Digitised Images Sharing and Reuse by Stella Wisdom
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The document summarizes a talk given by Stella Wisdom, a Digital Curator at the British Library, about digitizing collections and making them available online. Some key points: - The British Library digitizes collections to make them accessible online and supports researchers through guidance and collaborative projects. - Digitized datasets are available on their open data site for research and creative reuse, and they welcome feedback on the site and how data has been used. - A collection of photographs from Canada was digitized and made available on Wikimedia Commons, increasing visibility and reuse on Wikipedia. - Algorithms have been used to extract images from digitized books and curate them on social media, and these images have inspired
Digitised Images Sharing and Reuse by Stella Wisdom
- 1. Talk for volunteers from The Courtauld Institute of Art 03/05/2017 Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator @miss_wisdom Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/ Digitised Images Sharing & Re-use
- 2. www.bl.uk 2 Meet the Digital Research Team We support researchers in the innovative use of British Library's digital collections and data through: • Working behind the scenes to get content in digital form and online • Offering digital research support and guidance • Supporting collaborative projects • Running events, competitions, and awards
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- 4. www.bl.uk 4 Datasets data.bl.uk As part of its work to open its data to wider use, the British Library is making copies of some of its datasets available for research and creative purposes. This site is a 'beta', and is in the early stages of development. If you have questions or feedback about this site or our open data work, please email digitalresearch@bl.uk. We'd also love to hear what you've done or made with the data.
- 5. www.bl.uk 5 Collecting Canada • Collection developed between 1895 and 1924 via colonial copyright deposits (the result of an obscure and much amended mid- nineteenth century law) • Contains over 4,000 photographs • Collection covers the whole of Canada, with photographs of Brandon (Manitoba) and Moose Jaw (Saskatchewan) as well as Toronto, Montreal, etc. Vancouver fire department drills (22254)
- 6. www.bl.uk 6 • Picturing Canada now hosted on Digitised Manuscripts and Wikimedia Commons • Both contain notes on holding institution, copyright status and affiliate collections • Wikimedia Commons links back to the Archives and Manuscripts catalogue records and Digitised Manuscripts for digital object ‘Young Cree Man’ by G. E. Fleming (27754)
- 7. www.bl.uk 7 • Promoting presence of digital collections is important • Commons is a high traffic site (over 5 million hits a week) • Spread the word: – blogs and social media – online journals (such as Public Domain Review) • Results are worth it: images are furnishing over 220 Wikipedia pages in 12 languages • Try innovative displays, such as an interactive map http://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2017/03/canada-through- the-lens-mapping-a-collection-on-display.html ‘Miss Canada’ (38164)
- 8. www.bl.uk 8 Fri 26 May - Sun 10 Sep 2017, Second Floor Gallery http://www.bl.uk/events/canada-through-the-lens
- 9. www.bl.uk 9 Mechanical Curator What can68,000 books tell us? Image: Artwork by Alicia Martin
- 10. www.bl.uk 10 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
- 11. www.bl.uk 11 Extracting Images from OCR 11 <?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
- 13. www.bl.uk 13 Flickr albums created through crowd-sourced tagging
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- 17. www.bl.uk 17 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
- 18. www.bl.uk 18 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
- 19. www.bl.uk 19 Hey There, Young Sailor written and directed by Ling Low with visual art by Lyn Ong. Inspired by the works of early cinema pioneer Georges Méliès, the video draws on 19th century images from the British Library's Flickr collection. The video was commissioned by Malaysian indie folk band The Impatient Sisters https://youtu.be/bcOP1E5bRE0
- 20. www.bl.uk 20 Fashion Utopia, by Kris Hofmann and Claudia Rosa Lukas An 80 second animation and five vines which accompanied the Austrian contribution to the International Fashion Showcase London, organised by the British Council and the British Fashion Council. http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2016/09/fashion-utopias-and-the-british-librarys-flickr- collection.html More than 500 images were used from the British Library Flickr Commons collection to create a moving collage that was, juxtaposed with stop-frame animated items of fashion and accessories. http://www.krishofmann.co.uk/work/#/ifs-2016- somerset-house/ https://vimeo.com/174946933
- 21. www.bl.uk 21 Sarah Cole, Poetic Places Creative-Entrepreneur-In-Residence http://www.poeticplaces.uk/
- 22. www.bl.uk 22 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.
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- 29. www.bl.uk 29 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
- 30. www.bl.uk 30 C.J. Visscher, London , 1616 (detail) Maps C.5.a.6
- 31. www.bl.uk 31 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
- 32. www.bl.uk 32 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)
- 33. www.bl.uk 33 Image from Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, John Rutter, 1823
- 34. www.bl.uk 34 Image from Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, John Rutter, 1823
- 35. www.bl.uk 35 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
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- 37. www.bl.uk 37 The original handwritten manuscript of the story, ‘Alice’s Adventures Under Ground’, which was first told to Alice Liddell by Lewis Carroll in 1862.
- 38. www.bl.uk 38 2015 Winning Game: “The Wondering Lands of Alice” Team Off our Rockers, De Montfort University in Leicester YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/7bwx4uUnbV4
- 39. www.bl.uk 39 #Shakespeare400 2016 commemorations of 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare
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- 41. www.bl.uk 41 The Tempest Shakespeare was inspired to write The Tempest when he read of the fate of the Sea- Adventure, a ship taking English colonists to North America which was wrecked off the coast of Bermuda in 1609. The Bermudas were then the most feared place on earth for sea travellers, who had heard stories about the islands being inhabited by devils. Map of Bermuda as published in Gerhard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius' world atlas of 1633. Maps K.Top 123
- 42. www.bl.uk 42 Off the Map 2016 1st Place: “The Tempest” by Team Quattro, De Montfort University, Leicester YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/0lzpEFgpk3Y
- 43. www.bl.uk 43 A Midsummer Night’s Dream From Boydell's Collection of Prints illustrating Shakespeare's works http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/boydells-collection-of-prints-illustrating-shakespeares-works
- 44. www.bl.uk 44 Off the Map 2016 2nd Place: ‘Midsummer’ by Tom Battey, London College of Communication YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/sz-IKvp62NI Download the game: http://tombattey.com/portfolio-items/midsummer/
Editor's Notes
- #3: Set up in 2010 the team was formed as a way of dedicating focus on the changing research landscape in the digital realm. Now embedded in collection areas, and as you’ll see later, joining the library explicitly as part of major digitisation projects. Main activities: Getting content in digital form and online Collaborations, Competitions & Awards Digital research support and guidance
- #8: Remember to break out and show examples – illustrate use of image and mark on blog post
- #10: 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.
- #11: 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?
- #12: 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.]
- #14: 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.
- #15: 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.
- #18: 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.
- #23: Aims developed quickly at project start Refined over project, flexible mindset Last point: to achieve this chose (needed) to use DIY app platform…