british library labs presentation to bodelian interns
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British Library Labs
Mahendra Mahey
Bodleian, Oxford e-research centre, Bader International Study CentreMonday 28 July, 2014, 1400 - 1430Panizzi Room, British Library, St Pancras, London
Manager of British Library Labs
http://labs.bl.uk 2#bl_labs [email protected] by the Andrew Mellon Foundation
http://labs.bl.uk 3#bl_labs [email protected]
How Labs works…
BL Labs
OpenSoftware
Publications
Tools & services to
support Digital Scholarship
Case Studies
AudienceResearch
question / idea
idea
idea
Competition
Contact
Events
Meetings and visits
Experimenting with our digital collections
Outputs from engagementData
Other Digital Collection / Data
BL Digital Collections /
Data
Researchers
Developers
Data Driven
Projects
http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collections
1 2 3 4 5
http://labs.bl.uk 4#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
Natural Language Processing
Using Application Programming Interfaces for datasets e.g. Metadata, Images
Transcribing
Crowdsourcing / Human Computation
http://labs.bl.uk 5#bl_labs [email protected]
The winners of the Labs 2013 competition
Pieter Francois (left) and Dan Norton (right) and each received a cheque for £2000 in November 2013as winners of the first British Library Lab Competition 2013
Two entries chosen in June 2013
They both worked in residence from July to October 2013with Labs to complete their projects
http://labs.bl.uk 6#bl_labs [email protected]
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)
http://212.71.253.54:8000/a
Living Lab: Library of the Future, see: http://alturl.com/284zw
Basic functioning prototype:
http://labs.bl.uk 7#bl_labs [email protected]
Pieter Francois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK80Jy0ijkA
http://labs.bl.uk 8#bl_labs [email protected]
Winners of 2014 Competition
Victorian Meme Machine
Bob Nicholson of Edge Hill University
Anna Gerber and Desmond Schmidt from Queensland University
Blog posting http://goo.gl/iJy0aTYouTube: http://goo.gl/mBTlk2
Blog: http://goo.gl/ofpNoslYouTube: http://goo.gl/iseHTE
Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)
http://labs.bl.uk 9#bl_labs [email protected]
Bob Nicholson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0
http://labs.bl.uk 10#bl_labs [email protected]
The story of one digital collection…
The story of 68,000 books and 1 million images
and Flickr
Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
http://labs.bl.uk 11#bl_labs
Extracting Images from OCR
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Digitisation
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <mets:mets xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:mets="http://www.loc.gov/METS/" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/
METS/ http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/ver
sion18/mets.xsd info:lc/xmlns/premi
s-v2
Optical
Character
Recognition Image snipped outAlgorithmically
From ALTO XML
Image snipped out
Image taken from page 207 of 'London and its Environs. A picturesque survey of the metropolis and the suburbs ... Translated by Henry Frith. With ... illustrations'
ALTO XML
http://labs.bl.uk 12#bl_labs [email protected]
Face Recognition of 19th Century Faces
The face-recognition algorithm worked better for female faces than men’s
http://labs.bl.uk 13#bl_labs [email protected]
The Mechanical Curator
http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com
• #similar_to_77576796197_published_date• #similar_to_77576796197_slantyness
• #similar_to_77576796197_bubblyness_x• #similar_to_77576796197_bubblyness_y
• #new_train_of_thought
Image from ‘A Lost Estate, by Mary E.Mann,Volume: 02, Page: 91, 1889, London, Bentley & Son
http://labs.bl.uk 14#bl_labs [email protected]
1,020,418 images!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
Each image has a URL
Some metadata, but you can add tags!
Flickr has an API so researchers and developers can build appsAnd query the data
Flickr Commons – 1,020,418 images!
http://labs.bl.uk 15#bl_labs [email protected]
Flickr in numbers
176,026,465 !!!image views since launch December 13th, 2013 to July 28th 2014Almost all images seen at least 5 times
90933 tags added
Labs involved a number of funded research projects & 4 grassroots crowdsourcing efforts.
http://labs.bl.uk 16#bl_labs [email protected]
Tagging a million images - Metadata games and other projects
http://www.metadatagames.org/
Games will probably be developed using Flickr sets
http://goo.gl/j6fxac
Cardiff University’s - Lost Visions Project
http://labs.bl.uk 17#bl_labs [email protected]
Risks of releasing the images
Funny Books for Boys and Girls. Struwelpeter. Good-for-nothing Boys and Girls. Troublesome Children. King Nutcracker and Poor Reinhold.
http://labs.bl.uk 18#bl_labs [email protected]
Opportunities – increasing traffic to Library services
You can purchase a ‘High Res’ Copy
View in the Library Item Viewer
Download .pdfAll illustrations
in book
Other illustrations in booksPublished in same year
View the item in the Library Catalogue Tags auto generated
User generatedTag
Grouping for image
http://labs.bl.uk 20#bl_labs [email protected]
Creative Useshttp://goo.gl/qPPgxX
http://goo.gl/OH6FSn
Jura’s Sound Skateboard
http://labs.bl.uk 21#bl_labs [email protected]
Burning Man
http://goo.gl/Htg4XS
David Normal, creating light boxes around theBurning man, using the British Library’s Flickr Images
