british library roadshow 2016 wales
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3rd March 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labsFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
3rd March 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
3http://labs.bl.uk @BL_Labs @NLWales @AberUni #bldigital [email protected]
Distant Reading – Adam Crymble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4y-_VoXdA
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Digital research methods
http://labs.bl.uk/Launch+Event (has some examples from researchers)
Corpus analysis toolsText Mining
Visualisations
Location based searching
Geotagging
Annotation
Natural Language Processing
Using Application Programming Interfaces for datasets e.g. Metadata, Images
Transcribing
Crowdsourcing / Human Computation
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Katrina Navickas (2015) Political Meetings Mapper
http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.ukLabs Symposium 2015 (33 mins)
https://goo.gl/Qq78Oa
Interview 2015 (4 mins)https://goo.gl/BSA3be
The Chartist Newspaperhttp://goo.gl/vOLSnH
Chartist Monster Meeting
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Chartists Re-enactment London
https://goo.gl/BSA3be
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Adam Crymble (2015)Crowdsource Arcade
What if crowd sourcing
looked like this?
http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W
Game Jam - http://goo.gl/OH9pOZ30 mins talkLabs Symposium (2015)https://goo.gl/7z0j8p
5 min interview (2015)https://goo.gl/SSRsdd
http://goo.gl/0APpE8
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Art Treachery – Januz Druz Tag Attack – Antonio Padial
Art Treachery and Tag Attack
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What can 65,000books tell us?
Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
Just one digital collection
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Snipping out imagesfrom 65,000 Digitised Books
Face recognition
Mechanical Curator
Flickr
Worked better for female faces than men’s
Press
http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com>380,000,000 views
> 500,000 tags
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
1,020,418 imagesneed tagging!
Creative uses of imageshttp://goo.gl/qPPgxX
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Tagging a million imagesIterative Crowdsourcing
http://www.metadatagames.org/ http://goo.gl/j6fxac
Cardiff University’sLost Visions Project
James Heald
Mario Klingemann
Chico 45
Use computational methods
Human Tagger
Top British Library Flickr Commons Taggers
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Interview David Normal
https://youtu.be/Q3SBxO34Zlc
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Finding one image on Flickr
Finding many more!Make collagesMake 4 paintingsExhibit light boxes at Burning Man 2014
In Nevada USA
Work with Labs & British Library to installLight boxes in London
In 2015
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Let’s have a party!
Music mix by DY Yoda using British Library Sounds
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Exhibited from June to Nov 2015
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- https://goo.gl/QilqqT By Kestrel Moon
Animating static images
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- https://goo.gl/QilqqT By Kestrel Moon
Animating static images
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Victorian Meme Machine (2014)Competition Winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0Bob Nicholson
http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
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Rob WalkerVictorian Mother-in-law Jokes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRgj7Q5OM0
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Creative with Wildlife Sounds
http://goo.gl/s7siv0
Sound Edit Wildlife Films Competition 2013 http://vimeo.com/60401313
'Dave's Wild Life' by Samuel de Ceccatty, won first prize!
http://sounds.bl.uk/Environment
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Challenges
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Language Problems
Library uses different terms than researchers use
•Access
•Collections
•Content
•Crowdsourced
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Data Problems [stuff goes in here]
•Metadata isn’t as clean as many think it is
•Many metadata records have square brackets to indicate inferred information
•Code to plot when a record had square brackets by Ben O’Steen
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Optical Character Recognition
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Training / Teaming up with Expert?• Many researchers lack the technical skills to use Digital Research Methods but have the domain knowledge
• Should support be more focused on training?
• There are plenty of computational experts looking for problems to solve
• Should they be teamed up with those that have problems that need solving
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only in Reading
Rooms due to ©
only on site due to
©
not online – various storage devices
online and open
British Library
online behind paywall
Challenges of Digital access
Labs Residency Model
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British NationalBibliography
UK Web Archive Data
Text-mining of electronic journals
Book ordering and anonymised reader
data
Finding Digital Collections
• Copyright cleared for research use
• Curated (Is there someone who knows the ‘story’ about the collection?)
• Collection / Item Level Metadata available? (What state is and does it need cleaning?)
• Where is it?
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Simple Data Structure Please!
•Everything had a URL•The URL linked to page that tells you about the thing
•Link to other things•Machine Readable - not assume a human would always read it
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Ideas change once you try to examine, access and use
the data!
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Why is the Library doing this?
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SupportingDigital Experiments better
BL Labs Git Hub Site Re-OCRing Newspapers Flickr API
BL Explore – Search Catalogue Python Code
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Perfection vs Imperfection
•If we focus too much on perfection we will never get anything done!
•Fear of failure seen as a negative thing.
•Just don’t be scared to try experiments!
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Lessons…•Huge appetite to use BL digital content & data (see Flickr Commons stats later).
•Identifying / bridging gaps for researchers to use BL data.
•Labs can help researchers navigate through the Library to get the data they want.
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Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
Fail fasterSmall experiments!
https://goo.gl/Vlv3Yu Let yourself reboot!
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Finally…
•Try and examine, use our data and talk to us about your ideas and projects!
•Consider entering the Competition and Awards!
•You never know you might….
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Change the world with …British Library & NLW digital content
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Accessing the Mini NASMini Network Area Storage Device (NAS) guide:
http://goo.gl/E8aRyQ Find the ‘opendata’ wireless access point and join it. The passphrase is ‘opendata’
Accessing data foldersUsername:guestPassword:guestOr use ftp://10.0.0.1/
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What’s on the Mini NAS?• British National Bibliography – 3.5 million records (2
Gb)
• 90,000 Playbills – 1602 – 1902 (60 Gb)
• ALTO XML (includes METS and MODS) for OCR of 65,000 volumes, 22 million pages mostly from the 19th Century (909 Gb)
• 1 million images snipped from books put on Flickr (667 Gb)
• 70,000 tagged images (170 Gb)
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It’s messy but fascinating!
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Ideas Lab
•Get into groups of 2-6
•Read the instructions in the Ideas Lab Pack
•We are around to help and advise.
•Enjoy it and have fun!
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Pitching your ideas
•Pitch for 2 minutes
•Feedback
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Goody bag!