outreach and learning communities at british library digital research: what we’ve done and what we...
DESCRIPTION
Notes from a talk I gave at 'Digital Literacies: Building Learning Communities in the Humanities', HEA event at Liverpool John Moores, 2 April 2014. Notes: https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/9889496TRANSCRIPT
Outreach and learning communities at British Library Digital Research…what we’ve done and what we can do for you and your students
Dr James BakerCurator, Digital Research
@j_w_baker
www.bl.uk 2
Some admin…
You are free to:– Copy, share, adapt, or re-mix– Photograph, film, or broadcast– Blog, live-blog, or post video of;
this presentation provided that:– You attribute the work to its author
and respect the rights and licences associated with its components
– You distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one
Text attribution Greg Wilson, Two Solitudes, SPLASH 2013 (29 October 2013) http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/splash-2013
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License unless stated otherwise.
www.bl.uk 3
More than resource discovery
“The emergence of the new digital humanities isn’t an isolated academic phenomenon. The institutional and disciplinary
changes are part of a larger cultural shift, inside and
outside the academy, a rapid cycle of emergence and convergence in technology and culture”
Steven E Jones, Emergence of the Digital Humanities (2013)
www.bl.uk 4
www.bl.uk 5
‘Literary scholars and historians have in the past been limited in their analyses of print culture by the constraints of physical archives and human
capacity. A lone scholar cannot read, much less make sense of, millions of newspaper pages. With the aid of computational linguistics tools and digitized corpora, however, we are working toward a large-scale, systemic understanding of how texts were valued and transmitted during this period’
David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, ‘Infectious Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers’ (2013) http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dasmith/infect-bighum-2013.pdf
www.bl.uk 6
disciplinecamp and camps sentence
www.bl.uk 7
www.bl.uk 8
Pieter Francois: Winner of British Library Labs 2013
www.bl.uk 9
www.bl.uk 10
www.bl.uk 11
“Library based skunkworks - or semi-independent, research-oriented software prototyping and makerspace labs—are an uncommon, yet uncommonly potent, response to opportunities that open up when we pay increased organizational attention to
digital tools, methods, and cultures across the humanities […] We might therefore consider a digital humanities skunkworks operation not only as a site for research
innovation, but as an organizational experiment in breaking away from shop-worn service relationships.”
Bethany Nowviskie, ‘Skunks in the Library: A Path to Production for Scholarly R&D’, Journal of Library Administration 53:1 (2013), 53-59.
www.bl.uk 12
www.bl.uk 14
© Nicola Demonte
www.bl.uk 15
www.bl.uk 16
www.bl.uk 17
Thank you!@[email protected]://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/drjwbaker/2014-0331-ljmdigilitslides Notes: https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/9889496