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Digital Scholarship at the British Library
Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator
@miss_wisdom
@BL_DigiSchol
Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
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Digital Scholarship at British Library
“The production, use and integration of digital content, services and tools to facilitate scholarship and research. It allows research areas to be investigated in new ways, using new tools, leading to new discoveries and analysis to generate new understanding”
Adam Farquhar Head of Digital Scholarship
Created in 2010, the department works to enable….
• production of digital content• sharing and integration of digital content• wider collaboration and
contribution around digital content• complex analysis & facilitation of
new discoveries
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Digital Scholarship is using computational methods either to answer existing research questions or to challenge existing theoretical paradigms…. Geotagging
Data Visualisation
Data Mining
Georeferencing
Digital MappingCrowdsourcing
Text mining
Collaboration
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The Digital Research Team is a cross-disciplinary mix of curators, researchers, librarians and programmers supporting the creation and innovative use of British Library's digital collections.
Meet the Team
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How we can help you
We work with those operating at the intersection of academic research, cultural heritage and technology to support new ways of exploring and accessing our collections through:
– Getting content in digital form and online– Collaborative projects– Offering digital research support and guidance– Events, competitions, and awards
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Story of one digital collection…
What can 68,000books tell us?
Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
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Microsoft Partnership Digitisation 2006-8
• 68,000 volumes (47,000+ titles) published in the 19th century mostly in English
• Bulk selection by storage location and subject classification (English literature, geography, history and philosophy)
• Excluded authors active 1850-1901 and who died after 1936
• Output: 25 million pages (colour JPEG
2000, ALTO text files, metadata)
• Digitised content is public domain
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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
RecognitionImage snipped out
AlgorithmicallyFrom 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
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http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com/ https://twitter.com/MechCuratorBot
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Flickr albums created through crowd-sourced tagging
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British Library one million images on Flickr - coverage in the media!
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Free colouring in sheets for children http://www.playingbythebook.net/2014/03/18/barbapapas-new-house-a-book-so-good-im-featuring-it-for-a-second-time/
Strassburg und seine Bauten. Herausgegeben vom Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein fur Elsass-Lothringen. Mit 655 Abbildungen in Text, etc, 1894http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/sysnum003522085
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Mario Klingemann, Code Artist@quasimondohttp://www.quasimondo.com/http://mario-klingemann.tumblr.com/
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David Normal, artisthttp://www.davidnormal.com/
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David Normal created light boxes around theBurning man, using the British Library’s Flickr Images
The Crossroads of Curiosity Installation at Burning Man Festival
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Crossroads of Curiosity Installation at the British Library, June-November 2015The installation featured an “augmented reality” self-guided tour that allowed viewers to explore the meaning & origins of the painting’s symbols using Blipparwww.crossroadsofcuriosity.com
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Victorian Meme MachineDr Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill University)http://www.digitalvictorianist.com/https://youtu.be/Q8LkH0I8mEg
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Mechanical Comedian
http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/VictorianHumour
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The Off the Map Competition?
• A new type of collaboration• Explores how British Library digital collections can be used in creative ways• Engagement with new audiences • Opportunity for students in the UK to showcase their talents to industry
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Off the Map videogame competition for 2013
Three sub themes:• Stonehenge, including a proposed plan to rebuild
Stonehenge• Pyramids at Giza• 17th Century London, including a survey map made
months after the Great Fire of 1666
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C.J. Visscher, London , 1616 (detail) Maps C.5.a.6
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John Leake, An exact surveigh of the streets lanes and churches contained within the ruines of the City of London, 1667. Maps Crace port 2.58
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2013 winning team: Pudding Lane Productions from De Montfort University, Leicester who created an interpretation of 17th Century London
http://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0 (Flythrough starts at 0:50)
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2014 winning team: Gothulus Rift, University of South WalesCreated a Fonthill Abbey inspired game called Nix using Oculus RiftBlog: http://nixgamedevblog.blogspot.co.uk YouTube flythrough: http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHw
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Off the Map 2015 1st place: “The Wondering Lands Of Alice” by team Off Our Rockers https://youtu.be/7bwx4uUnbV4
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Off the Map 2016 1st place: “The Tempest” by Team Quattrohttps://youtu.be/0lzpEFgpk3Y
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Sarah Cole, Entrepreneur-in-ResidencePoetic Placeshttp://www.poeticplaces.uk/
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What is Poetic Places?
• A free, native app for Android and iOS devices.
• Bring poetic depictions of places into the physical world, helping people to encounter literature and heritage in relevant locations, accompanied by materials drawn from archive collections.
• Brings literature and heritage into everyday life in unexpected moments. Serendipitous discovery; not tours.
• Browse the poems and places without being in situ.
• A low-cost, low-complexity project to inspire.
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Content & CurationText (poems & prose)
– Drew from existing anthologies and resources (i.e. Poetry Atlas).– ~30 entries; 5 licensed.
Images– An opportunity to highlight open collections and out-of-copyright works.– Contemporary works: old images for old poems; Flickr.– 1–5 images per entry; 5 licensed.
Context– Researched poem, poet, place to find meaningful/unusual/evocative
narratives.– Contextualising, marrying text and images.– History lessons.
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Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator @miss_wisdom Digital Scholarship Bloghttp://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship
Web: http://www.bl.uk/subjects/digital-scholarship