bl labs presentation at asymmus workshop on audiosymbolic music similarity modelling
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ASyMMuS Workshop on AudioSymbolic Music Similarity Modelling8 July 2015, 10:40Foyle Suite, Centre for ConservationBritish Library
Mahendra MaheyManager of British Library Labs
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Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Knowledge Quarter
• Partners include Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, University College London, Warwick
• Initially funded at £42m over 5 years
• Headquartered @ British Library
• Part of Knowledge Quarter
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BL Labs Team
Mahendra Mahey - Manager @mahendra_mahey
Ben O’Steen - Technical Lead @benosteen
Hana Lewis- Project Officer@HanaHistories
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CompetitionTell us your ideas of what to do with our digital content
AwardsShow us what you have done with our digital content, deadline in Sep 2015
ProjectsTalk to us about working on collaborative projects, e.g. supporting DML, ASyMMus and other projects
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Adam Crymble (@adam_crymble)
Image Credit: Sam Howzit
Drawing on downtime
Drawing on scarcity of access
Drawing on energy reserved for ‘play’
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Adam Crymble
Crowdsourcing ArcadeBL Labs Competition Winner 2015
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Political Meetings MapperBL Labs Competition Winner 2015
Katrina Navickas
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Snipping out imagesfrom 65,000 Digitised Books
Face recognition
Mechanical Curator
Flickr
Worked better for female faces than men’s
Press
http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com> 260,000,000 views
> 380,000 tags
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1,020,418 imagesneed tagging!
Creative uses of imageshttp://goo.gl/qPPgxX
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Crowdsourcing Flickr and OtherDigitised Maps
http://www.bl.uk/maps/
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Crossroads of Curiosity at the British Library until Nov 8 2015
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Visibility - Technology Strategy Board Competition Winner 2014
Understanding value / impact of making the BL’s data open / in the public domain
Peter Balman developed an analytics dashboard for the Library showing what is happening to our Flickr
Images
Initial Pitch: https://www.vimeo.com/94067983
Challenge details: http://goo.gl/Hb6l4A