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British Library Labs Staff Award David Sparling Head of Information Technology
British Library Labs
Staff AwardDavid SparlingHead of Information Technology
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
The Digital Scholarship team
• A cross-disciplinary team of curators, researchers,
librarians and technologists supporting the creation and
innovative use of digital collections and data
• We focus on using computational methods to answer
existing research questions and to challenge existing
theoretical paradigms….
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Evolving English: VoiceBank
Jonnie Robinson (Lead Curator Spoken English Collection, Sound and Vision)
https://goo.gl/S5Eg8w
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
British Library Time Lapse Films
Digitisation of Maps KAR
The Klencke Atlas 1660
The Building of Shakespeare in Ten Acts
Digitisation of ADD 11831
The Book of Ester 17th Century
Wet cleaning of PDP/F 1069
Silk Colours of the
Royal East India Volunteers
dating from 1777-1779
Creating the Tempest
Tangut fragment conservation
Painted Silk Sutra Wrapper
IOL.MSS.KHOT.S.46
https://goo.gl/Q3NJXh
Elizabeth Hunter and Carl Norman
Senior Imaging Technicians, St Pancras Studios
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Picturing Canada and Interactive Map
https://goo.gl/o6nphi
Phil Hatfield, Lead Curator Digital Map Collections, Contemporary British
Joan Francis - Administration Officer, Contemporary British Published Collections
https://goo.gl/2FTRCT
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Web Archiving
Week June 2017
http://netpreserve.org/wac2017/
Olga Holownia Programme and Communications Officer for the International Internet Preservation Consortium
Andrew Jackson - Web Archiving Technical Lead
3 collaborative events:Datathon with Archives Unleashed
Conference with RESAW
Digital Conversations with BL Digital Scholarship
RESAW.EU
Research Infrastructure
for the Study of Archived Web
WAC & RESAW:
76 conference papers
(RESAW + WAC)
2 workshops
108 contributors
GA 2017, LAChttp://netpreserve.org/WAC2017/
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Workflow for processing born digital
archives
The Carmen Callil Archive: A Hybrid Archive
Jonathan Pledge - Curator Contemporary Archives
Eleanor Dickens - Cataloguer Contemporary Literary Archive, Malvine Project
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Implementation of the new
British Library Universal Viewer
Adrian Arthur - Web Programme Manager
Andy Irving - Solutions Architect, Save Our Sounds (SOS) IT Project
Peter James - Head of Application Development (South), Remote Services
Mia Ridge – Digital Curator, Digital Scholarship
Tom Crane – Technical Director, Digerati
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Asian and African Studies Blog
Ursula Sims-Williams, Lead Curator Persian & Turcic Colls
Malini Roy, Curator Visual Arts Collections
Annabel Gallop, Head of South East Asian Collections
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Prints & Drawings Team / Picturing Placeshttps://www.bl.uk/picturing-places
Felicity Myrone, Lead Curator Western Prints & Drawings
Oliver Flory, Grant Lewis, Mercedes Ceron, Alice Rylance-Watson and Sileas Wood
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Two Centuries of Indian Printhttps://www.bl.uk/projects/two-centuries-of-indian-print
Layli Uddin, Priyanka Basu, Tom Derrick, Megan O’Looney, Alia Carter, Nora
McGregor, Nur Sobers khan, Laurence Roger
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Virtual Tour of the British Library
Anthony Grant, Senior Imaging Technician, St Pancras Studios
https://goo.gl/AS3K66
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Geospatial Data Application and
Services (GDAS) system upgrade
Phil Hatfield - Lead Curator Digital Map Collections
Linda Arnold - Stratford - Legal Deposit Liaison Manager
Caylin Smith - Legal Deposit Libraries Senior Project Manager
https://ldl.themapcloud.com/ (Only works on Library PCs)
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Battle of Passchendaele posters 2017
https://goo.gl/RHjPVs
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Honourable
Mention is…
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
British Library Time Lapse Films
Digitisation of Maps KAR
The Klencke Atlas 1660
The Building of Shakespeare in Ten Acts
Digitisation of ADD 11831
The Book of Ester 17th Century
Wet cleaning of PDP/F 1069
Silk Colours of the
Royal East India Volunteers
dating from 1777-1779
Creating the Tempest
Tangut fragment conservation
Painted Silk Sutra Wrapper
IOL.MSS.KHOT.S.46
https://goo.gl/Q3NJXh
Elizabeth Hunter and Carl Norman
Senior Imaging Technicians, St Pancras Studios
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
The Runner up is…
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Picturing Canada and Interactive Map
https://goo.gl/o6nphi
Phil Hatfield, Lead Curator Digital Map Collections, Contemporary British
Joan Francis - Administration Officer, Contemporary British Published Collections
https://goo.gl/2FTRCT
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
The Winner is…
@BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Two Centuries of Indian Printhttps://www.bl.uk/projects/two-centuries-of-indian-print
Layli Uddin, Priyanka Basu, Tom Derrick, Megan O’Looney, Alia Carter, Nora
McGregor, Nur Sobers khan, Laurence Roger
