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Sleep Storiescrowdsourcing a patchworkof meaningful storiesonline and in person @RussellDornan | #SleepStoriesRR

@ExploreWellcome

Concept

States of Mind exhibition tie-in

Focus on peoples sleep experiences@RussellDornan | #SleepStoriesRR

Concept

@RussellDornan | #SleepStoriesRR

Giving our audience a voice

Express their stories in an unusual way

Collaboration

@RussellDornan | #SleepStoriesRRDigital & Comms

Events & Facilitator

Visitors & St Mungos

Collecting

@RussellDornan | #SleepStoriesRRWebsite

Social media

In person

Background

EmailTwitter

Instagram

Web form

Inspiration

@RussellDornan | #SleepStoriesRR

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Community

@RussellDornan | #SleepStoriesRRVisitors to the Reading Room

St Mungos

Online

Circulate

@RussellDornan | #SleepStoriesRRWe wanted:

Contributors to see it

To share the quilt widely

Challenges

@RussellDornan | #SleepStoriesRROnline submissions

Vague event details

In-house / outsource

bit.ly/SleepStoriesRR

#SleepStoriesRR

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SHARING DIGITAL CONTENT WITH WIKIMEDIA

Working with Wikimedia UKTraining new editors

Improving Wikipedia content

Engage local volunteers

Share digital content on an open licence

Wikimedian in Residence

For nearly two years the National Library of Wales has been working on a jointly funded project with Wikimedia UK and I have been working as their Wikimedian in Residence to build a sustainable and mutually beneficial relationship. During this residency we have trained over 150 new Wikipedia editors, held many editing events to improve Wikipedia content relating to Wales and ran Wikipedia based projects with the Librarys award winning volunteer team (ARA Archive Volunteering Award for 2016).

The other big brief for the residency was to share the Librarys digital content on an open licence and monitor the impact this had and the focus for my talk today will be the impact of sharing firstly, digital images and then later, open data, and how being open has given the library a platform for sharing the nations knowledge, culture, history, art and stories with a huge global audience24

Why open?Remove barriers

Encourage re-use

Treats virtual visitors the same as physical visitors

Share the Librarys knowledge, collections and stories with a wider audience

In 2013 the National Library of Wales decided it would no longer claim any right to digital images of material that was already out of copyright. In short, It did this in order to remove barriers to access and to encourage reuse25

Why Wikipedia?

So the next logical question is why choose Wikipedia, when there are numerous other platforms for sharing open content. And the answer is IMPACT. Wikipedia has 39 million articles in 288 languages including 80,000 articles in Welsh, and it gets a staggering 500m visits a month making it one of the most viewed websites in the world. So the collaboration is primarily about impact and exposure rather than increasing revenue.26

Impact

So lets first look at the impact of sharing images to Wikimedia Commons, where they could be easily added to Wikipedia articles.Since we started in January 2015 we have shared nearly 15 thousand images and Wikipedia articles containing these images have now been viewed 140 Million times across mobile and desktop platforms. Our images are used in more than 90 different languages.

Since our images have been used by such a huge website they have also become much more discoverable outside of Wikimedia projects. They often top google images searches for example, and we have seen examples of people reusing our images in books, exhibitions, websites and social media.27

What about the Data?!?Data adds value

Open data encourages innovative reuse & analysis

Wikidata

Now as Im sure you all know, Data adds value to cultural collections, it tells the story of each item. And we realised that a lot of the data, painstakingly researched and recorded by our cataloguers and archivists was not freely available and certainly couldnt be explored in any meaningful way

So we turned to Wikidata. Which is like Wikipedia but for data. Anyone can add, edit, copy and reuse data and although still it its infancy already contains more than 20 million pieces of data on every subject imaginable. 28

Linking Landscapes

So, the first big data set we released was all the cataloguing data for the 5000 Welsh landscape prints we had already released to Wikimedia Commons on an open licence. The image you see of Aberystwyth demonstrates some of the data we had for each image.

We handed our data over to a keen volunteer who agreed to work with us as a Wikidata visiting scholar. He carried out the work of converting traditional Data into the Linked up Wikidata you see in the image.

Details about aach artists, printer and publisher was researched and added to the data. They were also linked where possible with Viaf authority control data

And this data is now freely available to all, and already we can explore and visualise the data in ways the is not possible on a traditional library catalogue29

For example, telling Wikidata which place the images depicts automatically fetches geolocation data so that we can plot the collection on a map30

We can plot the collection on a timeline using free to use software31

And we can query the data in countless ways. This bubble chart displays the most frequently depicted things in the collection32

And since Wikidata speaks hundreds of languages we can instantly view the data in Welsh or in just about any other language we like33

What next?Encourage innovative reuse

Connect multiple collections

Embed open linked data into Library collection discovery services

I believe linked data will revolutionise the way we think about information in the culture sector, and we now want to take things even further. We want to encourage others to use this open data creatively and inovatively and the British Library Labs project is a shining example of how this should be done.

By converting more of our metadata to linked data we want to connect multiple collections, for example we want to connect our portrait archive with the Dictionary of welsh biography, and we want to work with other institutions to connect their relevant data, creating a web of interconnected collections.

And then we want to use this linked data in our online collection discovery services, providing an enriched user experience.34

@Wiki_NLW jason.evans@llgc.org.uk

Any questions or comment please get in touch and follow me on twitter for regular updates on our work.35

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Adaptive evolution with A/B testingChloe Roberts, Wellcome Collection@chloerabbits

the propagation ofadvantageous mutationsthrough positive selection(Wikipedia)Adaptive evolution

the propagation ofadvantageous mutationsthrough positive selectionMake something betterby making smart changesbit by bit

A bit like

(Images copyright Marvel/X-Men)

Un-intelligent evolution

Wastes energy by changing randomly

Weaknesses never fixed

1. Identify a weak point in the user funnel (using data)

2. Find out *why* its weak (ask users)

3. Come up with smart, informed ideas & hypotheses (& success indicators)

4. Now you can test the ideas with A/B testingThen5. Wait for a statistically significant sample

6. Look at the data again

7. Ask customers again

And then alsoDo it all again

All across the product

All the time

Why so difficult?

But you should definitely still try it!

Quick wins

Practical stuff

Get to here first!

Sign up with a free tool

Code in head (optimizely)If you want to connect to google analytics, add a line of code to the GA tag

Custom segments and reports!

Remember:Smart changesDocument everythingShare your resultsAMA over cake later!

@chloerabbits

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Last few weeks in tech

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Last few years in museum audio guides

About SITC

Artists who have taken part in the project include Anish Kapoor, Tracey Emin, Yayoi Kusama, Damien Hirst and Ai WeiWei.

Every year includes complimentary education workshops for schoolchildren run by Open-City

The2016/17 exhibition includes 22 works the largest yet.

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Insights

I was scanned by more than 5,000 people!!!Seems I must be better looking in daylight since most people looked at me during day time.45% of them were men.1,500 people said I was their favourite!

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Insights

Count5,0002,5000

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Poetic Placespoeticplaces.uk@poetic_places@time_image

Good afternoon

Sarah ColeCreative Geek, TIME/IMAGECreative Entrepreneur-in-Residence, British Librarywww.timeimage.org.uk@time_image@irny

Last year I awarded funding by CW to be CEIR at BL in Digital Scholarship Dept,I run TIME/IMAGE, creative consultancy, where job title is

What is Poetic Places?A free native app for Android and iOS.Brings poetic and historic depictions of places into the physical world; users encounter literature and heritage in relevant locations, accompanied by materials drawn from archive collections.Serendipitous discovery using GPS & notifications; no tours. Psychogeography.A low-cost, low-complexity project to inspire.

Access via list or map, ideally give permissions to notify whilst running in background.

For example?Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 William WordsworthPoem written by William Wordsworth at around 6am on 31st July 1802 ( contrary to its title) as he travelled to Dover with his sister Dorothy.Not what you imagine: not written on todays Westminster Bridge, which opened in 1862. The Palace of Westminster was built 18401870 after a fire destroyed much of its Medieval predecessor.

If youve got the app running and cross Westminster Bridge,Poem about the quiet

A View of Westminster Bridge and the Abbey from the South Side, William Anderson,1818, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

We didnt have:Lots of experience with apps Coding skillsResources!We had:50006 months

Also didnt have a platform - proposal with one in mind but not suitable. Two months of testing to find

GoodBarber.com

CorsicanCoffee shops/hairdressersVisual interfaceApp pulls data; small initial download, instant updatesPro: GB cover OS updatesCon: app wont work without GB1648pm

Three evocative thingsText: Poetry and prose about a place, the more specific the betterImages: preferably contemporary to text, ideally from open collectionsContext: bringing things together; meaningful/unusual/evocative narratives about poem, poet or place

Copyright too expensive/time-consuming

Responses

Soft launch at BL to test watersStrong response anyway; London criticism7.5k+ downloads Analytics soon

Sarah Colesarah@timeimage.org.uk

@poetic_places@time_imagewww.timeimage.org.ukTry it out

Items around EustonPostcards

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Objects in the Round: Photogrammetry for engagement and education

Technology has come on in leaps and bounds over the last few years, enabling the creation of accurate 3D cultural heritage. Today I am going to talk about a cost and time effective way to present museum collections in the round, using photogrammetry, focusing on how these models can be used for educational and outreach purposes, drawing on my personal experiences at Reading Universitys Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology.

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A key aspect of the museum is education. Primary school students visit the museum most Wednesdays, and core Classics seminars are taught with the museums collections. However, not all of our collections are on display, and not all of them are safe to handle. Further, there are increasing expectations for museums to find new ways to engage with audiences in the digital age.

Last year funding was granted to develop a student led prototype virtual teaching collection for Archaeology and Classics. It was hoped that this would make the collection more accessible and engaging, and would support student learning objectives in Archaeology and Classics. A key part of this project was to figure out how best to create these 3D models and disseminate them.

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Where to start?

The first problem we had was: where to start? With a team of four students working on the project for about 1 to 3 hours a week over the course of one term, time was limited. *click*Further, none of us had any prior experience in 3D modelling outside of a cursory interest.

I wont go into too much detail of all the trials and tribulations we went through, suffice to say we spent a fair amount of time getting things wrong.

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Nonetheless, it became very apparent that, while a 3D scanner creates brilliant surface detail, it also created very large files, required a fair amount of technical knowhow, and was very time consuming! We turned our attention to photogrammetry.

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PHOTGRAMMETRY

SOME KEY POINTERS

Photogrammetry works by piecing together a collection of photos to create a 3D image, and there are various computer programmes, and even mobile phone apps, that can do this, with minimal need for in-depth technical knowledge from the user.

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1. LIGHTING

2. TARGET OBJECT

There are two things you need to take into consideration first before taking any photographs at all:

Lighting and the target object

Even, diffuse, lighting will create the best results. And a non-reflective object is also recommended.

The easiest way to capture the best quality photographs is with a dslr and a tripod.

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A fixed focal length lens is best, but not necessary, if you use a varifocal lens make sure to keep the focus length continuous throughout.

Take photographs in small increments, circling around the object, covering a full 360 degrees.

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You will need to repeat this process at higher or lower angles in order to capture the whole object, and make a more complete 3D model. Make sure that the photographs are in focus (hence the tripod).

Realistically you can make an okay model with about 30-40 photographs, but 100 250 will get something a lot more detailed, just be aware that it will also take a lot longer to process.

Heres one I made earlier, Blue Peter style, made with some holiday pics taken on my phone, processed in Autodesk ReMake, just to give you an idea.

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Statue of a draped female figure.4th-1st c. BCE. Unknown Provenance.Roman Domus, Mdina, Malta.

38 photos later

VS.

Autodesk ReMake is the most user friendly application we found. Simply select the photographs you want to use, upload them to ReMakes servers, and all of the computational processing is done on the cloud perfect if you dont have a powerful computer.

Alternatively, Agisoft Photoscan, widely regarded as the industry standard, is able to create better quality models than ReMake, but it does require a basic level of user input. It also requires a pretty speedy computer to operate on the highest settings.

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WHAT NOW?

However, what next? What do you do when you have a shiny-looking 3D model of a 2600-year-old pot?

In the end we stumbled upon Sketchfab which really makes itself the most obvious option for many museums wishing to share 3D collections with a wider audience.

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Sketchfab is an online 3rd party host for 3D models. More and more museums and cultural heritage institutes are turning to the platform too. One of the reasons for this is that Sketchfab will provide any cultural heritage institution with a free business pro account. This means that you can upload larger file sizes- which means the difference (to exaggerate a little perhaps), between being stuck with uploading this

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or being able to upload this.

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Further, you can embed its 3D viewer in pretty much any website, it is even supported in Facebook posts. What is particularly great is that it offers an innovative way to explore an object. Annotations act as 3D museum labels, making for an engaging experience which encourages self-learning.

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