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Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator
@miss_wisdom
Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
Places of inspiration:
Playing and Making
in the Library
Talk for The Library of Ideas:
Creative Use of the British Library
22 April 2018
www.bl.uk 2
Who am I?
Founded in 2010, the Digital
Scholarship Department at British
Library supports researchers and
staff to make innovative use of our
digital collections and data.
We are a group of cross disciplinary
experts in the areas of digitisation,
librarianship, digital history &
humanities, computer and data
science, looking at how technology is
transforming research, and in turn,
our services.
@BL_DigiSchol
www.bl.uk 3
www.bl.uk 4
Mechanical Curator
What can68,000
books tell us?
Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
www.bl.uk 5
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
www.bl.uk 6
Extracting Images from OCR
6
<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <mets:mets
xmlns:xsi="http://ww
w.w3.org/2001/XML
Schema-instance"
xmlns:mets="http://w
ww.loc.gov/METS/"
xsi:schemaLocation=
"http://www.loc.gov/
METS/
http://www.loc.gov/
standards/mets/ver
sion18/mets.xsd
info:lc/xmlns/premi
s-v2
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
www.bl.uk 7
http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com/ https://twitter.com/MechCuratorBot
www.bl.uk 8
Flickr albums created through crowd-sourced tagging
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums
www.bl.uk 9
David Normal
http://www.davidnormal.com/
www.bl.uk 10
www.bl.uk 11
www.bl.uk 12
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
www.bl.uk 13
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
www.bl.uk 14
Sarah Cole, Poetic Places
Creative-Entrepreneur-In-Residence
http://www.poeticplaces.uk/
www.bl.uk 15
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.
Talk for The Library of Ideas: Creative Use of the British Library by Stella Wisdom
Talk for The Library of Ideas: Creative Use of the British Library by Stella Wisdom
https://www.badgicalkingdom.co.uk/
Odyssey Jam 2017
https://itch.io/jam/odysseyjam
Writing challenge tied in with Read Watch Play, a partnership of libraries
worldwide encouraging themed discussions of books, films, music and games,
each month they have a theme and for March 2017 it was #waterread.
Odyssey Jam 2017 entries
https://itch.io/jam/odysseyjam/entries
We encouraged entrants to make use of the digitised images on Flickr that The
British Library had released under a creative commons license.
Some games used these images, e.g. No One and 108 suitors.
Gothic Novel Jam 2018
https://itch.io/jam/gothic-novel-jam
It is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein and the birth of Emily
Bronte. So the a perfect opportunity to run a gothic novel themed challenge this July.
www.bl.uk 22
www.bl.uk 23
www.bl.uk 24
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 25
C.J. Visscher, London , 1616 (detail) Maps C.5.a.6
www.bl.uk 26
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 27
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)
www.bl.uk 28
Image from Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, John Rutter, 1823
www.bl.uk 29
Image from Delineations of
Fonthill and its Abbey,
John Rutter, 1823
www.bl.uk 30
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
www.bl.uk 31
www.bl.uk 32
The original handwritten manuscript of the
story, ‘Alice’s Adventures Under Ground’,
which was first told to Alice Liddell by Lewis
Carroll in 1862.
www.bl.uk 33
2015 Winning Game:
“The Wondering Lands of Alice”
Team Off our Rockers, De Montfort University in Leicester
YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/7bwx4uUnbV4
www.bl.uk 34
Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
Interactive Writer-in-Residence 2014/15
www.bl.uk 35
Lines in the Ice - Seeking the Northwest Passage
British Library Free Exhibition
November 2014 to April 2015
www.bl.uk 36
Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
Sir John Franklin Lady Franklin
www.bl.uk 37
Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
HMS Terror and HMS Erebus were lost on the ill-fated Franklin expedition in
search of the Northwest Passage in 1845
www.bl.uk 38
Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
Isaak Scinbank, the ‘Arctic Angler’ of Milldale
http://onmywifesback.tumblr.com/post/100107314408/scinbank
www.bl.uk 39
Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/2014/11/the-salmon-
book-conservation-in-reverse-.html
www.bl.uk 40
Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
The Digital Cairn
www.bl.uk 41
Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back
Events & Music
https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/sets/songs-from-on-my-wifes-back
www.bl.uk 42
Infinite Journeys
Interactive Fiction Summer School
23 – 27 July 2018
https://www.bl.uk/events/infinite-journeys-interactive-fiction-summer-school
www.bl.uk 43
https://twitter.com/games_glams
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/games-and-glams
www.bl.uk 44
Web: http://www.bl.uk/subjects/digital-scholarship
Blog:
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
Email: stella.wisdom@bl.uk
Twitter: @miss_wisdom #bldigital

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Talk for The Library of Ideas: Creative Use of the British Library by Stella Wisdom

  • 1. Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator @miss_wisdom Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/ Places of inspiration: Playing and Making in the Library Talk for The Library of Ideas: Creative Use of the British Library 22 April 2018
  • 2. www.bl.uk 2 Who am I? Founded in 2010, the Digital Scholarship Department at British Library supports researchers and staff to make innovative use of our digital collections and data. We are a group of cross disciplinary experts in the areas of digitisation, librarianship, digital history & humanities, computer and data science, looking at how technology is transforming research, and in turn, our services. @BL_DigiSchol
  • 4. www.bl.uk 4 Mechanical Curator What can68,000 books tell us? Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
  • 5. www.bl.uk 5 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
  • 6. www.bl.uk 6 Extracting Images from OCR 6 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> - <mets:mets xmlns:xsi="http://ww w.w3.org/2001/XML Schema-instance" xmlns:mets="http://w ww.loc.gov/METS/" xsi:schemaLocation= "http://www.loc.gov/ METS/ http://www.loc.gov/ standards/mets/ver sion18/mets.xsd info:lc/xmlns/premi s-v2 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
  • 8. www.bl.uk 8 Flickr albums created through crowd-sourced tagging https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums
  • 12. www.bl.uk 12 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
  • 13. www.bl.uk 13 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
  • 14. www.bl.uk 14 Sarah Cole, Poetic Places Creative-Entrepreneur-In-Residence http://www.poeticplaces.uk/
  • 15. www.bl.uk 15 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.
  • 19. Odyssey Jam 2017 https://itch.io/jam/odysseyjam Writing challenge tied in with Read Watch Play, a partnership of libraries worldwide encouraging themed discussions of books, films, music and games, each month they have a theme and for March 2017 it was #waterread.
  • 20. Odyssey Jam 2017 entries https://itch.io/jam/odysseyjam/entries We encouraged entrants to make use of the digitised images on Flickr that The British Library had released under a creative commons license. Some games used these images, e.g. No One and 108 suitors.
  • 21. Gothic Novel Jam 2018 https://itch.io/jam/gothic-novel-jam It is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein and the birth of Emily Bronte. So the a perfect opportunity to run a gothic novel themed challenge this July.
  • 24. www.bl.uk 24 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
  • 25. www.bl.uk 25 C.J. Visscher, London , 1616 (detail) Maps C.5.a.6
  • 26. www.bl.uk 26 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
  • 27. www.bl.uk 27 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)
  • 28. www.bl.uk 28 Image from Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, John Rutter, 1823
  • 29. www.bl.uk 29 Image from Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, John Rutter, 1823
  • 30. www.bl.uk 30 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
  • 32. www.bl.uk 32 The original handwritten manuscript of the story, ‘Alice’s Adventures Under Ground’, which was first told to Alice Liddell by Lewis Carroll in 1862.
  • 33. www.bl.uk 33 2015 Winning Game: “The Wondering Lands of Alice” Team Off our Rockers, De Montfort University in Leicester YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/7bwx4uUnbV4
  • 34. www.bl.uk 34 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back Interactive Writer-in-Residence 2014/15
  • 35. www.bl.uk 35 Lines in the Ice - Seeking the Northwest Passage British Library Free Exhibition November 2014 to April 2015
  • 36. www.bl.uk 36 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back Sir John Franklin Lady Franklin
  • 37. www.bl.uk 37 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back HMS Terror and HMS Erebus were lost on the ill-fated Franklin expedition in search of the Northwest Passage in 1845
  • 38. www.bl.uk 38 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back Isaak Scinbank, the ‘Arctic Angler’ of Milldale http://onmywifesback.tumblr.com/post/100107314408/scinbank
  • 39. www.bl.uk 39 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/2014/11/the-salmon- book-conservation-in-reverse-.html
  • 40. www.bl.uk 40 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back The Digital Cairn
  • 41. www.bl.uk 41 Rob Sherman – On My Wife’s Back Events & Music https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/sets/songs-from-on-my-wifes-back
  • 42. www.bl.uk 42 Infinite Journeys Interactive Fiction Summer School 23 – 27 July 2018 https://www.bl.uk/events/infinite-journeys-interactive-fiction-summer-school

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. 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.
  2. 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?
  3. 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.]
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Aims developed quickly at project start Refined over project, flexible mindset Last point: to achieve this chose (needed) to use DIY app platform…