Working with News Data across differrent MediaDIGIKULT, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mahendra Mahey
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Stockton-on-Tees
are borrowed from public libraries.
St Pancras, London, UK
Legal Deposit Library – Reference only
Uses low oxygen and robots
Reading room and delivery to London
Document Supply and Storage at Boston Spa
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The British Library is the national library of the UK and one of the largest research libraries in the world . The Library moved to a new purpose built building in 1997 <click> the largest of it’s kind that was built in the UK in the 20th century. Many frequently used items are stored 5 stories below the main building at St Pancras in London and many might not know that part of the building is meant to look like a ship on a journey to discovery!<click>. <click to switch off>
The building can sit 1,200 researchers at any one time across 5 reading rooms.
<click>Medium and long term requested items are held at Boston Spa in Yorkshire in a low oxygen warehouse, using robot to retrieve items. In total, the library has 625 km of shelving, growing by 12 km every year.
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To make our intellectual heritage accessible to everyone,
for research, inspiration and enjoyment and be the most open, creative and innovative institution of its kind by 2023.
Roly Keating (Chief Executive Officer of the British Library)
To make our intellectual heritage accessible to everyone,
for research, inspiration and enjoyment and be the most open, creative and innovative institution of its kind by 2023.
Custodianship
Research
Business
Culture
Learning
International
Document:http://goo.gl/h41wW7
Speech:https://goo.gl/Py9uHK
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The picture you can see is inside the main building in London, it’s the King’s Library – King George the Third’s personal library! Sometimes known as the ‘stack’, I walk past this everyday and I sometimes forget that the collections the British Library have are truly staggering! We currently estimate them to exceed <click>150 million items, representing every age of written civilisation and every known language. Our archives now contain the earliest surviving printed book in the world, the Diamond Sutra, written in Chinese and dating from 868 AD….
So some big numbers…
<click>60 million patents
<click>8 million stamps
<click>4 million maps
<click>3 million sound recordings
<click>1.6 million music scores
<click>over .3 million manuscripts
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to ‘experiment’ with our digital collections and data. We are particularly interested in those who have questions which focus on the potential to find and create NEW things through access to the digital content. For example, being able to ask a question across thousands of digitised books or newspapers using computational techniques would not feasible using manual methods. Let’s look at a clear example.
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to ‘experiment’ with our digital collections and data. We are particularly interested in those who have questions which focus on the potential to find and create NEW things through access to the digital content. For example, being able to ask a question across thousands of digitised books or newspapers using computational techniques would not feasible using manual methods. Let’s look at a clear example.
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Kings Cross, http://www.knowledgequarter.london
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Copyright cleared?
Internal Access and Reuse and Licensing Group (Risk assessment group – Strategic, Commercial, Copyright, Curatorial, Technical)
Curated?
Learn the story behind a collection!
Is there a human who knows the ‘story’ about the collection, who wants it used, are there any surprises lurking?
Metadata available?
Finding openly licensed collections is sometimes like detective work and from lessons learned Labs, uses the following 4 methods for filtering digital content:
<click>Is the Copyright cleared for research and non commercial use?
<click>Is it Curated (Is there someone who knows the ‘story’ about the collection?)
<click>Is there Collection / Item Level Metadata available? And importantly what state is it in, does it need cleansing?
<click>Finally, where is it?
<click>These have been effective filters in doing the work of Labs in an agile way.
<click>Labs has therefore identified several collections at the website above, some are shown in the slide:
<click>Due to our licensing conditions, we are in the process of text mining the abstracts for a large number of journal titles in electronic form. The visualisation indicates the subject spread of our collections.
<click>We have been harvesting the UK Web since 1993 and this is available as a resource under specific conditions for research.
<click>We are also investigating the use of our item request data (around 17 million records) and anonymised reader data, data protection allowing.
<click>The British National Bibliography has over 3 million catalogue records available as linked open data, licensed under CCO from the British and Irish National Library catalogues.
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only on site due to © or ethical etc
not online / available – various storage devices, personal data
online and open
online behind paywall
<click>The British Library faces many challenges of access to our Digital collections!
<click> Sometimes digital content is only available onsite due to license restrictions,
<click>or even only on a specific computer in a reading room! Technically there are very few reasons why digital content can’t be online
<click> though it might be too big or hasn’t been transferred from other digital storage media.
<click>Sometimes access is through a paywall. Finally,
<click>some content is in the happy sunny place, online, open and freely available.
The real reasons why there are challenges to accessing digital content are of course human. They require different approaches from the Library and may often involve an honest, open dialogue and negotiation with the publishers.
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Soon…http://data.bl.uk
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We have created collection guides detailing some of these digital collections <Click>on our Digital Scholarship site.
<Click>and some on the Labs site.
<Click> Soon data.bl.uk will be the place where people can directly access some of the digital collections we have available.
<Click> Today we have brought data with us, see the guide on how to access it and print outs on the tables.
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http://goo.gl/cwThHw
Books and newspapers
From Digital Scholar : How technology is transforming scholarly practice, Martin Weller, Bloomsbury Academic, 2011, page 4
Specialist who employs digital, networked and open approaches to demonstrate their specialism.
Digital
Networked
Open
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In his book, The Digital Scholar: How technology is transforming scholarly practice, Martin Weller suggests that a short hand term should be used to loosely define a Digital Scholar. First of all,
<click>the person does not necessarily need to be a recognised academic or someone who posts online<click>. It is someone who employs
<click>digital,
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Adam Crymble
Adam Crymble was doing his PhD research on Distant Reading at King’s College. He won a competition to explain his thesis in 2 minutes in the PhD Comics competition.
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Annotation
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Only a small amount of content is digitised!
Might not be the treasure expected at the end of a digital journey!
This is where Labs works
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Competition
Awards
Projects
Tell us your ideas of what to do with our digital content
Show us what you have already done with our digital content
Talk to us about working on collaborative projects
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Residency June – October 2016.
Showcase @ Symposium Monday 7 Nov 16.
Winner £3000 & Runner up £1000!
Pitch an idea and win a goody bag!
Competition
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One way is by running an annual competition which is open to the world! All you have to do is
<Click>submit and idea by 11 April 2016.
<Click>The two finalists will be announced in late May <Click>and they work with in residence between June and October,
<Click>where they will get up to £3600 financial support, together with technical, curatorial and other types of support.
<Click>The winners will showcase their work and receive their prizes at our symposium on Monday 7th of November.
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@BL_Labs #bldigital #digikult http://goo.gl/Fp9SQW
Projects already using BL digital content in interesting and innovative ways.
Submit projects (previous and new) by
5 September 2016.
Winners announced @Symposium 7 Nov 16.
£500 Winner & £100 Runner Up.
Awards
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The next way we try to engage those interested in using our digital content is through our Awards,
<Click>these recognise work already carried out using our digital content.<Click>The deadline for this year is the 5 September. You can submit previous and new projects<Click>in one of four categories: Artistic, Commercial, Research and Teaching & Learning <Click> Winners will be announced on Monday 7th of November
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Projects
Ideas change once you try to access, examine and use the data!
Talk to us about working on potential ideas / projects.
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Mrs Folly
reliably in it automatically
Tweak if necessary
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The Red Lion Pub, Soho
Chartists Re-enactment
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Bob Nicholson interviewed on
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http://goo.gl/xIDRhz
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http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/spatialhum.wordpress/
Labs Symposium 2015: https://goo.gl/ZCU56a
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Curator Cheryl Tipp Curator of Environment and Nature Sounds <click>in Digital Scholarship worked with the creative industries department at the British Library and a company called Ideas Tap to launch the <click>‘Sound Edit Wildlife Films Competition’ which challenged animators, filmmakers and photographers to create a short film inspired by the Library's collection of 10 wildlife sound recordings.
<click>The winning entry was 'Dave's Wild Life' from Samuel de Ceccatty, a fantastic short which follows Dave, an amateur naturalist whose sole aim is to have his own TV show. The clip I will show uses the ‘Haddock drumming calls’ to give a voice to the cranes or, as Dave liked to call them, the Diplodocus longus cranum.
Cue up video and play from 47 s- 1.58
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Exhibition themed asset packs
Jackson Rolls-Gray, Sebastian Filby and Faye Allen.
Blog: http://goo.gl/mZ2X3T
Video: https://goo.gl/WGfJGo
Off Our Rockers: De Montfort University,
Dan Bullock, Freddy Canton, Luke Day, Denzil Forde, Amber Jamieson and Braden May
Video: https://goo.gl/fPDZHE
Blog: http://goo.gl/MYih7C
Pudding Lane Productions: De Montford University, Ian Hargreaves, Joe Dempsey, Luc Fontenoy, Dominic Bell, Daniel Peacock and Chelsea Lindsay.
Blog: http://goo.gl/XPBmq1
Video: https://goo.gl/jNrpj5
Closing date: Monday 6th June 2016
Off The Map challenges budding game makers to use collections from The British Library as inspiration to create exciting interactive digital media.
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Just one digital collection
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The work of Labs is really about a number of stories, stories about digital collections and about researchers wanting to ask fascinating research questions about them. Let’s now tell you a story about one collection and the intended and unintended consequences of working with it.
The Library digitised 65,000 17th to 19th century books from our collections a few years ago (around 2.7 % of the physical total in that period). You can view them from our catalogue or read them on your <click>IPad via the Historical Books app developed by BiblioLabs. We also captured 22 million individual page images, along with full text scans of these images all of which contain untold quantity of useful data such as names of people, places, historical events, dates.
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http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
from 65,000 Digitised Books
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You can purchase
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Here is the anatomy of a Flickr record, importantly we have created links to many of the Library’s services <click>some of this lovely traffic is going back to the Library and hopefully generating more interest in our services, from downloading a pdf of the book to purchasing a high res scan of the image.
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Competition Winner 2014
Understanding value / impact of making the BL’s data open / in the public domain
Analytics dashboard for the Library showing what is happening to our Flickr Images
Presentation: https://goo.gl/phtgqv
http://goo.gl/8SkfM1
Spells trouble
(Notice the direction faces)
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James Heald – Wikimedia and Map work
Geotagging maps
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You choose!
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We are close to installing the machine at the National Video Arcade in Nottingham to see how successful the games will be. If you’re interested in having the machine in your institution, please contact us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoCgHo2rwN4 (Switch on Subtitles)
1.47 – 3.06 1 min 19 seconds
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Exhibited from
Music mix by DJ Yoda using British Library Sounds: https://goo.gl/z3k4JT
David Normal’s art work: http://www.crossroadsofcuriosity.com and http://www.davidnormal.com
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Square brackets to indicate inferred information
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Everything has a URL
URL links to page which tells you about the thing
Link to other things
Not there yet!
Internet / APIs
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Teaming up with Expert?
Many researchers have the domain knowledge but lack the technical skills to use Digital Research methods
Should our support be more focused on training?
There are plenty of computational experts looking for problems to solve
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Re-OCRing Newspapers
Flickr API
BL Explore – Search Catalogue
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only on site due to © or ethical
not online / available – various storage devices, personal data
online and open
Labs Residency Model
online behind paywall
<click>The British Library faces many challenges of access to our Digital collections!
<click> Sometimes digital content is only available onsite due to license restrictions,
<click>or even only on a specific computer in a reading room! Technically there are very few reasons why digital content can’t be online
<click> though it might be too big or hasn’t been transferred from other digital storage media.
<click>Sometimes access is through a paywall. Finally,
<click>some content is in the happy sunny place, online, open and freely available.
The real reasons why there are challenges to accessing digital content are of course human. They require different approaches from the Library and may often involve an honest, open dialogue and negotiation with the publishers.
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Lessons…
Huge appetite to use digital content & data (e.g. Flickr Commons stats)
Identifying / bridging gaps for researchers to use data.
Can help researchers navigate through the Library to get the data they want.
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Start those conversations, start small and simple, but think big!
Embrace serendipity, work fast, give it energy.
Learn the lessons, tell the positive stories and move on!
Don’t be afraid to experiment and fail!
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Perfection vs Imperfection
If we focus too much on perfection, we will never get anything done!
Fear of failure seen as a negative thing.
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Fail faster
Small experiments!
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The Labs is a place where we do many small experiments quickly. Most importantly it’s where it’s OK to make mistakes and learn from them. Fail faster and fail better! Perhaps Jimmy Wales’ advice (founder of Wikipedia) can sum what we have learned time and time again.<Click>
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DIGIKULT, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Inspiration and Lessons from the British Library Labs
Mahendra Mahey
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