Digital Scholarship at the British Library by Stella Wisdom
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Digital Scholarship at the British Library: Digitised & Born Digital Collections; Opportunities for Collaboration and Research’ Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator @miss_wisdom Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-s cholarship/
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Digital Research at the British Library
Digital Scholarship at the British Library: Digitised & Born Digital Collections; Opportunities for Collaboration and ResearchStella Wisdom, Digital Curator @miss_wisdomBlog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
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The British Library is the national library of the UK
We receive a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland
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Over 150 Million items are stored in London and in Yorkshire
If you saw 5 items a day it would take you 80,000 years to see the whole collection
Digitisation is crucial for opening up access to this content and collections
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The UK Web Archivehttp://www.webarchive.org.uk Three collections:Open Archive (since 2004)Legal Deposit Archive (since 2013)JISC Historical Archive (1996-2013)Statistics:Over eight billion resourcesOver 160TB compressed dataGoals:Preserve UK web historySupport accessEnable research
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The Conservative Party deleted speeches and press releases published on its website between 2000 and the 2010 general election.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24924185 http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/13/conservative-party-archive-speeches-internet
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Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities: working with the archive of UK web space, 19962013
Case studies available:http://buddah.projects.history.ac.uk/
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Born-Digital Manuscripts Personal Digital Archives
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The Wendy Cope Archivehttp://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/10/british-library-digital-archives
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Digital Scholarship is using computational methods either to answer existing research questions or to challenge existing theoretical paradigms.GeotaggingData VisualisationData MiningGeoreferencingDigital MappingCrowdsourcingText miningCollaboration
www.bl.uk#Digital humanities scholars use computational methods either to answer existing research questions or to challenge existing theoretical paradigms, generating new questions and pioneering new approaches.activities might include incorporation into the traditionalartsandhumanitiesdisciplines use of text-analytic techniques;GIS;commons-based peer collaboration; and interactive games andmultimedia.
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Meet the Digital Research TeamWe support researchers in the innovative use of British Library's digital collections and data through:
Working behind the scenes to get content in digital form and onlineOffering digital research support and guidanceSupporting collaborative projectsRunning events, competitions, and awards
www.bl.uk#Set up in 2010 the team was formed as a way of dedicating focus on the changing research landscape in the digital realm. Now embedded in collection areas, and as youll see later, joining the library explicitly as part of major digitisation projects.
Main activities:
Getting content in digital form and onlineCollaborations, Competitions & AwardsDigital research support and guidance
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Poetic Placespoeticplaces.co.uk@poetic_places
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You may be recorded.How many have installed?
What is Poetic Places?A free, native app for Android and iOS devices.Bring poetic depictions of places into the physical world, helping people to encounter literature and heritage in relevant locations, accompanied by materials drawn from archive collections.Brings literature and heritage into everyday life in unexpected moments. Serendipitous discovery; not tours.Browse the poems and places without being in situ. A low-cost, low-complexity project to inspire.
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Aims developed quickly at project startRefined over project, flexible mindsetLast point: to achieve this chose (needed) to use DIY app platform
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www.bl.uk#Content & CurationText (poems & prose)Drew from existing anthologies and resources (i.e. Poetry Atlas).~30 entries; 5 licensed.ImagesAn opportunity to highlight open collections and out-of-copyright works.Contemporary works: old images for old poems; Flickr.15 images per entry; 5 licensed.ContextResearched poem, poet, place to find meaningful/unusual/evocative narratives.Contextualising, marrying text and images.History lessons.
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The trinityCopyright for apps particular pain, not on the forms
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www.bl.uk#The Off the Map Competition
A new type of collaboration
Explores how British Library digital collections can be used in creative ways
Engagement with new audiences
Opportunity for students in the UK to showcase their talents to industry
www.bl.uk#C.J. Visscher, London , 1616 (detail) Maps C.5.a.6
www.bl.uk#John Leake, An exact surveigh of the streets lanes and churches contained within the ruines of the City of London, 1667. Maps Crace port 2.58
www.bl.uk#2013 winning team: Pudding Lane Productions from De Montfort University, Leicester Created an interpretation of 17th Century Londonhttp://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0 (Flythrough starts at 0:50)
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Image from Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, John Rutter, 1823
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Image from Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, John Rutter, 1823
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2014 winning team: Gothulus Rift, University of South WalesCreated a Fonthill Abbey inspired game called Nix using Oculus RiftYouTube flythrough: http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHw
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The original handwritten manuscript of the story, Alices Adventures Under Ground, which was first told to Alice Liddell by Lewis Carroll in 1862.
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2015 Winning Game:The Wondering Lands of AliceTeam Off our Rockers, De Montfort University in LeicesterYouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/7bwx4uUnbV4
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#Shakespeare400
2016 commemorations of 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare
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www.bl.uk#The 2016 Off the Map competition Three sub-themes:
Castles: Scene of Ghosts and Murder
The Tempest
Forests, Woodlands and A Midsummer Nights Dream
www.bl.uk#Off the Map 2016 1st Place: The Tempest by Team Quattro, De Montfort University, LeicesterTeam Members: Tara Naz, Jasdev Singh, Jade Silver, Christopher Anka, Perrie Green, Joel Wilkins
www.bl.uk#The TempestShakespeare was inspired to write The Tempest when he read of the fate of the Sea-Adventure, a ship taking English colonists to North America which was wrecked off the coast of Bermuda in 1609. The Bermudas were then the most feared place on earth for sea travellers, who had heard stories about the islands being inhabited by devils.
Map of Bermuda as published in Gerhard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius' world atlas of 1633. Maps K.Top 123
www.bl.uk#Off the Map 2016 1st Place: The Tempest by Team Quattro, De Montfort University, LeicesterYouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/0lzpEFgpk3Y
www.bl.uk#Off the Map 2016 1st Place: The Tempest by Team Quattro, De Montfort University, LeicesterYouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/0lzpEFgpk3Y
www.bl.uk#Off the Map 2016 2nd Place:Midsummer by Tom Battey, London College of Communicationhttp://tombattey.com/portfolio-items/midsummer/ https://tombattey.itch.io/midsummer
www.bl.uk#Off the Map 2016 2nd Place:Midsummer by Tom Battey, London College of Communication YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/sz-IKvp62NI
www.bl.uk#For 2017: There Will Be Fun Off The Map
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Illusions, magic and impersonators
Outdoor places of entertainment Fairground, travelling shows
Indoor places of entertainment Music Hall and Pantomime
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Maskelyne & Cooke's entertainment at the Egyptian Hall, 1873http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/evanion/Record.aspx?EvanID=024-000004866 'Will, the Witch, and the Watch' or 'The Mystic Freaks of Gyges', was written in 1872 and performed at the Egyptian Hall in 1873. Set in 1799 around an English village jail, the play featured Maskelyne's box escape trick.
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Web: http://www.bl.uk/subjects/digital-scholarship
Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: : @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital
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