Post on 07-Aug-2015
Working with the British Library’s Digital Content and Data:Opportunities for History Film Makers
Research and Development Exclusives: HistorySunny Side of the Doc, La Rochelle, France, History Day, Thursday 25th June 2015, 1430 - 1500
Adam GeeCommissioning EditorChannel 4
Mahendra MaheyManager of British Library Labs
http://labs.bl.uk 2#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Gee#
Adam GeeCommissioning Editor
http://labs.bl.uk 4#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
St Pancras, London
Inside St PancrasStorage and
Document Supply at Boston Spa
One British Library, three sites
Stockton
http://labs.bl.uk 5#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Roly KeatingChief Executive
3 Years. Previouslyformer controller of BBC2, BBC 4 andBBC IPlayerhttp://goo.gl/g62hwr
http://labs.bl.uk 6#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Living Knowledge Vision2015 - 2023
https://goo.gl/Py9uHKRoly Keating’s speech and
Q&A on the role of libraries in a digital age
http://goo.gl/h41wW7Vision document
(launched Jan 2015)
http://labs.bl.uk 7#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
In Summary…
To make our intellectual heritage accessible to everyone,
for research, inspiration and enjoyment and be the most open, creative and innovative institution of its kind
by 2023.
http://labs.bl.uk 8#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Contributing to the vision
Custodianship Research Business
Culture Learning International
http://labs.bl.uk 10#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
14 million books60 million patents8 million stamps6 million maps3 million sound recordings1.6 million musical scores0.3 million manuscripts0.8 million serial titles
http://labs.bl.uk 13#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
The Changing Context
• Data and the changing role of libraries
• Openness and accessibility
• Economic growth and social impact of knowledge, creativity and culture
• Digital and physical spaces
• Libraries need to work in partnership and consider different funding models for projects
http://labs.bl.uk 15#bl_labs 15
Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Knowledge Quarter
• Partners include Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, University College London, Warwick
• Initially funded at £42m over 5 years
• Headquartered @ British Library
• Part of Knowledge Quarter
http://labs.bl.uk 17#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
CompetitionTell us your ideas of what to do with our digital content
AwardsShow us what you have done with our digital content
ProjectsTalk to us about working on collaborative projects
http://labs.bl.uk 18#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Mahendra MaheyManager of British Library Labs
https://goo.gl/lLsiaY/
http://labs.bl.uk 20#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
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
Crowdsourcing / Human Computation
Natural Language Processing
Using Application Programming Interfaces for datasets e.g. Metadata, Images
Transcribing
http://labs.bl.uk 21#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Story of just *one* digital collection
What can 68,000books tell us?
Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
http://labs.bl.uk 22#bl_labs
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> 260,000,000 views
> 380,000 tags
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
1,020,418 imagesneed tagging!
Creative uses of imageshttp://goo.gl/qPPgxX
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Tagging a million imagesHarnessing Crowdsourcing
http://www.metadatagames.org/
http://goo.gl/j6fxac
Cardiff University’sLost Visions ProjectAdam Crymble
BL Labs 2015 Competition Winner
What if crowd sourcing
looked like this?
http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W
Drawing on downtime
Drawing on scarcity of access
Drawing on energy reserved for ‘play’
James Heald
Mario Klingemann
Chico 45
Use computational methods
Human Tagger
Top British Library Flickr Commons Taggers
http://labs.bl.uk 24#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Crowdsourcing Flickr and OtherDigitised Maps
http://www.bl.uk/maps/
http://labs.bl.uk 25#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Political Meetings MapperBL Labs Competition Winner 2015
Katrina Navickas
http://labs.bl.uk 28#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Crossroads of Curiosity at the British Library until Nov 8 2015
http://labs.bl.uk 29#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Visibility - Technology Strategy Board Competition Winner 2014
Understanding value / impact of making the BL’s data open / in the public domain
Peter Balman developed an analytics dashboard for the Library showing what is happening to our Flickr
Images
Initial Pitch: https://www.vimeo.com/94067983Challenge details: http://goo.gl/Hb6l4A
http://labs.bl.uk 31#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Victorian Meme MachineBL Labs 2014 Competition Winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0Bob Nicholson
http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
http://labs.bl.uk 33#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Off the Map Competition 2013
Pudding Lane Productions, 6 second-year students,De Montfort University, Leicester, won first prize.
http://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0
http://puddinglanedmuga.blogspot.co.uk
Created an interpretation of 17th Century pre-fire London
http://labs.bl.uk 34#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Off the Map Gothic Competition 2014
http://puddinglanedmuga.blogspot.co.uk
Created an interpretation of 17th Century pre-fire LondonCreated a Fonthill Abbey inspired game using Oculus Rift
http://nixgamedevblog.blogspot.co.uk http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHwTeam Nix, - Jackson Rolls-Gray, Sebastian Filby and
Faye Allen from the University of South Wales, won first prize.
http://labs.bl.uk 35#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Alice’s Adventures Off the Map 2015
Using Digitised Asset Packs relating to Alice in WonderlandCompetition closed 22 June, Winners announced in late Oct.
http://gamecity.org/alices-adventures-off-the-map/
http://goo.gl/YKrhMD
http://labs.bl.uk 36#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
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://labs.bl.uk 37#bl_labs labs@bl.uk
Digital Music LabTransforming Musicology
http://dml.city.ac.ukDocumentary to analyse recordings to find the secrets of musical success
and produce a new performance