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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs

9th March 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016Presentation at the University of East Anglia

Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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One of Largest Library’s in the World180 million* items

1-2 %* digitised

* estimate

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http://www.bl.uk/subjects/digital-scholarship

http://data.bl.ukbeing developed

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How?

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BL Labs Competition:Tell us your ideas of what to do with our digital collections; opportunities to work with us.

BL Labs Awards: Show us what you have already done with our digital content.

Projects & ideas:Talk to us about working on potential projects & collaborations.

Events:Attend any of our events, seminars or workshops.

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Why?

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Labs objectives •who is using and who would like to use our digital content.

•why and how our digital content is being used.

•hear and learn about innovative ideas/uses for our digital content.

•connect with the users of our digital content.

•support the BL’s mission statement.

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•Deadline 11th April 2016.

•Two finalists announced late May 2016.

•Residency June–October 2016.•Up to £3600 in support (technical, curatorial etc).

•Showcase @Symposium Monday 7th Nov 2016.

•Winner £3000 & Runner up £1000!

BL Labs Competition (2016)

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Political Meetings Mapper (2015) Katrina Navickas

http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.uk/maps/

Chartist’s London Walking Tour 21st Sept 2015

The Red Lion Pub, SohoChartists Re-enactment

Chartist’s Meeting Locations in London

Chartist’s Meetings Heatmap in London

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Crowdsource Arcade (2015)Adam Crymble

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’

http://itch.io/jam/britishlibrary30 minute talk at BL Labs Symposium 2015 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MtNgc8-SmE

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•Categories: Research; Artistic; Commercial; Teaching / Learning.

•Deadline 5th September 2016.

•Winners announced @Symposium Monday 7th Nov 2016.

•Category winners £500 & Runner ups £100!

BL Labs Awards (2016)

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http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/spatialhum.wordpress/Labs Symposium 2015: https://goo.gl/ZCU56a

Research Award winner (2015):Spatial Humanities: Lancaster University

“Combining Text Analysis and Geographic Information Systems to investigate geographical representation of disease in digitised 19th century newspapers” http://goo.gl/yZ3xCJ

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Curious Images Event 2014https://goo.gl/ubL0AO

Labs Symposium 2015https://goo.gl/gRZ5Ia

44 Men who Look 44(Notice the direction faces)

Collage Art

Artistic Award winner (2015):‘The Order of Things’ by Mario Klingemann

Read more: http://goo.gl/dM8ieA

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Entrepreneurial Award winner (2015):‘Redesigning Alice’ by Dina Malkova

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DinaMalkova

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Jury’s ‘Special Mention’ Award (2015):‘Indexing the BL 1 million & Mapping the Maps’

by James Heald

https://goo.gl/WYZCB2

http://goo.gl/HNQq5e

https://goo.gl/VPgffL

https://commons.wikimedia.org/

Labs Symposium (2015)https://goo.gl/djtm1b

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Finally…

• Help us promote the Competition and Awards!

• Know anyone how has used, is using or who wants to use our digital content?

• Please get in contact: – labs@bl.uk– labs.bl.uk– @BL_Labs

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Thank you!END