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A presentation to visitors from the Finnish Cultural Institute at the British Library May 2014.
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#BLdigital
Nora McGregor, CuratorDigital Research Team
@ndalyrose, #bldigital and @BL_Labshttp://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship
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The British Library is the national library of the UK.
We receive a copy of every publication produced in theUK and Ireland.
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Well over 150 Million items are currently stored in London and in York.
If you saw 5 items a day it would take you 80,000 years to see the whole collection.
Digitisation is crucial for opening up access to this content and collections.
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• The Library has spent the last two decades creating digital assets through digitisation and preserving born-digital objects and will do far into the future.
• We can now do much more than use technology to simply discover these digital objects and must embrace the opportunities afforded by analysing these digital collections at scale.
• If scholars view our archives as an infinite pool of multiple layers of loosely held data from which new research questions can be wrung then so must we.
• The Digital Research Team and BL Labs aim to provide services beyond simple resource discovery then, that is, beyond helping to point a single user to a single items or objects via a catalogue
The Digital Research View
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The Library is becoming a place full of data as much as it is a place full of physical stuff, and that there is a growing community of users who see it that way.
Big Data + Old History
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Digital Research Team
• The Digital Research Team is a cross-disciplinary mix of curators, librarians and programmers supporting the innovative use of our digital collections.
• We explore how digital technologies are re/shaping research and how this informs how the library does its business.
• We encourage and support colleagues & scholars of all disciplines to work innovatively with and across the library’s diverse digital content
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The Digital Scholarship Training Programme is an ongoing internal training initiative created by the Digital Research team that launched in November 2012.
We’ve designed a catalogue of bespoke one-day courses for staff covering the basics of Digital Scholarship which we deliver on a rolling basis.
The programme evolve as necessary overtime.
Our Digital Scholarship Training Programme
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Some courses
• 101 What is Digital Scholarship? • 102 Digital Collections at British Library • 103 Digitisation at British Library • 104 Communicating our collections online• 105 Crowdsourcing in Libraries, Museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions• 106 Text Encoding Initiative• 107 Data Visualisation for Analysis in Scholarly Research• 108 Geo-referencing and Digital Mapping • 109 Information Integration: Mash-ups, API’s and The Semantic Web• 110 Managing digital research information• 114 Foundations in working with Digital Objects: From Images to A/V• 115 Metadata for Electronic Resources: Dublin Core, METS, MODS, RDF, XML• 118 Cleaning up Data• 119 The Programming Curator
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So far so good!
“Great to have something often referred to demystified”
“I’ve never done anything like this before!”
“Well done to you and your DC team, I have attended some of the other courses myself and am recommending my staff attend them too.”
“[I valued] the time to explore our ideas and see how to develop current projects into a more useful resource”
“…I was very grateful to attend this and learned a great deal…Look forward to more. Renewed thanks for organising this.”
November 2012-March 2013 saw: 50 course days delivered 245 individual members of staff attended one or more653 seats filled 3 courses attended pp on average
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Microsoft Live Searchearly foray into mass digitisation for the Library.
Digitised 65,000 out of copyright books from the 19th Century from 2006 until project abandoned in 2008.
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See:• http://
britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html • https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/sets/ • http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com/ • http://blpublicdomain.wikispaces.com/
150 million image views since launch December 13th, 82,000 unique tags added.
Top tagger a story of Machine (15K) vs. Man (30K)!
In numbers
150 million image views since launch December 13th, 82,000 unique tags added.
Top tagger a story of Machine (15K) vs. Man (30K)!
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Creative Uses
David Normal installation at Burning Man Festival: http://www.davidnormal.com/crossroads-of-curiosity/#!crossroads-of-curiosity/ccw3
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Research and Technology
Mario Klingemann: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/12179292575/in/faves-britishlibrary/
Collaborative PhD: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2014/02/bldigital-british-library-collaborative-phd-studentship.html
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Apps
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Instruction
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Commerce
Thank you
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