removing black boxes: exposing software to researchers
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Removing black boxes:
exposing software to
researchers
Dr James Baker
Curator, Digital Research
@j_w_baker
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“The greatest disaster for the historical record wasn’t the computer. It was the
invention of the telephone.” —@TimHitchcock at #rrchnm20 — Dan Cohen (@dancohen) November 15, 2014
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NB: Not a scene from the
British Library!!
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Similarity score (sdhash) plotted against absolute difference in indicated dates
(days) between files (each point represents a pair of draft files): apparently and
generally the greater the number of days between the files of a pair, the lower the
similarity score
Work by Jeremy Leighton John (Curator e-Manuscripts) on Hanif Kureishi archive
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github.com/BL-publicdomain/blpublicdomain
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github.com/BL-publicdomain/blpublicdomain
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github.com/BL-publicdomain/blpublicdomain
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github.com/BL-publicdomain/blpublicdomain
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github.com/BL-publicdomain/blpublicdomain
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picaguess.herokuapp.com
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picaguess.herokuapp.com
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picaguess.herokuapp.com
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picaguess.herokuapp.com
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Thank you! @j_w_baker
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
Slides: slideshare.net/drjwbaker