bl labs presentation to stockholm city archives and museum
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1130 – 1200, Thursday, 2nd June 2016,Presentation to Stockholm City Archives and City MuseumBritish Library, St Pancras, London
Working with those who want to use the British Library’s digital collections and data:Examples and lessons from the British Library Labs projectMahendra Mahey
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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
St Pancras, London, UKMany books are stored 4 stories below the buildingLegal Deposit Library – Reference only
180 million items
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Collections – not just books!> 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
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#bldigital1-2 %* digitised
* estimate
Digitisation
Partnerships Commercial & Other Organisations
Amountincreasing rapidly
Bias in digitisation
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digitalData all around us!
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Knowledge Quarter London55 knowledge organisations within 1 mile radius of Kings Cross
http://www.knowledgequarter.london
https://goo.gl/pGO7QY
digitalData all around us!
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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
Soon…http://data.bl.uk
Over 120 guides available to date
Finding Digital Collections
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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) & Sounds
http://goo.gl/frSMJt
Broadcast 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 Libraryhttp://idp.bl.uk/
International Dunhuang
Project
Mapshttp://www.bl.uk/maps/
Hebrew Manuscriptshttp://goo.gl/4sbCp9
Flickr & Wikimedia Commons
https://goo.gl/LZRmaZ
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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labsFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Audience
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
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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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Competition
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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
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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
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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
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Chartists Re-enactment London
https://goo.gl/BSA3be
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Victorian Meme Machine (2014)
https://goo.gl/HMqDt3
Bob Nicholson
http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
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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
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Rob WalkerVictorian Mother-in-law Jokes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRgj7Q5OM0
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Projects and Ideas
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Off the Map 2013 – 2015Exhibition themed asset packs
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
2 3Video: 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
Work @ BL by Stella Wisdom
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2016 Competitionhttp://gamecity.org/off-the-map
Closing date: Monday 6th June 2016Work @ BL by Stella Wisdom
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What can 65,000books tell us?
Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
Just one digital collection
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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
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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
54,000 maps
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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
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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
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David Normal (2014-2015)
https://youtu.be/Q3SBxO34Zlc‘It was beyond my wildest dreams’
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Challenges
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Finding Open Digital Collections• No easy search, so…
Where is it, is it accessible?
• Licensing?Internal Access and Reuse and Licensing Group (Risk assessment group – Strategic, Commercial, Copyright, Curatorial, Technical Stakeholders all have a say)
• 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?
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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!
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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 ModelLet them in!
https://goo.gl/tvNVRB
http://goo.gl/ii0XHG
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SupportingDigital Experiments better
BL Labs Git Hub Site Re-OCRing Newspapers Flickr API
BL Explore – Search Catalogue Python Code
Library is a place of Digital tooNot just books!
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Get the data to them however
•Internet / APIs (not there yet completely)
•Post hard drives
•Don’t worry about cleaning it up
•Just get them in…or go to them!
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Lessons…
•Huge appetite to use digital content & data when you open doors!
•Learn about bridging gaps to use data.
•Help navigate through organisation to get to data.
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Open your doors!
•Start conversations, first small / simple, but think big!
•Let those with interest, skills and willing to accept a little pain
(sometimes) i.e. mindset in!
•Embrace serendipity, work fast, give it energy.
•Learn the lessons, tell positive stories, move forward!
•Experiment and fail!
•Reject perfectionism!