Crowdsourcing as productive engagement with cultural heritageMia
My keynote for the iSay conference "The Shape of Things"
http://isayevents.wordpress.com/shapeofthings/program/
My notes from the conference are at http://openobjects.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/notes-from-shape-of-things-new-and.html
Invited workshop for the Humanities Research Center at Rice University, 7 March 2016.
This workshop will provide an overview of crowdsourcing in cultural heritage and consider the ethics and motivations for participation. International case studies will be discussed to provide real life illustrations of design tips and to inspire creative thinking.
Based on a review of the most successful international crowdsourcing projects, this talk will look at the attributes of successful crowdsourcing projects in cultural heritage, including interface and interaction design, participation in community discussion, and understanding participant motivations.
Public Lecture: "Designing Heritage Crowdsourcing Projects" at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute of the Free University of Berlin on 7 December 2015, 6 pm
Network visualisations and the ‘so what?’ problemMia
A provocation for the 'Network analysis and the cultural heritage sector' workshop in Luxembourg, 8 June 2016. Talk notes are available at http://www.openobjects.org.uk/2016/06/network-visualisations-problem/
Crowdsourcing in the Cultural Sector: approaches, challenges and issuesMia
Slides for the Crowd-sourcing, Co-creation and Co-curation in the Cultural Sector workshop by the Scottish Network on Digital Cultural Resources Evaluation
Crowdsourcing as productive engagement with cultural heritageMia
My keynote for the iSay conference "The Shape of Things"
http://isayevents.wordpress.com/shapeofthings/program/
My notes from the conference are at http://openobjects.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/notes-from-shape-of-things-new-and.html
Invited workshop for the Humanities Research Center at Rice University, 7 March 2016.
This workshop will provide an overview of crowdsourcing in cultural heritage and consider the ethics and motivations for participation. International case studies will be discussed to provide real life illustrations of design tips and to inspire creative thinking.
Based on a review of the most successful international crowdsourcing projects, this talk will look at the attributes of successful crowdsourcing projects in cultural heritage, including interface and interaction design, participation in community discussion, and understanding participant motivations.
Public Lecture: "Designing Heritage Crowdsourcing Projects" at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute of the Free University of Berlin on 7 December 2015, 6 pm
Network visualisations and the ‘so what?’ problemMia
A provocation for the 'Network analysis and the cultural heritage sector' workshop in Luxembourg, 8 June 2016. Talk notes are available at http://www.openobjects.org.uk/2016/06/network-visualisations-problem/
Crowdsourcing in the Cultural Sector: approaches, challenges and issuesMia
Slides for the Crowd-sourcing, Co-creation and Co-curation in the Cultural Sector workshop by the Scottish Network on Digital Cultural Resources Evaluation
Choosy crowds and the machine age: challenges for the future of humanities cr...Mia
Presentation at Kings Citizen Humanities Comes of Age: Crowdsourcing for the Humanities in the 21st Century, September 2015
Some of these points are discussed in
How an ecosystem of machine learning and crowdsourcing could help you
http://www.openobjects.org.uk/2015/08/ecosystem-machine-learning-crowdsourcing/
How an ecosystem of machine learning and crowdsourcing could help you
http://www.openobjects.org.uk/2014/09/helping-us-fly-machine-learning-and-crowdsourcing/
Open Data: Trends and Practice within Cultural Heritage. AKA, the good, the b...Mia
Talk notes: http://www.openobjects.org.uk/2015/07/the-good-the-bad-and-the-unstructured-open-data-in-cultural-heritage/
Slides for a presentation on Open Data: Trends and Practice within Cultural Heritage. (AKA, the good, the bad, and the unstructured) at the Linked Pasts event at Kings College London on July 20-21, 2015. Event: http://pelagios-project.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/linked-pasts.html
This is a presentation about the Digital Public Library of America, originally created in May 2014. It shows the greater access to various materials than can be had if one participates.
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.
Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council: Thought...dorohoward
Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council: Thoughts on scaling local GLAM initiatives
Dorothy Howard
GLAM-Wiki 2015
The Hague, Nederlands
This presentation discusses issues and challenges related to current and future trends in STEM librarianship. This includes strategies and discusses directions which would lead to a strong, effective STEM library team for the STEM libraries and community.
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?
Choosy crowds and the machine age: challenges for the future of humanities cr...Mia
Presentation at Kings Citizen Humanities Comes of Age: Crowdsourcing for the Humanities in the 21st Century, September 2015
Some of these points are discussed in
How an ecosystem of machine learning and crowdsourcing could help you
http://www.openobjects.org.uk/2015/08/ecosystem-machine-learning-crowdsourcing/
How an ecosystem of machine learning and crowdsourcing could help you
http://www.openobjects.org.uk/2014/09/helping-us-fly-machine-learning-and-crowdsourcing/
Open Data: Trends and Practice within Cultural Heritage. AKA, the good, the b...Mia
Talk notes: http://www.openobjects.org.uk/2015/07/the-good-the-bad-and-the-unstructured-open-data-in-cultural-heritage/
Slides for a presentation on Open Data: Trends and Practice within Cultural Heritage. (AKA, the good, the bad, and the unstructured) at the Linked Pasts event at Kings College London on July 20-21, 2015. Event: http://pelagios-project.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/linked-pasts.html
This is a presentation about the Digital Public Library of America, originally created in May 2014. It shows the greater access to various materials than can be had if one participates.
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.
Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council: Thought...dorohoward
Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council: Thoughts on scaling local GLAM initiatives
Dorothy Howard
GLAM-Wiki 2015
The Hague, Nederlands
This presentation discusses issues and challenges related to current and future trends in STEM librarianship. This includes strategies and discusses directions which would lead to a strong, effective STEM library team for the STEM libraries and community.
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.
"Digital Leaders & Digital Leadership" - 2016 Trends, Charity Comms event Eva Appelbaum
Digital leadership and digital transformation in the charity sector for @charitycomms #charitydigital event http://www.charitycomms.org.uk/events/digital-communications-trends-for-2016-and-beyond
Putting people at the heart of digital transformation - DMX Dublin March 2016Eva Appelbaum
Presentation from DMX Dublin 2016
Digital transformation is an ubiquitous buzzword and we often hear that it is all about people & culture. So what does that really mean? How must organisational culture adapt to be fit for the digital future? What are the leadership skills needed to drive digital change? And what does digital transformation look like when it is people-centric?
Este modulo pretende dar pautas sencillas para una comunicacion efectiva, no solamente a nivel escrito sino tambien a nivel gestual.
Las comunicaciones humanas se pueden tornar dificiles o verse interrumpidas si no sabemos manejar las estrategias adecuadas para crear y mantener el interes en nuestros interlocutores, de lo que queremos comunicar.
Una idea acompanada de un gesto incoherente puede interrumpir el flujo de la comunicacion y perjudicar una negociacion.
El manual esta dirigido al publico en general y a estudiantes universitarios, asi como profesionales que deseen potencializar sus habilidades de comunicacion.
Top Digital Transformation Trends and Priorities for 2016Charlene Li
Given the importance of digital transformation and the never ending onslaught of new technologies, how should organization prioritize limited resources, time, and attention? This presentation to the San Francisco American Marketing Association is the 7th year in a row when Charlene has presented her take of top digital trends.
You’re not the expert. Your customers are, and who your customer is, is changing rapidly. Learn more about the digital consumer, how to bring new life to your customer experience, and inspire your team with workshop activities. Take a deeper look into the key drivers of your business, reinvigorate your customer experience, and gain insight from one of the newest inspiring entrepreneurs, who built his business around an out-of-the-ordinary customer experience. Why not create an experience that will leave your customers talking and sharing your brand with everyone? These musings were gathered after attending the Next Generation Customer Experience Conference in San Diego, March 2015.
Digital Transformation: What it is and how to get thereEconsultancy
Digital Transformation: What it is and how to get there.
Authored by Econsultancy CEO Ashley Friedlein, this presentation on the topic of 'Digital Transformation', is broken down into six sections covering:
1. Digital Transformation - what it is and recent data and research on the topic
2. Strategy - what a digital strategy should include
3. Technology - the challenges of technology and the skills gap
4. People - looking at organisational structure, culture, roles & responsibilities, environment recquired
5. Process - how to address the speed, innovation and agility required
6. Business Transformation - how digital transformation is actually business transformation
Presentation to the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Scienceslabsbl
1100 - 1300, Thursday, 26th April 2018,
British Library Labs and Digital Scholarship at the British Library, Harley Room, British Library, St Pancras, London.
Presentation to the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
by Mahendra Mahey Manager of BL Labs
The Work of British Library Labs and Digital Scholarship Insights from British Library Labs and an emerging role for Libraries
Digital cultural heritage as humanities data: a labs approachSally Chambers
This presentation was given on 17th April 2020 as part of a #DH Hangout (during the Corona Virus) instigated by Lancaster University Digital Humanities Hub and Co-Organised by the Ghent Centre of Digital Humanities and the Digital Humanities Lab (DH_Lab) associated with NOVA-FCSH of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
Doing the Digital: How Scholars Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ComputerAndrew Prescott
Slides from keynote presentation to Social Media Knowledge Exchange meeting on Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century, University of Cambridge, 4 June 2015. Examines my changing relationship to scholarly communication, current pressures and drivers, and likely future trends.
British Library Labs Presentation at the Accelerating Human Imagination Workshoplabsbl
Presentation given by Mahendra Mahey at the Accelerating Human Imagination Workshop at the University of Liverpool in London, 24-25 November 2016. Presentation given on Day 1, 24 November, Second Session Part II: Imagination and Speculative Cultures, 1445 - 1500
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.
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.
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.
A lecture for the Public Archaeology course at UCL, 3/12/12
Links for all things mentioned are on the penultimate slide, it would mean far more with the text to go with it.
Stories to tell: The making of our digital nation. April 2010 Rose Holley
A new type of digital volunteer is quietly adding to the sum of knowledge of our history and heritage on the web. Ordinary Australians have helped correct millions of lines of text in the National Library of Australia's Newspaper Digitisation Program. They have contributed thousands of photographs to the national digital picture collection. The presentation describes these projects and others from libraries and archives that you can help with. Everyone can help to improve, describe and create our digital heritage.
Similar to Why do we digitise? 20 reasons in 20 pictures (20)
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
1. Why do we digitise?
20 reasons in 20 pictures
Dr. Mia Ridge, @mia_out
Digital Curator, British Library
digitalresearch@bl.uk @BL_DigiSchol
Europeana Network Association AGM 2016
Riga, November 2016
2. Why do we digitise?
TL;DR: access to our shared
heritages matters
Digitisation supports education,
engagement, research at huge scale
and with computational power.
3. A splendid assortment of Gceloag
and West of England. Tweed ; also
Black Doeakin Woollen Cloths
alwaya on hand. Snit made to
order in six hoars' notice, on most
reaainable terms. Mr. M'Mohon,
Cutter.
Mysteries of Melbourne life
by Cameron, Donald, 1848?-1888.
Published 1873
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0
Topics Australia -- Fiction
18. Digitised sources + computational
methods = digital scholarship
Dr. Katrina Navickas and @BL_Labs, Political Meetings Mapper
19. Efficiency is under-rated
"I was able to do in minutes with Python
code what I'd spent the last ten years
trying to do by hand!"
-Dr. Katrina Navickas, BL Labs Winner
2015
21. It's easier to see patterns
'Distant reading has utterly transformed my view of literary
history. ...as we slice libraries in new ways we keep
stumbling over long, century-spanning trends that have
little relationship to the stories of movements and periods
we used to tell. We can see genres differentiating from
each other gradually. We can see assumptions about
gender gradually shifting. We've learned that the literary
standards defining a prestigious style change very slowly. It
doesn't happen in a generation; it takes centuries. ...it is
clear now that these methods can turn up important
patterns that we couldn't see before, and that's what I'm
loving about this.'
- The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Ted Underwood
From pragmatic, to direct access, to indirect and more abstract effects of digitisation.
The 'too long, didn't read' version is that we digitise and publish collections online for re-use because access to our shared cultural heritage matters. Digitisation supports education, entertainment, scholarship at scale.
From pragmatic, to direct access, to indirect and more abstract effects of digitisation.
What kinds of data are we talking about? At the very least, providing photographs of pages, which can then be transcribed as text. Can then offer collections of metadata, of text, of images, for reading individually or mining as a dataset. A shift from reading pages to reading a dataset enables entirely new research questions.
Image, data. https://archive.org/details/MysteriesOfMelbourneLife
Digitised catalogue data is great, direct access to catalogue contents is even better. Digitisation is a key part of everyday business of GLAMs.
Why should access to our collective cultural and scientific heritage be limited to those who happen to be nearby, or who can afford to travel to see it? And why should it be limited to the opening hours of an organisation? (The BL reading rooms aren't open on a Sunday)
Why should access to our collective cultural and scientific heritage be limited to those who happen to be nearby, or who can afford to travel to see it? And why should it be limited to the opening hours of an organisation? (The BL reading rooms aren't open on a Sunday)
Following Dan Cohen's mention of hedgehogs yesterday... If you're a medieval scholar you might know the story that hedgehogs shake grape vines then 'trundle off back to their burrows, carrying the grapes on their spines, as a meal for their young', or the deeper moral about the devil, but you can delight in the image without that knowledge.
This is a screenshot from a video clip made by a group from Malaysia using images from 19thC books the BL put on Flickr. They didn't need to ask us, but they were kind enough to email us afterwards.
Lots of scholarship with digital collections ends up in traditional outputs, like monographs or articles. It can be incredibly difficult to track these uses, particularly if people cite the original and not the digital surrogate they actually used.
I could literally talk for hours about the opportunities for deeper engagement and mutual rewards through crowdsourcing tasks like transcription and tagging.
Projects like Pelagios allow placenames in documents and maps to be annotated with linked open data identifiers. These identifiers mean the items are more easily linked to other collection items that mention the same places.
When people can access and re-use digitised content, they can do amazing things with it without having to spend three years and lots of money on lawyers.
New ways of processing images as data, texture - the library could never have applied the technologies that code artist Mario Klingemann brought to 19th images. His exploration of the images resulted in new ways of seeing collections at scale.
His web site is: http://mario-klingemann.tumblr.com/
And http://incubator.quasimondo.com/
'Her Hat Was In The Ring, which shares information about the thousands of women who ran for public office in the U.S. before women had universal suffrage.'
'Only a minuscule portion of the primary sources in this country have been digitized and made available in an easy way for the public to explore. Researchers for this project compiled information about thousands of women mainly from digital primary sources. Had these sources not been available and discoverable, we would likely never know the stories of these trailblazing women and we certainly would not understand the broader narrative'
Search! Any word a keyword!
At some point, scale - over time, space, breadth, topic, number of sources queried - becomes transformative. When have an entire corpus of digitised texts, can ask new questions. Tools like Bookworm, when combined with large corpus of text, allow scholars and the curious to explore change over time
Moving on to more complex, abstract forms of access
Effort shifting from people to computers means time that would be spent on manual or logistical tasks is freed up. This free time can change careers.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
'These collections are of exceptional value because the domain of systematic biology depends, more than any other science, upon historic literature. Yet, this wealth of knowledge is available only to those few who can gain direct access to significant library collections. Literature about the biota existing in developing countries is often not available within their own borders.'
Students in other disciplines can use CH datasets to really test methods. Part of wider work on named entity recognition, optical character recognition, handwritten text recognition. This is a screenshot from Sherlock net, using machine learning to generate tags for images. 'we decided to use a 'voting' system where we find the 20 images most similar to our image of interest, and have all images vote on the nouns that appear most commonly in their surrounding text.' Able to add synonyms to searches e.g. lady also checks gentlewoman, madam, noblewoman.
Computational techniques can help us learn more about collections. This project was able to identify woodcuts re-used in different publications and order the publications by finding tiny differences in the condition of the woodcuts.
Computer Vision and the History of Printing, Joon Son Chung
