british library labs presentation at internet of cultural things workshop
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British Library Labs
Tuesday 9th of December, 1140 - 1200Presentation at Internet of Cultural Things WorkshopFoyle Suite, British Library, St Pancras
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http://labs.bl.uk 2@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
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http://labs.bl.uk 4@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
CompetitionTell us your ideas of what to do with our digital content
AwardsShow us what you have done with our digital content
ProjectsTalk to us about working on collaborative projects
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http://labs.bl.uk 5@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
British National BibliographyUK Web Archive Data19th Century Books
Flickr 1 million
Environmental SoundsText-mining of
electronic journals
Book ordering and anonymised reader
data
Resonance FM10 year CommunityArts Radio Show
Datasets, Books / Text, Images / Music, Maps, Sounds, Multimedia
http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collectionshttp://data.bl.uk in phase 2
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http://labs.bl.uk 6@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Access to our data
Wireless Access PointEthernet Cable
u:opendatap:opendata
u:guestp:guest
10.0.0.1For a guide:http://goo.gl/78ITT0
Or Hand out…
opendata
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http://labs.bl.uk 7@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
What’s on the Mini NAS?
• British National Bibliography – 3.5 million records
• 90,000 Playbills – 1602 – 1902
• ALTO XML for OCR of 65,000 volumes, 22 million pages mostly from the 19th Century
• 1 million images snipped from books put on Flickr
• 70,000 tagged images
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http://labs.bl.uk 9@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Example Digital research methods
http://labs.bl.uk/Launch+Event (has some examples from researchers)
Corpus analysis toolsText Mining
Visualisations
Location based searching
Geotagging
Annotation
Crowdsourcing / Human Computation
Natural Language Processing
Using Application Programming Interfaces for datasets e.g. Metadata, Images
Transcribing
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http://labs.bl.uk 10@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Dan Norton (2013): Mixing the Library: The Disc Jockey & the Digital Collection
http://www.tompro.co.uk
http://www.ablab.org/shetland
http://www.ablab.org/pd/di/
Prototype design
Annotation
Preview ‘item’
Selected ‘right’ channel ‘item’
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
‘Play back’ of ‘items’ (Blue) and annotations (Yellow)
Living Lab: Library of the Future, see: http://alturl.com/284zw
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http://labs.bl.uk 11@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Victorian Meme MachineBL Labs 2014 Competition Winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0Bob Nicholson
http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/
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http://labs.bl.uk 12@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Katrina Navickas (2015) Political Meetings Mapper
Katrina Navickas
Speech at Labs Symposium 2015 (33 mins) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YadqrQw_Iw4 Interview 2015 (4 mins) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lx0CL_dsQs
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http://labs.bl.uk 13@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Adam Crymble (2015)Mechanical Curator Arcade
What if crowd sourcing
looked like this?
http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W
Drawing on downtime
Drawing on scarcity of access
Drawing on energy reserved for ‘play’
http://itch.io/jam/britishlibrary
30 minute talk at BL Labs Symposium 2015 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MtNgc8-SmE
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http://labs.bl.uk 14@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Joe Bell - Moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiS1cx38rKk
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http://labs.bl.uk 15@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Mario Klingeman - Quasimondo
Talk at BL Labs Symposium 2015https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyDFMT2t0uk
Talk at Curious Images Event – Dec 2014https://youtu.be/6wglRwBbg48
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http://labs.bl.uk 16@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
David Normal – Crossroads of Curiosity
Talk given at Curious Images Event December 2014https://youtu.be/yiWE7gJDUQQ
'Crossroads of Curiosity' - Talk by David Normal on October 2014 October 2014https://youtu.be/wO680n5zUuk
Interview with David Normalhttps://youtu.be/Q3SBxO34Zlc
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http://labs.bl.uk 18@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Kestrel Moon – Animating the pictures
https://youtu.be/MQK1mVSXaAk https://youtu.be/KbKBJdJn7bA
http://www.kestrelmoon.com/
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http://labs.bl.uk 20@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Off the Map Competition 2013
Pudding Lane Productions, 6 second-year students,De Montfort University, Leicester, won first prize.
http://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0http://puddinglanedmuga.blogspot.co.uk
Created an interpretation of 17th Century pre-fire London
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http://labs.bl.uk 21@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Off the Map Gothic Competition 2014
http://puddinglanedmuga.blogspot.co.uk
Created an interpretation of 17th Century pre-fire LondonCreated a Fonthill Abbey inspired game using Oculus Rift
http://nixgamedevblog.blogspot.co.uk http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHwTeam Nix, - Jackson Rolls-Gray, Sebastian Filby and
Faye Allen from the University of South Wales, won first prize.
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http://labs.bl.uk 22@BL_Labs #bldigital [email protected]
Alice’s Adventures Off the Map 2015
http://gamecity.org/alices-adventures-off-the-map/
http://goo.gl/YKrhMD
The Wondering Lands of Alice - Off Our Rockers, a from De Montfort University in Leicester: Dan Bullock, Freddy Canton, Luke Day, Denzil Forde, Amber Jamieson and Braden May
https://youtu.be/uuG5sAtEZzs
Create a Alice in Wonderland inspired game