The British Library: More than just books
Exploring new ideas and methods to better understand the cultural and historic heritage held by the Library.
MSc CGE: Games Industry Seminar Series 2013-14
Computing, Room NAB 314, New Academic Building,
29 St James Street, Goldsmiths University of London
Mahendra Mahey
Manager of British Library Labs
Tuesday 4th of February 2014, 1400 - 1415
Supporting the Digital Scholar: Experiences from the British Library Labslabsbl
The presentation will first give a very brief overview of the Library and then tell you a number of ‘stories’ mostly from a Humanities perspective on how researchers did things in the past and how that is changing because of rapid developments in digital technology. With more and more digital content, data, tools and services being made available, researchers are able to ask questions they had never dreamed of before, share their findings in an open way and collaborate, some of them are becoming the ‘digital’ scholar.
It will bring back the story to the British Library, and how the digital scholar is changing the way we do things. It will then move on to the efforts of digitisation across the British Library, giving a whistle stop tour of some of the incredible digital collections we now have and highlight some of the challenges that we face given our historical origins, licensing and technical restrictions. Importantly, it will also try to address how we are trying to tackle some of these challenges. It will outline the work of Digital Scholarship department, created to support the changing research landscape, focusing particularly on the work on the Digital Research Team and that of British Library Labs, both of which sit in the same department. It will point out some of the surprising findings we have discovered and some of the lessons we have learned so far and what we are planning for the future. Finally, it will finish with some important final ‘take away’ messages and The Presentation will be asking you what excites you most about digital scholarship. Hopefully, if there is time, there will be an opportunity to take a few questions too.
Digital Cultural Heritage: Experiences from British LibraryNora McGregor
Slides from seminar on Digital Cultural Heritage given to UCL Institute of Sustainable Heritage's two programmes: the MSc Sustainable Heritage and the MRes Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology.
British Library Labs Virtual Event - 17 May 2013, 1500GMTlabsbl
British Library Labs presentation given as part of a Google Hangout on the 17 May, 2013 at 1500GMT. The presentation gave some background information to the project and detailed information about the competition.
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eluxemburgensia: the portal for Luxembourg's historic newspapersEuropeana Newspapers
The Europeana Newspapers Project held a workshop in Amsterdam in September 2013. This presentation from Yves Maurer shows the work of the National Library of Luxembourg.
Results of a survey on newspaper digitisation with European public libraries. Also, plans of The European Library to build a cross-search tool incorporating library collections
Presentation given to visitors from the University of Sunderland on the 10th of February, 2014 about BL Labs at the British Library in the Panizzi Room.
Supporting the Digital Scholar: Experiences from the British Library Labslabsbl
The presentation will first give a very brief overview of the Library and then tell you a number of ‘stories’ mostly from a Humanities perspective on how researchers did things in the past and how that is changing because of rapid developments in digital technology. With more and more digital content, data, tools and services being made available, researchers are able to ask questions they had never dreamed of before, share their findings in an open way and collaborate, some of them are becoming the ‘digital’ scholar.
It will bring back the story to the British Library, and how the digital scholar is changing the way we do things. It will then move on to the efforts of digitisation across the British Library, giving a whistle stop tour of some of the incredible digital collections we now have and highlight some of the challenges that we face given our historical origins, licensing and technical restrictions. Importantly, it will also try to address how we are trying to tackle some of these challenges. It will outline the work of Digital Scholarship department, created to support the changing research landscape, focusing particularly on the work on the Digital Research Team and that of British Library Labs, both of which sit in the same department. It will point out some of the surprising findings we have discovered and some of the lessons we have learned so far and what we are planning for the future. Finally, it will finish with some important final ‘take away’ messages and The Presentation will be asking you what excites you most about digital scholarship. Hopefully, if there is time, there will be an opportunity to take a few questions too.
Digital Cultural Heritage: Experiences from British LibraryNora McGregor
Slides from seminar on Digital Cultural Heritage given to UCL Institute of Sustainable Heritage's two programmes: the MSc Sustainable Heritage and the MRes Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology.
British Library Labs Virtual Event - 17 May 2013, 1500GMTlabsbl
British Library Labs presentation given as part of a Google Hangout on the 17 May, 2013 at 1500GMT. The presentation gave some background information to the project and detailed information about the competition.
The Rolex Learning Center at EPFL: a new building for a new vision in collect...Thomas Guignard
The reunification of 10 faculty libraries inside the new Rolex Learning Center at EPFL was a perfect opportunity to rethink which collections should be put forward in an environment that is organized primarly around the working and living space of the users. "Collection development" has shifted from a simple selection of content added to collections to a selection of the best way of access to relevent content. Electronic books allow on-demand access in an even more cost and ressource-efficient way. We discuss how the EPFL Library is implementing its e-books collection to allow for on-demand rental or buying of titles.
eluxemburgensia: the portal for Luxembourg's historic newspapersEuropeana Newspapers
The Europeana Newspapers Project held a workshop in Amsterdam in September 2013. This presentation from Yves Maurer shows the work of the National Library of Luxembourg.
Results of a survey on newspaper digitisation with European public libraries. Also, plans of The European Library to build a cross-search tool incorporating library collections
Presentation given to visitors from the University of Sunderland on the 10th of February, 2014 about BL Labs at the British Library in the Panizzi Room.
British Library Labs and Competition Presentation at the Open Universitylabsbl
Presentation given at the department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts, The Open University.
Friday 7th June 2013
12:00 - 14:00
CMR01
Open University
British Library Labs Presentation Given to British Library Stafflabsbl
Presentation given to British Library Staff as part of C21st Curatorship staff talks by Mahendra Mahey (British Library Labs Manager) and Stella Wisdom (Digital Curator)
British Library Labs: Lessons learned in its first yearlabsbl
Presentation given at Online Information 2013
TRACK 2: EXPLOITING SEARCH, RESEARCH & DISCOVERY
Tools and e-resources for researchers
Online Information Show 2013
Victoria Park Plaza Hotel, London, SW1V 1EQ, UK
Wednesday 20th of November, 2013, 1130 - 1200
by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library Labs
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.
Building Better GLAM Labs - Keynote at University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, ...labsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs entitled 'Building Better GLAM Labs'.
Experiences and lessons learned from the British Library and around the world with Galleries, Libraries , Archives and Museums engaging with researchers, artists, educators and entrepreneurs who want to use digitised and born digital cultural heritage collections and data for innovative projects.
Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library, British Library, London, UK.
Wednesday 27 February 2019, 1330 – 1500 (Keynote)
Talk given on behalf of the British Columbia Research Libraries Group, in the McPherson Library/Mearns Centre for Learning, Digital Scholarship Commons, Room A308, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 12_Digital Research team projects updatelabsbl
Neil Fitzgerald, Head of Digital Research, British Library
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Highlights of some innovative recent and current projects in the Digital Research team at the British Library.
Mahendra Mahey, BL Labs Manager, British Library
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This Award recognises an artistic or creative endeavour that has used the Library’s digital content to inspire, amaze and provoke.
Maja Maricevic, Head of Higher Education and Science, British Library
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This Award recognises a current member of staff, or team, who has played a key role in an innovative project using the Library’s digital content or data.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 08_An update on the ‘Living with machines’ projectlabsbl
Mia Ridge, Digital Curator and Co-Investigator for Living with machines, British Library
The 'Living with machines' project is a collaboration between the British Library and the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 06_An overview of digital preservation at the B...labsbl
Maureen Pennock, Head of Digital Preservation, British Library
An overview of the challenges of preserving an ever-growing and complex set of digital collections and a presentation of the work of the Flashback project.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 05_The Research Awardlabsbl
James Perkins, Research & Postgraduate Development Manager, British Library
This Award recognises a project or activity which demonstrates the development of new knowledge, research methods or tools, using the Library’s digital content.
7th BL Labs Symposium (2019): 04_The story of the GLAM Labs community and how...labsbl
Sophie-Carolin Wagner, Project Manager, Austrian National Library Labs, Austrian National Library
A report on the work to develop a global community of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) Labs and the creation of a handbook for professionals wanting to set up, maintain and ensure digital innovation Labs thrive in their organisations.
Mahendra Mahey, BL Labs Manager, British Library
This Award celebrates quality learning experiences created for learners of any age and ability that use the Library's digital content.
Digital Magical Mystery Tour - British Librarylabsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, BL Labs Manager about the British Library and it's digital collections and how they have been used by the public.
Building Better GLAM Labs - Opening talk at Museum Big Data Conference - UCL ...labsbl
Talk given on 30 April 2019, between 1500 - 1520 at the UCL Qatar Museum Big Data 1st Conference, UCL Qatar, given at the Auditorium, Qatar National Library.
Building Better GLAM Labs - Keynote Presentation at Simon Fraser Universitylabsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs at Simon Fraser University between 1030 - 1200, Monday 25 February, 2019.
See: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/dh/dhil/bl-labs
For more details.
Introduction to BL Labs and Reading 35,000 Books: The UCD Contagion Project ...labsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey at the Reading 35,000 Books: The UCD Contagion
Project and the British Library Digital Corpus event on 20 February 2019
BL Labs Presentation at Open Science Infrastructures for Big Cultural Datalabsbl
Presentation given in Plovdiv, 13 December 2018 by Mahendra Mahey from British LIbrary Labs.
Fostering Excellence in Scholarship with Big Cultural Heritage Collections Insights from British Library Labs
Mahendra Mahey, Manager of BL Labs
1630 - 1715, Thursday, 13th December 2018,
Fostering Excellence in Scholarship with Big CH Collections (in Humanities data and their research use session), Open Science Infrastructures for Big Cultural Data, International Advanced Masterclass, Fifth Floor Conference Room, Hotel Trimontium, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
A hands-on data exploration & challenge to become a derived data-set author o...labsbl
Mahendra Mahey, manager of British Library Labs (BL Labs) will examine some of the BL’s digital collections/data & discuss challenges he has had in making the BL's cultural heritage data available openly or onsite at the British Library.
Mahendra will invite delegates to explore data-sets at their leisure, setting a challenge for those who are interested, skilled in exploring, finding patterns and grouping data. They could become data-set authors/creators of derived data-sets, based on pre-existing digital collections/data provided on the day or already available on https://data.bl.uk.
The workshop will conclude with reflections from the delegates and possibly highlighting a number derived data-sets that were generated by participants on the day that could now potentially exist on https://data.bl.uk. If selected, these new derived data-sets will be attributed with the creators' / authors' details and each will have its own cite-able Digital Object Identifier (D.O.I). These new data-sets would then be available for reuse by any researcher in the world.
GUIDANCE FOR THIS WORKSHOP
We strongly recommend you come to this workshop with an appropriate device such as a laptop pre-installed with appropriate tools to analayse different kinds of data-sets, e.g. Microsoft Excel may work with smaller data-sets such as metadata (see other data exploration tools below). If you don't have one, and would still like to attend, please request to 'pair up' with someone who is willing to share and has already signed up.
Other data exploration tools include: Notepad++ (e.g. for viewing text and XML); Open Refine (e.g. for cleaning data); Tableau Public (e.g. for visualising data); Google Fusion Tables (e.g for visualising geo-spatial data); Spacy (e.g. for text and data mining), RStudio (an open source Statistical package), MATLAB (data analysis tool) & NLTK (Natural Language processing).
Please note that this workshop is NOT about training you in using any of these tools, just tools you may be already familiar with to explore and find patterns in our data.
Datatypes you may be examining in this workshop could include: .ZIP, .PDF, .TXT, .CSV, .TSV. .XLS, .XLSX, RDF, .nt, XML (TEI, ALTO and bespoke), .JSON, .JPG, .JPEG, .TIFF and .WARC
Please ensure you are able to read these files on your device before the workshop if you are interested in exploring them during our session.
Slides for session: http://goo.gl/
URL for specific data: http://
Mahendra Mahey tweets at @BL_Labs & @mahendra_mahey
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More than just books - British Library Labs Presentation given at MSc Computerr Games, Gold Smiths University
1. The British Library:
More than just books
Exploring new ideas and methods to better understand the
cultural and historic heritage held by the Library.
MSc CGE: Games Industry Seminar Series 2013-14
Computing, Room NAB 314, New Academic Building,
29 St James Street, Goldsmiths University of London
Tuesday 4th of February 2014, 1400 - 1415
Mahendra Mahey
Manager of British Library Labs
2. Overview
• The British Library
– More than just books
– Digital Content
• Researchers wanting to use digital content
– How can the British Library support these users
– The British Library Labs project
• Interns working with the Labs project
• Research methods, ideas and projects using digital content
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 2
3. St Pancras, London
Space for 1200 readers. Boston Spa
Around 400,000 visitors per year 625 km of shelves,
and grows by 12 km every year
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 3
4. The British Library
• The largest library in the world!
• Receives a copy of every book
published in the UK or Ireland
(legal deposit applies now to
non-print items)
• 150 million items, nearly all
known languages
• 3 million items added per year
Storage at Boston Spa,
low oxygen and robots
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 4
5. The British Library: The Books
• 14 million books, including the
earliest dated printed book, the
Diamond Sutra
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 5
6. The British Library: More than just books
• Over 8 million stamps
• Over 3 million sound recordings (dating back to the 19th
Century), Cylinders, Tapes, CDs, DVDs, MDs
• Over 4 million maps
• Over 1.6 million musical scores
• Over 350,000 manuscripts
• 60 million patents
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 6
7. The British Library: Digital Collections
• Nearly 700 digital collections
• Terrabytes and terrabytes of content…
• Stored on various media e.g. CDs, DVDs, hard drives,
including the Digital Library System which is replicated in
four locations (London, National Library of Wales, Scotland
and Boston Spa)
• Transforming access for researchers through
digitisation
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 7
13. Other Digitised Collections…
Book ordering and
anonymised reader
Resonance FM
10 year Community
Arts Radio Show
Digitised Books
Environmental Sounds
Electronic journals
data
UK Web Archive Data British National Bibliography
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 13
15. The problem space
• More and more content is being made available as digital
• How can the British Library support researchers who want
to use this for their research?
• Moving beyond access and discovery
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 15
17. What is British Library Labs?
• Encourage scholars to do research and development with and
across British Library existing digital collections and data
• ‘Data driven’ approach through competitions, events
• Creating a ‘Lab’ for scholars where they can work intensively with
British Library digital collections / data.
• Library will learn how better to support digital scholars and
build on existing or create new processes, tools (e.g. APIs etc.)
and services.
• Case studies for other research libraries around the world
wanting to build Labs for their digital content.
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 17
18. How Labs works in pictures…
BL Labs
Other
outputs…
Software
Publications
Tools &
services to
support
Digital
Scholarship
Researchers
Developers
?
Audience
idea
idea
idea
Research
question / idea
Competition
Contact
Events
Meetings
and visits
Engagement with Labs
Experimenting with our
BL Digital
Collection /
Data
BL Digital
Collection /
Data
Other Digital
Collection / Data
Data engagement
digital collections
Outputs from
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 18
20. Labs staff
Mahendra Mahey
- Labs Project Manager
Ben O’Steen
- Labs Technical Lead
Labs
Researchers / Interns / Volunteers / Curators
- Can start at any time
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 20
21. Researchers
Researchers
• Researchers in UK academia (through interest from
around the world)
• Researchers considering or already using digital content
and associated research methods (more later from Ben)
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 21
22. Engaging with Labs
• Events – Hack/ Data Days and
Ideas Labs
• Funded projects
• Competitions
• Volunteers and Interns
1 2
Brainstorm ideas & group
Consider and choose
3
Work into the night and show
what has been done
Labs Data Cards
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 22
23. Labs working with interns
• Example projects working with digital content
• Possible new ideas
• Discussion
http://labs.bl.uk #bl_labs labs@bl.uk 23
