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

http://goo.gl/OPBUJv

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


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


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


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



#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



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) & 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

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



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

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



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

https://goo.gl/WutNyi

http://goo.gl/nNKhQ2

https://goo.gl/9NWZUW

https://goo.gl/7QQ5Tf

https://goo.gl/x7b4tg

https://goo.gl/qh01Mi


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


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



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





Projects and Ideas



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

https://goo.gl/jNrpj5

http://goo.gl/XPBmq1

https://goo.gl/WGfJGo

http://goo.gl/mZ2X3T

https://goo.gl/fPDZHE

http://goo.gl/MYih7C


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 2016Work @ BL by Stella Wisdom

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



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

https://goo.gl/WYZCB2

http://goo.gl/HNQq5e

https://goo.gl/VPgffL

https://commons.wikimedia.org/

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

http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W

http://goo.gl/OH9pOZ

https://goo.gl/7z0j8p

https://goo.gl/SSRsdd

http://goo.gl/0APpE8


http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/.a/6a00d8341c464853ef01b7c7c8e442970b-pi


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

http://goo.gl/dM8ieA



David Normal (2014-2015)

https://youtu.be/Q3SBxO34Zlc‘It was beyond my wildest dreams’



Challenges



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?



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!



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



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!



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!



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.



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!


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