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Conference paper (unpublished)
Lost for words? The Earliest Representations of the Americas in European Sources
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
La adquisición del Amadís de Gaula, Libros I-IV (Zaragoza, 1508) por el Museo Británico
West, Geoffrey
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Book
Libraries within the Library: The Origins of the British Library’s Printed Collections
Dispersed along the shelves of the British Library today are many volumes that once stood side by side in private libraries. These essays explore some of the most important printed collections which were brought together to form the British Museum Library and cast new light on the individuals whose personal...Mandelbrote, Giles ; Taylor, Barry
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Book chapter
Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) and his books
Taylor, Barry
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Conference paper (published)
Adventures with ePub3: when rendering goes wrong
The role of standards in digital preservation is widely acknowledged. The current version of the ePub standard, used for publishing and disseminating eBooks, is ePub3, specifically 3.1 (January 2017). A marked difference from ePub2 is support for fixed layout files and, whilst several different ePub readers are available, not all...Pennock, Maureen ; Day, Michael
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Conference paper (published)
Preservation planning for emerging formats at the British Library
The British Library and the other UK Legal Deposit Libraries have been collecting various forms of born-digital digital publications since 2013 as part of what is known as Non-Print Legal Deposit (NPLD). In 2017, the UK Legal Deposit Libraries established an Emerging Formats project to look at selected types of...Day, Michael ; Pennock, Maureen ; Smith, Caylin ; Jenkins, Jeremy ; Cooke, Ian
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Journal article
The preservation of disk-based content at the British Library: Lessons from the Flashback Project
This article introduces the British Library’s Flashback project, which is exploring the practical challenges of preserving digital content currently stored on physical media (magnetic and optical disks). It reports on a Flashback proof of concept that conducted experiments on a sample of content from hybrid collection items dating from between... -
Poster (published)
Scaled and automated preservation planning for highly diverse digital collections: the Integrated Preservation Suite
This poster describes the Integrated Preservation Suite (IPS) project. IPS is a British Library initiative to develop and populate an infrastructure capable of supporting preservation planning of highly diverse digital collections at scale. IPS comprises: A Representation Information Registry with information about formats and wider technical environments relevant to the...Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter
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Journal article
Supporting institutional digital preservation & asset management: a summary of the Jisc DPAM programme synthesis
This article summarises the results of a recently published synthesis study on the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)-funded Digital Preservation & Asset Management (DPAM) programme. The DPAM programme ran from 2004 until 2006 and aimed to establish a basis for the development of institutional strategies and policies for long-term preservation...Pennock, Maureen
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Journal article
Data without meaning: Establishing the significant properties of digital research
It is well recognised that the period of time in which digital research may remain accessible is likely to be short in comparison to the period in which it will continue to hold intellectual value. Although many digital preservation strategies are effective for simple resources, it is not always possible...Knight, Gareth ; Pennock, Maureen
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Editorial
Editorial
The digital revolution brought about marked changes in the way that libraries and archives achieve their mandates. Particularly at a national level, technology has changed working practices within memory organisations to deliver efficiencies in processing content and increasing access. Technology has changed the very way we manage and provide access...Pennock, Maureen ; Coufal, Libor
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Journal article
DCC Workshop Report: E-mail Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation and Access, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 24 - 25, 2006
A report on the Digital Curation Centre workshop held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in April 2006 to explore practical approaches for managing, preserving and re-using e-mail records.Pennock, Maureen
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Conference paper (published)
The Flashback Project: Rescuing disk-based content from the 1980s to the present day
This paper introduces the British Library's Flashback project, a proof-of-concept that explored the practical challenges of preserving digital content stored on physical media (magnetic and optical disks) using a sample of content from hybrid collection items dating from between 1980 and 2010. It describes some of the activities undertaken by...Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter ; Day, Michael ; Davies, Kevin ; Whibley, Simon …
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Conference paper (published)
Sustainability assessments at the British Library: Formats, frameworks and findings
File format assessments have been the subject of much debate in and outside of the preservation community in the past decade. Recognizing the unique structural, operational, and collecting context of the British Library, the Library’s digital preservation team recently initiated new format assessment work to deliver recommendations on which file...Pennock, Maureen ; Wheatley, Paul ; May, Peter
file formats, British Library, assessments, transparency, sustainability, and preservation master
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Conference paper (published)
Identifying digital preservation requirements: Digital Preservation Strategy and collection profiling at the British Library
The British Library is increasingly a digital library. Over past decades, it has built up significant collections of digital content covering a very wide range of content types. In addition to the increasing amounts of digital content acquired by purchase or donation, the Library and its partners have also invested...Day, Michael ; McDonald, Ann ; Kimura, Akiko ; Pennock, Maureen
preservation planning, institutional contexts of preservation, collection content profiling, and digital preservation
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Book chapter
Gaywaves: transcending boundaries - the rise and demise of Britain's first gay radio program
At the beginning of 1982, an array of conflicting forces was working to shape the landscape of Europe’s metropolitan radio services, and to alternatively control, commodify or liberate its gay communities.1 This paper examines the drivers, which inspired Gaywaves, a nascent weekly gay community radio program broadcasting to an inner...Wilson, Paul ; Linfoot, Matthew
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Journal article
J. G. Ballard’s ‘Crash! A Science Theatre Presentation for the ICA’: The context of a lost document recovered
In the spring of 1968, J. G. Ballard drafted an eight-page outline for a multi-media 'science theatre presentation' called 'Crash!' It was to be performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). Although the event was teasingly promoted in a full-page feature in the Sunday Mirror newspaper ('A Star Role...Beckett, Chris
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Journal article
Flexibility and egalitarianism: musical insights from hunter-gatherers
Among egalitarian hunter-gatherer groups across the African continent, musical practices and egalitarianism are argued to be constitutive of one another. Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers also practice egalitarianism, however, their musical practices represent a seeming anomaly alongside those of African hunter-gatherer groups. Discussion of ‘hunter-gatherer musics’ that includes Southeast Asian perspectives has...Rudge, Alice
egalitarianism, polyphony, aesthetics, hunter-gatherer, diversity, and flexibility
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Journal article
Open Access and the Library
Libraries are places of learning and knowledge creation. While this mission has been the same for centuries, the way it is delivered is constantly evolving. Over the last two decades, digital technology—and the changes that came with it—have accelerated this transformation to a point where evolution starts to become a...Oberländer, Anja ; Reimer, Torsten
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Journal article
Breathing life into digital collections at the British Library
How are research libraries preparing to meet the needs of 21st century researchers? For the past decade, the British Library’s Digital Scholarship team has worked to ensure that the Library’s collections, systems, policies and processes meet the emerging needs of anyone who wants to conduct innovative research with the Library’s...Ridge, Mia
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Research report
Patterns of information use and exchange: case studies of researchers in the life sciences
Scientific advances, the availability of powerful new information and communications technologies, and new policies governing research funding have brought major changes for life science researchers. Together these developments have significantly altered both their needs and their practices in acquiring, generating and using information resources. In this context, our key aim...Research Information Network ; British Library ; Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation ; Digital Curation Centre
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Research report
Information handling in collaborative research: an exploration of five case studies
Between October 2010 and June 2011, TNS-BMRB conducted a study on behalf of the Research Information Network (RIN) and the British Library (BL), exploring the challenges to information handling in collaborative research and providing recommendations for potential interventions to help to enhance effectiveness.Jordan, Elizabeth ; Hunter, Andrew ; Seale, Becky ; Thomas, Andrew ; Levitt, Ruth …
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Conference paper (unpublished)
From standard to community resource: a view on ISNIs and ORG IDs
Over the last year, the International Standard Name Identifier board have been considering the ways in which ISNI as a system can improve to meet new challenges and become more open and transparent. One particular consideration has been to make ISNIs a better solution for organisation identifiers. The British Library...Reimer, Torsten ; Madden, Frances
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Conference paper (published)
Arabic dialect identification in the context of bivalency and code-switching
In this paper we use a novel approach towards Arabic dialect identification using language bivalency and written code-switching. Bivalency between languages or dialects is where a word or element is treated by language users as having a fundamentally similar semantic content in more than one language or dialect. Arabic dialect...El-Haj, Mahmoud ; Rayson, Paul ; Aboelezz, Mariam
Arabic, machine learning, dialects, language identification, NLP, and bivalency
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Book chapter
A history of the Arabic language and the origin of non-dominant varieties of Arabic
To comprehend how Arabic became a pluricentric language, we need to navigate through its rich history. In this paper, I focus on three stages in the development of Arabic: Classical Arabic, Middle Arabic and Modern Arabic. I explain how the fate of Arabic was permanently sealed in the Classical period...Aboelezz, Mariam
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Journal article
The Geosemiotics of Tahrir Square: A study of the relationship between discourse and space
The year 2011 saw unprecedented waves of people occupying key locations around the world in a statement of public discontent. In Egypt, the protests which took place between 25 January and 11 February 2011 culminating in the ouster of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have now come to be known...Aboelezz, Mariam
discourse and space, Tahrir Square, geosemiotics, linguistic landscapes, and January 25 Revolution
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Journal article
'We are Young. We are Trendy. Buy our Product!': The use of Latinized Arabic in printed edited magazines in Egypt
In the past decade, Latinised Arabic (LA), a popular form of writing spoken Arabic online, has made the transition from online applications such as internet chat and text messaging to offline mediums. No longer exclusive to computer mediated communication, the diffusion of LA into everyday life has been reported across...Aboelezz, Mariam
computer mediated communication, commercial and symbolic power, edited magazines, and Latinised Arabic
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Conference paper (published)
A Latinised Arabic for All? Issues of representation, purpose and audience
This paper reviews two major issues which account for much of the variation in representing Arabic using Latin characters. Since the Latinisation of Arabic entails encoding additional phonetic information(by adding short vowels), how we choose to represent Arabic for Latinisation becomes a central issue. This representation may either reflect the...Aboelezz, Mariam
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Bibliographic records as 'Big Data': seeking harmony in music metadata
The collaborative research project ‘A Big Data History of Music’ draws on a disparate array of music catalogues created over nearly two centuries. During that time, many different cataloguing rules have existed; national and international standards have developed for cataloguing printed materials, and, in many countries, separate protocols established for...Tuppen, Sandra
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Journal article
Shrove-tide dancing: balls and masques at Whitehall under Charles II
The tradition of the Shrove-tide court entertainment with dancing and music, strong in the first half of the seventeenth century in England, was restored with the monarchy after 1660. Shrove-tide masques, balls and plays, along with dishes of pancakes and fritters, remained a feature of the court calendar to the...Tuppen, Sandra
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Conference paper (published)
Prospects for a Big Data History of Music
This position paper sets out the possibility of a musicology based on the analysis of musical-bibliographical metadata as Big Data. It outlines the work underway, as part of the AHRC-funded project A Big Data History of Music, to align seven major datasets of musical-bibliographical metadata. After discussing some of the...Rose, Stephen ; Tuppen, Sandra
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Journal article
Purcell in the 18th century: music for the 'Quality, Gentry, and others'
Henry Purcell was the only composer of his generation to be honoured with performances of his music at both the Academy of Ancient Music and Concerts of Ancient Music in the 18th century. Both organizations also programmed 18th-century music for The Tempest, believing it to be by Purcell. Excerpts from...Tuppen, Sandra
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Journal article
Writing a Big Data history of music
This article introduces the project A Big Data History of Music, which set out to unlock the bibliographical data held by research libraries in order to create new research opportunities for musicologists. The project cleaned and enhanced aspects of the British Library catalogues of printed and manuscript music, which are...Rose, Stephen ; Tuppen, Sandra ; Drosopoulou, Loukia
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Journal article
Library catalogue records as a research resource : introducing 'A Big Data History of Music'
Librarians and archivists are increasingly collecting and working with large quantities of digital data. In science, business, and now the humanities, the production and analysis of vast amounts of data (so-called ‘big data research’) have become fundamental activities. This article introduces the project A Big Data History of Music, a...Tuppen, Sandra ; Rose, Stephen ; Drosopoulou, Loukia
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Ejemplares del Quijote de la British Library: algunos datos sobre las procedencias de las ediciones de 1604/1605
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
La biblioteca de F.W. Cosens, su dispersión y las adquisiciones de la Biblioteca Nacional de España
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Indicios de procedencias en libros españoles antiguos de la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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Book chapter
'Columen Vitae': pharmaceutical packaging, 1750-1850
Medical products, predominantly sold by newspaper and book printers, became the most heavily advertised branded good throughout the eighteenth century. Proprietary medicines were big business and so counterfeits were rife; protecting the brand was crucial. Proprietors aimed to convince consumers of the medicine’s authenticity, its reliability and, on occasion, its...Basford, Jennifer
promotional material, branding, material culture, proprietary medicines, and eighteenth century
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Book chapter
‘A trifling matter’? State branding on stone bottles, 1812-1834
Nineteenth-century stone bottles used for liquid blacking and alcohol are among the most frequently recovered nineteenth-century objects. Such items often display proprietary marks that provide tantalizing hints about the former owners or use of the bottle and have received considerable attention from collectors, archaeologists and curators. This chapter, based upon...Basford, Jennifer
stone bottle, statehood, Hungate, branding, archaeology, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, York, and Excise
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 74 to Stowe Ch 297
This dataset comprises 32 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1000 - 1903), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 74 to Stowe Ch 297). 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...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 1389 to Sloane MS 3173
This dataset comprises 32 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1200 - 1899), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 1389 to Sloane MS 3173). 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...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 2518 to Or 5834
This dataset comprises 33 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (900 - 1899), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 2518 to Or 5834). 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...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add MS 27169 to Or 12983
This dataset comprises 21 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1100 - 1899), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add MS 27169 to Or 12983). 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...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Italian Academies Project Database XML Records
Italian Academies 1525-1700 metadata.This dataset comprises 8598 XML records representing 587 Academies, 7100 people and 911 works. Some of the XML files in this dataset contain links to images, which are available in the Italian Academies Project Database Images dataset: https://doi.org/10.21250/iad2 XML nodes with the 'ImageId' attribute contain the filename...Gianfrancesco, Lorenza ; Testa, Simone ; Everson, Jane ; Reidy, Dennis ; Sampson, Lisa …
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Dataset
Italian Academies Project Database Images
Italian Academies 1525-1700 images. This dataset comprises 1084 image files in JPEG format. The images include emblems, portraits and title pages for academies, people and works. The XML metadata associated with these images contains references to their file names: https://doi.org/10.21250/iad1Gianfrancesco, Lorenza ; Testa, Simone ; Everson, Jane ; Reidy, Dennis ; Sampson, Lisa …
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Dataset
Digitised maps of the former British East Africa
This dataset comprises 581 images of maps of the former British East Africa created between 1890 and 1940 and a spreadsheet of related catalogue records. All Open Government Licence v1.0 (OGL). A user-friendly geographical search index of the maps is available on Google Maps. These JPEG files were converted from...Dykes, Nick
War Office Archive, documents, Intelligence, Uganda, East Africa, British East Africa, Maps, Military maps, and Kenya
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Dataset
SherlockNet data
Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Explore Over 400 Years of Book Illustrations: Starting from February 2016, as part of the British Library Labs Competition, we embarked on a collaboration with the British Library Labs and the British Museum to tag and caption the entire British Library 1M Collection, a set...Zhao, Luda ; Do, Brian ; Wang, Karen
tagging, Flickr, images, tags, digitised, Microsoft, sherlocknet, and books
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Dataset
Linked Open British National Bibliography - Forthcoming Books N-Triples and RDF/XML
This dataset includes metadata for forthcoming books to be published or distributed in the UK.Deliot, Corine
British National Bibliography, forthcoming, linked open data, BNB, N-Triples, RDF/XML, NT, CIP, and metadata
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Dataset
Linked Open British National Bibliography - Books. 1950- N-Triples and RDF/XML.
This dataset includes metadata for books published or distributed in the UK since 1950.Deliot, Corine
British National Bibliography, BNB, NT, linked open data, RDF/XML, N-Triples, books, and metadata
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Dataset
UK Selective Web Archive Classification Dataset. 1996 - 2010. TSV.
The dataset comprises a manually curated selective archive produced by UKWA which includes the classification of sites into a two-tiered subject hierarchy. In partnership with the Internet Archive and JISC, UKWA had obtained access to the subset of the Internet Archive’s web collection that relates to the UK. The JISC...UK Web Archive
archive, web domain dataset, JISC UK, classification dataset, UKWA Open Data, and 1996-2014
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Dataset
Linked Open British National Bibliography - Serials. 1950- N-Triples and RDF/XML
This dataset includes metadata for serials published or distributed in the UK since 1950.Deliot, Corine
British National Bibliography, serials, linked open data, BNB, N-Triples, RDF/XML, NT, and metadata
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Book chapter
The Arab Legion
The military is a key component of the state. It is also a crucial tool of imperial control. The Arab Legion, therefore, as the Jordanian national army financed by Britain and staffed by British and Arab officers, was a crucial feature of the formative Jordanian state. It was the bedrock...Jevon, Graham
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Dataset
Digitised Books - Images identified as Medium Sized Images. c. 1567 - c. 1900. JPG
The dataset comprises c. 217,101 images identified as 'Medium Sized Images' from the British Library's Flickr Commons collections, dating between c. 1567 - c. 1900. The images were algorithmically gathered from 49,455 digitised books, equating to 65,227 volumes (25+ million pages), published between c. 1510 - c. 1900; Medium Sized...British Library ; British Library Labs
medium sized images, books, images, digitised, and Microsoft
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Dataset
Digitised Books - Images of the bound covers of books. c. 1510 - c. 1900. JPG
The dataset comprises c. 61,561 images identified as 'Book Covers' from the British Library's Flickr Commons collections, dating between c. 1510 - c. 1900.British Library ; British Library Labs
digitised, books, Microsoft, images, and bookcovers
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Dataset
AAS Card Catalogues: Chinese (Wade Giles)
This dataset contains digitised cards from the Wade-Giles card catalogue.British Library
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Journal article
The once and future library: the role of the (national) library in supporting research
The global research environment is changing rapidly and with it the role of libraries in facilitating research. Taking the British Library as an example, this article provides a situational analysis of the challenges research libraries face in this context. It outlines a new, or at least modified, role for research...Reimer, Torsten
strategy, research, transformation, library, open access, and scholarly communications
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Journal article
Connecting the Persistent Identifier Ecosystem: Building the Technical and Human Infrastructure for Open Research
The persistent identifier (PID) landscape extends to cover objects, individuals and organisations engaged in the process of research. Established services such as DataCite, Crossref, ORCID and ISNI are providing a foundation for a trusted ecosystem and a new generation of services. Scalable identifier systems will support researchers and capture research...Dappert, Angela ; Farquhar, Adam ; Kotarski, Rachael ; Hewlett, Kirstie
persistent identifiers, research infrastructure, interoperable services, scholarly communication, and data citation
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Journal article
Changing the Rules? RDA and cataloguing in Europe
This paper provides an overview of plans to implement RDA: Resource Description & Access in Europe to replace existing cataloguing rules. It is based on survey information gathered by EURIG and CILIP CIG. It includes background on the development of RDA as a replacement for AACR2.Danskin, Alan ; Gryspeerdt, Katharine
AACR2, EURIG, linked data, cataloguing, and Europe
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Journal article
E-journal Archiving and Preservation Workshop
In March 2007, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the British Library invited attendees to a workshop focusing on the archiving and preservation of e-journals. Speakers from the publishing and library environments came together at the British Library to discuss developments and requirements in...Cass, Emma ; Hockx-Yu, Helen ; Jackson, Carol ; Pothen, Philip ; Tillett, Samantha
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Journal article
Retaking Responsibility for How We Communicate. A Review of Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future
Since the publication of the Budapest Open Access Initiative statement in 2002, Open Access has grown from an ideal to a reality. Open Access and the Humanities explores scholarly practices, communications, and cultures in light of this change and argues that humanists can and should retake responsibility for how they...Baker, James
labour, open access, humanities, markets, and publishing
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Journal article
Europeana Newspapers: searching digitized historical newspapers from 23 European countries
Europeana Newspapers is a European Commission-funded project which is refining, aggregating and giving researchers online access to historical newspaper content from 23 European libraries. It also offers free, open source tools which individual libraries can use to assess refinement quality and metadata standards in relation to their own digital newspaper...Willems, Marieke ; Atanassova, Rossitza
digitised historic newspapers, 19th-century newspapers, Europeana Newspapers, and digital humanities
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Journal article
The Formation of Microenvironments in Polyester Enclosures
Inert polyester sheets, such as Melinex and Mylar, are widely used in conservation to create envelope-like enclosures for storing and protecting flat objects (paper, parchment, papyrus, etc.). These materials are known to be chemically stable and present no direct risks to the enclosed items; however, as the films have a...Garside, Paul ; Walker, Olivia
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Journal article
The Covent Garden Old Price Riots: Protest and Justice in Late‑Georgian London
This article explores perceptions of the law and of how agents of the law responded to events at Covent Garden Theatre during the bitter months between mid-October and late-November 1809, the height of the Covent Garden Old Price riots. It does so through the lens of the periodical press, a...Baker, James William
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Dataset
Digitised Books - Images identified as Plates. c. 1528 - c. 1900. JPG
The dataset comprises c. 385,237 images identified as 'Plates' from the British Library's Flickr Commons collections, dating between c. 1528 – c. 1900. The images were algorithmically gathered from 49,455 digitised books, equating to 65,227 volumes (25+ million pages), published between c. 1510 - c. 1900; Plates have currently been...British Library ; British Library Labs
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Journal article
A Systematic Approach to Selecting Inexpensive Conservation Storage Solutions
The appropriate storage of heritage artefacts is vital to their long-term survival, but selecting suitable storage solutions is not always easy due to the number of potentially conflicting factors that must be considered: the method of housing should be compatible with both the objects themselves and with the local environment;...Garside, Paul ; Hanson, Lesley
conservation, conservation science, storage, and collection care
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Journal article
A Hiatus in the Cutting of Buddhist Caves in the Western Deccan
This article places the expansion of Buddhist monasteries in the Western Deccan in its wider context, examining how social, political and economic forces might have impacted on the tempo of Buddhist cave cutting. A framework for dating the caves is outlined and a hiatus in their construction during the first...Rees, Gethin
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Journal article
Celibate monks and foetus-stealing gods: Buddhism and pregnancy at the Jetavana Monastery, Shravasti, India
Care for pregnant women constituted an important aspect of interaction between monastic communities and the laity at the Jetavana Buddhist monastery. Figurines found at the monastery date to the first millennium CE and portray a deity with both maleficent and beneficent attitudes toward the unborn. The deities that such figurines...Rees, Gethin ; Yoneda, Fumitaka
figurines, Jetavana monastery, Buddhism, South Asia, and pregnancy
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Dataset
Mapping Jewish Communities Of The Byzantine Empire
The aim of the project was to map the Jewish presence in the Byzantine empire using GIS (Geographical Information Systems). All references (published and unpublished) to Jewish communities in the Byzantine Empire were gathered and collated. The data were incorporated in a GIS which will be made freely available to...Rees, Gethin ; Lange, Nicholas De ; Panayotov, Alexander ; Palm, Fredrik
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Dataset
Early Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries Of The Western Ghats: Locations
CSV files containing locations of early Buddhist rock-cut monasteries in the Western Ghats and Konkan coast regions of India. Only the caves cut between second century BCE and the early fifth century CE are included: from the earliest period of cutting up until just prior to the introduction of the...Rees, Gethin
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Dataset
Early Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries Of The Western Ghats: Caves And Sculptures
CSV files containing basic information on early Buddhist rock-cut monasteries in the Western Ghats and Konkan coast regions of India. Only the caves cut between second century BCE and the early fifth century CE are included: from the earliest period of cutting up until just prior to the introduction of...Rees, Gethin
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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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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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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