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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs
9th March 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at the University of East Anglia
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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One of Largest Library’s in the World180 million* items
1-2 %* digitised
* estimate
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http://www.bl.uk/subjects/digital-scholarship
http://data.bl.ukbeing developed
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How?
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BL Labs Competition:Tell us your ideas of what to do with our digital collections; opportunities to work with us.
BL Labs Awards: Show us what you have already done with our digital content.
Projects & ideas:Talk to us about working on potential projects & collaborations.
Events:Attend any of our events, seminars or workshops.
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Why?
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Labs objectives •who is using and who would like to use our digital content.
•why and how our digital content is being used.
•hear and learn about innovative ideas/uses for our digital content.
•connect with the users of our digital content.
•support the BL’s mission statement.
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•Deadline 11th April 2016.
•Two finalists announced late May 2016.
•Residency June–October 2016.•Up to £3600 in support (technical, curatorial etc).
•Showcase @Symposium Monday 7th Nov 2016.
•Winner £3000 & Runner up £1000!
BL Labs Competition (2016)
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Political Meetings Mapper (2015) Katrina Navickas
http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.uk/maps/
Chartist’s London Walking Tour 21st Sept 2015
The Red Lion Pub, SohoChartists Re-enactment
Chartist’s Meeting Locations in London
Chartist’s Meetings Heatmap in London
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Crowdsource Arcade (2015)Adam Crymble
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’
http://itch.io/jam/britishlibrary30 minute talk at BL Labs Symposium 2015 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MtNgc8-SmE
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•Categories: Research; Artistic; Commercial; Teaching / Learning.
•Deadline 5th September 2016.
•Winners announced @Symposium Monday 7th Nov 2016.
•Category winners £500 & Runner ups £100!
BL Labs Awards (2016)
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http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/spatialhum.wordpress/Labs Symposium 2015: https://goo.gl/ZCU56a
Research Award winner (2015):Spatial Humanities: Lancaster University
“Combining Text Analysis and Geographic Information Systems to investigate geographical representation of disease in digitised 19th century newspapers” http://goo.gl/yZ3xCJ
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Curious Images Event 2014https://goo.gl/ubL0AO
Labs Symposium 2015https://goo.gl/gRZ5Ia
44 Men who Look 44(Notice the direction faces)
Collage Art
Artistic Award winner (2015):‘The Order of Things’ by Mario Klingemann
Read more: http://goo.gl/dM8ieA
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Entrepreneurial Award winner (2015):‘Redesigning Alice’ by Dina Malkova
https://www.etsy.com/shop/DinaMalkova
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Jury’s ‘Special Mention’ Award (2015):‘Indexing the BL 1 million & Mapping the Maps’
by James Heald
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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Finally…
• Help us promote the Competition and Awards!
• Know anyone how has used, is using or who wants to use our digital content?
• Please get in contact: – [email protected]– labs.bl.uk– @BL_Labs
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Thank you!END
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