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British Library Labs The Story of 1 Million Images Mahendra Mahey Pratt Summer School Wednesday 25 June, 2014, 1130 – 1150 Maps Seminar Room, British Library, St Pancras, London Manager of British Library Labs Ben O’Steen Technical Lead of British Library Labs
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British Library LabsThe Story of 1 Million Images
Mahendra Mahey
Pratt Summer SchoolWednesday 25 June, 2014, 1130 – 1150Maps Seminar Room, British Library, St Pancras, London
Manager of British Library Labs
Ben O’SteenTechnical Lead of British Library Labs
http://labs.bl.uk 2#bl_labs [email protected] by the Andrew Mellon Foundation
http://labs.bl.uk 3#bl_labs [email protected]
How Labs works…
BL Labs
OpenSoftware
Publications
Tools & services to
support Digital Scholarship
Case Studies
AudienceResearch
question / idea
idea
idea
Competition
Contact
Events
Meetings and visits
Experimenting with our digital collections
Outputs from engagementData
Other Digital Collection / Data
BL Digital Collections /
Data
Researchers
Developers
Data Driven
Projects
http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collections
http://labs.bl.uk 4#bl_labs [email protected]
The winners of the Labs 2013 competition
Pieter Francois (left) and Dan Norton (right) and each received a cheque for £2000 in November 2013as winners of the first British Library Lab Competition 2013
Two entries chosen in June 2013
They both worked in residence from July to October 2013with Labs to complete their projects
http://labs.bl.uk 5#bl_labs [email protected]
Mixing the Library: The Disc Jockey & the Digital Collection
http://www.tompro.co.uk
http://www.ablab.org/shetland
http://www.ablab.org/pd/di/
Prototype design
Annotation
Preview ‘item’
Selected ‘right’ channel ‘item’
Selected ‘left’channel ‘item’
Collection ‘stalks’ made of ‘items’. Each ‘item’ is a URL. The order of the ‘items’ can be ‘shuffled’ and sent to the ‘left’ or ‘right’ channels
‘Play back’ of ‘items’ (Blue) and annotations (Yellow)
http://212.71.253.54:8000/a
Living Lab: Library of the Future, see: http://alturl.com/284zw
Basic functioning prototype:
http://labs.bl.uk 6#bl_labs [email protected]
Pieter Francois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK80Jy0ijkA
http://labs.bl.uk 7#bl_labs [email protected]
Winners of 2014 Competition
Victorian Meme Machine
Bob Nicholson of Edge Hill University
Anna Gerber and Desmond Schmidt from Queensland University
Blog posting http://goo.gl/iJy0aTYouTube: http://goo.gl/mBTlk2
Blog: http://goo.gl/ofpNoslYouTube: http://goo.gl/iseHTE
Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)
http://labs.bl.uk 8#bl_labs [email protected]
Bob Nicholson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0
http://labs.bl.uk 9#bl_labs [email protected]
The story of one digital collection…
The story of 68,000 books and 1 million images
and Flickr
Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
http://labs.bl.uk 9#bl_labs [email protected]
The story of one digital collection…
The story of 68,000 books and 1 million images
and Flickr
Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
