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British Library LabsWorking with News Data across different media: A workshop
Monday 7th of September 2015
Mahendra MaheyManager of British Library LabsAn Introduction
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http://labs.bl.uk 2#bl_labs [email protected]
Aim
• Bring together researchers, developers and content owners who want to use BL news data
• Potential collaborations
• Planning for Hack event on 16 November
• Challenges of working across different news media / data
• Working with partners
• What researchers want
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http://labs.bl.uk 3#bl_labs [email protected]
Programme• 1200 – 1300 Lunch
• 1300 – 1345 Introduction and News Data at the BL
• 1345 – 1515 – 7 short presentations from Researchers, National Libraries, BBC, and publishers (Around 10 minutes each with time for quick questions)
• 1515 – 1530 Coffee
• 1530 – 1645 – Group discussions on four topics (25 mins), 10 minutes summarise per group/questions
• 1645 – Wrap up
• 1700 - End
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http://labs.bl.uk 8#bl_labs [email protected]
Digital is changing research
Data broken downrecombined and
duplicatedImage: Tower of Babble, Book Sculpture by Brian Dettmer
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http://labs.bl.uk 9#bl_labs [email protected]
Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Knowledge Quarter
• Partners: Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, University College London, Warwick
• Funded at £42m over 5 years
• Headquartered @ British Library
• Part of Knowledge Quarter
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http://labs.bl.uk 10#bl_labs [email protected]
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http://labs.bl.uk 11#bl_labs [email protected]
Mahendra MaheyManager of British Library Labs
https://goo.gl/lLsiaY/@mahendra_mahey
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http://labs.bl.uk 12#bl_labs [email protected]
Ben O’SteenTechnical Lead ofBritish Library Labs@benosteen
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http://labs.bl.uk 14#bl_labs [email protected]
CompetitionTell us your ideas of what to do with our digital content
AwardsShow us what you have done with our digital content (closes 14 September 2015)
ProjectsTalk to us about working on collaborative projects
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http://labs.bl.uk 15#bl_labs [email protected]
British National BibliographyUK Web Archive Data19th Century Books
Environmental Sounds
Book ordering and anonymised reader
data
Resonance FM10 year CommunityArts Radio Show
Datasets, Books / Text, Images / Music, Maps, Sounds, Multimedia
http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collections
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http://labs.bl.uk 16#bl_labs [email protected]
Example Digital research methods
http://labs.bl.uk/Launch+Event (has some examples from researchers)
Corpus analysis toolsText Mining
Visualisations
Location based searching
Geotagging
Annotation
Crowdsourcing / Human Computation
Natural Language Processing
Using Application Programming Interfaces for datasets e.g. Metadata, Images
Transcribing
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http://labs.bl.uk 17#bl_labs [email protected]
Political Meetings MapperBL Labs Competition Winner 2015
Katrina Navickas
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http://labs.bl.uk 18#bl_labs [email protected]
Victorian Meme MachineBL Labs 2014 Competition Winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0Bob Nicholson
http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
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http://labs.bl.uk 19#bl_labs [email protected]
Tagging a million imagesHarnessing Crowdsourcing
http://www.metadatagames.org/
http://goo.gl/j6fxac
Cardiff University’sLost Visions ProjectAdam Crymble
BL Labs 2015 Competition Winner
What if crowd sourcing
looked like this?
http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W
Drawing on downtime
Drawing on scarcity of access
Drawing on energy reserved for ‘play’
James Heald
Mario Klingemann
Chico 45
Use computational methods
Human Tagger
Top British Library Flickr Commons Taggers
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http://labs.bl.uk 20#bl_labs [email protected]
Crowdsourcing Flickr and OtherDigitised Maps
http://www.bl.uk/maps/
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http://labs.bl.uk 21#bl_labs [email protected]
Crossroads of Curiosity at the British Library until Nov 8 2015