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2 Supporting the Digital Scholar: Experiences from the British Library Labs Mahendra Mahey Manager of British Library Labs 2014 NFAIS Annual Conference Sunday 23rd February, 2014, (EST)

3 Overview Structure of talk The British Library and a typical scholar The Nature of Digital and the Digital Scholar The British Library supporting Digital Scholarship Experiences of the Digital Research Team and British Library Labs project in supporting digital scholarship Conclusions labs@bl.uk 3

4 The British Library St Pancras, London, UK Many books are stored 5 stories below the building Inside the British Library Space for 1200 readers, around 400,000 visitors per year Storage at Boston Spa Uses low oxygen and robots labs@bl.uk 4

5 British Library Collections King s Library > 150 million items > 14 m books > 60 m patents > 8 m stamps > 4 m maps > 3 m sound recordings > 1.6 m musical scores > 0.3 m manuscripts > 0.8 m serial titles labs@bl.uk 5

6 Our Scholar in Humanities Travel routes in the 19 th Century Pieter Francois Post doctoral researcher at University of Oxford 6

7 The Nature of Digital Data broken down recombined and duplicated Image: Tower of Babble, Book Sculpture by Brian Dettmer 7

8 The Digital Scholar Open Networked Digital From Digital Scholar : How technology is transforming scholarly practice, Martin Weller, Bloomsbury Academic, 2011, page 4 It is someone who employs digital, networked and open approaches to demonstrate their specialism. not necessarily be a recognised academic or someone who posts online, just a specialist labs@bl.uk 8

9 Reading individual works is as irrelevant as describing the architecture of a building from a single brick, or the layout of a city from a single church. -Franco Moretti labs@bl.uk 9

10 Example Digital research methods Location based searching Corpus analysis tools Text Mining Crowdsourcing / Human Computation Using Application Programming Interfaces for datasets e.g. Metadata, Images Annotation Geotagging Visualisations Transcribing Natural Language Processing (has some examples from researchers) labs@bl.uk 10

11 Digitisation at the British Library 11

12 Digitised Books 68,000 volumes digitised with Microsoft 17 th, 18 th and 19 th Century Natural History: The Hippopotamus 250,000 books digitised with Google Temple at Navoo? Image taken from page 144 of 'Philadelphia: the story of an American city... Issued by the City of Philadelphia under the auspices of the Joint Special Committee of Councils on World's Columbian Exposition. 12

13 Digitised Newspapers Newspapers stored at Colindale (now closed)

14 Digitised Manuscripts

15 Moving Image Collections 15

16 Digitisation - Transforming access Spreading the value of collections, content and expertise Connecting as much as collecting, e.g. social media Encouraging others to integrate our materials into their services and vice versa labs@bl.uk 16

17 Challenges of Digital access only on site due to British Library not online various storage devices online and open online behind paywall only in Reading Rooms due to 17

18 Digital Scholarship Department become a leading centre of digital scholarship internationally recognised for innovation and collaboration in support of research and learning The Digital Research Team Digital Curators Labs labs@bl.uk 18 18

19 What is a Digital Curator? Explore how digital technologies are re/shaping research and how this informs how the library does its business. Support staff across the library to identify the opportunities that digital tools and collections afford in modern scholarship and to gain the skills to engage confidently in this area. Partner with libraries and institutions to enable innovation in digital scholarship. No specific collection but rather expertise in digital scholarship, broadly defined. Stella Wisdom James Baker Aquiles Alencar-Brayner Nora McGregor labs@bl.uk 19

20 Training Library Staff Digital Scholarship Training Programme Behind the Screen: Basics of the Web What is Digital Scholarship? Digital Collections at British Library Digitisation at British Library Text Encoding Initiative & Annotation Geo-referencing and Digital Mapping Crowdsourcing in Libraries, Museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions Foundations in working with Digital Objects: From Images to A/V Data Visualisation for Analysis in Scholarly Research Information Integration: Mash-ups, API s and The Semantic Web labs@bl.uk 20

21 Opening up Digital content Picturing Canada: Mapping a Collection: labs@bl.uk 21

22 Crowdsourcing Digitised Maps

23 Creative with Wildlife Sounds Sound Edit Wildlife Films Competition 'Dave's Wild Life' by Samuel de Ceccatty, won first prize!

24 Computer Games Off the Map Competition Off the Map Gothic 2014! Pudding Lane Productions, 6 second-year students, De Montfort University, Leicester, won first prize. launches soon! labs@bl.uk 24

25 25 Funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation

26 Stakeholders involved in Labs The World Digital Research British Library Digital Scholarship BL Labs Access & Reuse Group United Kingdom Curators / Researchers Digital Content Developers/ Technical Staff Researchers Developers Universities & wider e.g. companies, start-ups, independent scholars etc. labs@bl.uk 26

27 What is Labs idea Competition Case Studies Researchers BL Digital Collection / Data Data Driven Contact BL Labs Open Software Developers Publications idea Events Other Digital Collection / Data Meetings and visits Tools & services to support Digital Scholarship Audience Data Research question / idea Experimenting with our digital collections Outputs from engagement labs@bl.uk 27

28 Sample Labs Digital Collections Copyright cleared for research use Text-mining of electronic journals British National Bibliography Curated (Is there someone who knows the story about the collection?) Collection / Item Level Metadata available? (What state is and does it need cleaning?) UK Web Archive Data Book ordering and anonymised reader data Where is it? labs@bl.uk 28

29 Engaging with Labs Hack and Data days Consider and choose Brainstorm ideas & group Work late and show what has been done Ideas Labs Labs Data Cards Projects labs@bl.uk 29

30 The winners of the Labs 2013 competition They both worked in residence from July to October 2013 with Labs to complete their projects Two entries chosen in June 2013 Pieter Francois (left) and Dan Norton (right) and each received a cheque for 2000 in November 2013 as winners of the first British Library Lab Competition labs@bl.uk 30

31 Sample Generator: representative samples Pieter Francois Focus on European travel in the 19th Century Uses statistical methods to support text analysis Tool produces representative samples of texts based on search criteria

32 Mixing the Library: The Disc Jockey & the Digital Collection Annotation Preview item Play back of items (Blue) and annotations (Yellow) Selected left channel item Collection stalks made of items. Each item is a URL. The order of the items can be shuffled and sent to the left or right channels Prototype design Selected right channel item Basic functioning prototype: Living Lab: Library of the Future, see: labs@bl.uk 32

33 Curatorial for Library metadata India Office Select materials Geo location Slide show Timeline 33

34 Story of one digital collection What can 68,000 books tell us? Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin 34

35 Extracting Images from OCR <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> - <mets:mets xmlns:xsi=" w.w3.org/2001/xml Schema-instance" xmlns:mets=" ww.loc.gov/mets/" xsi:schemalocation= " METS/ standards/mets/ver sion18/mets.xsd info:lc/xmlns/premi s-v2 Image snipped out Algorithmically From ALTO XML ALTO XML Image taken from page 207 of 'London and its Environs. A picturesque survey of the metropolis and the suburbs... Translated by Henry Frith. With... illustrations'

36 Face Recognition of 19 th Century Faces The face-recognition algorithm worked better for female faces than men s labs@bl.uk 36

37 The Mechanical Curator Image from A Lost Estate, by Mary E.Mann,Volume: 02, Page: 91, 1889, London, Bentley & Son #similar_to_ _published_date #similar_to_ _slantyness #similar_to_ _bubblyness_x #similar_to_ _bubblyness_y #new_train_of_thought labs@bl.uk 37

38 Flickr Commons 1,020,418 images! Each image has a URL Some metadata, but you can add tags! Flickr has an API so researchers and developers can build apps And query the data labs@bl.uk 38

39 Flickr in numbers 119,000,000!!! image views since launch December 13 th, ,714 tags added 18,567 images favourited Labs involved with 2 potential research projects & 4 grassroots crowdsourcing efforts. labs@bl.uk 39

40 Risks of releasing the images Funny Books for Boys and Girls. Struwelpeter. Good-for-nothing Boys and Girls. Troublesome Children. King Nutcracker and Poor Reinhold. 40

41 Opportunities increasing traffic to Library services Grouping for image Download.pdf View the item in the Library Catalogue View in the Library Item Viewer All illustrations in book Other illustrations in books Published in same year You can purchase a High Res Copy Tags auto generated User generated Tag labs@bl.uk 41

42 Flickr coverage in the media! 42

43 Creative Uses Jura s Sound Skateboard labs@bl.uk 43

44 Other Labs stories. Augmenting news metadata Digital Music Lab, analysing music performances Opening up over 100,000 Playbills 3D printed objects representing statistical data with possibly embedded USBs and RFID chips data.bl.uk, place for all our open data and digital collections Content next to parallel compute power, analysis at scale Seeking future funding!! 44

45 Competition 2014 Open!! Deadline - 22 April 2014 tell your friends! Residency between late May and end of October labs@bl.uk 45

46 Conclusions Huge appetite for openly available digital content There needs to be a continuous dynamic interaction with data and the researchers to formulate and reformulate research questions Working with Digital Scholars creates new opportunities Content and service providers, researchers and technical people need to talk to each other to create the new tools, services and data needed to facilitate new discoveries labs@bl.uk 46

47 What excites you most about digital scholarship? 1 Opening up digital content 2 New research methodologies opening up new discoveries 3 New commercial opportunities 4 How technology is enabling new research 5 Thinking of new ideas to support digital scholarship labs@bl.uk 47

48 Acknowledgements Digital Curator Team Stella Wisdom - Digital Curator Nora McGregor - Digital Curator James Baker - Digital Curator Digital Scholarship Heads Aly Conteh - Head of Digital Research and Curator Team Adam Farquhar - Head of Digital Scholarship (Wrote Labs proposal) Ben O Steen - Labs Technical Lead labs@bl.uk 48

49 Labs Let us know your ideas for engaging with Labs! Questions? Speak to me at the Welcome Reception. 49

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