British LIbrary Labs Presentation to Bodelian Interns

British Library Labs

Mahendra Mahey

Bodleian, Oxford e-research centre, Bader International Study CentreMonday 28 July, 2014, 1400 - 1430Panizzi Room, British Library, St Pancras, London

Manager of British Library Labs

http://labs.bl.uk 2#bl_labs [email protected] by the Andrew Mellon Foundation

http://labs.bl.uk 3#bl_labs [email protected]

How Labs works…

BL Labs

OpenSoftware

Publications

Tools & services to

support Digital Scholarship

Case Studies

AudienceResearch

question / idea

idea

idea

Competition

Contact

Events

Meetings and visits

Experimenting with our digital collections

Outputs from engagementData

Other Digital Collection / Data

BL Digital Collections /

Data

Researchers

Developers

Data Driven

Projects

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

1 2 3 4 5

http://labs.bl.uk 4#bl_labs [email protected]

Example 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

http://labs.bl.uk 5#bl_labs [email protected]

The winners of the Labs 2013 competition

Pieter Francois (left) and Dan Norton (right) and each received a cheque for £2000 in November 2013as winners of the first British Library Lab Competition 2013

Two entries chosen in June 2013

They both worked in residence from July to October 2013with Labs to complete their projects

http://labs.bl.uk 6#bl_labs [email protected]

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)

http://212.71.253.54:8000/a

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

Basic functioning prototype:

http://labs.bl.uk 7#bl_labs [email protected]

Pieter Francois

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

http://labs.bl.uk 8#bl_labs [email protected]

Winners of 2014 Competition

Victorian Meme Machine

Bob Nicholson of Edge Hill University

Anna Gerber and Desmond Schmidt from Queensland University

Blog posting http://goo.gl/iJy0aTYouTube: http://goo.gl/mBTlk2

Blog: http://goo.gl/ofpNoslYouTube: http://goo.gl/iseHTE

Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)

http://labs.bl.uk 9#bl_labs [email protected]

Bob Nicholson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0

http://labs.bl.uk 10#bl_labs [email protected]

The story of one digital collection…

The story of 68,000 books and 1 million images

and Flickr

Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin

http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com

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

http://labs.bl.uk 11#bl_labs

Extracting Images from OCR

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Digitisation

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

- <mets:mets xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xmlns:mets="http://www.loc.gov/METS/" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/

METS/ http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/ver

sion18/mets.xsd info:lc/xmlns/premi

s-v2

Optical

Character

Recognition Image snipped outAlgorithmically

From ALTO XML

Image snipped out

Image taken from page 207 of 'London and its Environs. A picturesque survey of the metropolis and the suburbs ... Translated by Henry Frith. With ... illustrations'

ALTO XML

http://labs.bl.uk 12#bl_labs [email protected]

Face Recognition of 19th Century Faces

The face-recognition algorithm worked better for female faces than men’s

http://labs.bl.uk 13#bl_labs [email protected]

The Mechanical Curator

http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com

• #similar_to_77576796197_published_date• #similar_to_77576796197_slantyness

• #similar_to_77576796197_bubblyness_x• #similar_to_77576796197_bubblyness_y

• #new_train_of_thought

Image from ‘A Lost Estate, by Mary E.Mann,Volume: 02, Page: 91, 1889, London, Bentley & Son

http://labs.bl.uk 14#bl_labs [email protected]

1,020,418 images!

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

Each image has a URL

Some metadata, but you can add tags!

Flickr has an API so researchers and developers can build appsAnd query the data

Flickr Commons – 1,020,418 images!

http://labs.bl.uk 15#bl_labs [email protected]

Flickr in numbers

176,026,465 !!!image views since launch December 13th, 2013 to July 28th 2014Almost all images seen at least 5 times

90933 tags added

Labs involved a number of funded research projects & 4 grassroots crowdsourcing efforts.

http://labs.bl.uk 16#bl_labs [email protected]

Tagging a million images - Metadata games and other projects

http://www.metadatagames.org/

Games will probably be developed using Flickr sets

http://goo.gl/j6fxac

Cardiff University’s - Lost Visions Project

http://labs.bl.uk 17#bl_labs [email protected]

Risks of releasing the images

Funny Books for Boys and Girls. Struwelpeter. Good-for-nothing Boys and Girls. Troublesome Children. King Nutcracker and Poor Reinhold.

http://labs.bl.uk 18#bl_labs [email protected]

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

http://labs.bl.uk 19#bl_labs [email protected]

Flickr coverage in the media!

http://labs.bl.uk 20#bl_labs [email protected]

Creative Useshttp://goo.gl/qPPgxX

http://goo.gl/OH6FSn

Jura’s Sound Skateboard

http://labs.bl.uk 21#bl_labs [email protected]

Burning Man

http://goo.gl/Htg4XS

David Normal, creating light boxes around theBurning man, using the British Library’s Flickr Images

http://labs.bl.uk 22#bl_labs [email protected]

Thanks

• Mahendra Mahey

• [email protected]

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