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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs

15th February 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at Cambridge

Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs

15th February 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at Cambridge

Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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One of Largest Library’s in the World180 million* items

1-2 %* digitised

* estimate

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http://www.bl.uk/subjects/digital-scholarship

http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collections

Soon…http://data.bl.uk

Mini Network Area Storage Device (NAS) guide:http://goo.gl/E8aRyQ

In 20 years time…

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How?

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•Submit ideas by 11 April 2016.

•Two finalists announced late May 2016.

•Residency June – October 2016.•Up to £3600 in support, technical, curatorial etc.

•Showcase @ Symposium Monday 7 Nov 16.

•Winner £3000 & Runner up £1000!

Competition

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•Those who have already been using our 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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Projects & Ideas• Ideas change once you examine and use the data!

•Talk to us about working on potential ideas / projects.

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Why is the Library doing this?

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2013Pieter Francois

Dan Norton

2014Desmond Schmidt

Bob Nicholson

2015Katrina Navickas

Adam CrymbleDina MalkovaMario KlingemannSpatial Humanities Project at

Lancaster University

James Heald

Who and Why?

Please refer to the Winners’ Hand out

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Learning how to supportDigital Experiments better

BL Labs Git Hub Site Re-OCRing Newspapers Flickr API

BL Explore – Search Catalogue Python Code

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Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

Fail faster / better, don’t focus on one thing, lots of small experiments!

https://goo.gl/Vlv3Yu Let yourself reboot!

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Competition

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Katrina Navickas (2015) Political Meetings Mapper

http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.ukLabs Symposium 2015 (33 mins)

https://goo.gl/Qq78Oa

Interview 2015 (4 mins)https://goo.gl/BSA3be

The Chartist Newspaperhttp://goo.gl/vOLSnH

Chartist Monster Meeting

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Chartists Un-CoveredHistory in London

Chartist’s London Walking Tour 21 Sep 15

The Red Lion Pub, SohoChartists Re-enactment

Chartist’s Meeting Locations in London

Chartist’s Meetings Heatmap in London

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Chartists Re-enactment London

https://goo.gl/BSA3be

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Adam Crymble (2015)Crowdsource Arcade

What if crowd sourcing

looked like this?

http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W

Game Jam - http://goo.gl/OH9pOZ30 mins talkLabs Symposium (2015)https://goo.gl/7z0j8p

5 min interview (2015)https://goo.gl/SSRsdd

http://goo.gl/0APpE8

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Art Treachery – Januz Druz Tag Attack – Antonio Padial

Art Treachery and Tag Attack

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Awards

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Curious Images Event 2014https://goo.gl/ubL0AO

Labs Symposium 2015https://goo.gl/gRZ5Ia

44 Men who Look 44(Notice the direction faces)

Tragic Looking Women

Collage Art

ArtisticMario Klingeman - Quasimondo

Read more: http://goo.gl/dM8ieA

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CommercialEtsy project by Dina Malkova

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DinaMalkova

Labs Symposium 2015https://goo.gl/OfJujM

Read more: http://goo.gl/pbxZUv

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http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/spatialhum.wordpress/

Labs Symposium 2015: https://goo.gl/ZCU56a

ResearchSpatial Humanities: Lancaster University

Combining Text and Geographic Informationhttp://goo.gl/yZ3xCJ

Investigating geographical representation of disease in digitised 19th Century newspapers

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Special Jury’s PrizeJames Heald – Wikimedia and Map work

https://goo.gl/WYZCB2

http://goo.gl/HNQq5e

https://goo.gl/VPgffL

https://commons.wikimedia.org/

Labs Symposium (2015)https://goo.gl/djtm1b

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Other projectshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

http://www.crossroadsofcuriosity.com https://goo.gl/KHxCcI

http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com

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- https://goo.gl/QilqqT By Kestrel Moon

Animating static images

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- https://goo.gl/QilqqT By Kestrel Moon

Animating static images

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Lessons…

•Huge appetite to use BL digital content & data (see Flickr Commons stats later).

•Identifying / bridging gaps for researchers to use BL data.

•Labs can help researchers navigate through the Library to get the data they want.

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Finally…

•Examine & use our data and talk to us about your ideas and projects!

•Consider entering the Competition and Awards!

•You never know you might….

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Change the world with …British Library digital content