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Public engagement projects using the British Library’s digital collections and dataExamples from British Library Labs ProjectMahendra Mahey
1500 - 1520, Wednesday, 22nd June 2016,Learning Centre, King’s College London,Public Engagement ProjectsCultural Big Data Symposium
http://goo.gl/ts1l58
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British Library - Not just books!> 180* million items
> 0.8* m serial titles
> 8* m stamps
> 14* m books
> 3* m sound recordings> 4* m maps
> 1.6* m musical scores
> 0.3* m manuscripts
> 60* m patents
King’s Library *Estimates
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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labsFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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#bldigital1-2 %* digitised
* estimate
Digitisation
Partnerships Commercial & Other Organisations
Amountincreasing rapidly
Bias in digitisation
http://goo.gl/bR9UJL Sample Generator
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http://data.bl.uk
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Competition
Awards
Projects
Tell us your ideas of what to do with our digital content
Show us what you have already done with our digital content
Talk to us about working on collaborative projects
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Finding things in messy data
Mrs Folly• Clean up manually• Get ‘ground truth’• Write code to find things
reliably in it automatically• Try code on messy content• Tweak if necessary
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Katrina Navickas (2015) Political Meetings Mapper
http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.ukhttps://goo.gl/Qq78Oa
Labs Symposium 2015
https://goo.gl/BSA3be
Interview 2015
The Chartist Newspaperhttp://goo.gl/vOLSnH
Chartist Monster Meeting
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Chartists Un-CoveredHistory in London
The Red Lion Pub, SohoChartists Re-enactment
Chartist’s Meeting Locations in London
Chartist’s Meetings Heatmap in London
Chartist’s London Walking Tour 21 Sep 15
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Chartists Re-enactment London
https://goo.gl/BSA3be
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Victorian Meme Machine (2014)
https://goo.gl/HMqDt3
Bob Nicholson
http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
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http://victorianhumour.tubmblr.com
Victorian HumourPublic Engagement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRgj7Q5OM0
Rob Walker, Victorian Mother-in-law Jokes
Bob Nicholson interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Making History Programme:
http://goo.gl/fmV9ep
And telling jokes to the public:http://goo.gl/xIDRhz
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Rob WalkerVictorian Mother-in-law Jokes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRgj7Q5OM0
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Commercial (2015)Etsy project by Dina Malkova
https://www.etsy.com/shop/DinaMalkova
https://goo.gl/OfJujM
Labs Symposium 2015http://goo.gl/pbxZUv
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Commercial (2015) Runner UpSarah Wingate-Gray and Kate Lomax
http://goo.gl/s1dVSC
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What can 65,000books tell us?
Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
Just one digital open collection
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Worked better for female faces than men’s
Press
http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.comPosts image every 30 minutes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
1,020,418 imagesneed tagging!
Creative uses of images
Face recognition
Mechanical Curator
http://goo.gl/qPPgxX
Flickr
Snipping out imagesfrom 65,000 Digitised Books*
>400,000,000 views
>500,000 tags
https://goo.gl/FgZ4HM
Work @ BL by Ben O’Steen, Labs
and Digital Research Team*Matt Prior - http://goo.gl/j29Tnx
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Tagging a million imagesIterative Crowdsourcing
http://goo.gl/j6fxac
Cardiff University’sLost Visions Project
http://www.metadatagames.org/
Metadata Games
James Heald
Mario Klingemann
Chico 45
Use computational methods
Human Tagger
Top British Library Flickr Commons Taggers
http://goo.gl/8SkfM1
Machine LearningSearch Engine
& Google Imagesearch
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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
Blog post: http://goo.gl/dM8ieA
A Hat on the GroundSpells trouble
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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/
https://goo.gl/djtm1b
Labs Symposium (2015)Geotagging maps
54,000 Maps
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Adam Crymble (2015)Crowdsource Arcade
What if crowd sourcing
looked like this?
http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W
http://goo.gl/OH9pOZ
https://goo.gl/7z0j8p
30 mins talkLabs Symposium (2015)
https://goo.gl/SSRsdd
5 min interview (2015)
http://goo.gl/0APpE8
Game Jam
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Art Treachery and Tag Attack
https://goo.gl/vVMPuL
Art TreacheryJanuz Druz
Tag AttackAntonio Padial
https://goo.gl/engC6A
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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
Where did we put it?
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Let’s have a party!Exhibited from June to Nov 2015
20th June 2015
Music mix by DJ Yoda using British Library Sounds: https://goo.gl/z3k4JT
David Normal’s Art work: http://www.crossroadsofcuriosity.com & http://www.davidnormal.com
Images from Burning Man and Flickr brought into the Poet’s Circle
Physical
DigitalDigital
Physical
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By Kestrel Moon https://goo.gl/QilqqT
Animating static images
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Finalists for 2016!
Hannah-Rose MurrayPhD student, University of NottinghamBlack Abolitionist Performances and their Presence in Britain
Luda Karen Brian
Hannah-Rose
Luda Zhao, Karen Wang (Masters Students at Stanford University), Brian Do (Harvard Medicine and PhD student)SherlockNet: Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Tag and Caption the British Library Collection