bl labs presentation at språkbanken, university of gothenberg

1 @BL_Labs #bldigital #Språkbanken http://goo.gl/0eJcgL

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

8th April 2016Presentation at Språkbanken, University of Gothenberg, Sweden

http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjwvK_xo-7LAhXE0RQKHWv0BYgQjRwIBw&url=http://lki.dromhci.top/c/twitter-logo-png-transparent-background/&bvm=bv.118443451,d.eWE&psig=AFQjCNGeXUakaBEdmMJt6-d3SjDDAUlbJQ&ust=1459628972017062


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

8th April 2016Presentation at Språkbanken, University of Gothenberg, Sweden

http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs



Overview

ExamplesExperiencesChallenges

Lessons LearnedWorking and Communicating

Researchershttps://goo.gl/WutNyi

Artistshttp://goo.gl/nNKhQ2

LibrariansCurators

https://goo.gl/9NWZUW

Software Developershttps://goo.gl/7QQ5Tf

Archivistshttps://goo.gl/x7b4tg Educators

https://goo.gl/qh01Mi

https://goo.gl/WutNyi

http://goo.gl/nNKhQ2


https://goo.gl/7QQ5Tf

https://goo.gl/x7b4tg



http://labs.bl.uk/

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjVxK_PgvDLAhWG7BQKHZmrBGUQjRwIBw&url=https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/students-experiences-and-expectations-of-the-digital-environment-23-jun-2014&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d24&psig=AFQjCNF-TGRsXGUyNipl29gRq9Ctq1DXsQ&ust=1459688766360665

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi4n4vngvDLAhVCyRQKHa7mBFIQjRwIBw&url=http://gilar666.deviantart.com/art/Bob-Dylan-PopArt-WPAP-456487085&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d24&psig=AFQjCNFq1HK9H9bWT8Il7lf1ddxwgC13Pg&ust=1459688810530297

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwixw5OghPDLAhXB8RQKHR8fAgUQjRwIBw&url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/64204416@N02/5865284029&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d24&psig=AFQjCNGLkpdYpg4p1mdINIPZW3b88mkv_w&ust=1459689220725118

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjZlNC3g_DLAhWBxRQKHcy4BKcQjRwIBw&url=https://pixabay.com/en/photos/programming/&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d24&psig=AFQjCNHO1wex2sL_pEsMiCdHiSyvUJerKw&ust=1459688992858427

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiFm97Vg_DLAhUHOBQKHawmDggQjRwIBw&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d24&psig=AFQjCNE6LE17EHFAIkog61UDT0p8tVeipA&ust=1459689058496095

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiz772ag_DLAhVMvRQKHexsBW8QjRwIBw&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_in_the_classroom&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d24&psig=AFQjCNFK-ORJvNFKcyEgoYjoUbHDbxZvbw&ust=1459688927923110


The British Library

Inside the British LibrarySpace for 1200 readers, around 400,000 visitors per year

Uses low oxygen and robotsReading room and delivery to London

Document Supply and Storage at Boston Spa

Stockton-on-TeesAuthor right to payment each time their books

are borrowed from public libraries.

St Pancras, London, UKMany books are stored 4 stories below the buildingLegal Deposit Library – Reference only


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8393710.stm


Living Knowledge Vision (2015 – 2023)

Custodianship Research Business

Culture Learning International

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.

Document:http://goo.gl/h41wW7 Speech:https://goo.gl/Py9uHK

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.

http://goo.gl/h41wW7

https://goo.gl/Py9uHK



British Library Collections> 180* million items

> 0.8* m serial titles

> 8* m stamps

> 14* m books

> 3* m sound recordings> 4* m maps

> 1.6* m musical scores

> 0.3* m manuscripts

> 60* m patents

King’s Library *Estimates



#bldigital1-2 %* digitised

* estimate

Digitisation

Partnerships Commercial & Other Organisations

Amountincreasing rapidly

Bias in digitisation



digitalData all around us!

/

Knowledge Quarter London55 knowledge organisations within 1 mile radius of

Kings Cross, http://www.knowledgequarter.london

https://goo.gl/pGO7QY

digitalData all around us!

http://www.knowledgequarter.london/

http://www.knowledgequarter.london/

https://goo.gl/pGO7QY



Finding Open Digital Collections• Where is it, is it accessible?

• 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? What state is it and does it need cleaning?


https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjJ86v8qqbLAhXkYpoKHekTDekQjRwIBw&url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/verbeeldingskr8/15563333617&bvm=bv.115339255,d.d24&psig=AFQjCNFf6a3iuD4kIHWqVB0BoO-BHTWlMA&ust=1457156975976150


only in Reading

Rooms due to ©

only on site due to

© or ethical etc

not online / available –

various storage devices,

personal data

online and open

British Library

online behind paywall

Challenges of Digital access at the Library



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

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

62 Open through Access and Reuse

Soon…http://data.bl.uk

Over 120 guides available to date

Finding Digital Collections

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

http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collections



Playbills, Books, Newspapers (includes OCR)

Digital collections and Datasets

British National Bibliography

http://bnb.data.bl.uk

http://sounds.bl.ukhttp://dml.city.ac.uk/

Music (Recordings & Sheet) & Soundshttp://goo.gl/frSMJtBroadcast News (TV and Radio)

http://goo.gl/cwThHw

http://goo.gl/pBkisZhttp://goo.gl/E8aRyQ

Usage dataImages, Manuscripts & Maps

http://www.qdl.qa/ Qatar Digital Library

http://idp.bl.uk/International Dunhuang

Project

Mapshttp://www.bl.uk/maps/

Hebrew Manuscriptshttp://goo.gl/4sbCp9

Flickr & Wikimedia Commons

https://goo.gl/LZRmaZ

http://bnb.data.bl.uk/

http://sounds.bl.uk/

http://dml.city.ac.uk/

http://goo.gl/frSMJt

http://goo.gl/cwThHw

http://goo.gl/pBkisZ

http://goo.gl/E8aRyQ

http://www.qdl.qa/

http://idp.bl.uk/

http://www.bl.uk/maps/

http://goo.gl/4sbCp9

https://goo.gl/LZRmaZ



The Digital Scholar

Digital

NetworkedOpen

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.



Distant Reading

https://goo.gl/ln04pM

Adam Crymble

https://goo.gl/ln04pM



Digital research methods

Visualisations

Using Application Programming Interfaces for datasets e.g. Metadata, Images Annotation

Location based searching & Geo-tagging CrowdsourcingHuman Computation



Wider Audience

Researchershttps://goo.gl/WutNyi

Artistshttp://goo.gl/nNKhQ2

LibrariansCurators


Software Developershttps://goo.gl/7QQ5Tf

Archivistshttps://goo.gl/x7b4tg Educators


https://goo.gl/WutNyi

http://goo.gl/nNKhQ2


https://goo.gl/7QQ5Tf

https://goo.gl/x7b4tg



http://labs.bl.uk/

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjVxK_PgvDLAhWG7BQKHZmrBGUQjRwIBw&url=https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/students-experiences-and-expectations-of-the-digital-environment-23-jun-2014&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d24&psig=AFQjCNF-TGRsXGUyNipl29gRq9Ctq1DXsQ&ust=1459688766360665

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi4n4vngvDLAhVCyRQKHa7mBFIQjRwIBw&url=http://gilar666.deviantart.com/art/Bob-Dylan-PopArt-WPAP-456487085&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d24&psig=AFQjCNFq1HK9H9bWT8Il7lf1ddxwgC13Pg&ust=1459688810530297

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwixw5OghPDLAhXB8RQKHR8fAgUQjRwIBw&url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/64204416@N02/5865284029&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d24&psig=AFQjCNGLkpdYpg4p1mdINIPZW3b88mkv_w&ust=1459689220725118

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjZlNC3g_DLAhWBxRQKHcy4BKcQjRwIBw&url=https://pixabay.com/en/photos/programming/&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d24&psig=AFQjCNHO1wex2sL_pEsMiCdHiSyvUJerKw&ust=1459688992858427

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiFm97Vg_DLAhUHOBQKHawmDggQjRwIBw&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d24&psig=AFQjCNE6LE17EHFAIkog61UDT0p8tVeipA&ust=1459689058496095

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiz772ag_DLAhVMvRQKHexsBW8QjRwIBw&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_in_the_classroom&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d24&psig=AFQjCNFK-ORJvNFKcyEgoYjoUbHDbxZvbw&ust=1459688927923110


Your Audience and You

Audience research &

Digital interests

Digital collections you have

This is where Labs worksIt starts with a conversation!Only a small amount of content is digitised!

Might not be the treasure expected at the end of a digital journey!



How?



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 11 April 2016.

•Two finalists announced late May 2016.

•Residency June – October 2016.•Up to £3600 support, technical, curatorial etc.

•Showcase @ Symposium Monday 7 Nov 16.

•Winner £3000 & Runner up £1000!

•Pitch an idea and win a goody bag!

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• Ideas change once you try to access, examine and use the data!

•Talk to us about working on potential ideas / projects.



Who?



Competition



Finding things in messy data

Mrs Folly• Clean up manually• Get ground truth• Write code to find things

reliably in it automatically• Try code on messy content• Tweak if necessary



Katrina Navickas (2015) Political Meetings Mapper

http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.ukhttps://goo.gl/Qq78Oa

Labs Symposium 2015

https://goo.gl/BSA3beInterview 2015

The Chartist Newspaperhttp://goo.gl/vOLSnH

Chartist Monster Meeting

http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.uk/

https://goo.gl/Qq78Oa

https://goo.gl/BSA3be

http://goo.gl/vOLSnH


http://a5.typepad.com/6a01a73da1a4dc970d01b8d127b885970c-pi


Chartists Un-CoveredHistory in London

The Red Lion Pub, SohoChartists Re-enactment

Chartist’s Meeting Locations in London

Chartist’s Meetings Heatmap in London

Chartist’s London Walking Tour 21 Sep 15



Chartists Re-enactment London





Victorian Meme Machine (2014)

https://goo.gl/HMqDt3

Bob Nicholson

http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/



http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/



http://victorianhumour.tubmblr.com

Public Engagement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRgj7Q5OM0Rob Walker, Victorian Mother-in-law Jokes

Bob Nicholson interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Making History Programme:

http://goo.gl/fmV9epAnd telling jokes to the public:

http://goo.gl/xIDRhz

http://victorianhumour.tubmblr.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRgj7Q5OM0

http://goo.gl/fmV9ep

http://goo.gl/xIDRhz



Rob WalkerVictorian Mother-in-law Jokes

https://goo.gl/UUZodb

https://goo.gl/UUZodb



Awards



Commercial (2015)Etsy project by Dina Malkova

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DinaMalkova

https://goo.gl/OfJujM

Labs Symposium 2015

http://goo.gl/pbxZUv



https://goo.gl/OfJujM

http://goo.gl/pbxZUv



Commercial (2015) Runner UpSarah Wingate-Gray and Kate Lomax

http://goo.gl/s1dVSC

http://goo.gl/s1dVSC



http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/spatialhum.wordpress/

Labs Symposium 2015: https://goo.gl/ZCU56a

Research (2015)Spatial Humanities: Lancaster University

Combining Text and Geographic Informationhttp://goo.gl/yZ3xCJ

Investigating geographical representation of disease in digitised 19th Century newspapers

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/spatialhum.wordpress/

https://goo.gl/ZCU56a

http://goo.gl/yZ3xCJ



Projects and Ideas



Creative with Wildlife Sounds

http://goo.gl/s7siv0

Sound Edit Wildlife Films Competition 2013

http://vimeo.com/60401313

'Dave's Wild Life' by Samuel de Ceccatty, won first prize!

http://sounds.bl.uk/Environment

http://goo.gl/s7siv0

http://vimeo.com/60401313

http://sounds.bl.uk/Environment



Dave’s Wildlife

Spotting the London Hipster



Off the Map 2013 – 2015Exhibition themed asset packs

Video: https://goo.gl/WGfJGo

2014

Gothic

Nix: University of South Wales, Jackson Rolls-Gray, Sebastian Filby

and Faye Allen.

Blog: http://goo.gl/mZ2X3T

2015

Alice’s Adventures

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

Video: https://goo.gl/jNrpj5

2013

Pre Great Fire

of London

Pudding Lane Productions: De Montford University, Ian Hargreaves, Joe Dempsey,

Luc Fontenoy, Dominic Bell, Daniel Peacock and Chelsea Lindsay.

Blog: http://goo.gl/XPBmq1

https://goo.gl/WGfJGo

http://goo.gl/mZ2X3T

https://goo.gl/fPDZHE

http://goo.gl/MYih7C

https://goo.gl/jNrpj5

http://goo.gl/XPBmq1


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aDGJ7I1lBx0/U7WD8f6ji9I/AAAAAAAAA7w/c-1r8Jwe2VM/s1600/20140626_204328.jpg


2016 Competitionhttp://gamecity.org/off-the-map

Closing date: Monday 6th June 2016

http://gamecity.org/off-the-map



What can 65,000books tell us?

Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin

Just one digital collection



Worked better for female faces than men’s

Press

http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.comPosts image every 30 minutes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

1,020,418 imagesneed tagging!

Creative uses of images

Face recognition

Mechanical Curator

http://goo.gl/qPPgxX

Flickr

Snipping out imagesfrom 65,000 Digitised Books

>400,000,000 views

>500,000 tags

https://goo.gl/FgZ4HM

http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

http://goo.gl/qPPgxX

https://goo.gl/FgZ4HM



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



Visibility - Technology Strategy Board 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

Challenge details: http://goo.gl/Hb6l4A

https://goo.gl/phtgqv

http://goo.gl/Hb6l4A



Tagging a million imagesIterative Crowdsourcing

http://goo.gl/j6fxac

Cardiff University’sLost Visions Project

http://www.metadatagames.org/Metadata Games

James Heald

Mario Klingemann

Chico 45

Use computational methods

Human Tagger

Top British Library Flickr Commons Taggers

http://goo.gl/8SkfM1Machine Learning

Search Engine& Google Image

search

http://goo.gl/j6fxac

http://www.metadatagames.org/

http://goo.gl/8SkfM1



Curious Images Event 2014https://goo.gl/ubL0AO

Labs Symposium 2015https://goo.gl/gRZ5Ia

44 Men who Look 44(Notice the direction faces)

Tragic Looking Women

Collage Art

Artistic (2015)Mario Klingeman - Quasimondo

Blog post: http://goo.gl/dM8ieA

A Hat on the GroundSpells trouble

https://goo.gl/ubL0AO

https://goo.gl/gRZ5Ia

https://goo.gl/gRZ5Ia

http://goo.gl/dM8ieA



Special Jury’s Prize (2015)James Heald – Wikimedia and Map work

https://goo.gl/WYZCB2

http://goo.gl/HNQq5e

https://goo.gl/VPgffL

https://commons.wikimedia.org/

https://goo.gl/djtm1b

Labs Symposium (2015)Geotagging maps



https://goo.gl/djtm1b



Adam Crymble (2015)Crowdsource Arcade

What if crowd sourcing

looked like this?

http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W

http://goo.gl/OH9pOZ

https://goo.gl/7z0j8p

30 mins talkLabs Symposium (2015)

https://goo.gl/SSRsdd

5 min interview (2015)

http://goo.gl/0APpE8

Game Jam



Art Treachery and Tag Attack

https://goo.gl/vVMPuL

Art TreacheryJanuz Druz

Tag AttackAntonio Padial https://goo.gl/engC6A



David Normal

https://goo.gl/htr10N

‘It was beyond my wildest dreams’



Finding one image on Flickr

Finding many more!Make collagesMake 4 paintingsExhibit light boxes at Burning Man 2014

In Nevada USA

Work with Labs & British Library to installLight boxes in London

In 2015

Where did we put it?



Let’s have a party!Exhibited from June to Nov 2015

20th June 2015

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

Images from Burning Man and Flickr brought into the Poet’s Circle

Physical

DigitalDigital

Physical



By Kestrel Moon https://goo.gl/QilqqT

Animating static images



Challenges



Starting a ConversationLanguage Problems

•Finding the intersection…

•Misunderstood words–Access–Collections–Content–Crowdsourcing



Data Problems [stuff goes in here]

•Metadata isn’t as clean as many

•Square brackets to indicate inferred information

•Code to plot when a record had square brackets by Ben O’Steen



Data ProblemsOptical Character Recognition



Simple Data structures (if only)

•Everything has a URL

•URL links to page which tells you about the thing

•Link to other things

•URL readable by machine not just a human

•Not there yet!



Get the data to them however

•Internet / APIs

•Post hard drives

•Don’t worry about cleaning it up



Training / 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

• Should they be teamed up with those that have problems that need solving



Why is the Library doing this?



SupportingDigital Experiments better

BL Labs Git Hub Site Re-OCRing Newspapers Flickr API

BL Explore – Search Catalogue Python Code



only in Reading

Rooms due to ©

only on site due to

© or ethical

not online / available –

various storage devices,

personal data

online and open

British Library

online behind paywall

Digital access at the Library

Labs Residency Modelhttps://goo.gl/tvNVRB

http://goo.gl/ii0XHG



Lessons…1

•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.



Lessons…2

• Let researchers in to use your digital collections.

• 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!



Perfection vs Imperfection

•If we focus too much on perfection, we will never get anything done!

•Fear of failure seen as a negative thing.



Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

Fail fasterSmall experiments!

https://goo.gl/Vlv3Yu

Let yourself reboot!



Questions?

Prompt QuestionI didn’t understand…. Can you tell me more about…Why did you… I am not sure about…What if… Why didn’t you…What’s the best thing about… What was the worst thing…If you could have your time again, …

How did you…

I am not sure I agree about… What was the biggest challenge…

What was the most successful thing about…

Who did…


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