Maja Maricevic, Head of Higher Education and Science, British Library

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Running since March 2013
http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs
Previously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and now the British Library
• Working with researchers, artists, entrepreneurs,
educators, innovators & British Library staff
• Competitions, awards, projects & other engagement
• Supported over 160 projects in 6 years
• Building global community of
Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) Labs

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What is a (digital) GLAM Lab?
Space in a GLAM to experiment and innovate online or
onsite with digitised and / or born digital collections and data

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Excerpt adapted from ‘Open a GLAM Lab’ page 34
…there are digital maps, photographs and manuscripts, 3D virtual
objects of Egyptian heads and vases, digitised books from the 17th
century with pictures of strange animals next to the originals, sound
recordings of machines and violin music, old TV programmes, millions
of pages of text from newspapers, video games from the 1980s,
websites which no longer exist, and computer programs which worked
on machines that no one makes any more. There are people coming
in and out; to chat, to tinker, to transform, and to share.
Inside a GLAM Lab…

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Keynote speaker: Armand Leroi
• Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Imperial College, London
Also an author and broadcaster
• Presented several documentary series on Channel 4 and BBC Four:
– The Secret Science of Pop, What Darwin Didn't Know and Aristotle's Lagoon for
BBC Four
– Human Mutants, a three-part documentary series about human deformity,
and What Makes Us Human both for Channel 4
• Books
– Mutants: On Genetic Variety and Human Body
– The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science