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- 1. Doing Digital Research @ British Library An intro to the Digital Research Team Pre-1600 Doctoral Open Day 2017
- 2. www.bl.uk 2 Defining Digital Research Using computational methods either to answer existing research questions or to challenge existing theoretical paradigms…. Geotagging Data Visualisation Data Mining Georeferencing Digital Mapping Crowdsourcing Text mining Collaboration
- 3. www.bl.uk 3 The Digital Research Team is a cross- disciplinary mix of curators, researchers, librarians and programmers supporting the creation and innovative use of British Library's digital collections. http://bl.uk/digital @BL_DigiSchol Meet the Digital Scholarship Team
- 4. www.bl.uk 4 The Digital Research Team We support researchers in the innovative use of British Library's digital collections and data by: • Offering digital research training and guidance • Supporting collaborative projects • Running events, competitions, and awards • Behind the scenes work to get content digitised and online
- 5. www.bl.uk 5 Discovering Digitised Content • Digitised Manuscripts www.bl.uk/manuscripts • Collection Guides www.bl.uk/collection-guides • Subject pages www.bl.uk/subjects • Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary • Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki /Category:Collections_of_the_Britis h_Library
- 6. www.bl.uk 6 Discovering Digitised Content
- 8. www.bl.uk 8 Unique Digital Projects International Dunhuang Project (IDP) http://idp.bl.uk/ A ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet. Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) http://eap.bl.uk/ Preserves at-risk archives in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration world-wide. The archival material relates to a pre-modern period of a society's history, typically any period before industrialisation, digital collections include newspapers, periodicals, audio and audio-visual material, photographs and rare printed books. Hebrew Manuscripts Project 3000 digitised manuscripts spanning 1000 years. Digital Curator, Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert, explored 3D modelling, annotations, data visualisations, image processing, spatial representations
- 9. www.bl.uk 9 Handwritten text recognition
- 11. www.bl.uk 11 Big Data History of Music How can vast amounts of bibliographic data held by research libraries be unlocked for music researchers to analyse? Can this data be interrogated in ways that challenge the traditional narratives of music history? Analyses and visualisations exposed previously uncharted patterns in the history of music, for instance the rise and fall of music printing in 16th- and 17th- century Europe (huge dips in output in Venice were down to plague and war).
- 12. www.bl.uk 12 Big Data and Old History https://youtu.be/tp4y-_VoXdA
- 13. www.bl.uk 13 Political Meetings Mapper Video: https://youtu.be/XabsuyNkD5s
- 14. www.bl.uk 14 “I was able to do in minutes with a python code what I’d spent the last ten years trying to do by hand!” Dr. Katrina Navickas, BL Labs Winner 2015 Political Meetings Mapper
- 15. www.bl.uk 15 Combining Text Analysis and Geographic Information Systems to investigate the representation of disease in nineteenth- century newspapers Goal: analyse the geographies in large corpora while remaining sensitive to the subtleties and nuances within the texts (over 377 million words from the London based newspaper The Era, 1838–1900) Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places at Lancaster University, with Paul Atkinson (historian), Ian Gregory (digital humanities), Andrew Hardie (linguistics), Daniel Kershaw (computer science), Amelia Joulain-Jay (linguistics), Catherine Porter (geography) and Paul Rayson (computer science).
- 16. www.bl.uk 16 Digital/computational techniques Combining techniques from Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and corpus linguistics to create a set of techniques they call Geographical Text Analysis (GTA). GIS is effectively a mapping and database technology that is typically used with quantitative sources. Corpus linguistics is concerned with analysing large textual collections using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. Collocation effectively asks what words are found near to a search-term, allowing us to understand what themes are associated with other themes. Geoparsing allows us to identify place-names in the text and allocate them with coordinates.
- 17. www.bl.uk 17 Virtual Mappa used the DM image annotation software. Simple markup tools applicable to almost any visual- textual document. - Cotton Tiberius B V, f.56v - Royal 14 C, f.1v-2r - Harley 3667, f.8v - Add 28681, f.9r Maps transcribed and translated, through annotations linked to roll-over markers on map images. Full text searchable. Multiple manuscripts from different repositories in one view. Virtual Mappa Project: Online, Annotated Medieval Mappaemundi
- 18. www.bl.uk 18 Pelagios: Enabling Linked Ancient Geodata Collaborative project to transcribe & map Classical and Medieval placenames from digital texts and manuscript images. Allows for visualisation of place and space in historical documents. BL contributed >350 digitised images of medieval materials, plus one digital paleographer!
- 19. www.bl.uk 19 Find out more • Humanist mailing list http://dhhumanist.org/ • IHR Digital History Seminar http://ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/ • Digital Classicist mailing list, events http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ • BL Labs Awards http://labs.bl.uk/British+Library+Labs+Awards
- 20. www.bl.uk 20 Digital Scholarship blog http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/ digital-scholarship/
- 21. www.bl.uk 21 Got a question? Get in touch! www.bl.uk/digital digitalresearch@bl.uk @BL_DigiSchol
Notas do Editor
- 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
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000002D6F6
- 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. We aim to describe collections in terms of their data format (images, full text, metadata, etc.), licences, temporal and geographic scope, originating purpose (e.g. specific digitisation projects or exhibitions) and collection, and related subjects or themes. 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.
- If you are interested in getting collection level metadata for your digital research purposes contact us!
- Research Question: Brought together for the first time the world's biggest datasets about published sheet music, music manuscripts and classical concerts (in excess of 5 million records) for statistical analysis, manipulation and visualisation. Aim was to unlock musical-bibliographical data held by libraries in order to create new research opportunities. The project cleaned and enhanced aspects of the British Library catalogues of printed and manuscript music, which are now available as open data from www.bl.uk/bibliographic/download.html and piloted big data research techniques on these and five other datasets. Source Collections: Data from seven existing databases and catalogues were used as the basis of this project: the British Library's catalogues of printed and manuscript music; the bibliographies created by Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) that list European music printed 1500-1800 and music manuscripts in European libraries; and the RISM UK Music Manuscripts Database and the Concert Programmes Project database. Digital/Computational Techniques: Data wrangling using Open Refine and MARCedit. Data visualisation using: Google Fusion Tables and Palladio Project slides: http://www.slideshare.net/historyspot/ihr-big-data-history-of-music-9-june15 Outcome: Analyses and visualisations of these datasets exposed previously uncharted patterns in the history of music, for instance involving the rise and fall of music printing in 16th- and 17th-century Europe (huge dips in output in Venice were down to plague and war!), or the rise of nationalist colourings in music of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The detection of these long-term trends permits new ways of linking music history to wider histories of culture, economics, society and politics
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4y-_VoXdA
- The images of the relevant pages of the Northern Star were run through an Optical Character Recognition program (Abbyy Finereader 12) and the resulting text was checked manually. We developed a set of Python codes to extract and geo-code the place of meeting, using a gazetteer of places, and parse the date of the meeting.
- The project has been developing Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and corpus linguistics techniques and applying them to studies concerned with Lake District literature and nineteenth century social history.