bl labs presentation to the chinese academy of social sceinces
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British Library LabsWorking with the British Library’sDigital Content and Data
Monday 29th June 2015
Mahendra MaheyManager of British Library LabsPresentation to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
http://labs.bl.uk 6#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Digital is changing research
Data broken downrecombined and
duplicatedImage: Tower of Babble, Book Sculpture by Brian Dettmer
http://labs.bl.uk 7#bl_labs labs@bl.uk7
Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Knowledge Quarter
• Partners include Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, University College London, Warwick
• Initially funded at £42m over 5 years
• Headquartered @ British Library
• Part of Knowledge Quarter
http://labs.bl.uk 9#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
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+Collections
http://labs.bl.uk 10#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
CompetitionTell us your ideas of what to do with our digital content
AwardsShow us what you have done with our digital content
ProjectsTalk to us about working on collaborative projects
http://labs.bl.uk 11#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Mahendra MaheyManager of British Library Labs
https://goo.gl/lLsiaY/@mahendra_mahey
http://labs.bl.uk 14#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Example Digital research methods
http://labs.bl.uk/Launch+Event (has some examples from researchers)
Corpus analysis toolsText Mining
Visualisations
Location based searching
Geotagging
Annotation
Crowdsourcing / Human Computation
Natural Language Processing
Using Application Programming Interfaces for datasets e.g. Metadata, Images
Transcribing
http://labs.bl.uk 15#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Story of just *one* digital collection
What can 68,000books tell us?
Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
http://labs.bl.uk 16#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
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> 260,000,000 views
> 380,000 tags
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
1,020,418 imagesneed tagging!
Creative uses of imageshttp://goo.gl/qPPgxX
http://labs.bl.uk 17#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Tagging a million imagesHarnessing Crowdsourcing
http://www.metadatagames.org/
http://goo.gl/j6fxac
Cardiff University’sLost Visions ProjectAdam Crymble
BL Labs 2015 Competition Winner
What if crowd sourcing
looked like this?
http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W
Drawing on downtime
Drawing on scarcity of access
Drawing on energy reserved for ‘play’
James Heald
Mario Klingemann
Chico 45
Use computational methods
Human Tagger
Top British Library Flickr Commons Taggers
http://labs.bl.uk 18#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Crowdsourcing Flickr and OtherDigitised Maps
http://www.bl.uk/maps/
http://labs.bl.uk 19#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Political Meetings MapperBL Labs Competition Winner 2015
Katrina Navickas
http://labs.bl.uk 20#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Victorian Meme MachineBL Labs 2014 Competition Winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0Bob Nicholson
http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
http://labs.bl.uk 23#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Crossroads of Curiosity at the British Library until Nov 8 2015
http://labs.bl.uk 25#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
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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