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ASyMMuS Workshop on AudioSymbolic Music Similarity Modelling8 July 2015, 10:40Foyle Suite, Centre for ConservationBritish Library

Mahendra MaheyManager of British Library Labs

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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

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BL Labs Team

Mahendra Mahey - Manager @mahendra_mahey

Ben O’Steen - Technical Lead @benosteen

Hana Lewis- Project Officer@HanaHistories

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CompetitionTell us your ideas of what to do with our digital content

AwardsShow us what you have done with our digital content, deadline in Sep 2015

ProjectsTalk to us about working on collaborative projects, e.g. supporting DML, ASyMMus and other projects

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Adam Crymble (@adam_crymble)

Image Credit: Sam Howzit

Drawing on downtime

Drawing on scarcity of access

Drawing on energy reserved for ‘play’

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Adam Crymble

Crowdsourcing ArcadeBL Labs Competition Winner 2015

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Political Meetings MapperBL Labs Competition Winner 2015

Katrina Navickas

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Snipping out imagesfrom 65,000 Digitised Books

Face recognition

Mechanical Curator

Flickr

Worked better for female faces than men’s

Press

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> 380,000 tags

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1,020,418 imagesneed tagging!

Creative uses of imageshttp://goo.gl/qPPgxX

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Crowdsourcing Flickr and OtherDigitised Maps

http://www.bl.uk/maps/

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Crossroads of Curiosity at the British Library until Nov 8 2015

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Visibility - Technology Strategy Board Competition Winner 2014

Understanding value / impact of making the BL’s data open / in the public domain

Peter Balman developed an analytics dashboard for the Library showing what is happening to our Flickr

Images

Initial Pitch: https://www.vimeo.com/94067983

Challenge details: http://goo.gl/Hb6l4A