Reports from the UKMHL and Historical Texts live lab

Melissa Terras, UK medical heritage library event

Reports from the UKMHL and Historical Texts live lab 27/10/2016

Welcome, and Introductions!

Professor Melissa TerrasProfessor of Digital Humanities, UCL Dept of Information StudiesDirector, UCL Centre for Digital [email protected], @melissaterras

github.com/UCL-dataspring

Method

60k books from the British Library:● 17th - 19th century● 224GB compressed ALTO XML● UCL High Performance Computing● 4 humanities researchers● Research questions to computational queries

#UKMHLlivelab@Jisc

With thanks to

• Owen Stephens (@ostephens)– Consultant to Library sector, – http://www.ostephens.com/

• Peter Findlay (@PFindlay_500) – Jisc digital portfolio managerhttps://www.jisc.ac.uk/staff/peter-findlay

• Jisc organising folks! And the Wellcome Library for hosting.

• Bluclobber images by the project team: James Baker, James Hetherington, David Beavan, Anne Welsh, Helen O’Neill, Will Finley, Oliver Duke-Williams, Adam Farquhar.