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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs
18th March 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at Sheffield Hallam University
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labsFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
18th March 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at Sheffield Hallam University
3http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @sheffhallamuni #bldigital [email protected]
Distant Reading – Adam Crymble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4y-_VoXdA
4http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @sheffhallamuni #bldigital [email protected]
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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Managing expectations:Looking for very specific things digitally
•Only a small amount of content is digitised!
•Might not be the treasure you expect at the end of a digital journey!
•Starts with a conversation!•Research interests?
•What digital collections are you interested in?
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You might get lucky!Fly fishing by JR Hartley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2TilNclT8k
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IntersectionYou and the Library
Your research interestsDigital
collections interested in
British LibraryDigital
collections we have
This is where Labs works
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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 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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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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Victorian Meme Machine (2014)Competition Winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0Bob Nicholson
http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
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Rob WalkerVictorian Mother-in-law Jokes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRgj7Q5OM0
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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
See after lunch…
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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
Artistic (2015)Mario Klingeman - Quasimondo
Read more: http://goo.gl/dM8ieAA Hat on the GroundSpells trouble
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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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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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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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Commercial (2015) Runner UpSarah Wingate-Gray and Kate Lomax
http://goo.gl/s1dVSC
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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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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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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
38http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @sheffhallamuni #bldigital [email protected]
- https://goo.gl/QilqqT By Kestrel Moon
Animating static images
40http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @sheffhallamuni #bldigital [email protected]
Language Problems
•Access
•Collections
•Content
•Crowdsourcing
41http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @sheffhallamuni #bldigital [email protected]
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
42http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @sheffhallamuni #bldigital [email protected]
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Optical Character Recognition
44http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @sheffhallamuni #bldigital [email protected]
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!
45http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @sheffhallamuni #bldigital [email protected]
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
46http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @sheffhallamuni #bldigital [email protected]
only in Reading
Rooms due to ©
only on site due to
©
not online – various storage devices
online and open
British Library
online behind paywall
Challenges of Digital access
Labs Residency Modelhttps://goo.gl/tvNVRB
http://goo.gl/ii0XHG
47http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @sheffhallamuni #bldigital [email protected]
Finding Open Digital Collections• Copyright cleared for research use
• Curated (Is there someone who knows the ‘story’ about the collection?)
• Collection / Item Level Metadata available? (What state is and does it need cleaning?)
• Where is it?Image from : https://goo.gl/Qjeqo1
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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
51http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @sheffhallamuni #bldigital [email protected]
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.
52http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @sheffhallamuni #bldigital [email protected]
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 passphrase 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)
• 90,000 Playbills – 1602 – 1902 (60 Gb)
• 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)
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It’s messy but fascinating!
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Ideas Lab
•Get into groups of 2-6
•Read the instructions in the Ideas Lab Pack
•We are around to help and advise.
•Enjoy it and have fun!
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Pitching your ideas
•Pitch for 2 minutes
•Feedback