british library labs presentation at internet of cultural things workshop
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British Library Labs
Tuesday 9th of December, 1140 - 1200Presentation at Internet of Cultural Things WorkshopFoyle Suite, British Library, St Pancras
http://labs.bl.uk 2@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
http://labs.bl.uk 3@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
180 Million Items? 1-2% Digitised?
http://labs.bl.uk 4@BL_Labs #bldigital [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
http://labs.bl.uk 5@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
British National BibliographyUK Web Archive Data19th Century Books
Flickr 1 million
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
http://labs.bl.uk 6@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
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…
opendata
http://labs.bl.uk 7@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
What’s on the Mini NAS?
• British National Bibliography – 3.5 million records
• 90,000 Playbills – 1602 – 1902
• ALTO XML for OCR of 65,000 volumes, 22 million pages mostly from the 19th Century
• 1 million images snipped from books put on Flickr
• 70,000 tagged images
http://labs.bl.uk 8@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
It’s messy but fascinating!
http://labs.bl.uk 9@BL_Labs #bldigital [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
http://labs.bl.uk 10@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Dan Norton (2013): 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
http://labs.bl.uk 11@BL_Labs #bldigital [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 12@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Katrina Navickas (2015) Political Meetings Mapper
Katrina Navickas
Speech at Labs Symposium 2015 (33 mins) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YadqrQw_Iw4 Interview 2015 (4 mins) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lx0CL_dsQs
http://labs.bl.uk 13@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Adam Crymble (2015)Mechanical Curator Arcade
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’
http://itch.io/jam/britishlibrary
30 minute talk at BL Labs Symposium 2015 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MtNgc8-SmE
http://labs.bl.uk 14@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Joe Bell - Moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiS1cx38rKk
http://labs.bl.uk 15@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Mario Klingeman - Quasimondo
Talk at BL Labs Symposium 2015https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyDFMT2t0uk
Talk at Curious Images Event – Dec 2014https://youtu.be/6wglRwBbg48
http://labs.bl.uk 16@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
David Normal – Crossroads of Curiosity
Talk given at Curious Images Event December 2014https://youtu.be/yiWE7gJDUQQ
'Crossroads of Curiosity' - Talk by David Normal on October 2014 October 2014https://youtu.be/wO680n5zUuk
Interview with David Normalhttps://youtu.be/Q3SBxO34Zlc
http://labs.bl.uk 17@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Crossroads of Curiosity @ BL
http://labs.bl.uk 18@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Kestrel Moon – Animating the pictures
https://youtu.be/MQK1mVSXaAk https://youtu.be/KbKBJdJn7bA
http://www.kestrelmoon.com/
http://labs.bl.uk 19@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
http://offthemap.gamecity.org/
http://labs.bl.uk 20@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Off the Map Competition 2013
Pudding Lane Productions, 6 second-year students,De Montfort University, Leicester, won first prize.
http://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0http://puddinglanedmuga.blogspot.co.uk
Created an interpretation of 17th Century pre-fire London
http://labs.bl.uk 21@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Off the Map Gothic Competition 2014
http://puddinglanedmuga.blogspot.co.uk
Created an interpretation of 17th Century pre-fire LondonCreated a Fonthill Abbey inspired game using Oculus Rift
http://nixgamedevblog.blogspot.co.uk http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHwTeam Nix, - Jackson Rolls-Gray, Sebastian Filby and
Faye Allen from the University of South Wales, won first prize.
http://labs.bl.uk 22@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Alice’s Adventures Off the Map 2015
http://gamecity.org/alices-adventures-off-the-map/
http://goo.gl/YKrhMD
The Wondering Lands of Alice - Off Our Rockers, a from De Montfort University in Leicester: Dan Bullock, Freddy Canton, Luke Day, Denzil Forde, Amber Jamieson and Braden May
https://youtu.be/uuG5sAtEZzs
Create a Alice in Wonderland inspired game