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Contextual Collections, Colossal Collaboration,Curious Connections
Lucie Burgess, British Library
Libraries Australia Forum 2013
www.bl.uk 2John Constable, Clouds, 1822. Original held at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, digitised by Google Art Project, sourced from Wikimedia Commons.
Constable’s clouds
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Libraries in the cloud
All images copyright British Library Board, all rights reserved
www.bl.uk 5All images copyright British Library Board, all rights reserved
The British Library
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The Cloud Culture equation
Cloud Culture, Charles Leadbeater, published by Counterpoint 2010. Can be accessed from http://counterpoint.uk.com/reports-pamphlets/cloud-culture/
More cultural heritage stored in digital form
More cultural heritage stored in digital form
More accessible to more people
More accessible to more people
People better equipped with more tools to add creatively to the collection
People better equipped with more tools to add creatively to the collection
Exponential growth in mass cultural expression
Exponential growth in mass cultural expression
Cloud CultureCloud Culture
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Libraries and our digital collections
www.bl.uk 8Ordnance Surveyors Drawing 40 (detail). Pen and Ink on paper. 1801. Overlaid on Google Earth, © Inforterra Ltd and Bluesky. British Library, Maps OSD 40(3).
British Library Maps Georeferencer
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British Museum’s Research Space
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Historypin
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Which Venus did you mean?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uju4wT9uBIA
1. Make raw data about content available2. Make it openly licensed3. Put it in RDF format – make it linkable ‘triples’4. Put in on web using http
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British Library semantic search pilot
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Europeana
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Digital Public Library of America
Street fair hot air balloon ascension, Red Wing, Minnesota. 1885-1890. From the Minnesota Digital Library and copyright Goodhue County Historical Society
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Biblissima
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Google Cultural Institute
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British Library’s UK Soundmap
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Harvard’s ShelfLife demo
http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/dpla/demo/app/
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The Westminster Bridge problem
Website: copyright Tate and Image: copyright Cleveland Museum of Art Complete poetical works of Wordsworth – public domain, available from www.bl.uk
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Curious connections
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Storm clouds
Cloud Break over the Sea, by John Reginald BrunsdonImage found through Europeana; held in the Government Art Collection, UK
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Libraries in 2023?
Interconnected
Personalised
Central to communities
Social
Less collecting, more selecting
Enabling Unique
Mobile, many devices
Digital curation
Partnerships
Linked, open
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Thanks to:Dan Cohen, Executive Director, DPLA
Adrian Cockcroft,Director of cloud infrastructure,Netflix
[email protected] Twitter @LucieCBurgess
Thank you for listening
British Library colleagues:James BakerSimon BellLewis CrawfordCatherine EagletonAdam FarquharKimberley KowalMatthew ShawSandra TuppenNeil Wilson
Favourite sources:Lorcan Dempsey’s blogCharles Leadbeter, Cloud Culture, 2010Numerous websites cited within