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

21st March 2016British Library Food Wiki edit-a-thon

Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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

21st March 2016British Library Food Wiki edit-a-thon

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

1-2 %* digitised

* estimate

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Managing expectations:Looking for very specific things digitally

•Only a small amount of content is digitised!

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

•Starts with a conversation!•Research interests?

•What digital collections are you interested in?

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IntersectionYou, the Library and it’s digital content

Your research interestsDigital

collections interested in

British LibraryDigital

collections we have

This is where Labs works

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

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

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•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

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•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

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

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

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Competition

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Victorian Meme Machine (2014)Competition Winner

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

http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/

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Finding and bringing Victorian Jokes alive

Finding and bringing recipes alive?

Image from BL Flickr 1 Millionhttps://goo.gl/oviGAf

Image taken from page 300 of 'Corea, the hermit nation. I. Ancient and mediæval history. II. Political and social Corea. III. Modern and recent history'

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Awards

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CommercialEtsy project by Dina Malkova

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

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

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

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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

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Why not enter?

More information at http://labs.bl.uk

Talk to me at:

mahendra.mahey@bl.uk