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 [email protected]
Digital is changing research
Data broken downrecombined and
duplicatedImage: Tower of Babble, Book Sculpture by Brian Dettmer
http://labs.bl.uk 7#bl_labs [email protected]
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 8#bl_labs [email protected]
http://labs.bl.uk 9#bl_labs [email protected]
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 [email protected]
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
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Mahendra MaheyManager of British Library Labs
https://goo.gl/lLsiaY/@mahendra_mahey
http://labs.bl.uk 12#bl_labs [email protected]
Ben O’SteenTechnical Lead ofBritish Library Labs@benosteen
http://labs.bl.uk 14#bl_labs [email protected]
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
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Story of just *one* digital collection
What can 68,000books tell us?
Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
http://labs.bl.uk 16#bl_labs [email protected]
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 [email protected]
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 [email protected]
Crowdsourcing Flickr and OtherDigitised Maps
http://www.bl.uk/maps/
http://labs.bl.uk 19#bl_labs [email protected]
Political Meetings MapperBL Labs Competition Winner 2015
Katrina Navickas
http://labs.bl.uk 20#bl_labs [email protected]
Victorian Meme MachineBL Labs 2014 Competition Winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0Bob Nicholson
http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
http://labs.bl.uk 21#bl_labs [email protected]
Burning Man 2014 – David NormalCrossroads of Curiosity
http://labs.bl.uk 23#bl_labs [email protected]
Crossroads of Curiosity at the British Library until Nov 8 2015
http://labs.bl.uk 25#bl_labs [email protected]
Anna Gerber and Desmond Schmidt:Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4bjZSJ4cY&feature=youtu.be
http://labs.bl.uk 26#bl_labs [email protected]
Working with Students
• Worked on clearing access to digital content, specifically Chinese Maps