal deposit libraries, to collect preserve and provide ongoing access to the intellectual, cultural and social outputs of their country, and in an increasingly digital world restricting legal deposit to publications in print has put the national record at risk. Over the last decade countries across the world have extended legal deposit provisions in their legislation to cover non-print formats. This presentation focuses on the experience of the UK, as a case study, from new legislation in 2003 through the experience of implementation in 2013 to where we are today. Challenges, viewed through the lens of an academic library, include defining what is national in a digital world; balancing the interests of multiple stakeholders; technical challenges to implement robust collection, preservation and access systems within legal constraints; dealing with multiple and rapidly evolving formats; the sheer scale and cost of collecting and preserving content and providing ongoing access to it. Two years on from UK implementation of the legislation how successful have the legal deposit libraries been in this endeavour, what does the future look like and what lessons might be applicable to the Irish digital environment?
Biography
"Margaret Flood heads the Collection Management Division of Trinity College Library. She has been actively engaged with the British Library and UK legal deposit libraries since 2003 in the planning to bring non-print legal deposit from legislation to implementation and ultimately business as usual. She represents TCD on a number of key committees including the Legal Deposit Implementation Group and Joint Committee for Legal Deposit which draws its representation from the publishing and library communities. She chairs the TCD internal Steering Group responsible for coordination of the implementation of UK Non-Print Legal Deposit within TCD. Margaret also chairs the CONUL Regulatory Affairs Sub-Committee which includes legal deposit in its remit. On behalf of CONUL the Sub-Committee responded to public the two public consultations initiated by the Copyright Review Committee including detailed submissions on the urgency of legislating for digital legal deposit for Ireland
Arlene Healy is Sub-librarian of the Digital Systems and Services (Readers’ Services Division) in Trinity College Library, Dublin, where she is a member of the Leadership Team. In her role she provides strategic leadership for digital services and
Revolutionary and Evolutionary Innovation - Marshall Breeding CONUL Conference
Presented at the CONUL Conference, July 2015, Athlone, Ireland by Marshall Breeding.
Biography
Marshall Breeding is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. He is the creator and editor of Library Technology Guides and the libraries.org online directory of libraries on the Web. His monthly column Systems Librarian appears in Computers in Libraries; he is the Editor for Smart Libraries Newsletter published by the American Library Association, and has authored the annual Library Systems Report published by Library Journal from 2002-2013 and by American Libraries since 2014. He has authored nine issues of ALA’s Library Technology Reports, and has written many other articles and book chapters. Marshall has edited or authored seven books, including Cloud Computing for Libraries published by in 2012 by Neal-Schuman, now part of ALA TechSource. He regularly teaches workshops and gives presentations at library conferences on a wide range of topics.
He has been an invited speaker for many library conferences and workshops throughout the United States and internationally. He has spoken in throughout the United States and in Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, China, Singapore, India, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Israel, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Argentina.
Marshall Breeding held a variety of positions for the Vanderbilt University Libraries in Nashville, TN from 1985 through May 2012, including as Director for Innovative Technologies and Research as the Executive Director the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.
Breeding was the 2010 recipient of the LITA LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication for Continuing Education in Library and Information Science.
Read his Guideposts blog on Library Technology Guides at:
www.librarytechnology.org
The IMLS National Digital Platform & Your Library: Tools You Can UseTrevor Owens
As libraries increasingly use digital infrastructure to provide access to content and resources, there are more and more opportunities for collaboration around the tools and services that they use to meet their users’ needs. To this end, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is making substantial investments in developing collaborative and sustainable technical and social digital infrastructure for libraries through the National Digital Platform initiative. In this talk, you will learn about a series of digital tools, services, training opportunities and resources IMLS is funding through the National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The presentation will focus on ongoing projects and efforts that you and your library can get involved in and make direct use of. It will also provide insight into how you could develop competitive proposals for projects that could be funded through this national effort.
Are we failing users? Can open approaches meet their needs? - Maura MarxJisc
Are we failing users? Can open approaches meet their needs?
Maura's plenary presentation at the Jisc/British Library Discovery Summit 2013
February 2013, London
As part of the ALIA professional development series - "What's your job title mean?" - this presentation describes what's involved working with Informatics in Digital Humanities & Education at the University of Melbourne.
IFLA ARL Webinar Series: Digital Preservation - Managing Publications and Dat...IFLAAcademicandResea
This webinar gives a comprehensive overview of the basics of digital preservation, and a more in depth account of challenges regarding research data in this field.
Making the most of digital resources - Anthony Beal and Neil LongleyJisc
Led by Anthony Beal, account manager, Jisc.
With contribution from Neil Longley, learning centre coordinator at Sunderland College.
In this session you’ll hear from local colleagues, explaining how they are making the most of some of the digital resources available through Jisc.
Connect more in Liverpool, 21 June 2016.
Digitization of Library Resources in Academic Libraries: Challenges and Impli...iosrjce
The advent of information and communication technology (ICT) has made imperative that library
holdings must be both in digital format and traditional format. Converting the analog library holdings to digital
format is indeed a herculean task. This paper discusses these challenges and proffered solutions.
presented at the International Conference on Challenges in Preserving and Managing Cultural Heritage Resources, held on 2005 October 19-21 at the Institute of Social Order, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
The European Information Landscape
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Economically-Sustainable Digital Preservation
LIBER and APARSEN
LIFE project on digital preservation costing
European Infrastructures
Going, going, gone - Can legal deposit save us from the digital black hole? -...CONUL Conference
Presented at the CONUL Conference, July 2015, Athlone, Ireland by Margaret Flood, Arlene Healy, Trinity College Dublin.
Abstract
The internet has evolved beyond recognition since its advent in 1980s; fundamentally changing the way we live, work and communicate. However its pervasiveness is mirrored by the transient nature of much of the content and the consequent loss of collective memory has been described as the digital black hole. Historically nations have relied on national libraries and other legal deposit libraries, to collect preserve and provide ongoing access to the intellectual, cultural and social outputs of their country, and in an increasingly digital world restricting legal deposit to publications in print has put the national record at risk. Over the last decade countries across the world have extended legal deposit provisions in their legislation to cover non-print formats. This presentation focuses on the experience of the UK, as a case study, from new legislation in 2003 through the experience of implementation in 2013 to where we are today. Challenges, viewed through the lens of an academic library, include defining what is national in a digital world; balancing the interests of multiple stakeholders; technical challenges to implement robust collection, preservation and access systems within legal constraints; dealing with multiple and rapidly evolving formats; the sheer scale and cost of collecting and preserving content and providing ongoing access to it. Two years on from UK implementation of the legislation how successful have the legal deposit libraries been in this endeavour, what does the future look like and what lessons might be applicable to the Irish digital environment?
Biography
"Margaret Flood heads the Collection Management Division of Trinity College Library. She has been actively engaged with the British Library and UK legal deposit libraries since 2003 in the planning to bring non-print legal deposit from legislation to implementation and ultimately business as usual. She represents TCD on a number of key committees including the Legal Deposit Implementation Group and Joint Committee for Legal Deposit which draws its representation from the publishing and library communities. She chairs the TCD internal Steering Group responsible for coordination of the implementation of UK Non-Print Legal Deposit within TCD. Margaret also chairs the CONUL Regulatory Affairs Sub-Committee which includes legal deposit in its remit. On behalf of CONUL the Sub-Committee responded to public the two public consultations initiated by the Copyright Review Committee including detailed submissions on the urgency of legislating for digital legal deposit for Ireland
Arlene Healy is Sub-librarian of the Digital Systems and Services (Readers’ Services Division) in Trinity College Library, Dublin, where she is a member of the Leadership Team. In her role she provides strategic leadership for digital services and
Revolutionary and Evolutionary Innovation - Marshall Breeding CONUL Conference
Presented at the CONUL Conference, July 2015, Athlone, Ireland by Marshall Breeding.
Biography
Marshall Breeding is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. He is the creator and editor of Library Technology Guides and the libraries.org online directory of libraries on the Web. His monthly column Systems Librarian appears in Computers in Libraries; he is the Editor for Smart Libraries Newsletter published by the American Library Association, and has authored the annual Library Systems Report published by Library Journal from 2002-2013 and by American Libraries since 2014. He has authored nine issues of ALA’s Library Technology Reports, and has written many other articles and book chapters. Marshall has edited or authored seven books, including Cloud Computing for Libraries published by in 2012 by Neal-Schuman, now part of ALA TechSource. He regularly teaches workshops and gives presentations at library conferences on a wide range of topics.
He has been an invited speaker for many library conferences and workshops throughout the United States and internationally. He has spoken in throughout the United States and in Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, China, Singapore, India, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Israel, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Argentina.
Marshall Breeding held a variety of positions for the Vanderbilt University Libraries in Nashville, TN from 1985 through May 2012, including as Director for Innovative Technologies and Research as the Executive Director the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.
Breeding was the 2010 recipient of the LITA LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication for Continuing Education in Library and Information Science.
Read his Guideposts blog on Library Technology Guides at:
www.librarytechnology.org
The IMLS National Digital Platform & Your Library: Tools You Can UseTrevor Owens
As libraries increasingly use digital infrastructure to provide access to content and resources, there are more and more opportunities for collaboration around the tools and services that they use to meet their users’ needs. To this end, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is making substantial investments in developing collaborative and sustainable technical and social digital infrastructure for libraries through the National Digital Platform initiative. In this talk, you will learn about a series of digital tools, services, training opportunities and resources IMLS is funding through the National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The presentation will focus on ongoing projects and efforts that you and your library can get involved in and make direct use of. It will also provide insight into how you could develop competitive proposals for projects that could be funded through this national effort.
Are we failing users? Can open approaches meet their needs? - Maura MarxJisc
Are we failing users? Can open approaches meet their needs?
Maura's plenary presentation at the Jisc/British Library Discovery Summit 2013
February 2013, London
As part of the ALIA professional development series - "What's your job title mean?" - this presentation describes what's involved working with Informatics in Digital Humanities & Education at the University of Melbourne.
IFLA ARL Webinar Series: Digital Preservation - Managing Publications and Dat...IFLAAcademicandResea
This webinar gives a comprehensive overview of the basics of digital preservation, and a more in depth account of challenges regarding research data in this field.
Making the most of digital resources - Anthony Beal and Neil LongleyJisc
Led by Anthony Beal, account manager, Jisc.
With contribution from Neil Longley, learning centre coordinator at Sunderland College.
In this session you’ll hear from local colleagues, explaining how they are making the most of some of the digital resources available through Jisc.
Connect more in Liverpool, 21 June 2016.
Digitization of Library Resources in Academic Libraries: Challenges and Impli...iosrjce
The advent of information and communication technology (ICT) has made imperative that library
holdings must be both in digital format and traditional format. Converting the analog library holdings to digital
format is indeed a herculean task. This paper discusses these challenges and proffered solutions.
presented at the International Conference on Challenges in Preserving and Managing Cultural Heritage Resources, held on 2005 October 19-21 at the Institute of Social Order, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
The European Information Landscape
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Economically-Sustainable Digital Preservation
LIBER and APARSEN
LIFE project on digital preservation costing
European Infrastructures
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.
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.
NORFest 2023 Lightning Talks Session Three dri_ireland
Lightning Talk Session 3: Enabling FAIR Research Data and Other Outputs
The Irish ORCID Consortium
presented by Catherine Ferris, IReL;
Exploring Large-Scale Open Data: The Curatr Platform
presented by Derek Greene, University College Dublin;
A Workflow for Research Data Management (RDM): Aligning the Management of Research Data
presented by Gail Birkbeck, University College Dublin;
Making Cultural Heritage Data FAIR: Developing Recommendations for the WorldFAIR Project at the Digital Repository of Ireland
presented by Joan Murphy, Digital Repository of Ireland.
An Introduction to the Digital Repository of Irelanddri_ireland
This presentation was delivered by Dr Áine Madden as part of an online launch event at University College Cork (UCC) on 26 May 2021. It covers an introduction to the DRI's origin, function, and remit, highlights the value of DRI to the research community, and spotlights useful DRI projects and publications.
DYAS: The Greek Research Infrastructure Network for the Humanitiesariadnenetwork
Presentation by:
Panos Constantopoulos
Athens University of Economics and Business,
Athena Research Centre
Costis Dallas
Toronto University,
Panteion University,
Athena Research Centre
Presenter: Dimitris Gavrilis
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
Digital Infrastructures that Embody Library Principles: The IMLS national dig...Trevor Owens
Digital library infrastructures must not simply work. They must also manifest the core principles of libraries and archives. Since 2014, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has engaged with stakeholders from diverse library communities to consider collaborative approaches to building digital library tools and services. The “national digital platform” for libraries, archives, and museums is the framework that resulted from these dialogs. One key feature of the national digital platform (NDP) is the anchoring of core library principles within the development of digital tools and services. This essay explores how NDP-funded projects enact library principles as part of the national framework.
The digital curator between continuity and changeDigCurV
Developing a training course at the University of Turin
Presentation by Maurizio Vivarelli, Maria Cassella and Federico Valacchi, University of Turin at the DigCurV International Conference; Framing the digital curation curriculum
A Manifesto for the Digital Shift in Research LibrariesTorsten Reimer
A report from the Digital Shift working group for RLUK (Research Libraries UK) on the challenges libraries face with regards to the digital shift and how to overcome them. Presented at a virtual RLUK seminar on 18th May 2020.
Next Steps for IMLS's National Digital PlatformTrevor Owens
This keynote, at the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference, provides and update on the National Digital Platform and 20 projects supported to enhance it. The national digital platform is a way of thinking about and approaching the digital capability and capacity of libraries across the US. In this sense, it is the combination of software applications, social and technical infrastructure, and staff expertise that provide library content and services to all users in the US. As libraries increasingly use digital infrastructure to provide access to digital content and resources, there are more and more opportunities for collaboration around the tools and services that they use to meet their users’ needs. It is possible for each library in the country to leverage and benefit from the work of other libraries in shared digital services, systems, and infrastructure.
We need to bridge gaps between disparate pieces of the existing digital infrastructure, for increased efficiencies, cost savings, access, and services. To this end, IMLS is focusing on the national digital platform as an area of priority in the National Leadership Grants to Libraries program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program. We are eager to explore how this way of thinking and approaching infrastructure development can help states make the best use of the funds they receive through the Grants to States program. We’re also eager to work with other foundations and funders to maximize the impact of our federal investment
Cross-sector collaboration for digital museum and library projectsMia
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
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Digital Curatorship: an emerging field in
libraries and other cultural institutions
Redefining the concept of “Digital
Curation”
Curation not only of objects but working
on definition, expansion, training and
support of Digital Scholarship amongst
researchers and general users
Understand life and use of digital
resources in the context of emerging
technologies
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Our Mission
• Support institutions to adopt clear strategies
and operating models for Digital Scholarship
• Develop innovative models for Digital
Scholarship exploiting digital content and new
technologies
• Offer training and support to staff on Digital
Scholarship practices and resources
• Support of programmes involving digitsed and
born-digital materials
• Engagement with new and existing user
communities
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Digital Libraries: 10 “in” rules
1.Integrity: access to digital
object as it has been created
2.Integration: different contents
and file formats available from a
single platform
3.Interoperability: different
programmes and operating
systems compatible with each
other
4.Instant access: unrestricted
access to material, especially
from mobile devices
5.Interaction: catalogues that
provide Web 2.0 features (blogs,
wikis, tags, content sharing, etc)
6.Information: comprehensive
metadata for fast and reliable
retrieval of content
7.Ingest of content: constant
upload of new digital content
8. Interpretation: digital content placed in
relation to other items in the collection
9.Innovation: material to be presented in
innovative ways
10.Indefinite access: digital objects to be
preserved for posterity
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Scalability: how to filter, find and analyse
the information I need?
• How many data is generated in
ONE day?
1. Twitter: 7 TB
2. Facebook: 10 TB
• By 2020 we will have
approximately 35 ZB (1.1 Trillion
GB) of Data available
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Main Activities at the BL
• Staff training
• Promotion of Digital Scholarship within BL
• Curation of digital research data
• Project management
• Engagement with users
• Create and share online content with other libraries and
research centres
• Communication channels
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Staff training: Increasing skills and
awareness
• Objectives:
– Wider engagement from staff in
implementing the 2020 Vision and Digital
Scholarship Strategy
– Increased ability to work with digital content
and services
– Increased ability to shape digital services
– Increased engagement with researchers
– Increased confidence in establishing
collaborations with partners in digital
scholarship
– Improved fluency around data management
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Digital Scholarship Training Programme: 15 courses
(offered 3 times a year) launched in October 2012
1. Social Media: Introduction to Yammer, Twitter, and
Blogging
2. Working collaboratively: Using the BL Wiki
3. Presentation skills: From PowerPoint to Prezi
4. Foundations in working with Digital Objects: From
Images to A/V
5. Behind the Screen: Basics of the Web
6. Metadata for Electronic Resources: Dublin Core,
METS, MODS, RDF, XML
7. What is Digital Scholarship?
8. Digital Collections at British Library
9. Digitisation at British Library
10.Communicating our collections online: Access &
Reuse Policy
11.Crowdsourcing in Libraries, Museums and Cultural
Heritage Institutions
12.Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
13.Data Visualisation for Analysis in Scholarly
Research
14.Geo-referencing and Digital Mapping
15.Information Integration: Mash-ups, API’s and The
Semantic Web
•
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Digital Conversations
• Series of talks organised by DRCT on specific themes around ideas, tools and
projects around Digital Scholarship. Contributors have included
entrepreneurs, technologists, librarians, academics and analysts.
• Events held:
1. Search and Discovery
2. Sharing and Annotation
3. Profiling and Privacy
4. Open for Re-use
5. Future of Text
6. Digital Narratives
7. Using the Cloud
• Events are recorded on video and made publicly available on BL Youtube
account: http://bit.ly/XFJrcI
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Curation e-Manuscripts
• Extracting and archiving digital
content from personal devices
• Assist with capture, management,
description, and preservation of
personal digital collections to
facilitate access and content analysis
• Data analysis beyond documents
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Support for digital collections and services
Involvement with BL digital programmes
and services run by other departments
• Born-digital content:
Tools for data analysis: JISC 1996-2010
• Digitised resources:
Codex Sinaiticus
Shakespeare in Quarto
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Engagement with users I:
Growing Knowledge exhibition (2010 – 2011)
Beautiful Science (Feb – May 2014)
Growing Knowledge offered a physical space
where public could walk in and start exploring a
wide number of digital tools used by researchers
from text mining to online collaboration.
Beautiful Science explores how our
understanding of ourselves and our planet has
evolved alongside our ability to diagram, graph,
and map the mass data of the time.
http://bit.ly/1juG9VG
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Engagement with users III:
BL Labs (Launched March 2013)
The BL Labs project, sponsored by A. Mellon Foundation, designed to support the
BL to provide access to its digital resources and enable scholars to research
entire collections rather than just individual items by:
• 1. Reviewing the BL’s approach to licensing: moving towards a coherent licence
framework and setting the standard for access to catalogue metadata and out-
of-copyright materials in digital form.
• 2. Enabling scholars to
• use and implement novel services; to access, download, and analyse digital
content; and to link data to other data and digital collections in order to allow
research that analyses entire collections. This will be achieved by providing
access to catalogue and digital materials through simple open protocols and
semantic linking.
• 3. Creating BL Labs so that scholars can work intensively with the Library’s
digital collections to collaboratively define and implement the services that they
need in the digital age.
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BL Labs
• Mechanical Curator
Flickr
Wikimedia
How are users engaging with content?
List of projects
Video
Other projects:
• BL Digital Music Lab
• Off the Map
• Victorian Meme Machine
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Anna Gerber and Desmond Schmidt:
Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4bjZSJ4cY&feature=youtu.be
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Take two key British Library collections:
19th century newspapers & geo-referenced historic
maps
Explore a key story in the history of British democracy:
the Chartist movement of the 1830s & 1840s
Discover local & national histories of protest places:
Katrina Navickas: Political Meetings
Mapper
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Katrina Navickas: Political Meetings Mapper
k.navickas@herts.ac.uk
A tool to
extract and
geo-code
textual data
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Engagement with users V
• Digital Scholarship Survey
i. The Library plays an important role in digital
research according to 82.3% of users: 53.3%
rate the BL as a very important digital
research library and 28.8% rates it as quite
important. This is a significant increase
(+34.5%) in the recognition of the BL as a very
important institution for digital research since
the last DS survey in 2011.
ii. There has been since 2011 an increase in the
use of social media, especially social networks
(+26%), to share research findings and
interests among users.
More information on the BL Digital
Scholarship research can be found at
http://bit.ly/1ugnlh9
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Creating and sharing digital content
through Social Media:
• Wikimedia Commons
• Pinterest
• Google Maps
• Flickr
• HistoryPin
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Provide wider
access to our
collections
Enable users
to create and
manipulate
data
Enhance
research and
learning
Support of Digital Scholarship:
New tools applied to digital
collections: annotation, citation,
comparison, analysis, etc.
Awareness of emerging research
trends within DS
Strong collaboration between
researchers, IT and information
professionals
Distinctive through:
Comprehensive digital collections
Core infra-structure to store,
preserve, discover and access
Delivered through:
Joint projects
E-platforms
Connecting data sets to research
tools Transform
scholarly
production &
communication
Digital Scholarship
Digital Curatorship
Staff training
and support
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Communication Channels
• BL Digital Scholarship Blog:
• http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
• Connect - DRCT Newsletter (internal)
• Twitter (Digital Curators personal accounts)
• Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LYaclanmcU
One way is through the British Library Labs project and the Digital Curator team which make up the Digital Research Team. The aim of the lab is to encourage scholars to experiment at scale with our digital collections and data. The team holds competitions, events, and creates the space in which to engage with scholars working in this realm. Through the labs we’re learning how to better support scholars and build new services.
With an algorithm by Ben O’Steen we snipped out images from digitised books and put them on to Flickr on December 13 2013, there were over a million, but the problem we had was that we knew which books they came from (author/dates), but we didn’t’ have any information about the images. By releasing them onto flickr, we have got people to start tagging them and using them in very creative ways.
Hosting them internally was not an option and there was not sufficient metadata to put them on Wikipedia. Flickr seemed the obvious option as it is a platform that can support high usage, did not require metadata, allowed tagging and it is free for public domain images.
The British Library has key collections which are vital to historical research of popular protest and the democracy movement of the 19th century:
19th century newspapers
Historic map collection, now increasingly digitised and geo-referenced through crowd-sourcing
Historians want to know where and when the Chartist movement - which was the first and largest movement for democracy in 19th century Britain - held thousands of meetings and demonstrations to campaign for the vote. Yet we have so far only been able to plot the locations of small numbers of political meetings manually.
Political Meetings Mapper is a tool to extract notices of meetings from historical newspapers and plot them on layers of historical maps in the British Library's collections.
Political Meetings Mapper will develop a tool for text-mining and geo-locating the records of political meetings, and enable anyone to access the maps and data on an interactive website.
By plotting the meetings listed in the Chartist newspaper, The Northern Star, from 1838 to 1844, it hopes to discover new spatial patterns in where their meetings happened, and in so doing, help answer the questions of how and why the movement happened.
It will then aim to make the tool eventually adaptable to enable scholars to plot any form of event and spatial information using historical texts and maps.
Political Meetings Mapper will demonstrate the relevance and legacy of the history of democracy for today’s society. Regions, towns, even streets will find a longer sense of their political heritage, enabling them to find out what meetings or events occurred in their area, and therefore encourage a continued engagement with politics among local communities.