british library labs presentation at the accelerating human imagination workshop
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British Library LabsBritish Library’s Cultural Heritage DataMahendra Mahey
1130– 1140, 25 November 2016,The International Scene and next stepsAccelerating Human Imagination, A workshop with the Arthur C Clark Center for Human Imagination, UC San Diego and the University of Liverpool in London,33 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1AG, UK.
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Living Knowledge Vision (2015 – 2023)
Custodianship Research Business
Culture Learning International
To make our intellectual heritage accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment and be the most open, creative
and innovative institution of its kind by 2023.
Document:http://goo.gl/h41wW7 Speech:https://goo.gl/Py9uHK
Roly Keating (Chief Executive Officer of the British Library)
To make our intellectual heritage accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment and be the most open, creative
and innovative institution of its kind by 2023.
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Collections – not just books!> 180* million items
> 0.8* m serial titles
> 8* m stamps
> 14* m books
> 3* m sound recordings> 4* m maps
> 1.6* m musical scores
> 0.3* m manuscripts
> 60* m patents
King’s Library *Estimates
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digitalData all around us!
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Knowledge Quarter London55 knowledge organisations within 1 mile radius of Kings Cross, http://www.knowledgequarter.london
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digitalData all around us!
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#bldigital1-2 %* digitised
* estimate
Digitisation
Partnerships Commercial & Other Organisations
Amountincreasing rapidly
Bias in digitisation
http://goo.gl/bR9UJL Sample Generator
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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labsFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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only in Reading
Rooms due to ©
only on site due to
© or ethical
not online / available –
various storage devices,
personal data
online and open
British Library
online behind paywall
Digital access at the Library
Labs Residency Modelhttps://goo.gl/tvNVRB
http://goo.gl/ii0XHG
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Curators / Researchers
Access & Reuse Group
©
Developers/ Technical
Staff
Project Board
Universities & wider
The World
ResearchersBL Labs
British Library
Digital Scholarship
DigitalContent
United Kingdom
Advisory Board
Digital Research
Stakeholders involved in Labs
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Wider…not just Researches
Researchershttps://goo.gl/WutNyi
Artistshttp://goo.gl/nNKhQ2
LibrariansCurators
https://goo.gl/9NWZUW
Software Developershttps://goo.gl/7QQ5Tf
Archivistshttps://goo.gl/x7b4tg Educators
https://goo.gl/qh01Mi
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Competition
Awards
Projects
Tell us your ideas of what to do with our digital content
Show us what you have already done with our digital content in research, artistic, commercial and learning and
teaching categories
Talk to us about working on collaborative projects
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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
Launched November 7, 2016
Discussion list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CULTURAL-HERITAGE-DATASETS
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Why and how are doing this?
• Working closely with and listening to those who want use our digital collections and data for their work and helping to build services, tools and processes to support them
• We can learn how we are and should be supporting them.– Is the access to digital collections we provide sufficient?– Do we have the right tools?– Do we provide the right support?– Where are the gaps between what they want and what we can
give?– How do we build the bridges to overcome them?– Many more reasons…
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Contact us
Mahendra MaheyManager of BL Labs
[email protected]@bl.uk