bl labs staff award 2016

Staff AwardPhil SpenceChief Operating Officer

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Meet the Digital Scholarship team

• A cross-disciplinary team of curators, researchers, librarians and technologists supporting the creation and innovative use of digital collections and data

• We focus on using computational methods to answer existing research questions and to challenge existing theoretical paradigms…. 

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Theatre of Soundan interview with Aleks Kolkowski

https://goo.gl/AVRXokEva Del Rey & Andrew Pearson

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Flashback Lab (based at Boston Spa)Digital Preservation Team

Peter MayMichael DayMaureen PennockSimon WhibleyKevin DaviesAkiko KimuraEdith Halvarsson (Former BL)

https://goo.gl/9lSxqo

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3D modelling & printing of Chinese oracle bones & Hebrew items

3D model of a 15-century Pentateuch (Add MS 4709)

3D modelled Hebrew items: silk mantle for a Torah scroll (Or 13027); Scroll and Book of Esther (Add MS 11831, Or 1087); Pentateuch (Add MS 4709)

Adi Keinan-SchoonbaertDigital Curator Hebrew Manuscripts Project https://goo.gl/4JOI3S

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Propaganda FutureLearn Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

https://goo.gl/hbEjcRIan Cooke

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Know your Place West of England

Phil Hatfield http://www.kypwest.org.uk/

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Transkribus and India Office Records

Alex HaileyAntonia Moon https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/

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LibCrowds

Alexander Mendes, Technical Lead, LibCrowds

Catherine Eagleton, Head Asian and African Collections

Nora McGregor, Digital Curator http://libcrowds.com

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Battle of Somme Posters on @UntoldLives

Jeremy Nagle on behalf BL Science Reference TeamMargaret Makepeace https://goo.gl/C8dQkV

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Sotirios Alpanis, Tahmina Yeasmin, Naadir Akhtar, Joe Harrop http://www.bl.uk/qatar/

Qatar Digital LibraryData analysis & workflow dashboards

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SHINE 2.0 - A Historical Search Engine

UK Web Archive TeamAndy Jackson Gil Hoggarth

Former Staff:Peter WebsterHelen Hockx-Yu Kinman Li

https://www.webarchive.org.uk/shine

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Alzheimer’s Society and EThOS

Heather Rosie https://goo.gl/9lSxqo

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TEI Catalogue Records Viewer

Alex Mendes

http://www.alexandermendes.com/tei-viewer/

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Reading Room Managers

Sandra Pearson

Leathea Lee

Jason Murray

Jackie Pitcher

Sita Gunasingham

Matt Day

Rob Sproule

Garry Spence

Lawrence Alphonse

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Jury’s Special Mention is…

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3D modelling & printing of Chinese oracle bones & Hebrew items

3D model of a 15-century Pentateuch (Add MS 4709)

3D modelled Hebrew items: silk mantle for a Torah scroll (Or 13027); Scroll and Book of Esther (Add MS 11831, Or 1087); Pentateuch (Add MS 4709)

Judges Special Mention

Adi Keinan-SchoonbaertDigital Curator Hebrew Manuscripts Project https://goo.gl/4JOI3S

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The Runner up is…

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SHINE 2.0 - A Historical Search EngineRunner up

UK Web Archive TeamAndy Jackson Gil Hoggarth

Former Staff:Peter WebsterHelen Hockx-Yu Kinman Li

https://www.webarchive.org.uk/shine

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The Winner is…

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LibCrowdsWinner

Alexander Mendes, Technical Lead, LibCrowds

Catherine Eagleton, Head Asian and African Collections

Nora McGregor, Digital Curator http://libcrowds.com

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Photo by Jon Ellis

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