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Digitised Images Sharing and Reuse by Stella Wisdom
1. Talk for volunteers from
The Courtauld Institute of Art
03/05/2017
Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator
@miss_wisdom
Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
Digitised Images
Sharing & Re-use
2. www.bl.uk 2
Meet the Digital Research Team
We 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 online
• Offering digital research support and
guidance
• Supporting collaborative projects
• Running events, competitions, and awards
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Datasets
data.bl.uk
As part of its work to open its data to wider use, the British
Library is making copies of some of its datasets available for
research and creative purposes.
This site is a 'beta', and is in the early stages of development. If
you have questions or feedback about this site or our open
data work, please email digitalresearch@bl.uk.
We'd also love to hear what you've done or made with the data.
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Collecting Canada
• Collection developed between
1895 and 1924 via colonial
copyright deposits (the result of an
obscure and much amended mid-
nineteenth century law)
• Contains over 4,000 photographs
• Collection covers the whole of
Canada, with photographs of
Brandon (Manitoba) and Moose
Jaw (Saskatchewan) as well as
Toronto, Montreal, etc.
Vancouver fire department drills (22254)
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• Picturing Canada now hosted on
Digitised Manuscripts and Wikimedia
Commons
• Both contain notes on holding
institution, copyright status and
affiliate collections
• Wikimedia Commons links back to
the Archives and Manuscripts
catalogue records and Digitised
Manuscripts for digital object
‘Young Cree Man’ by G. E. Fleming (27754)
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• Promoting presence of digital collections is
important
• Commons is a high traffic site (over 5 million hits
a week)
• Spread the word:
– blogs and social media
– online journals (such as Public Domain
Review)
• Results are worth it: images are furnishing over
220 Wikipedia pages in 12 languages
• Try innovative displays, such as an interactive
map
http://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2017/03/canada-through-
the-lens-mapping-a-collection-on-display.html ‘Miss Canada’ (38164)
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Fri 26 May - Sun 10 Sep 2017, Second Floor Gallery
http://www.bl.uk/events/canada-through-the-lens
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Microsoft Partnership Digitisation
2006-8
• 68,000 volumes (47,000+ titles) published in the 19th
century mostly in English
• Excluded authors active 1850-1901 and who died after
1936
• Output: 25 million pages
• Digitised content is public domain
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Extracting Images from OCR
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Image snipped out
Algorithmically
From ALTO XML
Image taken from page 207 of 'London and its Environs. A
picturesque survey of the metropolis and the suburbs ...
Translated by Henry Frith. With ... illustrations'
ALTO XML
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David Normal created light boxes around the
Burning man, using the British Library’s Flickr Images
The Crossroads of Curiosity Installation
at Burning Man Festival
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The Crossroads of Curiosity Installation at the British Library
June to November 2015
The installation featured an “augmented reality” self-guided tour enabling viewers
to explore the meaning and origins of the painting’s symbols using Blippar.
www.crossroadsofcuriosity.com
http://www.bl.uk/events/the-crossroads-of-curiosity-installation
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Hey There, Young Sailor
written and directed by Ling Low with visual art by Lyn Ong.
Inspired by the works of early cinema pioneer Georges Méliès, the video draws on 19th
century images from the British Library's Flickr collection.
The video was commissioned by Malaysian indie folk band The Impatient Sisters
https://youtu.be/bcOP1E5bRE0
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Fashion Utopia, by Kris Hofmann and Claudia Rosa Lukas
An 80 second animation and five vines which accompanied the Austrian
contribution to the International Fashion Showcase London, organised by the
British Council and the British Fashion Council.
http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2016/09/fashion-utopias-and-the-british-librarys-flickr-
collection.html
More than 500 images were used from the
British Library Flickr Commons collection to
create a moving collage that was, juxtaposed
with stop-frame animated items of fashion and
accessories.
http://www.krishofmann.co.uk/work/#/ifs-2016-
somerset-house/
https://vimeo.com/174946933
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Sarah Cole, Poetic Places
Creative-Entrepreneur-In-Residence
http://www.poeticplaces.uk/
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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
cultural heritage collections.
• Brings literature and heritage into everyday life in
unexpected moments. Serendipitous discovery; not tours.
• Browse the poems and places without being in situ.
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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
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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
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2013 winning team:
Pudding Lane Productions from De Montfort University, Leicester
Created an interpretation of 17th Century London
http://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0 (Flythrough starts at 0:50)
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2014 winning team: Gothulus Rift, University of South Wales
Created a Fonthill Abbey inspired game called Nix using Oculus Rift
YouTube flythrough: http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHw
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The original handwritten manuscript of the
story, ‘Alice’s 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 Alice”
Team Off our Rockers, De Montfort University in Leicester
YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/7bwx4uUnbV4
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The Tempest
Shakespeare 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
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Off the Map 2016 1st Place:
“The Tempest” by Team Quattro, De Montfort University, Leicester
YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/0lzpEFgpk3Y
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
From Boydell's Collection of Prints illustrating Shakespeare's works
http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/boydells-collection-of-prints-illustrating-shakespeares-works
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Off the Map 2016 2nd Place:
‘Midsummer’ by Tom Battey, London College of Communication
YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/sz-IKvp62NI
Download the game: http://tombattey.com/portfolio-items/midsummer/
Hinweis der Redaktion
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 you’ll see later, joining the library explicitly as part of major digitisation projects.
Main activities:
Getting content in digital form and online
Collaborations, Competitions & Awards
Digital research support and guidance
Remember to break out and show examples – illustrate use of image and mark on blog post
The work of Labs is really about a number of stories, stories about digital collections and about researchers wanting to ask fascinating research questions about them. Let’s now tell you a story about one collection and the intended and unintended consequences of working with it.
60 seconds
The Library digitised 68,000 predominantly 19th century books from our collections a few years ago (around 2.7 % of the physical total in that period). You can view them from our catalogue or read them on your <click>IPad via the Historical Books app developed by BiblioLabs.
There are 22 million individual page images, along with full text scans of these images, all of which contain untold quantity of useful data such as names of people, places, historical events, dates.
with no restrictions on use by Microsoft
So the question became then, what next? What can 68,000 books tell us?
60 seconds
As the books were scanned for text, this had a fortunate ‘side effect’ the software not only tries to detect the text on the page but also where the images might be. There had already been some interest in the images from the community of researchers. It seemed easy to extract them.
s part of the Labs competition, Matt Prior attended one of our hack events and when examining our book data and was very interested in the images from the books.
Meanwhile the algorithm that Ben had written to snip the images from the OCR scans was still churning away, how many were there going to be? The Mechanical Curator could publish them every hour, but was there somewhere we could put them all for people to browse when they wanted. Importantly if we did put them somewhere, could we get people to help us add descriptions to the individual images making them infinitely more discoverable.]
With an algorithm by Ben O’Steen we snipped out images from digitised books and put them on to Flickr on December 13 2013, there were over a million, but the problem we had was that we knew which books they came from (author/dates), but we didn’t’ have any information about the images. By releasing them onto flickr, we have got people to start tagging them and using them in very creative ways.
Hosting them internally was not an option and there was not sufficient metadata to put them on Wikipedia. Flickr seemed the obvious option as it is a platform that can support high usage, did not require metadata, allowed tagging and it is free for public domain images.
He speaks about his project, how he came across the images and what he did with them.
How he learnt about the image = it was pure serendipity
Taking images out of the context of books creates potential to reinvent them in a new context.
http://youtu.be/3AOa98RsA2Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3AOa98RsA2Q#t=48
Make sure subtitles are on.
This is a surprising use of the images we put onto Flickr. Once a year in the summer, tens of thousands of participants gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having left no trace whatsoever. [This year it took place between August 25 to September 1, Nevada, USA, the show ends by burning an effigy of wooden man! <click>]
American Artist David Normal used images from your Flickr Commons collection and worked on a set of collages called "Crossroads of Curiosity". The finished paintings based on these collages were presented in full colour as ' lightboxes at this year's Burning Man Festival, the theme for which was "Caravansary“. They were presented around the base of the effigy of the Burning Man in the heart of the festival.
Aims developed quickly at project start
Refined over project, flexible mindset
Last point: to achieve this chose (needed) to use DIY app platform…