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Blog post
Jane Austen and the Georgian Social Whirl of Bath
This blogpost introduces the findings of a Doctoral Fellowship jointly supervised by the British Library and the National Trust, about Jane Austen and Georgian Bath. The Fellowship is linked to National Trust work on the Bath Assembly Rooms, and the blog post situates the fellowship research in that wider contect....Edwards, Joanne
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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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Conference paper (unpublished)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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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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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... -
Book
Armorial blocks and tools specially cut for the British Museum Library Bindery
In 1866, the British Museum Library’s official bookbinder, Charles Tuckett junior, compiled a catalogue of motifs (created using bookbindings tools) which had been made for the bindery. Books formerly from the libraries of historic collectors were often decorated in a particular style, frequently featuring a coat of arms. When the...Marks, P. J M.
Arms blocks, Coat of arms, Armorial block, British Museum Library Bindery, Charles Tuckett junior, and Bookbinding tools
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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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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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Geographical dataset
Sarah FitzGerald's PhD placement project folder
This dataset is a zip file that contains the complete folder structure that Sarah used to manage this project. The content includes her planning, work, and outcomes, in the form of reports, presentations and blog posts. In addition to the data visualisations on the projects relating to Africa, Sarah also...FitzGerald, Sarah
West Africa, research collaboration, projects, Africa, humanities, digital scholarship, and data visualisation
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Dataset
EAP031 Catalogue Metadata
This Excel spreadsheet contains the metadata that describes the archival collection digitised in Bulgaria by the EAP031 "The Treasures of Danzan Ravjaa" project team. The metadata was originally created by the EAP031 project team that digitised the archive in 2005. The project team was led by Professor Caroline Humphrey. This...EAP031 Project Team
metadata, manuscripts, and Tibetan
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Research report
Mapping British Library Collections with National Trust Sites: Report on findings from initial mapping exercise March–August 2020
This report outlines the top level mapping activity undertaken between March–August 2020 to identify links between the British Library’s collections and National Trust properties, and its key findings. Its aim was to identify and facilitate future collaborative research opportunities between the two institutions. The original brief for this work can...Evans, Lucy ; Louca-Richards, Zoe
research, heritage, British Library, collections, National Trust, and partnership
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Workflow
Mapping the Caribbean Diaspora through Andrew Salkey's Correspondence
A British Library PhD Placement project to map the Caribbean Diasporic Network evident in the correspondence files of the Andrew Salkey Archive using data visualisation platforms Gephi and Kepler. The aim of the project was to map the movement of the correspondents across the globe overtime and create visualisations of...British Library
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Dataset
Gephi Dataset for "Mapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through Correspondence"
Microsoft CSV file dataset created in Gephi that can be uploaded in Gephi to create the visualisation of the network.British Library
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Dataset
Spatial network dataset for "Mapping the Caribbean Diaspora through Andrew Salkey"
Microsoft csv. file dataset created for Kepler mapping the geographical movement of correspondentsBritish Library
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Dataset
Dataset mapping the movement of Salkey's correspondents across the globe
Microsoft CSV file dataset created for Kepler to map the movement of Salkey's correspondents across the globeBritish Library
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Dataset
All Data for "Mapping the Caribbean Diaspora through Andrew Salkey's Correspondence"
Microsoft excel of all of the metadata created by the project.British Library
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Book
Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data
Living with Machines is the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK. The project brought together a team of twenty-three researchers to leverage more than twenty-years' worth of digitisation projects in order to deepen our understanding of the impact of mechanisation on nineteenth-century Britain. In contrast to many...Ahnert, Ruth ; Griffin, Emma ; Ridge, Mia ; Tolfo, Giorgia
digital humanities, British history, multidisciplinarity, digital history, and nineteenth century
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Presentation
Map your data with Peripleo
Slides from a tutorial in in mapping cultural heritage and humanities data and making these available on the web using Peripleo software. Delivered as part of the British Library’s internal ‘Hack and Yack’ training programme on 23 Feb 2023, this document was provided as a handout. Peripleo is a prototype...Simon, Rainer
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Learning object
Locolligo British Library tutorial
This explanation of how to transform and wrangle geographical cultural heritage and humanities data using Locolligo software. Delivered as part of the British Library’s internal ‘Hack and Yack’ training programme on 19 Jan 2023, this document was provided as a handout. Locolligo is a single-page, browser-based JavaScript application to facilitate...Gadd, Stephen
location, geography, map, and cultural heritage
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Dataset
Kepler Dataset for "Mapping the Caribbean Diaspora through Andrew Salkey's Correspondence"
Dataset created in Kepler to map the movement of the Caribbean diasporic network present in Andrew Salkey's correspondence files.British Library
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Conference paper (unpublished)
AHRC, digital research infrastructure and where we want to go with it
This presentation charts AHRC’s journey towards defining and creating a cohesive, community-focused digital research infrastructure for arts and humanities research and asks the audience: are we on the right track, or have we got it completely wrong?Chang, Tao
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Open online tools for creating interactive narratives
With the increased availability of new tools, platforms, technologies and formats to create and distribute digital publications, the British Library has been researching and collecting examples of digital storytelling as part of its Emerging Formats work. This presentation will introduce some of the freely available and open-source online interactive...Rossi, Giulia Carla ; Wisdom, Stella
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The Turing Way: Community-led resources for open research and data
The Turing Way is an open-source, community-led, and collaboratively developed project on making data science and research skills accessible, comprehensible, and beneficial for a wider research community. We bring together individuals from diverse fields and expertise to develop practices and learning resources that can make data research comprehensible and useful...Karoune, Emma
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Dataset
OCR and crowdsourced annotations, Language of Mechanisation, JSON files
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... -
Conference paper (unpublished)
The not so quiet rights retention revolution: research libraries, rights and supporting our communities
This talk examines the growing rights retention movement within UK research libraries, outlining its importance for authors and researchers and noting a significant increase in institutions adopting rights retention policies. The conversation delves into the role of libraries in supporting researchers' rights, advocating for a shift in the academic landscape...Nixon, William