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British Library Labs
British Library’s Cultural Heritage Data
Mahendra Mahey
1130– 1140, 25 November 2016,
The International Scene and next steps
Accelerating Human Imagination, A workshop with the Arthur C Clark Center for Human Imagination,
UC San Diego and the University of Liverpool in London,
33 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1AG, UK.
https://goo.gl/VFR8Hm

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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.

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Collections – 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

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digital
Data all around us!
/
Knowledge Quarter London
55 knowledge organisations within 1 mile radius of
Kings Cross, http://www.knowledgequarter.london
https://goo.gl/pGO7QY
digital
Data all around us!

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#bldigital
1-2 %* digitised
* estimate
Digitisation
Partnerships
Commercial & Other Organisations
Amount
increasing rapidly
Bias in digitisation
http://goo.gl/bR9UJL
Sample Generator

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

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only in
Reading
Rooms due
to ©
only on
site due to
© or
ethical
not online /
available –
various storage
devices,
personal data
online
and open
British Library
online
behind
paywall
Digital access at the Library
Labs Residency Model
https://goo.gl/tvNVRB
http://goo.gl/ii0XHG

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Curators /
Researchers
Access &
Reuse Group
©
Developers/
Technical
Staff
Project
Board
Universities & wider
The World
ResearchersBL Labs
British Library
Digital
Scholarship
Digital
Content
United Kingdom
Advisory
Board
Digital
Research
Stakeholders involved in Labs

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Wider…not just Researches
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

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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

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Cultural Heritage Datasets
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
Launched November 7, 2016
Discussion list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CULTURAL-HERITAGE-DATASETS

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Why and how are doing this?
• Working closely with and listening to those who want use
our digital collections and data for their work and helping to
build services, tools and processes to support them
• We can learn how we are and should be supporting them.
– Is the access to digital collections we provide sufficient?
– Do we have the right tools?
– Do we provide the right support?
– Where are the gaps between what they want and what we
can give?
– How do we build the bridges to overcome them?
– Many more reasons…

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Contact us
Mahendra Mahey
Manager of BL Labs
mahendra.mahey@bl.uk
labs@bl.uk