British Library LabsWorking with News Data across different media: A workshop

Monday 7th of September 2015

Mahendra MaheyManager of British Library LabsAn Introduction

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Aim

• Bring together researchers, developers and content owners who want to use BL news data

• Potential collaborations

• Planning for Hack event on 16 November

• Challenges of working across different news media / data

• Working with partners

• What researchers want

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Programme• 1200 – 1300 Lunch

• 1300 – 1345 Introduction and News Data at the BL

• 1345 – 1515 – 7 short presentations from Researchers, National Libraries, BBC, and publishers (Around 10 minutes each with time for quick questions)

• 1515 – 1530 Coffee

• 1530 – 1645 – Group discussions on four topics (25 mins), 10 minutes summarise per group/questions

• 1645 – Wrap up

• 1700 - End

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180 Million Items

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Digitisation at the British Library

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Growth of the digital library

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UK Web Archive

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Digital is changing research

Data broken downrecombined and

duplicatedImage: Tower of Babble, Book Sculpture by Brian Dettmer

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Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Knowledge Quarter

• Partners: Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, University College London, Warwick

• Funded at £42m over 5 years

• Headquartered @ British Library

• Part of Knowledge Quarter

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Mahendra MaheyManager of British Library Labs

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Ben O’SteenTechnical Lead ofBritish Library Labs@benosteen

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Hana LewisProject OfficerBritish Library Labs

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CompetitionTell us your ideas of what to do with our digital content

AwardsShow us what you have done with our digital content (closes 14 September 2015)

ProjectsTalk to us about working on collaborative projects

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British National BibliographyUK Web Archive Data19th Century Books

Environmental Sounds

Book ordering and anonymised reader

data

Resonance FM10 year CommunityArts Radio Show

Datasets, Books / Text, Images / Music, Maps, Sounds, Multimedia

http://labs.bl.uk/Digital+Collections

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Example Digital research methods

http://labs.bl.uk/Launch+Event (has some examples from researchers)

Corpus analysis toolsText Mining

Visualisations

Location based searching

Geotagging

Annotation

Crowdsourcing / Human Computation

Natural Language Processing

Using Application Programming Interfaces for datasets e.g. Metadata, Images

Transcribing

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Political Meetings MapperBL Labs Competition Winner 2015

Katrina Navickas

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Victorian Meme MachineBL Labs 2014 Competition Winner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK95lzaPNp0Bob Nicholson

http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/

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Tagging a million imagesHarnessing Crowdsourcing

http://www.metadatagames.org/

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Cardiff University’sLost Visions ProjectAdam Crymble

BL Labs 2015 Competition Winner

What if crowd sourcing

looked like this?

http://goo.gl/LBfJ4W

Drawing on downtime

Drawing on scarcity of access

Drawing on energy reserved for ‘play’

James Heald

Mario Klingemann

Chico 45

Use computational methods

Human Tagger

Top British Library Flickr Commons Taggers

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Crowdsourcing Flickr and OtherDigitised Maps

http://www.bl.uk/maps/

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Crossroads of Curiosity at the British Library until Nov 8 2015