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1http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs #bldigital labs@bl.uk http://goo.gl/I3tBRu
http://goo.gl/I3tBRu
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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labsFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
21st March 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at British Library’s Digital Content and Open Data Meetup, Bristol
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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labsFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
21st March 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at British Library’s Digital Content and Open Data Meetup, Bristol
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Distant Reading – Adam Crymble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4y-_VoXdA
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Digital research methods
http://labs.bl.uk/Launch+Event (has some examples from researchers)
Corpus analysis toolsText Mining
Visualisations
Location based searching
Geotagging
Annotation
Natural Language Processing
Using Application Programming Interfaces for datasets e.g. Metadata, Images
Transcribing
Crowdsourcing / Human Computation
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One of Largest Library’s in the World180 million* items
1-2 %* digitised
* estimate
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IntersectionYou and the Library
Your research interestsDigital
collections interested in
British LibraryDigital
collections we have
This is where Labs works
It starts with a conversation!
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Managing expectations:Looking for very specific things digitally
•Research interests?
•What digital collections are you interested in?
•Only a small amount of content is digitised!
•Might not be the treasure you expect at the end of a digital journey!
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You might get very lucky!Fly fishing by JR Hartley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2TilNclT8k
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http://www.bl.uk/subjects/digital-scholarship
http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collections
Soon…http://data.bl.uk
Mini Network Area Storage Device (NAS) guide:http://goo.gl/E8aRyQ
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How?
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•Submit ideas by 11 April 2016.
•Two finalists announced late May 2016.
•Residency June – October 2016.•Up to £3600 support, technical, curatorial etc.
•Showcase @ Symposium Monday 7 Nov 16.
•Winner £3000 & Runner up £1000!
Competition
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•Projects already using BL digital content in interesting and innovative ways.
•Submit projects (previous and new) by 5 September 2016.
•Artistic, Commercial, Research and Learning / Teaching categories.
•Winners announced @Symposium 7 Nov 16.
•£500 Winner & £100 Runner Up.
Awards
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Projects & Ideas• Ideas change once you try to access, examine and use the data!
•Talk to us about working on potential ideas / projects.
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Competition
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Katrina Navickas (2015) Political Meetings Mapper
http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.ukLabs Symposium 2015 (33 mins)
https://goo.gl/Qq78Oa
Interview 2015 (4 mins)https://goo.gl/BSA3be
The Chartist Newspaperhttp://goo.gl/vOLSnH
Chartist Monster Meeting
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Chartists Un-CoveredHistory in London
Chartist’s London Walking Tour 21 Sep 15
The Red Lion Pub, SohoChartists Re-enactment
Chartist’s Meeting Locations in London
Chartist’s Meetings Heatmap in London
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Chartists Re-enactment London
https://goo.gl/BSA3be
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Victorian Meme Machine (2014)Competition Winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0Bob Nicholson
http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
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http://victorianhumour.tubmblr.com
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Rob WalkerVictorian Mother-in-law Jokes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRgj7Q5OM0
Bob Nicholson interviewed on Radio 4 Making History Programmehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07378d1
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Awards
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Commercial (2015)Etsy project by Dina Malkova
https://www.etsy.com/shop/DinaMalkova
Labs Symposium 2015https://goo.gl/OfJujM
Read more: http://goo.gl/pbxZUv
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Commercial (2015) Runner UpSarah Wingate-Gray and Kate Lomax
http://goo.gl/s1dVSC
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http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/spatialhum.wordpress/
Labs Symposium 2015: https://goo.gl/ZCU56a
Research (2015)Spatial Humanities: Lancaster University
Combining Text and Geographic Informationhttp://goo.gl/yZ3xCJ
Investigating geographical representation of disease in digitised 19th Century newspapers
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Projects and Ideas
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Creative with Wildlife Sounds
http://goo.gl/s7siv0
Sound Edit Wildlife Films Competition 2013 http://vimeo.com/60401313
'Dave's Wild Life' by Samuel de Ceccatty, won first prize!
http://sounds.bl.uk/Environment
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Dave’s Wildlife
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2016 Competition Announcedhttp://gamecity.org/off-the-map
2015 - http://gamecity.org/alices-adventures-off-the-map-winners-announced/
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Sound fileshttps://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/sets/shakespeare-off-the-map
Closing dateMonday 6th June 2016
2016 Off The Map Sub-themes
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What can 65,000books tell us?
Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
Just one digital collection
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Snipping out imagesfrom 65,000 Digitised Books
Face recognition
Mechanical Curator
Flickr
Worked better for female faces than men’s
Press
http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com>400,000,000 views
> 500,000 tags
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
1,020,418 imagesneed tagging!
Creative uses of imageshttp://goo.gl/qPPgxX
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Tagging a million imagesIterative Crowdsourcing
http://goo.gl/j6fxac
Cardiff University’sLost Visions Project
http://www.metadatagames.org/
James Heald
Mario Klingemann
Chico 45
Use computational methods
Human Tagger
Top British Library Flickr Commons Taggers
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Curious Images Event 2014https://goo.gl/ubL0AO
Labs Symposium 2015https://goo.gl/gRZ5Ia
44 Men who Look 44(Notice the direction faces)
Tragic Looking Women
Collage Art
Artistic (2015)Mario Klingeman - Quasimondo
Read more: http://goo.gl/dM8ieAA Hat on the GroundSpells trouble
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Interview David Normal
https://youtu.be/Q3SBxO34Zlc
‘It was beyond my wildest dreams’
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Finding one image on Flickr
Finding many more!Make collagesMake 4 paintingsExhibit light boxes at Burning Man 2014
In Nevada USA
Work with Labs & British Library to installLight boxes in London
In 2015
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Let’s have a party!
Music mix by DJ Yoda using British Library Sounds
Exhibited from June to Nov 2015
20th June 2015
https://soundcloud.com/bbc6music/dj-yodas-library-jamInstallation in Poet’s Circle in Piazza outside at BL in St Pancras London
Images from Burning Man and Flickr brought into the Poet’s Circle
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- https://goo.gl/QilqqT By Kestrel Moon
Animating static images
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- https://goo.gl/QilqqT By Kestrel Moon
Animating static images
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Adam Crymble (2015)Crowdsource Arcade
What if crowd sourcing
looked like this?
http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W
Game Jam - http://goo.gl/OH9pOZ30 mins talkLabs Symposium (2015)https://goo.gl/7z0j8p
5 min interview (2015)https://goo.gl/SSRsdd
http://goo.gl/0APpE8
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Art Treachery – Januz Druz Tag Attack – Antonio Padial
Art Treachery and Tag Attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoCgHo2rwN4
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Special Jury’s Prize (2015)James Heald – Wikimedia and Map work
https://goo.gl/WYZCB2
http://goo.gl/HNQq5e
https://goo.gl/VPgffL
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
Labs Symposium (2015)https://goo.gl/djtm1b
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Challenges
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Starting a ConversationLanguage Problems
•Finding the intersection…
•Misunderstood words–Access–Collections–Content–Crowdsourcing
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Data Problems [stuff goes in here]
•Metadata isn’t as clean as many
•Square brackets to indicate inferred information
•Code to plot when a record had square brackets by Ben O’Steen
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Optical Character Recognition
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Simple Data Structures
•Everything has a URL
•URL links to page which tells you about the thing
•Link to other things
•URL readable by machine not just a human
•Not there yet!
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Training / Teaming up with Expert?• Many researchers have the domain knowledge but lack the technical skills to use Digital Research Methods
• Should our support be more focused on training?
• There are plenty of computational experts looking for problems to solve
• Should they be teamed up with those that have problems that need solving
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only in Reading
Rooms due to ©
only on site due to
©
not online – various storage devices
online and open
British Library
online behind paywall
Digital access at the Library
Labs Residency Modelhttps://goo.gl/tvNVRB
http://goo.gl/ii0XHG
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Ideas change once you try to examine, access and use
the data!
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Why is the Library doing this?
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SupportingDigital Experiments better
BL Labs Git Hub Site Re-OCRing Newspapers Flickr API
BL Explore – Search Catalogue Python Code
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Lessons…•Huge appetite to use BL digital content & data (e.g. Flickr Commons stats).
•Identifying / bridging gaps for researchers to use BL data.
•Labs can help researchers navigate through the Library to get the data they want.
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Perfection vs Imperfection
•If we focus too much on perfection we will never get anything done!
•Fear of failure seen as a negative thing.
•Just don’t be scared to try experiments!
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Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
Fail fasterSmall experiments!
https://goo.gl/Vlv3Yu Let yourself reboot!
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Finally…
•Try and examine, use our data and talk to us about your ideas and projects!
•Consider entering the Competition and Awards!
•You never know you might….
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Change the world with …British Library digital content
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Accessing the Mini NASMini Network Area Storage Device (NAS) guide:
http://goo.gl/E8aRyQ
Find the ‘opendata’ wireless access point and join it. The password is ‘opendata’Accessing data foldersUsername:guestPassword:guest
Or use ftp://10.0.0.1/
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What’s on the Mini NAS?• British National Bibliography – 3.5 million records (2 Gb), in RDF XML, other
formats on request
• 90,000 Playbills – 1602 – 1902 (60 Gb), pdfs, OCR XML
• ALTO XML (includes METS and MODS) for OCR of 65,000 volumes, 22 million pages mostly from the 19th Century (909 Gb)
• 1 million images snipped from books put on Flickr (667 Gb), 70,000 tagged images (170 Gb)
• 9,000 digitised book bindings
• 130 digitised maps
• 55,000 music metadata records
• 430,00 PhD abstracts, 170,000 with text
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It’s messy but fascinating!
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Goody bag!
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