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Contextual Collections, Colossal Collaboration,Curious Connections

Lucie Burgess, British Library

Libraries Australia Forum 2013

www.bl.uk 2John Constable, Clouds, 1822. Original held at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, digitised by Google Art Project, sourced from Wikimedia Commons.

Constable’s clouds

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Libraries in the cloud

All images copyright British Library Board, all rights reserved

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The British Library

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The Cloud Culture equation

Cloud Culture, Charles Leadbeater, published by Counterpoint 2010. Can be accessed from http://counterpoint.uk.com/reports-pamphlets/cloud-culture/

More cultural heritage stored in digital form

More cultural heritage stored in digital form

More accessible to more people

More accessible to more people

People better equipped with more tools to add creatively to the collection

People better equipped with more tools to add creatively to the collection

Exponential growth in mass cultural expression

Exponential growth in mass cultural expression

Cloud CultureCloud Culture

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Libraries and our digital collections

www.bl.uk 8Ordnance Surveyors Drawing 40 (detail). Pen and Ink on paper. 1801. Overlaid on Google Earth, © Inforterra Ltd and Bluesky. British Library, Maps OSD 40(3).

British Library Maps Georeferencer

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British Museum’s Research Space

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Historypin

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Which Venus did you mean?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uju4wT9uBIA

1. Make raw data about content available2. Make it openly licensed3. Put it in RDF format – make it linkable ‘triples’4. Put in on web using http

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British Library semantic search pilot

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Europeana

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Digital Public Library of America

Street fair hot air balloon ascension, Red Wing, Minnesota. 1885-1890. From the Minnesota Digital Library and copyright Goodhue County Historical Society

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Biblissima

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Google Cultural Institute

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British Library’s UK Soundmap

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Harvard’s ShelfLife demo

http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/dpla/demo/app/

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The Westminster Bridge problem

Website: copyright Tate and Image: copyright Cleveland Museum of Art Complete poetical works of Wordsworth – public domain, available from www.bl.uk

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Curious connections

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Storm clouds

Cloud Break over the Sea, by John Reginald BrunsdonImage found through Europeana; held in the Government Art Collection, UK

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Libraries in 2023?

Interconnected

Personalised

Central to communities

Social

Less collecting, more selecting

Enabling Unique

Mobile, many devices

Digital curation

Partnerships

Linked, open

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Thanks to:Dan Cohen, Executive Director, DPLA

Adrian Cockcroft,Director of cloud infrastructure,Netflix

Lucie.burgess@bl.uk Twitter @LucieCBurgess

Thank you for listening

British Library colleagues:James BakerSimon BellLewis CrawfordCatherine EagletonAdam FarquharKimberley KowalMatthew ShawSandra TuppenNeil Wilson

Favourite sources:Lorcan Dempsey’s blogCharles Leadbeter, Cloud Culture, 2010Numerous websites cited within