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The document discusses the British Library's efforts in promoting digital scholarship. It outlines the library's mission to support digital scholarship through developing innovative models, training staff, and engaging with user communities. It describes various initiatives like creating a digital scholarship training program, hosting discussions on topics in digital libraries, curating e-manuscripts, and crowdsourcing projects that engage users. The library also aims to enhance research through tools that analyze and link digital collections, and works with partners to provide wider access to collections.
Lecture city university_digital_librarian
- 1. Digital Librarian: Maximising access and re-use of digital collections Aquiles Alencar-Brayner @AquilesBrayner
- 2. www.bl.uk 2 Digital Curatorship: an emerging field in libraries and other cultural institutions Redefining the concept of “Digital Curation” Curation not only of objects but working on definition, expansion, training and support of Digital Scholarship amongst researchers and general users Understand life and use of digital resources in the context of emerging technologies
- 3. www.bl.uk 3 Our Mission • Support institutions to adopt clear strategies and operating models for Digital Scholarship • Develop innovative models for Digital Scholarship exploiting digital content and new technologies • Offer training and support to staff on Digital Scholarship practices and resources • Support of programmes involving digitsed and born-digital materials • Engagement with new and existing user communities
- 4. www.bl.uk 4 Digital Libraries: 10 “in” rules 1.Integrity: access to digital object as it has been created 2.Integration: different contents and file formats available from a single platform 3.Interoperability: different programmes and operating systems compatible with each other 4.Instant access: unrestricted access to material, especially from mobile devices 5.Interaction: catalogues that provide Web 2.0 features (blogs, wikis, tags, content sharing, etc) 6.Information: comprehensive metadata for fast and reliable retrieval of content 7.Ingest of content: constant upload of new digital content 8. Interpretation: digital content placed in relation to other items in the collection 9.Innovation: material to be presented in innovative ways 10.Indefinite access: digital objects to be preserved for posterity
- 5. www.bl.uk 5 Scalability: how to filter, find and analyse the information I need? • How many data is generated in ONE day? 1. Twitter: 7 TB 2. Facebook: 10 TB • By 2020 we will have approximately 35 ZB (1.1 Trillion GB) of Data available
- 6. www.bl.uk 6 Main Activities at the BL • Staff training • Promotion of Digital Scholarship within BL • Curation of digital research data • Project management • Engagement with users • Create and share online content with other libraries and research centres • Communication channels
- 7. www.bl.uk 7 Staff training: Increasing skills and awareness • Objectives: – Wider engagement from staff in implementing the 2020 Vision and Digital Scholarship Strategy – Increased ability to work with digital content and services – Increased ability to shape digital services – Increased engagement with researchers – Increased confidence in establishing collaborations with partners in digital scholarship – Improved fluency around data management
- 8. www.bl.uk 8 Digital Scholarship Training Programme: 15 courses (offered 3 times a year) launched in October 2012 1. Social Media: Introduction to Yammer, Twitter, and Blogging 2. Working collaboratively: Using the BL Wiki 3. Presentation skills: From PowerPoint to Prezi 4. Foundations in working with Digital Objects: From Images to A/V 5. Behind the Screen: Basics of the Web 6. Metadata for Electronic Resources: Dublin Core, METS, MODS, RDF, XML 7. What is Digital Scholarship? 8. Digital Collections at British Library 9. Digitisation at British Library 10.Communicating our collections online: Access & Reuse Policy 11.Crowdsourcing in Libraries, Museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions 12.Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) 13.Data Visualisation for Analysis in Scholarly Research 14.Geo-referencing and Digital Mapping 15.Information Integration: Mash-ups, API’s and The Semantic Web •
- 9. www.bl.uk 9 Digital Conversations • Series of talks organised by DRCT on specific themes around ideas, tools and projects around Digital Scholarship. Contributors have included entrepreneurs, technologists, librarians, academics and analysts. • Events held: 1. Search and Discovery 2. Sharing and Annotation 3. Profiling and Privacy 4. Open for Re-use 5. Future of Text 6. Digital Narratives 7. Using the Cloud • Events are recorded on video and made publicly available on BL Youtube account: http://bit.ly/XFJrcI
- 10. www.bl.uk 10 Curation e-Manuscripts • Extracting and archiving digital content from personal devices • Assist with capture, management, description, and preservation of personal digital collections to facilitate access and content analysis • Data analysis beyond documents
- 11. www.bl.uk 11 Support for digital collections and services Involvement with BL digital programmes and services run by other departments • Born-digital content: Tools for data analysis: JISC 1996-2010 • Digitised resources: Codex Sinaiticus Shakespeare in Quarto
- 12. www.bl.uk 12 Engagement with users I: Growing Knowledge exhibition (2010 – 2011) Beautiful Science (Feb – May 2014) Growing Knowledge offered a physical space where public could walk in and start exploring a wide number of digital tools used by researchers from text mining to online collaboration. Beautiful Science explores how our understanding of ourselves and our planet has evolved alongside our ability to diagram, graph, and map the mass data of the time. http://bit.ly/1juG9VG
- 13. www.bl.uk 13 Engagement with users II: Crowdsourcing projects • Sound map -Your Accent: The 'Your accents' interactive map displays a collection of recordings created between November 2010 and April 2011 and is a result of the British Library exhibition, Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices. People all over the world were invited to record their voice reading a children’s story, Mr Tickle (© 1971 Roger Hargreaves), to help the Library capture contemporary English accents. The recordings are available at http://sounds.bl.uk/Sound-Maps/Your-Accents • Chinese Book Cards Catalogue: project supported by the Chinese embassy aiming to identify OCLC records that match 28,000 printed card catalogues of Chinese publications held at the BL using crowdsourcing activities. The idea is to derive matching records from OCLC and ingest the data into the BL electronic catalogue (ALEPH): http://www.libcrowds.com/
- 14. www.bl.uk 14 Engagement with users III: BL Labs (Launched March 2013) The BL Labs project, sponsored by A. Mellon Foundation, designed to support the BL to provide access to its digital resources and enable scholars to research entire collections rather than just individual items by: • 1. Reviewing the BL’s approach to licensing: moving towards a coherent licence framework and setting the standard for access to catalogue metadata and out- of-copyright materials in digital form. • 2. Enabling scholars to • use and implement novel services; to access, download, and analyse digital content; and to link data to other data and digital collections in order to allow research that analyses entire collections. This will be achieved by providing access to catalogue and digital materials through simple open protocols and semantic linking. • 3. Creating BL Labs so that scholars can work intensively with the Library’s digital collections to collaboratively define and implement the services that they need in the digital age.
- 15. www.bl.uk 15
- 16. www.bl.uk 16 Million image corpus
- 17. www.bl.uk 17 BL Labs • Mechanical Curator Flickr Wikimedia How are users engaging with content? List of projects Video Other projects: • BL Digital Music Lab • Off the Map • Victorian Meme Machine
- 18. www.bl.uk 18 Anna Gerber and Desmond Schmidt: Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4bjZSJ4cY&feature=youtu.be
- 19. www.bl.uk 19 Take two key British Library collections: 19th century newspapers & geo-referenced historic maps Explore a key story in the history of British democracy: the Chartist movement of the 1830s & 1840s Discover local & national histories of protest places: Katrina Navickas: Political Meetings Mapper
- 20. www.bl.uk 20 Katrina Navickas: Political Meetings Mapper k.navickas@herts.ac.uk A tool to extract and geo-code textual data
- 21. www.bl.uk 21 Engagement with users IV: Geo-referencing • http://www.bl.uk/maps/ • Old Map on Google Earth
- 22. www.bl.uk 22 Engagement with users V • Digital Scholarship Survey i. The Library plays an important role in digital research according to 82.3% of users: 53.3% rate the BL as a very important digital research library and 28.8% rates it as quite important. This is a significant increase (+34.5%) in the recognition of the BL as a very important institution for digital research since the last DS survey in 2011. ii. There has been since 2011 an increase in the use of social media, especially social networks (+26%), to share research findings and interests among users. More information on the BL Digital Scholarship research can be found at http://bit.ly/1ugnlh9 0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 2014 2011 BL role in digital research 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
- 23. www.bl.uk 23 Creating and sharing digital content through Social Media: • Wikimedia Commons • Pinterest • Google Maps • Flickr • HistoryPin
- 24. www.bl.uk 24 Network & partnerships
- 25. www.bl.uk 25 Provide wider access to our collections Enable users to create and manipulate data Enhance research and learning Support of Digital Scholarship: New tools applied to digital collections: annotation, citation, comparison, analysis, etc. Awareness of emerging research trends within DS Strong collaboration between researchers, IT and information professionals Distinctive through: Comprehensive digital collections Core infra-structure to store, preserve, discover and access Delivered through: Joint projects E-platforms Connecting data sets to research tools Transform scholarly production & communication Digital Scholarship Digital Curatorship Staff training and support
- 26. www.bl.uk 26 Communication Channels • BL Digital Scholarship Blog: • http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/ • Connect - DRCT Newsletter (internal) • Twitter (Digital Curators personal accounts) • Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LYaclanmcU
Editor's Notes
- #16: One way is through the British Library Labs project and the Digital Curator team which make up the Digital Research Team. The aim of the lab is to encourage scholars to experiment at scale with our digital collections and data. The team holds competitions, events, and creates the space in which to engage with scholars working in this realm. Through the labs we’re learning how to better support scholars and build new services.
- #17: 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.
- #20: The British Library has key collections which are vital to historical research of popular protest and the democracy movement of the 19th century: 19th century newspapers Historic map collection, now increasingly digitised and geo-referenced through crowd-sourcing Historians want to know where and when the Chartist movement - which was the first and largest movement for democracy in 19th century Britain - held thousands of meetings and demonstrations to campaign for the vote. Yet we have so far only been able to plot the locations of small numbers of political meetings manually.
- #21: Political Meetings Mapper is a tool to extract notices of meetings from historical newspapers and plot them on layers of historical maps in the British Library's collections. Political Meetings Mapper will develop a tool for text-mining and geo-locating the records of political meetings, and enable anyone to access the maps and data on an interactive website. By plotting the meetings listed in the Chartist newspaper, The Northern Star, from 1838 to 1844, it hopes to discover new spatial patterns in where their meetings happened, and in so doing, help answer the questions of how and why the movement happened. It will then aim to make the tool eventually adaptable to enable scholars to plot any form of event and spatial information using historical texts and maps. Political Meetings Mapper will demonstrate the relevance and legacy of the history of democracy for today’s society. Regions, towns, even streets will find a longer sense of their political heritage, enabling them to find out what meetings or events occurred in their area, and therefore encourage a continued engagement with politics among local communities.