BL Labs Roadshow at the University of Kent

1. 1 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk British Library Labs What is British Library Labs and what have we learned over the last four years? 1310-1410 & 1530-1600,18 May 2017 Learning the Lessons of working with the British Library’s Digital Content and Data for your research British Library data and collections and discussions and feedback on ideas, challenges and issues University of Kent, UK https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 Mahendra Mahey Manager of British Library Labs

2. 2 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk The British Library Inside the British Library Space for 1200 readers, around 400,000 visitors per year Building 37 uses low oxygen and robots Reading room and delivery to London Document Supply and Storage at Boston Spa Stockton-on-Tees Author right to payment each time their books are borrowed from public libraries. St Pancras, London, UK Many books are stored 4 stories below the building UK Legal Deposit Library – Reference only

3. 3 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Living Knowledge Vision (2015 – 2023) Custodianship Research Business Culture Learning International To make our intellectual heritage accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment and be the most open, creative and innovative institution of its kind by 2023. Document:http://goo.gl/h41wW7 Speech:https://goo.gl/Py9uHK Roly Keating (Chief Executive Officer of the British Library) To make our intellectual heritage accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment and be the most open, creative and innovative institution of its kind by 2023.

4. 4 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Collections – not just books! > 180*million items > 0.8* m serial titles > 8* m stamps > 14* m books > 6* m sound recordings > 4* m maps > 1.6* m musical scores > 0.3* m manuscripts > 60* m patents King’s Library *Estimates

5. 5 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

6. 6 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

7. 7 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Wider…not just Researchers Researchers https://goo.gl/WutNyi Artists http://goo.gl/nNKhQ2 Librarians Curators https://goo.gl/9NWZUW Software Developers https://goo.gl/7QQ5Tf Archivists https://goo.gl/x7b4tg Educators https://goo.gl/qh01Mi

8. 8 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Digital research methods Digital Scholarship Visualisations Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for datasets e.g. Metadata, Images Transcribing Annotation Location based searching & Geo-tagging Corpus analysis, Text Mining & Natural Language Processing Crowdsourcing Human Computation

9. 9 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk How are we doing this?

10. 10 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@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 in research, artistic, commercial and learning and teaching categories Talk to us about working on collaborative projects

11. 11 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Why are we doing this?

12. 12 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Why are doing this? • Working closely with and listening to those who want use our digital collections and data for their work • We can learn how we are and should be supporting them (shapes the problems we work on): – Access to digital collections? – Advice, guidance, technical support, training – Services, Tools and Processes? – Many more reasons… • Where are the gaps between what users want & what we can give? • How do we build the bridges to overcome the gaps? • How do we help users ‘navigate’ their way through the Library to what they want to do? https://goo.gl/esqpRb https://goo.gl/6CwCeE https://goo.gl/62JnQT

13. 13 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Born digital Data all around us! / Knowledge Quarter London 89 knowledge organisations (as of 18/05/17) within 1 mile radius of Kings Cross, http://www.knowledgequarter.london http://www.turing.ac.uk (Headquartered at the British Library) UK Web Archive and e-legal deposit (2013) http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/ Born digital Data all around us!

14. 14 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk #bldigital 1-2 %* digitised * estimate Digitisation Partnerships Commercial & Other Organisations Amount increasing rapidly Bias in digitisation http://goo.gl/bR9UJL Sample Generator

15. 15 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Playbills, Books, Newspapers (includes OCR) Digital collections and Datasets British National Bibliography http://bnb.data.bl.uk http://sounds.bl.ukhttp://dml.city.ac.uk/ Music (Recordings & Sheet) & Sounds http://goo.gl/frSMJt Broadcast News (TV and Radio) http://goo.gl/cwThHw http://goo.gl/pBkisZhttp://goo.gl/E8aRyQ Usage data EtHOS Web ArchiveImages, Manuscripts & Maps http://www.qdl.qa/ Qatar Digital Library http://idp.bl.uk/ International Dunhuang Project Maps http://www.bl.uk/maps/ Hebrew Manuscripts http://goo.gl/4sbCp9 Flickr & Wikimedia Commons https://goo.gl/LZRmaZ

16. 16 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Finding Open Cultural Heritage Datasets Collection Guides (173 as of 04/05/17) https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/ Datasets about our collections Bibliographic datasets relating to our published and archival holdings Datasets for content mining Content suitable for use in text and data mining research Datasets for image analysis Image collections suitable for large-scale image- analysis-based research Datasets from UK Web Archive Data and API services available for accessing UK Web Archive Digital mapping Geospatial data, cartographic applications, digital aerial photography and scanned historic map materials https://data.bl.uk Download collections as zips, no API Each dataset has a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Discussion list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CULTURAL-HERITAGE-DATASETS Not all discoverable via Google!

17. 17 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk What did people actually do?

18. 18 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Example pattern of research for Labs • Finding invisible / well hidden things in ‘messy’ historical data • Unearthing / unlocking hidden histories & data to stimulate new research • Celebrating hidden histories / data creatively through events, art & performance https://goo.gl/vJ291F https://goo.gl/mcpa8B https://goo.gl/Ql0Bwz Not the British Library!

19. 19 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk https://goo.gl/oUNj5N https://goo.gl/ImAUv4 Finding things in ‘messy’ Optical Character Recognised (OCR) text Mrs Folly • Clean up some manually • Get human ‘ground truth’ • Write computer code (sometimes it’s machine learning) to find things reliably in it ‘automatically’ • Try code on messy content • Tweak if necessary • Digital ‘lasso’ around content • Human sift through Mrs Folly An example pattern of research

20. 20 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Code: Machine Learning / Reading • Labs sometimes use Machine Learning / Reading techniques • Analogies to how humans read / learn • Machines acquire ‘knowledge’ / data, use that knowledge / data to make sense / identify patterns • Labs doing this on a case by case basis so methods can vary • Need computational & human effort • Legalities of Text and Data mining being ‘ironed’ out with publishers, on-going…Often a misunderstood … • Perhaps we need a metaphor from history… https://goo.gl/gXmVQL https://goo.gl/gDQEAz https://goo.gl/k68fTf © £

21. 21 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Smell of soup & Machine Learning Thanks to Memo Akten (@memotv on twitter) for the inspiration! https://goo.gl/toq4Bo Nasreddin, 13th Century Turkish Sufi http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/reading/smell1.htm

22. 22 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk http://victorianhumour.tubmblr.com Victorian Meme Machine (2014) https://goo.gl/HMqDt3 Bob Nicholson http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/ Bob Nicholson interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Making History Programme: http://goo.gl/fmV9ep And telling jokes to the public: http://goo.gl/xIDRhz Bob obtained further funding from his university Looking for more collaborations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRgj7Q5OM0 Rob Walker, Victorian Mother-in-law Jokes Victorian Comedy Night, 7 Nov 2016 Learnt about access paths to digital collections

23. 23 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Katrina Navickas (2015) Political Meetings Mapper http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.uk https://goo.gl/Qq78Oa Labs Symposium 2015 https://goo.gl/BSA3be Interview 2015 The Chartist Newspaper http://goo.gl/vOLSnH Chartist Monster Meeting Chartists Walking Tour and Re-enactment London Learnt that domain knowledge reduces noise

24. 24 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Black Abolitionist Performances & their Presence in Britain (2016) – Hannah-Rose Murray Frederick Douglass Ellen Craft Josiah Henson Ida B Wells A Performance by Joe Williams & Martelle Edinborough http://frederickdouglassinbritain.com/ Started to implement Machine Learning Techniques

25. 25 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Data-mining verse in 18th Century newspapers BL Labs Project 16-17, Jennifer Batt https://goo.gl/5Akthd Slides courtesy Jennifer BattJennifer Batt @ the BL on World Poetry Day

26. 26 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 What thoj' among ourrelves, with too much Heat, or t W: fweutimes.wongle, wvhen we Ihould debate, W – (A confequential Ill which Freedom drawvs, fl t A bad Efficf, but from a noble Caufe) t We can with univeifal Zcal advance, to To cutb the faithlefs Arrogancccof V rance. hi Dublin Journal, 10-14 September, 1745 Slides courtesy Jennifer Batt

27. 27 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 Verse: 81% lines begin with initial capital Prose: 52% lines begin with initial capital Westminster Journal 3 March 1745 Slides courtesy Jennifer Batt Started to refine Machine Learning Techniques

28. 28 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Psychiatrist’s Journey into 19th Century Newspapers (2016) • Dr Surendra P Singh, Consultant Psychiatrist • To identify weekly, monthly, yearly and longitudinal trends in suicide reporting in terms of gender, status, sites, locations and health in OCR text of 19th Century Newspapers • Used ‘R’ Open Source Stats Package to collect ‘Suicide’ corpus • Looking for collaborators to work on this dataset Use off-the-shelf tools and remote access pathways

29. 29 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Use of Overproof OCR Correction? Re-OCR with ABBY FineReader? https://www.abbyy.com/en-gb/ http://overproof.projectcomputing.com/ RE-OCR

30. 30 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Virtual Infrastructure for OCR text OCR text ‘scraped’ from digitised newspapers and put in cloud Jupyter notebook Write python code and results in web browser http://jupyter.org Access available for researchers ‘in residence’ https://www.docker.com/ http://dhbox.org/

31. 31 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Other experiments with images

32. 32 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 Worked better for female faces than men’s Press http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com Posts image every 30 minutes http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/ 1,020,418 images need tagging! Creative uses of images Face recognition Algorithms based on photos Mechanical Curator with an algorithmic brain (Circles, Squares and Slanty etc) http://goo.gl/qPPgxX Wikimedia Flickr Commons Individual URL & API Snipping out images from 65,000 Digitised Books* >600,000,000* views >20,000,000* tags https://goo.gl/FgZ4HM Work @ BL by Ben O’Steen, Labs and Digital Research Team*Matt Prior - http://goo.gl/j29Tnx Since Dec 2013 Tumblr *Estimates

33. 33 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Tagging, Tagging, Tagging…

34. 34 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Tagging a million images Iterative Crowdsourcing http://goo.gl/j6fxac Cardiff University’s Lost 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 18 hard core taggers How to reward and keep motivated this ‘small group? Average for ‘crowd’ is 1 tag per person What kind of ‘task’ can this ‘crowd’ do? Mobile games for ‘Ships’, ‘Covers’ and ‘Portraits’ Interface for tagging

35. 35 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Adam Crymble (2015) Crowdsource Arcade http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W http://goo.gl/OH9pOZ https://goo.gl/7z0j8p 30 mins talk Labs Symposium (2015) https://goo.gl/SSRsdd 5 min interview (2015) http://goo.gl/0APpE8 Game Jam Using Arcade Games to help Tag images ‘Art Treachery’ and ‘Tag Attack’

36. 36 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk 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 Found in Flickr 1 million Human & Computational Tagging & Community engagement Geo-referencing work https://www.bl.uk/georeferencer

37. 37 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk SherlockNet: Competition Winner 2016 Karen Wang, Luda Zhao and Brian Do Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Tag and Caption the British Library Flickr Commons 1 million Image Collection 12 categories >20 million tags added >100,000 captions bit.ly/sherlocknet Pooled surrounding OCR text on page from similar images Used Microsoft COCO (photographs) & British Museum Prints and Drawings collections as training sets. Tags Captions

38. 38 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Artistic / Creative Works http://goo.gl/dM8ieA Mario Klingeman (2015) Code Artist / Curator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3SBxO34Zlc David Normal 2014 and 2015 Collages/Paintings & Lightboxes http://goo.gl/bNxGZZ Kris Hoffman (2016) Animation for Fashion Week 2016 https://goo.gl/QilqqT Jiayi Chong 2016 - Animation tool https://www.facebook.com/RealmlandStory/ Paul Rand Pierce 2016 Graphic Novel on Facebook A Hat on the Ground Spells trouble Tragic Looking Women 44 Men who Look 44 (Notice the direction faces)

39. 39 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Imaginary Cities – BL Labs Project 16-17 Michael Takeo Magruder https://goo.gl/4ARwTy An artistic exploration seeking to create provocative fictional cityscapes for the Information Age from the British Library’s digital collection of historic urban maps

40. 40 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Learning & Teaching The PhD Abstracts Collections in FLAX: Learning Academic English with Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS) https://goo.gl/fOwHAe Shaoqun Wu, Alannah Fitzgerald, Ian H. Witten and Chris Mansfield

41. 41 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Learning &Teaching Library Carpentry James Baker https://goo.gl/25cq99 And many more!

42. 42 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Commercial: Poetic Places (2016) http://www.poeticplaces.uk/ Sarah Cole

43. 43 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Commercial: Curating Digital Collections Go Mobile (2016) http://www.biblioboard.com Mitchell Davis (BiblioLabs) See it in the Foyer!

44. 44 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk #bldigital 1-2 %* digitised * estimate Digitisation Partnerships Commercial & Other Organisations Amount increasing rapidly Bias in digitisation http://goo.gl/bR9UJL Sample Generator

45. 45 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Have you got X? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Real_wuerzburg.jpg Looking for Physical Content in the British Library

46. 46 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Have you got X digitised? http://www.yorkmix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mr-simms-sweet-shoppe-york.jpg Looking for Digitised Content in the BL

47. 47 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk • Digitisation costs time & resources & access can depend on restrictions imposed by funders … • Still…over 600 Digital Collections!! But not all found through Google or even online! • Need lots of engagement, dialogue is either: – you are ‘lucky’ & we have the digital content / data relevant to your research – we don’t have exactly what your looking for, but is there anything of interest? Let’s talk… • Artists find this dialogue easier and we tend to attract researchers with ‘fuzzier’ research boundaries • Access easier for openly licensed content • More challenging for on-site, in-copyright, non-print legal deposit, data protected, old content media & contemporary material https://goo.gl/qpCLlk So little digitised… © £  https://goo.gl/Y5zCXg © https://goo.gl/wMTS3Z What type of engagement with researchers?

48. 48 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk only in Reading Rooms due to © only on site due to © or ethical etc not online / available – various storage devices, personal data online and open British Library online behind paywall Challenges of access to Digital Collections

49. 49 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk The Story of the Digital Collection… Digital Collection Curator Who paid for the digitisation? Who did the digitisation? Technology used Born digital? Published Unpublished Where is it? Can it still be accessed? Generates income Reputational Risk Legalities Political Ego (all) Surprises (e.g. gaps) Metadata Old format not supported What media was the digitisation done from? Documentation No Metadata Messy Metadata Still there? Good to know the background of a Digital collection if you want to use it for research and make conclusions…

50. 50 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Open Licensed Digital Content? 20% Openly Licensed Around 15%* available online Working through to make more open… Though some collections will always only be available onsite due to © Breakdown by collection* Manuscripts 59% Books 9% Maps and Views 7% Newspapers 3% Archives and Records 3% Paintings, Prints and Drawings 2% *Based on number of digitisation projects (over 670 as of 18/05/17) Largest proportion of funding Public / Private Partnership 20%* Openly Licensed 80%* Available onsite *Estimates

51. 51 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk How do we give access to onsite-only Digital Collections (80% of our Digital Collections)?

52. 52 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk READING ROOM ON SITE NOT ONLINE OPEN British Library £ Labs Residency Model Challenges of access to Digital Collections

53. 53 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Accessing digital collections onsite OPEN £ • Have to be ‘onsite’ • Need to be security cleared for some collections – Hence ‘Researcher in Residence Model’ • Permission required (depending on ‘story’ of collection) • Content could be on various media formats (not always online) • 5 - 20 % re-use of material for non commercial research for some collections • We are learning ‘pathways’ so that this becomes ‘everyday’ to provide onsite access to some digital collections in the future

54. 54 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Lessons Learned & Challenges…(1) • Start with a conversation, our data isn’t all on Google (yet!) & not easy to find. Need to create and embrace serendipity & opportunities for use by talking! • Need to have several conversations with several stakeholders & tap into their tacit knowledge that isn’t always written down sometimes to progress ideas. https://goo.gl/XaHYT9 • Often misunderstandings because of jargon & different meaning of words. • Expectations change when researchers actually see the data, systems & experience the ‘culture’ of the organisation. • Opening & using digital collections occasionally requires a need to let go of the emotional & psychological connection to them https://goo.gl/OYAsmK ? https://goo.gl/ytmWnu

55. 55 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Lessons Learned & Challenges…(2) • Embrace dirty data, it may never be perfect! • Careful of making conclusions (trust) based on ‘black box’ software & techniques (e.g. sentiment analysis) • We tend to work with researchers who can be ‘flexible’ with their research questions & are willing to embrace challenges. • Many researchers have the domain knowledge but lack technical / digital skills to use Digital Research methods. Should they be teamed up with those that want to solve problems or get trained? • Huge appetite to use digital content & data (e.g. Flickr Commons stats). https://goo.gl/mcpa8B https://goo.gl/i5GVfI https://goo.gl/yQ5s4U https://goo.gl/kwcK8J https://goo.gl/wMTS3Z

56. 56 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Labs mindset… 1. Start a conversation, generate positive energy and try to support ideas 2. Start with small experiments, but think big. 3. Fail faster (don’t be afraid) and persevere. 4. Reject perfectionism! Good enough is sometimes…good enough! 5. Celebrate the uses of digital collections https://goo.gl/noASfl

57. 57 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk https://goo.gl/SUOO0J The Magic of Openness! • If digitised / digital collections are not used, what is the point of digitising / keeping them (i.e. apart from preservation)? • Opening up our digital collections offers new ways for the Library’s content to be re-discovered, remixed, re-imagined and ‘re- energised’ • Generates plenty of examples to inspire use by others

58. 58 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Hey there Young Sailor! Ling Low 2016 – Hey there Young Sailor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcOP1E5bRE0VIMEO.COM/SWEETANDLOWFILMS @SWEETNLOWFILMS ON INSTAGRAM @SWEETNLOWLING ON TWITTER The Impatient Sisters

59. 59 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk The Future of BL Labs • Continue to engage with researchers • Learn what they want to do • Collect evidence of demand • Develop Business Model and Support process to make ‘Business as Usual’ at the British Library • Help to create pathway to developing a ‘Digital Research Suite’ at the British Library by 2019 http://www.library.pitt.edu/digital-scholarship-services https://goo.gl/W4TjGt

60. 60 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Taking a peek at our Open Data A digitised book…

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63. 63 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk

64. 64 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Optically Character Recognised (OCR) generated Text Scanned Page Image on Flickr Commons https://goo.gl/AC43vs

65. 65 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk OCR XML Generated by ABBY Fine Reader

66. 66 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Taking a peek at our on-site only accessible data A digitised newspaper

67. 67 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Accessing digitised newspapers onsite at the BL 1 Windows 7 External access possible through Citrix Server Results of digitisation exist on Windows file shares!

68. 68 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Accessing digitised newspapers onsite at the BL (JISC 1) 2 12 Volumes, each with terabytes of data

69. 69 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Accessing digitised newspapers onsite at the BL 3

79. 79 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Accessing digitised newspapers onsite at the BL 13 Accessing original ‘master’ image (not cropped or post processed) Or ‘service’ copy (post processed) and results of OCR available as ALTO XML

80. 80 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Accessing digitised newspapers onsite at the BL 14a Accessing original ‘master’ image (not cropped or post processed) in .TIFF format

81. 81 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Accessing digitised newspapers onsite at the BL Accessing original ‘master’ image (not cropped or post processed) 14b

82. 82 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Accessing digitised newspapers onsite at the BL 15a Accessing ‘service’ Copy (post processed) and results of OCR available as ALTO XML

83. 83 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Accessing digitised newspapers onsite at the BL Accessing ‘service’ Copy (post processed) 15b

84. 84 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Accessing digitised newspapers onsite at the BL 15c Accessing OCR as ALTO XML

85. 85 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Accessing digitised newspapers through Gale Interface (subscription) 1

86. 86 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Accessing digitised newspapers through Gale Interface (subscription) 2

87. 87 @mahendra_mahey @BL_Labs @BL_DigiSchol #bldigital https://goo.gl/6zFrK6 mahendra.mahey@bl.uk Explore or Imagine Our Data! • CSV of Metadata https://data.bl.uk/digbks/dig19cbooks-mdata-csv.csv • 19th Century Books - Book Metadata - 01/09/2013. https://data.bl.uk/digbks/db21.html • Digitised Books - Flickr Tag History - Dec 2013 to March 2016. TSV https://data.bl.uk/digbks/db15.html • Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts - Metadata https://data.bl.uk/hebrewmanuscripts/heb1.html • Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 2210 - Or 2364 https://data.bl.uk/hebrewmanuscripts/heb8.html • Theatrical playbills from Britain and Ireland (OCR text only) https://data.bl.uk/playbills/pb2.html • Portraits of actors, views of theatres and playbills (covering 1750 - 1821 in a single volume) https://data.bl.uk/singlesheet/por1.html • Volumes of Lysons Collectanea (Amusements), comprising broadsides, cuttings, advertisements on amusements.1660- 1840. https://data.bl.uk/singlesheet/ad1.html https://data.bl.uk • Have a look at the data. • Data Quality • Issues Or an idea you have thought of what to do with the data! http://labs.bl.uk/Ideas+for+Labs Smaller datasets

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