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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs
15th February 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at Cambridge
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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15th February 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at Cambridge
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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One of Largest Library’s in the World180 million* items
1-2 %* digitised
* estimate
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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
In 20 years time…
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•Submit ideas by 11 April 2016.
•Two finalists announced late May 2016.
•Residency June – October 2016.•Up to £3600 in support, technical, curatorial etc.
•Showcase @ Symposium Monday 7 Nov 16.
•Winner £3000 & Runner up £1000!
Competition
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•Those who have already been using our 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 examine and use the data!
•Talk to us about working on potential ideas / projects.
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Why is the Library doing this?
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2013Pieter Francois
Dan Norton
2014Desmond Schmidt
Bob Nicholson
2015Katrina Navickas
Adam CrymbleDina MalkovaMario KlingemannSpatial Humanities Project at
Lancaster University
James Heald
Who and Why?
Please refer to the Winners’ Hand out
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Learning how to supportDigital Experiments better
BL Labs Git Hub Site Re-OCRing Newspapers Flickr API
BL Explore – Search Catalogue Python Code
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Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
Fail faster / better, don’t focus on one thing, lots of small experiments!
https://goo.gl/Vlv3Yu Let yourself reboot!
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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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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
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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
ArtisticMario Klingeman - Quasimondo
Read more: http://goo.gl/dM8ieA
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CommercialEtsy 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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http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/spatialhum.wordpress/
Labs Symposium 2015: https://goo.gl/ZCU56a
ResearchSpatial 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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Special Jury’s PrizeJames 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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Other projectshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
http://www.crossroadsofcuriosity.com https://goo.gl/KHxCcI
http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com
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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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Lessons…
•Huge appetite to use BL digital content & data (see Flickr Commons stats later).
•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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Finally…
•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