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Why do we digitise? 20 reasons in 20 pictures
Dr. Mia Ridge, @mia_outDigital Curator, British Library
[email protected] @BL_DigiSchol
Europeana Network Association AGM 2016Riga, November 2016
Why do we digitise?TL;DR: access to our shared heritages
matters
Digitisation supports education, engagement, research at huge scale
and with computational power.
A splendid assortment of Gceloag and West of England. Tweed ; also Black Doeakin Woollen Cloths alwaya on hand. Snit made to order in six hoars' notice, on most reaainable terms. Mr. M'Mohon, Cutter.
Mysteries of Melbourne lifeby Cameron, Donald, 1848?-1888.
Published 1873Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Topics Australia -- Fiction
Preservation
Discoverability
Access
Items consulted in Reading Rooms: 1,694,000BL website items consulted: 3,249,000Source: Annual Report 2015/16
Access
If collections are international in scope, they should be internationally accessible
Delight
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2014/10/how-to-be-a-hedgehog.html
Cool things happen
Video clip for a Malaysian band with images from 19th century books shared on Flickr Commons
'Traditional' outcomes
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallibrarynz_commons/5353172318
Crowdsourcing and engagement
Becoming part of the web
Pelagios: Enabling Linked Ancient Geodata
Partnerships without paperwork
Mario KlingemannDetail from '556 Minerals'
'available only because the resources that contained their stories are now available digitally'
Finding sources is easier
Full text search is transformative
Scale is transformative
Digitised sources + computational methods = digital scholarship
Dr. Katrina Navickas and @BL_Labs, Political Meetings Mapper
Efficiency is under-rated"I was able to do in minutes with Python code what I'd spent the last ten years trying to do by hand!"
-Dr. Katrina Navickas, BL Labs Winner 2015
It's easier to follow curiosity
It's easier to see patterns'Distant reading has utterly transformed my view of literary history. ...as we slice libraries in new ways we keep stumbling over long, century-spanning trends that have little relationship to the stories of movements and periods we used to tell. We can see genres differentiating from each other gradually. We can see assumptions about gender gradually shifting. We've learned that the literary standards defining a prestigious style change very slowly. It doesn't happen in a generation; it takes centuries. ...it is clear now that these methods can turn up important patterns that we couldn't see before, and that's what I'm loving about this.'
- The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Ted Underwood
It helps scientists
It helps students
http://bit.ly/sherlocknet
Computer Vision and the History of Printing, Joon Son Chung
We learn more about collections
Thank you!Questions?
Mia Ridge @mia_outDigital Curator, British Library
[email protected] @BL_DigiSchol