British Library Labs Roadshow 2016 Open Data Meetup Bristol

1http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected] http://goo.gl/I3tBRu

http://goo.gl/I3tBRu


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

21st March 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at British Library’s Digital Content and Open Data Meetup, Bristol


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

21st March 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at British Library’s Digital Content and Open Data Meetup, Bristol

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


Distant Reading – Adam Crymble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4y-_VoXdA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4y-_VoXdA


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/Launch+Event


One of Largest Library’s in the World180 million* items

1-2 %* digitised

* estimate


IntersectionYou and the Library

Your research interestsDigital

collections interested in

British LibraryDigital

collections we have

This is where Labs works

It starts with a conversation!


Managing expectations:Looking for very specific things digitally

•Research interests?

•What digital collections are you interested in?

•Only a small amount of content is digitised!

•Might not be the treasure you expect at the end of a digital journey!


You might get very lucky!Fly fishing by JR Hartley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2TilNclT8k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2TilNclT8k


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

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

Soon…http://data.bl.uk

Mini Network Area Storage Device (NAS) guide:http://goo.gl/E8aRyQ

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

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

http://goo.gl/E8aRyQ


How?


•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!

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

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


Competition


Katrina Navickas (2015) Political Meetings Mapper

http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.ukLabs Symposium 2015 (33 mins)

https://goo.gl/Qq78Oa

Interview 2015 (4 mins)https://goo.gl/BSA3be

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

Chartist’s London Walking Tour 21 Sep 15

The Red Lion Pub, SohoChartists Re-enactment

Chartist’s Meeting Locations in London

Chartist’s Meetings Heatmap in London


Chartists Re-enactment London




Victorian Meme Machine (2014)Competition Winner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0Bob Nicholson

http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/

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

http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/


http://victorianhumour.tubmblr.com


Rob WalkerVictorian Mother-in-law Jokes

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

Bob Nicholson interviewed on Radio 4 Making History Programmehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07378d1

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


Awards


Commercial (2015)Etsy project by Dina Malkova

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

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

Read more: http://goo.gl/pbxZUv

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

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


2016 Competition Announcedhttp://gamecity.org/off-the-map

2015 - http://gamecity.org/alices-adventures-off-the-map-winners-announced/


Sound fileshttps://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/sets/shakespeare-off-the-map

Closing dateMonday 6th June 2016

2016 Off The Map Sub-themes


What can 65,000books tell us?

Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin

Just one digital collection


Snipping out imagesfrom 65,000 Digitised Books

Face recognition

Mechanical Curator

Flickr

Worked better for female faces than men’s

Press

http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com>400,000,000 views

> 500,000 tags

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

1,020,418 imagesneed tagging!

Creative uses of imageshttp://goo.gl/qPPgxX

http://blpublicdomain.wikispaces.com/


Tagging a million imagesIterative Crowdsourcing

http://goo.gl/j6fxac

Cardiff University’sLost Visions Project

http://www.metadatagames.org/

James Heald

Mario Klingemann

Chico 45

Use computational methods

Human Tagger

Top British Library Flickr Commons Taggers


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

Read more: http://goo.gl/dM8ieAA Hat on the GroundSpells trouble

https://goo.gl/ubL0AO

https://goo.gl/gRZ5Ia

http://goo.gl/dM8ieA


Interview David Normal

https://youtu.be/Q3SBxO34Zlc

‘It was beyond my wildest dreams’

https://youtu.be/Q3SBxO34Zlc


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



Let’s have a party!

Music mix by DJ Yoda using British Library Sounds

Exhibited from June to Nov 2015

20th June 2015

https://soundcloud.com/bbc6music/dj-yodas-library-jamInstallation in Poet’s Circle in Piazza outside at BL in St Pancras London

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

https://soundcloud.com/bbc6music/dj-yodas-library-jam


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

Animating static images

https://goo.gl/QilqqT


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

Animating static images

https://goo.gl/QilqqT


Adam Crymble (2015)Crowdsource Arcade

What if crowd sourcing

looked like this?

http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W

Game Jam - http://goo.gl/OH9pOZ30 mins talkLabs Symposium (2015)https://goo.gl/7z0j8p

5 min interview (2015)https://goo.gl/SSRsdd

http://goo.gl/0APpE8


Art Treachery – Januz Druz Tag Attack – Antonio Padial

Art Treachery and Tag Attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoCgHo2rwN4


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/

Labs Symposium (2015)https://goo.gl/djtm1b


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



Optical Character Recognition


Simple Data Structures

•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!


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


only in Reading

Rooms due to ©

only on site due to

©

not online – various storage devices

online and open

British Library

online behind paywall

Digital access at the Library

Labs Residency Modelhttps://goo.gl/tvNVRB

http://goo.gl/ii0XHG


Ideas change once you try to examine, access and use

the data!


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


Lessons…•Huge appetite to use BL digital content & data (e.g. Flickr Commons stats).

•Identifying / bridging gaps for researchers to use BL data.

•Labs can help researchers navigate through the Library to get the data they want.


Perfection vs Imperfection

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

•Fear of failure seen as a negative thing.

•Just don’t be scared to try experiments!


Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

Fail fasterSmall experiments!

https://goo.gl/Vlv3Yu Let yourself reboot!


Finally…

•Try and examine, use our data and talk to us about your ideas and projects!

•Consider entering the Competition and Awards!

•You never know you might….


Change the world with …British Library digital content


Accessing the Mini NASMini Network Area Storage Device (NAS) guide:

http://goo.gl/E8aRyQ

Find the ‘opendata’ wireless access point and join it. The password is ‘opendata’Accessing data foldersUsername:guestPassword:guest

Or use ftp://10.0.0.1/



What’s on the Mini NAS?• British National Bibliography – 3.5 million records (2 Gb), in RDF XML, other

formats on request

• 90,000 Playbills – 1602 – 1902 (60 Gb), pdfs, OCR XML

• ALTO XML (includes METS and MODS) for OCR of 65,000 volumes, 22 million pages mostly from the 19th Century (909 Gb)

• 1 million images snipped from books put on Flickr (667 Gb), 70,000 tagged images (170 Gb)

• 9,000 digitised book bindings

• 130 digitised maps

• 55,000 music metadata records

• 430,00 PhD abstracts, 170,000 with text


It’s messy but fascinating!


Goody bag!


http://goo.gl/I3tBRu

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