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Journal article
Colonial discourse, Indian Ocean Trade and the Urbanisation of the Western Deccan
A plethora of data attest to the importance of connections across the Indian Ocean during the first millennium BC. Literary and archaeological evidence indicate that an Indian Ocean trade network had been established that facilitated the exchange of diverse goods between East Africa, Egypt, Arabia, South East Asia and South...Rees, Gethin
trade, urbanisation, early historic, Indian Ocean, and Western Deccan
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Book
Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats
This guidebook focuses on the rock-cut Buddhist monasteries near Nashik and Junnar, and at Karla, Bhaja, Bedsa, Kondane and Kanheri, all in western Maharashtra. These magnificent shrines and dwellings, known as chaityas and viharas, were cut into the basalt cliffs of the Western Ghats more than 2,000 years ago. They...Michell, George ; Rees, Gethin
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Policy report
Academic Libraries of the Future: Scenarios for 2050 (Final Report)
The academic libraries of the future project (LotF) has developed three scenarios which describe possible futures for teaching, academic and research libraries in the UK at some point beyond 2020, particularly in the context of the changing academic and technological landscape. The scenarios will help Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and...Curtis, Geoff ; Davies, Claire ; Hammond, Max ; Hawtin, Rob ; Ringland, Gill …
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Presentation
Cyber Attacks: Is Artificial Intelligence the New Defence?
From drones and ransomware to disinformation, new technologies are enabling new kinds of conflict. Is a cyber attack an act of war? With artificial intelligence poised to revolutionise the speed and impact of attacks, how can we prevent cyberspace turning into a battleground? Our expert panel discusses these and other...Taddeo, Mariarosaria ; Finkelstein, Anthony ; Pogrebna, Ganna ; Leeming, Cal
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The AI will see you now
There are serious concerns about the rise of automation and robots taking our jobs. But AI entering the workplace also presents a unique opportunity to rethink how we live and work. Are we headed for a utopia in which intelligent machines do many tasks, enabling us to spend more time...Clayton, Naomi ; Grimes, Keith ; Hester, Helen ; Moore, Phoebe V ; Ojanpera, Sanna
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Dataset
Theatrical playbills from Britain and Ireland
The dataset comprises 264 volumes of digitised theatrical playbills published between 1660 – 1902 (mostly 19th century) from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Digitised from the British Library's physical collection of over 500 volumes of playbills. The dataset in Portable Document Format (PDF). The playbills cover theatres in Bath (Royal),...British Library Labs ; Kirk, Tanya
singlesheet, playbill, and playbills
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Presentation
Data and Inequality
Data is a powerful tool that could help reduce inequality, enabling us to better understand and quantify key global issues. But machines are inheriting the same biases that exist in the offline world and faulty algorithms, when applied at scale, risk making things less fair than ever. A recording of...Berkeley, Robert ; Mayer, Catherine ; Salt, Karen ; Wachter, Sandra ; Shah, Hetan
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Presentation
Social Media Data – What’s the use?
With over 2.72 billion users, social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook generate vast quantities of data every day. Analysis of this data can help us try to understand how people think and act. Social media analysis played a key role in guiding Obama’s 2012 election campaign and some...Margetts, Helen ; Bailey, Jefferson ; Vincent, David
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Presentation
Freedom to troll?
Should we be able to say what we want online? Politics, cyber-bullying and hate speech. The balance between free speech and online abuse is getting harder to define and police. What can and should be done to tackle it? In this Data Debate we will discuss trolling: the practice of...Ali, Nimco ; Kelley, Brittany ; Procter, Rob ; Wood, Roisin
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Moving image
The Academic Book of the Future Project Film
This short film explains what The Academic Book of the Future Project was about and what it achieved. The Academic Book of the Future Project was funded by the AHRC in partnership with the British Library. See the Project website, https://academicbookfuture.org/ for more details.Academic Book of the Future Project
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Digital Sudan: Digitizing Cultural Heritage for the Democratization of Knowledge
For many decades, heritage in Sudan has been a battleground between the diverse political, religious and ethnic forces. This is affecting the way in which the educational and curriculum development processes are organized and how the acquisitions of public libraries, including the National Library, are selected. For many years, books...Satti, Nureldin
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Academic Authorship and Arab Knowledge Production
This talk is inspired by the book that I recently co-authored with Rigas Arvanitis Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise. (2016). I will show a paradox: Arab knowledge production has tremendously increased but often without being translated into public awareness and policy. What does mean in terms...Hanafi, Sari
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Tombouctou Manuscripts Project
In this presentation I shall introduce the work of the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project. It began as an attempt to understand the tradition of learning in Timbuktu as represented in the large number of manuscript books kept in the town. However, it has expanded into a larger consideration of various issues...Jeppie, Shamil
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The Southpaw and The Global Knowledge Order
This paper considers the special challenges of creating and accessing knowledge material relating to the global South, especially from locations in the South. The imbalance between North and South in the creation of knowledge resources is linked to their unequal access to extant resources, but the link is not always...Chaudhuri, Sukanta
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Academic Publishing in Africa
Provision of education at all levels has always been one of the, if not the, most important expectation that Africans demand of their governments. In the twenty-first century even a bachelor’s degree is no longer good enough for the few available government jobs or for those in the private sector....Bgoya, Walter
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add MS 10456 - Add MS 17058
This dataset comprises 25 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1200 - 1599), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add MS 10456 - Add MS 17058). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 2510 - Or 2588
This dataset comprises 40 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (900 - 1747; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 2510 - Or 2588). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add MS 18229 - Add MS 26897
This dataset comprises 27 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1100 - 1799; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add MS 18229 - Add MS 26897). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 2626 - Or 6425
This dataset comprises 43 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (920 - 1845; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 2626 - Or 6425). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Harley MS 5709 - Or 11016
This dataset comprises 25 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1100 - 1699; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Harley MS 5709 - Or 11016). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add MS 9399 - Harley MS 5708
This dataset comprises 27 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1200 - 1499; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add MS 9399 - Harley MS 5708). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add MS 26938 - Add MS 9398
This dataset comprises 35 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1100 - 1816; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add MS 26938 - Add MS 9398). These manuscripts are out of copyright. We would appreciate it if users could read our Ethical terms of use guide before reusing our Hebrew manuscripts...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 2365 - Or 2405
This dataset comprises 27 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1200 - 1867; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 2365 - Or 2405). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 2210 - Or 2364
This dataset comprises 21 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1000 - 1655; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 2210 - Or 2364). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 1103 - Or 2201
This dataset comprises 46 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1250 - 1699; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 1103 - Or 2201). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Book chapter
Mapping the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire using GIS
The purpose of this paper is to outline the methodology used to map, for the first time, the Jewish communities of the Byzantine Empire. The project Mapping the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire enables specialists, general scholars and indeed the public at large to browse web maps of the...Rees, Gethin ; de Lange, Nicholas ; Panayotov, Alexander
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 2406 - Or 2509
This dataset comprises 41 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1300 - 1799; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 2406 - Or 2509). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 63 - Or 9882
This dataset comprises 35 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (0900 - 1899), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 63 - Or 9882). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image and...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add 10455 to Or 1099
This dataset comprises 39 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1200 - 1799), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add 10455 - Or 1099). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image and...Cronin, Catherine
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Harley 5772 to Or 14580
This dataset comprises 42 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1200 - 1871), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Harley 5772 - Or 14580). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image and...Cronin, Catherine
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add Ch 1250 to Or 11625
This dataset comprises 78 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1182 - 1895), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add Ch 1250 to Or 11625). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image...Cronin, Catherine
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 46 to Sloane 2642
This dataset comprises 35 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1000 - 1899), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 46 - Sloane 2642). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image and...Cronin, Catherine
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add MS 5242 to Arundel Or 50
This dataset comprises 22 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1100 - 1799), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add MS 5242 to Arundel Or 50). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Metadata
This dataset contains metadata (TEI XML catalogue records) of all British Library digitised Hebrew manuscripts. These TEI XML files can be opened and manipulated using an XML editor.Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.23636/1137 If you require access to an earlier version, please email openaccess@bl.uk, including the dataset title, date, and DOI in your request. The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the UK's national thesis service. We...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
Higher education, dissertations, HE, research, doctoral, student, UK, theses, ethos, and thesis
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Database
Resources used in attribution of early German Bookbindings in the British Library
This list of resources relates to the Early German Bookbindings in the British Library set. See the documents linked in the 'Related URL' field for more information.Marks, P. J. M.
finishing tools, tools, blind tooled, workshop, bookbinding, blind tooled bookbinding, pigskin binding, Einbanddatenbank, German binding, Kyriss, calf, Schwenke/Schunke, and leather
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Dataset
Early German Bookbindings in the British Library
This dataset comprises approx. 650 records relating to mainly early printed books (and some manuscripts) in the British Library that have bookbindings from Germany or German influenced or speaking regions. Most were bound from 15c to 17c. Workshops have been identified using standard online and printed resources (see separate document...Marks, P. J. M.
finishing tools, tools, blind tooled, workshop, leather, blind tooled bookbinding, pigskin binding, Einbanddatenbank, German binding, Kyriss, calf, Schwenke/Schunke, and bookbinding
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Research report
Researchers of Tomorrow: the research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students
In 2009, the British Library and JISC commissioned the three-year Researchers of Tomorrow study, focusing on the information-seeking and research behaviour of doctoral students in ‘Generation Y’, born between 1982 and 1994 and not ‘digital natives’. Over 17,000 doctoral students from more than 70 higher education institutions participated in the...Education for Change
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Research report
Academic Books and their Future. A Report to the AHRC and the British Library
The aim in this report is to provide an account of perspectives from three key stakeholder groups—publishers, libraries, and intermediaries in the supply chain for academic books—and to highlight some key issues that arise from those different perspectives. A central set of perspectives is of course missing here, that of...Jubb, Michael
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Dataset
Digitised Quarterly Lists XML and Metadata
Two Centuries of Indian Print 1867-1947. The files in this dataset are derived from the British Library’s collection of bound volume Quarterly Lists: printed catalogue records of Indian books published quarterly and by province of British India between 1867 and 1947. The dataset comprises text from the collection of digitised...Derrick, Tom
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Dataset
Digitised Quarterly Lists PDFs and Metadata
The files in this dataset are derived from the British Library’s collection of bound volume Quarterly Lists: printed catalogue records of Indian books published quarterly and by province of British India between 1867 and 1947. The dataset comprises full-text searchable PDFs of 215 volumes as well as the associated metadata...Derrick, Tom
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Dataset
Volumes of performances connecting Sir Henry Irving. 1879 - 1905.
Sir Henry Irving's American and Provincial Tours 1883 - 1905; miscellaneous performances, including some given by Royal Command, 1883 - 1903; Lyceum Theatre 1879 – 1902; and Drury Lane Theatre, 1903 and 1905. The collection was formed by Bram Stoker.British Library
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Dataset
Volumes of Lysons Collectanea (Trades), comprising advertisements, cuttings, and illustrations relating to trades, professions, medical cures. 1660-1825.
The dataset comprises the OCR text derived from four digitised volumes of a collection of advertisements, cuttings and illustrations relating to trades, professions and medical cures from 1660 - 1825.British Library
text, newspapers, OCR, trades, and adverts
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Dataset
Volumes of Lysons Collectanea (Amusements), comprising broadsides, cuttings, advertisements on amusements 1660-1840
The dataset comprises nine digitised volumes of a collection of broadsides, cuttings and advertisements, relating to public exhibitions and places of amusement from 1660 - 1840 (with OCR-derived text.) Part of the Lysons Collectanea collection.British Library
amusements, text, newspapers, broadsides, OCR, and adverts
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Dataset
Volumes of portraits and biographies of officers in the South African wars collected by John Malcolm Bulloch. 1900 - 1902.
The dataset comprises six digitised volumes (in PDF) of a collection of portraits and biographical details of some officers distinguished in the South African War (1900 - 1902) (with OCR-derived text.) The collection was formed by John Malcolm Bulloch..British Library
South Africa, text, portraits, war, army, OCR, biographies, and biography
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Dataset
Volumes of Madden's cuttings, views, and pamphlets about the British Museum. 1755-1870.
The dataset comprises four digitised volumes of a collection of cuttings, views and pamphlets made by Sir Frederic Madden about the British Museum, dating 1755 - 1870 (with OCR-derived text.)British Library
British Museum, text, and OCR
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Dataset
Volume of Christmas ballads and broadsides. 1750 - 1840
110 page PDF of miscellaneous Christmas ballads and prose broadsides (with OCR-derived text.) The dataset comprises one digitised volume (110 pages) of a collection of Christmas ballads and prose broadsides chiefly printed in London by J. Pitts between 1750 - 1840. The dataset is in Portable Document Format (PDF).British Library
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Dataset
Portraits of actors, views of theatres and playbills (covering 1750 - 1821 in a single volume)
166 page PDF of collated portraits and views (with OCR-derived text) The dataset comprises one digitised volume (166 pages) of a collection of portraits of celebrated actors and actresses, views of theatres and playbills, dating 1750 - 1821. The dataset is in Portable Document Format (PDF).British Library
text, theatres, views, portraits, actors, OCR, and playbills
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Dataset
Volumes of signs of taverns in England and Wales. 1628 - 1858
The dataset comprises 14 digitised volumes (as PDFs) of a collection of tavern signs in and England and Wales dating 1628 – 1858 (with OCR-derived text.)British Library
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Research report
The Academic Book of the Future Project Report. A Report to the AHRC and the British Library
We begin this report with an examination of the policy context within which academics write, produce and read academic books, and the effect these have upon research and teaching. We then move to a detailed analysis of what we actually mean by an academic book, and describe many of the...Deegan, Marilyn
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Research report
Heritage and Data: Challenges and Opportunities for the Heritage Sector. Report of the Heritage Data Research Workshop held Friday 23 June 2017 at the British Library, London
The event held at the British Library on the 23rd June 2017 was envisaged as an initial scoping and investigative research workshop, bringing together key representatives from the UK heritage industry and academic community from humanities and social and computing science to discuss challenges and opportunities that data presents to...Harrison, Rodney ; Morel, Hana ; Maricevic, Maja ; Penrose, Sefryn