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Exploring Digital Collections and Data: Innovative Experiments and Future Opportunities at the British Library, Third Round Table18th of March 2015University of Nottingham

Mahendra Mahey Manager of British Library Labs

BL Labs Competition Tips, Advice and Looking at BL Data…

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How Labs works…

Audience

idea

Experiment OutputsBL DataOther Data

idea

No idea

Dynamic interaction with data, and experimentation means

ideas change, get reshaped etc.

idea

Competition Events

Projects

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Digital is changing research

Data broken downrecombined and

duplicatedImage: Tower of Babble, Book Sculpture by Brian Dettmer

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The Digital Scholar

Digital

NetworkedOpen

Scholar that employs digital, networked and open approaches to demonstrate their specialism.

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Digital research methods

http://labs.bl.uk/Launch+Event (has some examples from researchers)

Corpus analysis toolsText Mining

Visualisations

Location based searching

Geotagging

Annotation

Natural Language Processing

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

Transcribing

Crowdsourcing / Human Computation

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Previous Competition Winners

Desmond Schmidt

Text to Image Linking Tool - TILT

Mixing the Library, Information Interaction and the DJ

Dan Norton

Victorian Meme Machine - VMM

Bob Nicholson

Sample Generator

Pieter Francois Anna Gerber

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Dan Norton: Mixing the Library: The Disc Jockey & the Digital Collection

http://www.tompro.co.uk

http://www.ablab.org/shetland

http://www.ablab.org/pd/di/

Prototype design

Annotation

Preview ‘item’

Selected ‘right’ channel ‘item’

Selected ‘left’channel ‘item’

Collection ‘stalks’ made of ‘items’. Each ‘item’ is a URL. The order of the ‘items’ can be ‘shuffled’ and sent to the ‘left’ or ‘right’ channels

‘Play back’ of ‘items’ (Blue) and annotations (Yellow)

Living Lab: Library of the Future, see: http://alturl.com/284zw

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Pieter Francois:Sample Generator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK80Jy0ijkA

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Anna Gerber and Desmond Schmidt:Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4bjZSJ4cY&feature=youtu.be

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YouTube: http://goo.gl/mBTlk2

Bob Nicholson:Victorian Meme Machine

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Competition 2015

• http://labs.bl.uk

• International competition closes April 30th 2015

• Think of an idea of what to do with our data

• We choose two and work with you as researchers in ‘residence from’ June to October 2015 (expenses paid up to £3600)

• Showcase work on November 2 and win prize of up to £3000

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Awards 2015

• Work that uses our digital collections

• Recognition of outstanding work in one of three areas:

Research, Creativity and Entrepreneurship

• Closing date 14th of September 2015

• Shortlist Monday 12th of October 2015

• Winners announced on November 2, 2015, £500 per category.

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Tips for competition (1)

•Look at previous winning examples or those that were shortlisted for an idea of style, word length etc.

•Communicate with us

•Don’t leave it too late!

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Tips for competition (2)

• Look at the judging criteria…research question, technical, curatorial and legal factors

• Think of ‘invisible’ criteria – what’s good for the BL other researchers

• Publicity, Useful, Wider applicability

• Be realistic in your plan – only four months

• Look at the data if you can before you submit!

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online behind paywall

only in Reading

Rooms due to ©

only on site due to

©

not online – various storage devices

online and open

British Library

Challenges of Digital access

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British National BibliographyUK Web Archive Data19th Century Books

Environmental SoundsText-mining of

electronic journals

Book ordering and anonymised reader

data

Resonance FM10 year CommunityArts Radio Show

Datasets, Books / Text, Images / Music, Maps, Sounds, Multimedia

http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collectionshttp://data.bl.uk in phase 2

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Access to our data

Wireless Access PointEthernet Cable

u:opendatap:opendata

u:guestp:guest

10.0.0.1For a guide:http://goo.gl/78ITT0

Or Hand out…

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Labs not just a competition!

•Collaboration in many other projects– 3 Big Data Humanities Data AHRC Projects, National

Endowment of Humanities, Visibility tool – Peter Balman, Big Data Experiment, Working with Artists…

•20 June 2015, Crossroads of Curiosity: Burning Man meets the British Library

•Mechanical Curator and Flickr Images…(see Ben’s Talk)

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Explore, Play and Grab!

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