Presentation at Cultural Big Data Symposium

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Public engagement projects using the British Library’s digital collections and dataExamples from British Library Labs ProjectMahendra Mahey

1500 - 1520, Wednesday, 22nd June 2016,Learning Centre, King’s College London,Public Engagement ProjectsCultural Big Data Symposium

http://goo.gl/ts1l58

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjwvK_xo-7LAhXE0RQKHWv0BYgQjRwIBw&url=http://lki.dromhci.top/c/twitter-logo-png-transparent-background/&bvm=bv.118443451,d.eWE&psig=AFQjCNGeXUakaBEdmMJt6-d3SjDDAUlbJQ&ust=1459628972017062


British Library - Not just books!> 180* million items

> 0.8* m serial titles

> 8* m stamps

> 14* m books

> 3* m sound recordings> 4* m maps

> 1.6* m musical scores

> 0.3* m manuscripts

> 60* m patents

King’s Library *Estimates



http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labsFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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



#bldigital1-2 %* digitised

* estimate

Digitisation

Partnerships Commercial & Other Organisations

Amountincreasing rapidly

Bias in digitisation

http://goo.gl/bR9UJL Sample Generator

http://goo.gl/bR9UJL



http://data.bl.uk



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



Finding things in messy data

Mrs Folly• Clean up manually• Get ‘ground truth’• Write code to find things

reliably in it automatically• Try code on messy content• Tweak if necessary



Katrina Navickas (2015) Political Meetings Mapper

http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.ukhttps://goo.gl/Qq78Oa

Labs Symposium 2015

https://goo.gl/BSA3be

Interview 2015

The Chartist Newspaperhttp://goo.gl/vOLSnH

Chartist Monster Meeting

http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.uk/

https://goo.gl/Qq78Oa


http://goo.gl/vOLSnH


http://a5.typepad.com/6a01a73da1a4dc970d01b8d127b885970c-pi


Chartists Un-CoveredHistory in London

The Red Lion Pub, SohoChartists Re-enactment

Chartist’s Meeting Locations in London

Chartist’s Meetings Heatmap in London

Chartist’s London Walking Tour 21 Sep 15


http://a1.typepad.com/6a01a73da1a4dc970d01b8d1c0ad99970c-pi


Chartists Re-enactment London





Victorian Meme Machine (2014)

https://goo.gl/HMqDt3

Bob Nicholson

http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/

https://goo.gl/HMqDt3

http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/



http://victorianhumour.tubmblr.com

Victorian HumourPublic Engagement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRgj7Q5OM0

Rob Walker, Victorian Mother-in-law Jokes

Bob Nicholson interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Making History Programme:

http://goo.gl/fmV9ep

And telling jokes to the public:http://goo.gl/xIDRhz

http://victorianhumour.tubmblr.com/


http://goo.gl/fmV9ep

http://goo.gl/xIDRhz



Rob WalkerVictorian Mother-in-law Jokes





Commercial (2015)Etsy project by Dina Malkova

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

https://goo.gl/OfJujM

Labs Symposium 2015http://goo.gl/pbxZUv

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

https://goo.gl/OfJujM

http://goo.gl/pbxZUv



Commercial (2015) Runner UpSarah Wingate-Gray and Kate Lomax

http://goo.gl/s1dVSC

http://goo.gl/s1dVSC



What can 65,000books tell us?

Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin

Just one digital open collection



Worked better for female faces than men’s

Press

http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.comPosts image every 30 minutes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

1,020,418 imagesneed tagging!

Creative uses of images

Face recognition

Mechanical Curator

http://goo.gl/qPPgxX

Flickr

Snipping out imagesfrom 65,000 Digitised Books*

>400,000,000 views

>500,000 tags

https://goo.gl/FgZ4HM

Work @ BL by Ben O’Steen, Labs

and Digital Research Team*Matt Prior - http://goo.gl/j29Tnx

http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

http://goo.gl/qPPgxX

https://goo.gl/FgZ4HM

http://goo.gl/j29Tnx



Tagging a million imagesIterative Crowdsourcing

http://goo.gl/j6fxac

Cardiff University’sLost Visions Project

http://www.metadatagames.org/

Metadata Games

James Heald

Mario Klingemann

Chico 45

Use computational methods

Human Tagger

Top British Library Flickr Commons Taggers

http://goo.gl/8SkfM1

Machine LearningSearch Engine

& Google Imagesearch

http://goo.gl/j6fxac

http://www.metadatagames.org/

http://goo.gl/8SkfM1



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

Artistic (2015)Mario Klingeman - Quasimondo

Blog post: http://goo.gl/dM8ieA

A Hat on the GroundSpells trouble

https://goo.gl/ubL0AO

https://goo.gl/gRZ5Ia

http://goo.gl/dM8ieA



Special Jury’s Prize (2015)James Heald – Wikimedia and Map work

https://goo.gl/WYZCB2

http://goo.gl/HNQq5e

https://goo.gl/VPgffL

https://commons.wikimedia.org/

https://goo.gl/djtm1b

Labs Symposium (2015)Geotagging maps

54,000 Maps

https://goo.gl/WYZCB2

http://goo.gl/HNQq5e

https://goo.gl/VPgffL

https://commons.wikimedia.org/

https://goo.gl/djtm1b



Adam Crymble (2015)Crowdsource Arcade

What if crowd sourcing

looked like this?

http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W

http://goo.gl/OH9pOZ

https://goo.gl/7z0j8p

30 mins talkLabs Symposium (2015)

https://goo.gl/SSRsdd

5 min interview (2015)

http://goo.gl/0APpE8

Game Jam

http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W

http://goo.gl/OH9pOZ

https://goo.gl/7z0j8p

https://goo.gl/SSRsdd

http://goo.gl/0APpE8


http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/.a/6a00d8341c464853ef01b7c7c8e442970b-pi


Art Treachery and Tag Attack

https://goo.gl/vVMPuL

Art TreacheryJanuz Druz

Tag AttackAntonio Padial

https://goo.gl/engC6A



David Normal

https://youtu.be/Q3SBxO34Zlc

‘It was beyond my wildest dreams’



Finding one image on Flickr

Finding many more!Make collagesMake 4 paintingsExhibit light boxes at Burning Man 2014

In Nevada USA

Work with Labs & British Library to installLight boxes in London

In 2015

Where did we put it?



Let’s have a party!Exhibited from June to Nov 2015

20th June 2015

Music mix by DJ Yoda using British Library Sounds: https://goo.gl/z3k4JT

David Normal’s Art work: http://www.crossroadsofcuriosity.com & http://www.davidnormal.com

Images from Burning Man and Flickr brought into the Poet’s Circle

Physical

DigitalDigital

Physical



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

Animating static images



Finalists for 2016!

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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