BL Labs Presentation at Språkbanken, University of Gothenberg
BL Labs presentation given to the Digital Scholarship Team
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1 British Library Labs http://labs.bl.uk Digital Scholarship Meeting – British Library Labs Wednesday 17 th April 2013, 11:30 -11:45 Meeting Room H, St Pancras Mr Mahendra Mahey BL Labs Project Manager Scholarship and Collections, Digital Scholarship
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Transcript of BL Labs presentation given to the Digital Scholarship Team
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British Library Labshttp://labs.bl.uk
Digital Scholarship Meeting – British Library LabsWednesday 17th April 2013, 11:30 -11:45Meeting Room H, St Pancras
Mr Mahendra MaheyBL Labs Project Manager
Scholarship and Collections, Digital Scholarship
2http://labs.bl.uk [email protected]
Who am I?
Mahendra Mahey
Worked for 20 years in Further and Higher Education and Libraries
• Over 10 years as a Social Science and Computing Lecturer
• Project Manager
• Researcher
• Working with Developer and Research Communities
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The Project
• Digital Scholarship
• 2 Year Mellon Foundation funded project
• Managed by Mahendra Mahey
• Line management >Aly Conteh>Adam Farquhar
• Encouraging scholars to do research across BL collections
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Project Details…1
• Use BL collections e.g. access and download
• Analyse the content especially entire collections (i.e. cross collection research)
• Do research, publish, make things…
• Transforming services and tools for scholars using BL collections
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Project Details…2
• One part is organising competitions, events and various activities
• Creating an environment where scholars can work intensively with Library’s digital collections (winners will be resident), but not only…
• We want to encourage research across collections so ideas can be pursued by talking to BL staff and scholars who are interested in conducting research, e.g. meetings, events etc
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BL Labs Competition
• 2 Competitions
• Winners will work at the BL ‘in residence’
• Competitions highlight materials
• Focus particularly on cross collection research if possible
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BL Labs Content
• Work with curators to identify those collections that are suitable for BL labs
• Engage researchers with these materials through meetings, road- shows, hackathons, promotions (including competitions and events)
• Some content…
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British National Bibliographic Data
bnb.data.bl.uk
• 2.6 Million individual records detailing Title, Author, Subject, Descriptions and more of books and journals published or distributed in the United Kingdom and Ireland since 1950
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UK Web Archive Data
data.webarchive.org.uk/opendata
• An example dataset is the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset (1996-2010) which is a 32TB subset of the Internet Archive’s web collection relating to the UK.
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19th Century Digitised Books
• 68,000 digitised volumes and their accompanying JP2, PDF, metadata and OCR text files from our Historical 19th Century Books collection
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Environment and Nature Sounds
• thousands of recordings from the Sound Archive's unrivalled natural sounds collection is available for free download as MP3’s to staff and students UK higher and further education institutions
• http://sounds.bl.uk/Environment/
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BL Labs Services
• Identify appropriate services to be developed for scholars wanting to use collections for research
• Lead by Technical lead (in recruitment)
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BL Labs Hackathons..
• Bringing researchers, developers, curators and collections together at events
• Brainstorming ideas
• Scoping research and prototypes
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Case studies generated for others to learn..
• Case studies of the research generated from the competitions and general activity of BL Labs
• Inform the Library and other libraries around the world about the issues involved in opening up collections for research
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Website
http://labs.bl.uk
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(Wiki based…we want people interested in the project to be involved and add content)
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Launch Event
• 25 March 2013
• Getting researchers doing the kind of research BL Labs is interested in
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Example Methodologies of cross collection research
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• Corpus Analysis tools
• Visualisations
• Location based searching
• Geotagging
• Annotation
• APIs for datasets e.g. Metadata
• Crowdsourcing / Human Computation
• Natural Language Processing
• Transcribing
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How we want you to engage with the project?
• Are you responsible for a collection?
• Are you engaged with researchers?
• How would researchers get access to the collection?
• Do you know what the access issues are?
• Do you have any ideas of how the collection could be used for research purposes?
• Useful contacts of potential researchers who BL labs could work with
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What next?
Speak to me: 0207 412 7324
Email me: [email protected]
BL Labs Website: http://labs.bl.uk/
Twitter: @BL_Labs
Hash Tag:#bl_labs
Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
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