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1 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital

http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labsFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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http://www.bl.uk/subjects/digital-scholarship

http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+CollectionsOver 100 collections described

62 Open through Access and Reuse

Over 120 guides available to date

Digital Collections



http://data.bl.uk



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



•Submit ideas by April.•Two finalists announced late May.

•Residency June – October.•Up to £3600 support, technical, curatorial etc.

•Showcase @ Symposium Nov.

•Winner £3000 & Runner up £1000!

Competition



•Projects already using BL digital content in interesting and innovative ways.

•Submit projects (previous and new) by 5 September 2016.

•Artistic, Commercial, Research and Learning / Teaching categories.

•Winners announced @Symposium 7 Nov 16.

•£500 Winner & £100 Runner Up.

Awards



• Projects already using / used BL digital content and data in interesting and innovative ways.

• Submit projects (previous and new) by 7 October 2016, individual staff or teams can enter

• Artistic, Commercial, Research and Learning / Teaching categories.

• Winners announced @Symposium 7 Nov 16.

• £100 shop vouchers to winners

• Details available on intranet soon…

Staff Awards



•Received 22 entries from around world.

•Equal amount of Digital Humanities and Arts ideas

•Some commercial and community based projects

•Considering how we support some of the entries outside competition

Competition 2016



Datamining for verse in eighteenth-century newspapers

Jennifer Batt, University of Bristol



Laughs of the British Library

Exhibiting digital collections through laughter

https://vimeo.com/160518445Fabienne Hess



Remixing broadcast newsMechanical Filmmaker

https://vimeo.com/162272935

Natalja Vikulina



Existing in your Mind: Virtual Reality and Visual Archives of the British Library

Jeremiah Ambrose



Finalists

Hannah-Rose MurrayPhD student, University of NottinghamBlack Abolitionist Performances and their Presence in Britain

Luda Karen Brian

Hannah-Rose

Luda Zhao, Karen Wang (Masters Students at Stanford University), Brian Do (Harvard Medicine and PhD student)SherlockNet: Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Tag and Caption the British Library Collection



SherlockNet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLm1jkSDlak



Dates for diary

• Deadline for Labs Awards, 5 September 2016

• Bitesize update from winners, 21 September 2016

• Deadline for Staff Awards, 7 October 2016

• BL Labs Symposium, 7 November 2016


bl labs bitsize talk at the british library

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