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Journal article
Abroad Among Our Kind: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Spanish Civil War Love Poems
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Sylvia Townsend Warner and her partner Valentine Ackland arrived in Barcelona in the fall of 1936, two months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. They had come to help with the relief operations being organized...Aguirre, Mercedes
Love Poems, Spain, and Civil War
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Presentation
Getting started with heritage GLAM repositories: Policy development and positioning research repositories
This session covers the topics on role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research and positioning research repositories in an organisation including policy and development.Miles, Susan
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Presentation
Getting started with heritage GLAM repositories: Role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research
This session covers topics on the role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research and positioning research repositories in an organisation including policy and development.Holt, Ilkay
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Presentation
Getting started with heritage GLAM repositories: policy development and positioning research repositories
This session covers topics on the role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research and positioning research repositories in an organisation including policy and development. This session will help you to: Understand the benefits of making GLAM collections openly available Understand the value of research repositories Understand policy...Miles, Susan
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Dataset
UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the UK's national thesis service. We estimate the data covers around 98% of all PhDs ever awarded by UK Higher Education institutions, dating back to 1787. Thesis metadata from every PhD-awarding university in...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
higher education, student, UK, dissertations, PhD, theses, doctoral, ethos, thesis, and research
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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This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.23636/rcm4-zk44. 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...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
higher education, dissertations, PhD, doctoral, and EThOS
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Conference paper (unpublished)
From digital to print: collecting Planet Divoc-91 and its paratexts
What happens when a digital comic has a new context as a print comic? Using the digital comic Planet Divoc-91 as a case study, this paper will examine the role that paratextual elements have in generating community engagement, whilst also contributing to reading experience. This paper will explore the implications...Gebhart, Thomas
paratexts, webcomics, digital comics, web archiving, and Non-Print Legal Deposit
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Dataset
Incunabula Printed Catalogue Dataset: Volumes 1-10 copy of github repository
This dataset includes the github repository used to derive catalogue entries from volumes 1-10 of the "Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now at the British Museum" (know as BMC). The BMC was published between 1908-2007 and comprises detailed descriptions of the incunabula collection at the British Library....British Library
book history, metadata, catalogues, datasets, incunabula, early printed books, and early printing
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Software
Living-with-machines/MapReader: End of LwM
This release marks the end of the current funding for MapReader during the Living with Machines (LwM) project. @kasra-hosseini @andrewphilipsmith @rwood-97 @kmcdono2 @dcsw2 @kallewesterling @kasparvonbeelenHosseini, Kasra ; Wood, Rosie ; Smith, Andy ; McDonough, Katie ; Wilson, Daniel C. S. …
computer vision and maps
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Dataset
The Newspaper Press Directory (1846-1920) - enriched and structured version
Mitchell's Newspaper Press Directories contained an almost complete list of newspapers published in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It was published regularly from 1846 onwards and provided a detailed description of the newspaper landscape over time. This version contains a structured, tabular representation of the directories (as CSV or Excel...C. Mitchell and Co. ; British Library
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Research report
Final report of the Doctoral Fellowship titled Creative Networks and Authors’ Houses: Links Between The British Library and National Trust
This report outlines the scope, findings and experience of the British Library and National Trust Doctoral Fellowship called Creative Networks and Authors’ Houses. Josip Martincic undertook a three-month placement to explore the networks and homes of George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf and Rudyard Kipling. The overarching purpose of the fellowship...Martinčić, Josip
George Bernard Shaw, collaborative doctoral fellowship, British Library, National Trust, Virginia Woolf, and Rudyard Kipling
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Presentation
Getting started with heritage GLAM repositories: role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research
This session covers topics on the role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research and positioning research repositories in an organisation including policy and development. This session will help you to: Understand the benefits of making GLAM collections openly available Understand the value of research repositories Understand policy...Holt, Ilkay
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Research report
Enhanced curation: Interpreting the digital life of Andrea Levy and Will Self
This paper is based on the British Library doctoral placement project, ‘Developing an enhanced curation framework for contemporary hybrid archives’ (2022), which investigated the digital archives of two contemporary British writers, Andrea Levy and Will Self. It aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the writers' material life through close...Li, Xiaozhou
born-digital archives, literary archives, and hybrid archives
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Report
Archive of Tomorrow: Capturing public health discourse in the UK Web Archive
This report provides an overview of the Archive of Tomorrow project, a pilot project and partnership between four UK libraries—the National Library of Scotland, the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, Cambridge University Library, and Edinburgh University Library. The project was funded by the Wellcome Trust in 2022-2023 with a budget...UK Legal Deposit Libraries
public health, research networks, web archiving, and metadata
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Commercial Break: Imagining new ownership models for cultural heritage institutions
This talk will explore several new and emerging models that represent alternatives to the status quo of libraries as customers of corporate products and services. Libraries, archives, and museums all over the world are creating new models for community ownership both through how they work together and in how they...Westin, Monica
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Collective action for driving the open science agenda in Africa and Europe
This talk discusses EIFL's work in Africa, Asia, and Europe regarding open science policies, strengthening repository developments, and skill-building initiatives. Community-driven efforts in Kenya, Serbia, Slovenia, and Malawi, are outlined, emphasising the role of collaboration for sustainability. A Wellcome-funded project in Africa to promote diamond open access also addressed challenges...Kuchma, Iryna
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Book chapter
Digital Comics and Critical Librarianship: What, Why and How: A Perspective from the UK
Digital comics are at the cutting edge of how imaginative, immediate, and emotionally engaging stories can be told in the twenty-first century. The creators of digital comics harness new and emerging technologies to create and distribute innovative forms of storytelling. The ways digital comics are created, published, and consumed means...Gebhart, Thomas
webcomics, critical librarianship, collection development, digital comics, and web archiving
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Research report
Surfacing the impact of international doctoral research: Working with the EThOS collection
This booklet presents the work of a research team from Durham University who have been working in partnership with the EThOS team at the British Library to build impact from the knowledge and research of UK doctoral theses, making them accessible and actionable for community organisations. Knowledge generated by doctoral...Montgomery, Catherine ; Stewart, Craig ; Poli, Francesca
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Other
Models for MapReader ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023 Geohumanities Workshop paper
Collection of fine-tuned models created during research published in Kasra Hosseini, Daniel C. S. Wilson, Kaspar Beelen, and Katherine McDonough. 2022. MapReader: a computer vision pipeline for the semantic exploration of maps at scale. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities '22). Association for...Hosseini, Kasra ; Beelen, Kaspar ; McDonough, Katherine ; Wilson, Daniel C. S.
computational humanities, computer vision, maps, models, and image classification
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Dataset
Diachronic and diatopic word embeddings from newspapers digitised by the British Library (1830-1889): North and South England
Diachronic word embeddings (decade-level) trained with Word2Vec (via Gensim) on different geographic subcorpora of the Heritage Made Digital British and the Living with Machines historical newspaper collections: - North England (north.zip) - South England (south.zip) At the moment, for each subcorpus, Word2Vec models are available for each decade in the...Pedrazzini, Nilo ; McGillivray, Barbara
historical semantics, diachronic embeddings, late modern English, word embeddings, word vectors, word2vec, and diatopic embeddings
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Dataset
Decade-level Word2Vec models from automatically transcribed 19th-century newspapers digitised by the British Library (1800-1919)
Word embeddings trained on a 4.2-billion-word corpus of 19th-century British newspapers using Word2Vec and specific parameters. The embeddings are divided into periods of ten years each. Unlike those in this repository, these were not aligned and OCR errors skimmed from the vocabulary. See related GitHub repository for the full documentation:...Pedrazzini, Nilo
historical semantics, British newspapers, word embeddings, word vectors, word2vec, and Late Modern English
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Dataset
Language of Mechanisation: annotated historical newspaper articles
Datasets created through crowdsourcing tasks created on the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform by the Living with Machines ‘language of mechanisation’ project team. Building on earlier work classifying machines by function, we asked volunteers on Zooniverse 'how did the word x change over time and place?' and presented them with options for... -
Journal article
A literature review of palm leaf manuscript conservation—Part 2: historic and current conservation treatments, boxing and storage, religious and ethical issues, recommendations for best practice
Abstract The closure of the British Library during the 2020–2021 COVID-19 pandemic allowed the conservation department to undertake a treatment review of the conservation of palm leaf manuscripts in order to make better-informed decisions about the treatment of these complex objects. As part of the review a questionnaire was posted...Wiland, Julia ; Brown, Rick ; Fuller, Lizzie ; Havelock, Lea ; Johnson, Jackie …
traditional preservation methods, palm leaf, ethical conservation, boxing, and long-term storage
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Journal article
Current Issues with Cataloging Printed Music: Challenges Facing Staff and Systems
This paper explores the challenges currently faced by music cataloguers, with particular regard to their training and the systems they work with. It asks whether music catalogers feel they have enough support and training to do their work; it investigates the skills they require, and how they might be taught....Fisher, Meg ; Rafferty, Pauline
cataloging printed music, cataloging training, and Cataloging research
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Blog post
Mapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through the Correspondence of Andrew Salkey
This is a guest post by Natalie Lucy, a PhD student at University College London, who recently undertook a British Library placement to work on a project Mapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through the correspondence of Andrew Salkey.Lucy, Natalie
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Research report
British Library Research Report 2021–22
The latest edition of our Research Report, covering the academic year October 2021 to September 2022 is available. This is the sixth issue of this publication, which has become an annual highlight in our communications about our research. It is an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate achievements of the...The British Library
Research partnerships, Research support, Research engagement, Eccles Centre, Visual arts, Postgraduate research, GLAM, and Research projects
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Book chapter
Library partnerships in an age of openness
Librarians are strong collaborators. As we move toward the “next normal,” partnerships and collaboration will play an even larger role. In our post-pandemic world, what does “open” mean in terms of access to libraries, their staff, and their services? National libraries, for example, are still, to some extent, fixed in...Jolly, Liz
public libraries, collaboration, hybrid digital, open libraries, COVID-19 and libraries, library partnerships, national libraries, British Library, library mission, and access
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Journal article
The British Library – rethinking physical storage
Purpose The British Library (BL) faces a significant challenge with storage space predicted to run out within the next three years. However, alongside a plan to create additional capacity, the BL also intends to take the opportunity to rethink the integration of storage and workflows in order to implement a...Appleyard, Andrew H.
storage, library, automated, sustainability, and repository
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Book
Making Miracles in Medieval England
The cult of the saints was central to medieval Christianity largely due to the miraculous. Saints were members of the elect of heaven and could intercede with God on the behalf of supplicants. Whilst people visited shrines and prayed to the saints for many reasons it was the hope of...Lynch, Tom
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Journal article
Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities
The study of language and script change among the Turkic communities of the Soviet Union often focuses on the switch from Arabic to Latin scripts. Less attention is paid to adaptations of the Arabic script to Turkic vernaculars, and to attempts aimed at convincing the literate masses of their usefulness....Erdman, Michael J.
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Dataset
Publishers’ Plate Numbers 1850-
Publisher’s plate numbers are a crucial element in dating 18th and 19th century music, which very rarely carries a publication date. MacLachlan's list supplements the publication “English music publishers' plate numbers in the first half of the nineteenth century” (London, Faber, 1965) by O.W. Neighbour and A. Tyson. He continues...MacLachlan, David
nineteenth century, music publishers, music, and plate numbers
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Journal article
FAST the Inside Track: Where We Are, Where Do We Want to Be, and How Do We Get There?
This is an overview of the development of FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) from its inception in the late 1990s, through its development and implementation to the work being undertaken by OCLC and the FAST Policy and Outreach Committee (FPOC) to develop and promote FAST. FPOC members explain how... -
Conference paper (published)
“Webcomics Archive? Now I'm Interested”: Comics Readers Seeking Information in Web Archives
There is a longstanding tradition of understanding information needs and interaction behavior across different user groups to inform the design of digital products and services. There is a gap in such research of comics readers, specifically how they seek and interact with the information and interfaces of web-based archives provided...Berube, Linda ; Makri, Stephann ; Cooke, Ian ; Priego, Ernesto ; Wisdom, Stella
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Journal article
Challenging legacies at the British Library
The British Library established a corporate Anti-Racism Project (2020) designed to encourage participation via six subgroups, with staff recommendations incorporated into “Enacting Change”, the Library's Race Equality Action Plan (2022). The research and recommendations of the Cataloguing and Metadata subgroup fed into a pilot project proposed as a proof of...Danskin, Alan
Caribbean, anti-racism, South Asia, Cataloguing, and Metadata
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Book chapter
The sociability of scientific knowledge exchange in British Farming, 1950-90
This is a single chapter from an edited collection that has the following abstract: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural...Horrocks, Sally ; Martin, John ; Merchant, Paul
agrciculture, food, and farming
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Journal article
Writing Milan and Turin in the Light of (Failed) Utopia: Luciano Bianciardi and Paolo Volponi
This article examines a series of novels by Italian writers, Luciano Bianciardi and Paolo Volponi, that capture the transformations brought about by the post-World War II economic growth in the urban-industrial society of Northern Italy. The analysis draws on utopia as, in Ruth Levitas’s words, a ‘desire for a better...Brecciaroli, Giulia
Paolo Volponi, Utopia/dystopia, Turin, Luciano Bianciardi, Literary Urban Studies, Milan, and post-war Italian literature
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Conference paper (unpublished)
(Re)investing in a national repository infrastructure for cultural heritage
Since 2018, the British Library (BL) has invested considerable resource in establishing the necessary infrastructure for a national repository service for cultural heritage organisations, using Samvera Hyku. This has entailed working closely with all known Hyku suppliers and developers, as well as collaborating with the University of Virginia on an...Basford, Jenny ; Holt, Ilkay ; Jevon, Graham ; Ramsey, Nora
open access, OR2023, and repository
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Report
Printed Books Selection and Binding Preparation Section at the British Museum / British Library. History and procedures
Historically, the Trustees of the Library always ensured that there were funds to repair and rebind the books in their care. The sums given varied and increased as new preservation and conservation techniques were devised. The latter included deacidifcation and lamination. Treatments were applied by the bindery located at the...King, Ed
lamination, service evaluation report , deacidification, Department of Printed Books, binding contracts, technical report, rebinding, preservation, and British Library Bindery
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Research report
Contextualising a digital photographic archive of Siberian Indigenous peoples: PhD placement report
This report covers work undertaken over six months (part-time) on the PhD placement ‘Contextualising a digital photographic archive of Siberian Indigenous peoples’. The work was carried out between October 2022 and March 2023 under the supervision of Dr Katya Rogachevskaia, Lead Curator for the British Library’s Slavonic and East European...Maslenova, Anna
visual narratives, photographic archive, ethnographic expeditions, Russian colonial practices, and indigenous peoples of Siberia
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Presentation
The Stein Dunhuang Collection: Unravelling its Provenance, history and contemporary significance in a decolonisation context
This talk delivered to British Library staff reported on Doumy's Coleridge Research Fellowship, which investigated the provenance of the Stein Dunhuang collection at the British Library. The talk discusses the research undertaken, key findings, and outputs from the project.Doumy, Mélodie
British Library, Dunhuang, decolonisation, Coleridge Research Fellowship, Silk Road, provenance, and Marc Aurel Stein
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Software
Hybrid Correspondence Network Processing Script
The Python code was developed to to interrogate the ways in which digital and analogue correspondence files (letters and e-mails) function within the Archive of Harold Pinter; reflecting upon what these patterns might mean for archivists, curators and researchers working with hybrid correspondence collections. This code is collection agnostic and...Mckean, Callum
Harold Pinter, data science, hybrid archives, and visualisations
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Journal article
Data Analysis and Network Visualisation as Tools for Curating Hybrid Correspondence Archives
This pilot project uses data analytics in Python and network analysis in Gephi to interrogate the ways in which digital and analogue correspondence files (letters and e-mails) function within the Archive of Harold Pinter; reflecting upon what these patterns might mean for archivists, curators and researchers working with hybrid correspondence...Mckean, Callum
visualisations, data science, hybrid archives, and Harold Pinter
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Dataset
Datasets for toponym recognition and disambiguation for nineteenth-century English newspapers
We present two datasets, one for the task of toponym recognition and one for the task of toponym disambiguation. The datasets are derived from the "Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers" (DOI: https://doi.org/10.23636/r7d4-kw08). The toponym recognition dataset consists of two JSON files (ner_fine_train.json and ner_fine_dev.json), whereas the toponym...Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Nanni, Federico
toponym disambiguation, nineteenth-century newspapers, named entity recognition, entity linking, toponym resolution, toponym recognition, and dataset
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Dataset
DeezyMatch training set for OCR
Optical character recognition (OCR) is the process of automatically transcribing text from images. The presence of OCR-induced errors in digitised text is a common problem in the digital humanities. OCR errors are usually due to the misrecognition of characters, such as "h" recognised as "b", or "c" recognised as "o".... -
Dataset
Incunabula Printed Catalogue Dataset: Volumes 1-10
This dataset includes the catalogue entries derived from volumes 1-10 of the "Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now at the British Museum" (know as BMC). The BMC was published between 1908-2007 and comprises detailed descriptions of the incunabula collection at the British Library. The dataset was created...British Library
datasets, catalogues, early printing, book history, early printed books, metadata, and incunabula
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Dataset
Incunabula Printed Catalogue Dataset Metadata: Volumes 1-10
This dataset includes the combined catalogue entries derived from volumes 1-10 of the "Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now at the British Museum" (know as BMC). The BMC was published between 1908-2007 and comprises detailed descriptions of the incunabula collection at the British Library. The dataset was...British Library
datasets, catalogues, early printing, incunabula, early printed books, metadata, and book history
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Poster (published)
Datafication and reuse of the descriptions of the incunabula collections at the British Library
The poster discusses the AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship project which investigates the legacies of curatorial voice in the descriptions of incunabula collections at the British Library and their future reuse.Atanassova, Rossitza
historical catalogues, computational analysis, incunabula, catalogue data, and practitioner research
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Journal article
Scientific investigation of the Minsterley Maidens’ crowns
25 samples were taken from seven eighteenth-century commemorative Maidens’ Garlands and Crowns from Minsterley, Shropshire. The samples were investigated by digital microscopy, macro-X-ray fluorescence scanning, Raman microscopy and scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. The study intended to obtain as much information as possible on the making of the...Risdonne, Valentina ; Melita, Lucia Noor ; Burgio, Lucia ; Morris, Rosie