british library labs: using the library's digital collections and data
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British Library LabsUsing the Library’s Digital Collections and DataMahendra Mahey
1145 – 1205, Monday, 21st November 2016,Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: British Library and Beyond,Bronte Room, Conference Centre, British Library, London, NW1 2DB.
https://goo.gl/jUMBfI
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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labsFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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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 http://data.bl.uk
Launch November 7, 2016
Discussion list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CULTURAL-HERITAGE-DATASETS
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The Magic of Openness!
• By opening collections up we are creating the possibility to have them used in ways only restricted by human imagination.
• Need to work hard to tell people about it especially if not easy to find, creating serendipity and opportunities for use!
• Give plenty of examples to inspire use!
• Support and celebrate the use!
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Labs Engagement 2016• 18 institutions visited
• 5000 miles travelled
• 50 presentations & 25 workshops
• 900 researchers
• 400 expressions of interest
• 40 researchers, artists, entrepreneurs & educators supported
• 60TB of data via post
• 9TB of data via data.bl.uk (Nov 16)
• Nearly half a billion views on BL Flickr Commons since launch in Dec 2013
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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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Why 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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Some Lessons Learned so far…
• Everything starts from an idea and conversation!
• Need to have several conversations with several stakeholders and tap into their tacit knowledge that isn’t always written down.
• Expectations change when researchers see the data, systems and experience the ‘culture’ of the organisation
• We tend to work with researchers who can be ‘flexible’ with their research questions and are willing to embrace challenges
• Often misunderstandings because of jargon & different meaning of words
• Embrace dirty data, it may never be perfect!
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Some Lessons Learned so far…(2)
• Many researchers have the domain knowledge but lack the technical skills to use Digital Research methods. Should they be teamed up with those that have problems that need solving (Computing) or get trained?
• Identifying / bridging gaps for researchers to use data, help them navigate through the Library to get the data they want
• Huge appetite to use digital content & data (e.g. Flickr Commons stats)
• Start small and simple, but think big!
• Embrace serendipity, work fast, give it energy.
• Learn the lessons, tell the positive stories and move on!
• Fail faster (don’t be afraid), small experiments, reject perfectionism
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Ideas?
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Finding things in messy data
Mrs Folly• Clean up manually• Get ‘ground truth’• Write code to find things
reliably in it automatically• Try code on messy content• Tweak if necessary
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Victorian Meme Machine (2014)Bon Nicholson
https://goo.gl/HMqDt3
http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
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Political Meetings Mapper (2015)Katrina Navickas
http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.ukhttps://goo.gl/Qq78Oa
Labs Symposium 2015
https://goo.gl/BSA3be
Interview 2015
The Chartist Newspaperhttp://goo.gl/vOLSnH
Chartist Monster Meeting
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Black Abolitionist Performances & their Presence in Britain (2016) – Hannah-Rose Murray
FrederickDouglass
EllenCraft
JosiahHenson
Ida B Wells
A Performance by Joe Williams &
Martelle Edinborough
http://frederickdouglassinbritain.com/
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SherlockNet: Competition Winner 2016Karen Wang, Luda Zhao and Brian Do
Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Tag and Caption the British Library Flickr Commons 1 million Image Collection
Classify into one of 12 categories
>15 million tags added (total now 15.5 million overall)>100,000 captions
bit.ly/sherlocknet
Pooled surrounding Optical Character Recognised
text on page from similar images
Used Microsoft COCO (photographs) & British Museum Prints and Drawings
collections as training sets.
Tags Captions
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Artistic / Creative Works
http://goo.gl/dM8ieA
Mario Klingeman (2015)
http://www.crossroadsofcuriosity.com
David Normal 2014 and 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRgj7Q5OM0
Rob Walker 2014
http://goo.gl/bNxGZZ
Kris Hoffman (2016)
https://goo.gl/QilqqT
Jiayi Chong 2016Ling Low 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcOP1E5bRE0https://www.facebook.com/RealmlandStory/
Paul Rand Pierce 2016
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Mario Klingemann 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgnxnmqnR7YGoogle Arts and Culture Lab – Experiments with Machine Learning
https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/
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New Jerusalem (2014)Michael Takeo Magruder
Papyrus 46, one of the oldestNew Testament papyri, showing 2 Cor 11:33-12:9
De/coding the Apocalypse, Somerset House, London, UK, 2014http://www.takeo.org/nspace/2014-dta-new-jerusalem/
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New Jerusalem (2014)Michael Takeo Magruder
http://www.takeo.org/nspace/2014-dta-new-jerusalem/
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13th Station of the Cross (2016)Lamentation of Christ – Michael Takeo Magruder
http://ststephenwalbrook.net/ http://www.coexisthouse.org.uk/magruder.html
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Lamentation of Christ (2016)The Art Work – Michael Takeo Magruder
http://www.coexisthouse.org.uk/magruder.html
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Imaginary Cities – BL Labs Project 16-17Michael Takeo Magruder
Exploring the British Library’s digital collection of historic urban maps to create provocative fictional cityscapes for the Information Age
https://goo.gl/4ARwTy
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Data-mining verse in 18th Century newspapersBL Labs Project 16-17, Jennifer Batt
https://goo.gl/5Akthd
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What subjects are you interested in?
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More BL Labs ideas for inspiration!
http://labs.bl.uk/Ideas+for+Labs http://labs.bl.uk/Other+Uses+of+Collections
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Contact us
Mahendra MaheyManager of BL Labs
mahendra.mahey@bl.uklabs@bl.uk
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