bl labs bitsize talk at the british library
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1 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labsFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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2 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
http://www.bl.uk/subjects/digital-scholarship
http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+CollectionsOver 100 collections described
62 Open through Access and Reuse
Over 120 guides available to date
Digital Collections
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3 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
http://data.bl.uk
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4 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Competition
Awards
Projects
Tell us your ideas of what to do with our digital content
Show us what you have already done with our digital content
Talk to us about working on collaborative projects
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5 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
•Submit ideas by April.•Two finalists announced late May.
•Residency June – October.•Up to £3600 support, technical, curatorial etc.
•Showcase @ Symposium Nov.
•Winner £3000 & Runner up £1000!
Competition
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6 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
•Projects already using BL digital content in interesting and innovative ways.
•Submit projects (previous and new) by 5 September 2016.
•Artistic, Commercial, Research and Learning / Teaching categories.
•Winners announced @Symposium 7 Nov 16.
•£500 Winner & £100 Runner Up.
Awards
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7 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
• Projects already using / used BL digital content and data in interesting and innovative ways.
• Submit projects (previous and new) by 7 October 2016, individual staff or teams can enter
• Artistic, Commercial, Research and Learning / Teaching categories.
• Winners announced @Symposium 7 Nov 16.
• £100 shop vouchers to winners
• Details available on intranet soon…
Staff Awards
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8 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
•Received 22 entries from around world.
•Equal amount of Digital Humanities and Arts ideas
•Some commercial and community based projects
•Considering how we support some of the entries outside competition
Competition 2016
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9 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Datamining for verse in eighteenth-century newspapers
Jennifer Batt, University of Bristol
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10 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Laughs of the British Library
Exhibiting digital collections through laughter
https://vimeo.com/160518445Fabienne Hess
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11 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Remixing broadcast newsMechanical Filmmaker
https://vimeo.com/162272935
Natalja Vikulina
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12 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Existing in your Mind: Virtual Reality and Visual Archives of the British Library
Jeremiah Ambrose
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13 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Finalists
Hannah-Rose MurrayPhD student, University of NottinghamBlack Abolitionist Performances and their Presence in Britain
Luda Karen Brian
Hannah-Rose
Luda Zhao, Karen Wang (Masters Students at Stanford University), Brian Do (Harvard Medicine and PhD student)SherlockNet: Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Tag and Caption the British Library Collection
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14 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
SherlockNet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLm1jkSDlak
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15 @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
Dates for diary
• Deadline for Labs Awards, 5 September 2016
• Bitesize update from winners, 21 September 2016
• Deadline for Staff Awards, 7 October 2016
• BL Labs Symposium, 7 November 2016