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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labsFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Roly KeatingChief Executive of the British Library
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2016 • 18 institutions visited
• 5000 miles travelled
• 50 presentations & 25 workshops
• 730 researchers
• 250 expressions of interest
• 40 researchers, artists, entrepreneurs & educators supported
• 60TB of data via post
• 9TB of data via data.bl.uk (Nov 16)
• Nearly half a billion views on BL Flickr Commons since launch in Dec 2013
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Cultural Heritage DatasetsDatasets about our collections Bibliographic datasets relating to our published and archival holdings
Datasets for content mining Content suitable for use in text and data mining research
Datasets for image analysisImage collections suitable for large-scale image-analysis-based research
Datasets from UK Web ArchiveData and API services available for accessing UK Web Archive
Digital mapping Geospatial data, cartographic applications, digital aerial photography and scanned historic map materials https://data.bl.uk
Launch today: November 7, 2016
Discussion list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CULTURAL-HERITAGE-DATASETS
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Labs Awards
•Research•Commercial•Artistic•Teaching / Learning•British Library Labs Staff
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Finalists 2016
Hannah-Rose MurrayPhD student, University of NottinghamBlack Abolitionist Performances and their Presence in Britain
Luda Karen Brian
Hannah-Rose
Luda Zhao, Karen Wang (Masters Students at Stanford University), Brian Do (Harvard Medicine and PhD student)SherlockNet: Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Tag and Caption the British Library Collection
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And the winner is…
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Black Abolitionist Performances and their presence in Britain
Hannah-Rose Murray
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SherlockNet: Using Convolutional Neural Networks to automatically tag & caption the BL Flickr collection
Karen Wang, Luda Zhao and Brian Do.