Digital Scholarship

Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator

@miss_wisdom

Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/

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Digital Research & Curator TeamFormed in 2010 as part of the new Digital Scholarship department

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Our Mission• Support the BL 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 BL staff on Digital Scholarship practices and resources

• Involvement with various digital programmes (internal and external) involving digitisation, born-digital materials, publication on the Web, etc.

• Engage with new and existing user communities

• Strengthen the BL capabilities

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Main Activities

• 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

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Digital Scholarship Training Programme: 15 courses 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

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Engagement: Crowdsourcing projects

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/

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Off the Map videogame competition for 2013

Three sub themes:• Stonehenge, including a proposed plan to rebuild

Stonehenge• Pyramids at Giza• 17th Century London, including a survey map made

months after the Great Fire of 1666

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C.J. Visscher, London , 1616 (detail) Maps C.5.a.6

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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

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2013 winning team: Pudding Lane Productions from De Montfort University, Leicester who created an interpretation of 17th Century Londonhttp://puddinglanedmuga.blogspot.co.uk/http://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0 (Flythrough starts at 0:50)

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Gothic theme, tie-in with the Library's exhibitionTerror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination 3 October 2014 - 20 January 2015

• Fonthill AbbeyHome of William Beckford, author of Vathek

• Edgar Allan Poe’s Masque of the Red Death

• Whitby and its association with Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula

Off the Map 2014

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Off the Map 2014 Winners

• 2014 winning team: Gothulus RiftUniversity of South Wales

• Created a Fonthill Abbey inspired game called Nix using Oculus Rift

• Blog: http://nixgamedevblog.blogspot.co.uk

• YouTube flythrough: http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHw

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Off the Map videoclips of 2013 & 2014 winning entries

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Alice’s Adventures Off the Map

Part of the British Library's celebrations

for the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland

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Off the Map 2015

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Some work in progress: The Wondering Lands of Alice

Team Off our rockers:Amber Jamieson, Braden May, Dan Bullock, Denzil Forde, Freddy Canton & Luke Day https://youtu.be/uuG5sAtEZzs

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Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator @miss_wisdom Digital Scholarship Bloghttp://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/