Digital engagement, innovation & The British LibraryPresentation by Chris Clark to Digital Berkshire, April 19th 2012

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts.I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman The “Petabyte Age” is different. … with enough data, mathematics can do things like evaluate the relative value of a hyperlink, translate languages, win lawsuits, predict the spread of epidemics and perform other tasks that used to be related to the domains of theory and modeling.

Chris Anderson The end of theory

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It exists for anyone who wants to do research –

for academic, personal or commercial purposesi.e. You!

What kind of library is it? National library Collections cover all known

subject areas; arts & humanities, social sciences, STM…

Copy of every print item published in the UK

Collections in all formats; sound, images, video, newspapers, maps, manuscripts, databases, books and journals, stamps, photographs, etc.

150 million items 625 km of shelving Growing at 12 km per year

6,500,000 objects 205 Terabytes

Access Web Service

Mailroom

ROT

Access Web Page

Gateway

Put Get

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Ingest Site Controller

Object Integrity Checker

Storage Node

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Temporary Store

Access Store

Cache Manager

Mailroom DB

Client Objects

Preservation Store

VPN

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ROT Upload Store

ControlData

IngestAccess

Recovery

Access DB

Delivery Of Object

Access Site Controller

Site DB

Dark Archive

OvernightIncremental

Backup

Science Technology & Medicine

Links to external data and collections

TalkScience@BL - quarterly event series that provides a forum for discussion on topical scientific issues, including a range of perspectives from academia, industry, government and the third sector.

Health in the Headlines: Making Sense of the Science? A Discussion with Tracey Brown

Geoengineering our Climate: Fixing Earth’s Future? A discussion with Prof. Tim Lenton

supporting creatives Lesser known items

ranging from soundscapes & comics to Japanese woodcuts & knitting patterns

Award winning Sian Zeng, used the Library collections to research her dissertation on Little Red Riding Hood and fairy-tales. inspired by the stories she found, Sian launched a print company that produces interior products, including magnetic animal wallpaper.

@BL_FranTaylor

1: Guarantee access for future generations.

2: Enable access to everyone who wants to do research.

3: Support research communities in key areas for social and economic benefit.

4: Enrich the cultural life of the nation.

5: Lead and collaborate in growing the world’s knowledge base.

Business and Intellectual Property Centre (BIPC)

Subject portals Digital scholarship and digital curation From digital projects to Business As Usual

A selection of BIPC information sources

 

British Library Entrepreneur and SME Network has over 1,800 members.

BIPCTV YouTube channel showcases Inspiring Entrepreneurs events and success stories. 280,000 views

@Business & IP Centre 3,900 followers, Klout 45

Over 5,000 members

Steve Van Dulken – The Patent BlogNeil Infield – In from the Outfield

Get inspiration

Get inspiration Protect your ideas

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Get inspiration Protect your ideas Develop your business

BIPC supports entrepreneurs and small businesses from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business.

Holds workshops and 1:1 advice session along with Inspiring entrepreneurs series of events with role model entrepreneurs.

Between April 2007 and March 2009 the BIPC helped to create 829 new businesses for London, combined turnover of which was £32 Million.

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20110209162050/http://www.growingknowledge.bl.uk/Tools.aspx

Definition The production, use and

integration of digital content, services and tools to facilitate scholarship and research

Allow research areas to be investigated in new ways, using new tools, leading to new discoveries and analysis to generate new understanding

Demand Comprehensive digital collections Applying tools of scholarship to digital collections: annotation, citation, comparison Infrastructure to store, preserve, discover, access Ability to apply new tools for analysis, visualisation, and experimentation Collaboration through social networking tools, social bookmarking, wikis, sharing drafts with commentary Non-traditional forms of outreach to draw attention to research

TREND More digital content More cross-

disciplinary More collaborative More analysis More data-driven More repurposing of

content

DEMAND Mass and focused

digitisation Improved discovery Interfaces for sharing

and building services, annotation

Visualisation tools Conversion to data and

analysis tools Open licenses & APIs,

documented formats