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Exploring Digital Collections and Data: Innovative Experiments and Future Opportunities at the British Library, Third Round Table18th of March 2015University of Nottingham
Mahendra Mahey Manager of British Library Labs
BL Labs Competition Tips, Advice and Looking at BL Data…
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How Labs works…
Audience
idea
Experiment OutputsBL DataOther Data
idea
No idea
Dynamic interaction with data, and experimentation means
ideas change, get reshaped etc.
idea
Competition Events
Projects
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Digital is changing research
Data broken downrecombined and
duplicatedImage: Tower of Babble, Book Sculpture by Brian Dettmer
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The Digital Scholar
Digital
NetworkedOpen
Scholar that employs digital, networked and open approaches to demonstrate their specialism.
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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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Previous Competition Winners
Desmond Schmidt
Text to Image Linking Tool - TILT
Mixing the Library, Information Interaction and the DJ
Dan Norton
Victorian Meme Machine - VMM
Bob Nicholson
Sample Generator
Pieter Francois Anna Gerber
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Dan Norton: Mixing the Library: The Disc Jockey & the Digital Collection
http://www.tompro.co.uk
http://www.ablab.org/shetland
http://www.ablab.org/pd/di/
Prototype design
Annotation
Preview ‘item’
Selected ‘right’ channel ‘item’
Selected ‘left’channel ‘item’
Collection ‘stalks’ made of ‘items’. Each ‘item’ is a URL. The order of the ‘items’ can be ‘shuffled’ and sent to the ‘left’ or ‘right’ channels
‘Play back’ of ‘items’ (Blue) and annotations (Yellow)
Living Lab: Library of the Future, see: http://alturl.com/284zw
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Pieter Francois:Sample Generator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK80Jy0ijkA
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Anna Gerber and Desmond Schmidt:Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4bjZSJ4cY&feature=youtu.be
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YouTube: http://goo.gl/mBTlk2
Bob Nicholson:Victorian Meme Machine
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Competition 2015
• http://labs.bl.uk
• International competition closes April 30th 2015
• Think of an idea of what to do with our data
• We choose two and work with you as researchers in ‘residence from’ June to October 2015 (expenses paid up to £3600)
• Showcase work on November 2 and win prize of up to £3000
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Awards 2015
• Work that uses our digital collections
• Recognition of outstanding work in one of three areas:
Research, Creativity and Entrepreneurship
• Closing date 14th of September 2015
• Shortlist Monday 12th of October 2015
• Winners announced on November 2, 2015, £500 per category.
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Tips for competition (1)
•Look at previous winning examples or those that were shortlisted for an idea of style, word length etc.
•Communicate with us
•Don’t leave it too late!
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Tips for competition (2)
• Look at the judging criteria…research question, technical, curatorial and legal factors
• Think of ‘invisible’ criteria – what’s good for the BL other researchers
• Publicity, Useful, Wider applicability
• Be realistic in your plan – only four months
• Look at the data if you can before you submit!
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online behind paywall
only in Reading
Rooms due to ©
only on site due to
©
not online – various storage devices
online and open
British Library
Challenges of Digital access
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British National BibliographyUK Web Archive Data19th Century Books
Environmental SoundsText-mining of
electronic journals
Book ordering and anonymised reader
data
Resonance FM10 year CommunityArts Radio Show
Datasets, Books / Text, Images / Music, Maps, Sounds, Multimedia
http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collectionshttp://data.bl.uk in phase 2
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Access to our data
Wireless Access PointEthernet Cable
u:opendatap:opendata
u:guestp:guest
10.0.0.1For a guide:http://goo.gl/78ITT0
Or Hand out…
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Labs not just a competition!
•Collaboration in many other projects– 3 Big Data Humanities Data AHRC Projects, National
Endowment of Humanities, Visibility tool – Peter Balman, Big Data Experiment, Working with Artists…
•20 June 2015, Crossroads of Curiosity: Burning Man meets the British Library
•Mechanical Curator and Flickr Images…(see Ben’s Talk)
