digital berkshire, april 2012: chris clark, british library pt#1
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Digital engagement, innovation & The British LibraryPresentation by Chris Clark to Digital Berkshire, April 19th 2012
www.bl.uk
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts.I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman The “Petabyte Age” is different. … with enough data, mathematics can do things like evaluate the relative value of a hyperlink, translate languages, win lawsuits, predict the spread of epidemics and perform other tasks that used to be related to the domains of theory and modeling.
Chris Anderson The end of theory
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It exists for anyone who wants to do research –
for academic, personal or commercial purposesi.e. You!
What kind of library is it? National library Collections cover all known
subject areas; arts & humanities, social sciences, STM…
Copy of every print item published in the UK
Collections in all formats; sound, images, video, newspapers, maps, manuscripts, databases, books and journals, stamps, photographs, etc.
150 million items 625 km of shelving Growing at 12 km per year
6,500,000 objects 205 Terabytes
Access Web Service
Mailroom
ROT
Access Web Page
Gateway
Put Get
Q
Ingest Site Controller
Object Integrity Checker
Storage Node
Q
Temporary Store
Access Store
Cache Manager
Mailroom DB
Client Objects
Preservation Store
VPN
Q Q
ROT Upload Store
ControlData
IngestAccess
Recovery
Access DB
Delivery Of Object
Access Site Controller
Site DB
Dark Archive
OvernightIncremental
Backup
Science Technology & Medicine
Links to external data and collections
TalkScience@BL - quarterly event series that provides a forum for discussion on topical scientific issues, including a range of perspectives from academia, industry, government and the third sector.
Health in the Headlines: Making Sense of the Science? A Discussion with Tracey Brown
Geoengineering our Climate: Fixing Earth’s Future? A discussion with Prof. Tim Lenton
supporting creatives Lesser known items
ranging from soundscapes & comics to Japanese woodcuts & knitting patterns
Award winning Sian Zeng, used the Library collections to research her dissertation on Little Red Riding Hood and fairy-tales. inspired by the stories she found, Sian launched a print company that produces interior products, including magnetic animal wallpaper.
@BL_FranTaylor
1: Guarantee access for future generations.
2: Enable access to everyone who wants to do research.
3: Support research communities in key areas for social and economic benefit.
4: Enrich the cultural life of the nation.
5: Lead and collaborate in growing the world’s knowledge base.
Business and Intellectual Property Centre (BIPC)
Subject portals Digital scholarship and digital curation From digital projects to Business As Usual
A selection of BIPC information sources
British Library Entrepreneur and SME Network has over 1,800 members.
BIPCTV YouTube channel showcases Inspiring Entrepreneurs events and success stories. 280,000 views
@Business & IP Centre 3,900 followers, Klout 45
Over 5,000 members
Steve Van Dulken – The Patent BlogNeil Infield – In from the Outfield
Get inspiration
Get inspiration Protect your ideas
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Get inspiration Protect your ideas Develop your business
BIPC supports entrepreneurs and small businesses from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business.
Holds workshops and 1:1 advice session along with Inspiring entrepreneurs series of events with role model entrepreneurs.
Between April 2007 and March 2009 the BIPC helped to create 829 new businesses for London, combined turnover of which was £32 Million.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20110209162050/http://www.growingknowledge.bl.uk/Tools.aspx
Definition The production, use and
integration of digital content, services and tools to facilitate scholarship and research
Allow research areas to be investigated in new ways, using new tools, leading to new discoveries and analysis to generate new understanding
Demand Comprehensive digital collections Applying tools of scholarship to digital collections: annotation, citation, comparison Infrastructure to store, preserve, discover, access Ability to apply new tools for analysis, visualisation, and experimentation Collaboration through social networking tools, social bookmarking, wikis, sharing drafts with commentary Non-traditional forms of outreach to draw attention to research
TREND More digital content More cross-
disciplinary More collaborative More analysis More data-driven More repurposing of
content
DEMAND Mass and focused
digitisation Improved discovery Interfaces for sharing
and building services, annotation
Visualisation tools Conversion to data and
analysis tools Open licenses & APIs,
documented formats