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Conference paper (unpublished)
Academic Publishing in Africa
Provision of education at all levels has always been one of the, if not the, most important expectation that Africans demand of their governments. In the twenty-first century even a bachelor’s degree is no longer good enough for the few available government jobs or for those in the private sector....Bgoya, Walter
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The Southpaw and The Global Knowledge Order
This paper considers the special challenges of creating and accessing knowledge material relating to the global South, especially from locations in the South. The imbalance between North and South in the creation of knowledge resources is linked to their unequal access to extant resources, but the link is not always...Chaudhuri, Sukanta
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Tombouctou Manuscripts Project
In this presentation I shall introduce the work of the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project. It began as an attempt to understand the tradition of learning in Timbuktu as represented in the large number of manuscript books kept in the town. However, it has expanded into a larger consideration of various issues...Jeppie, Shamil
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Academic Authorship and Arab Knowledge Production
This talk is inspired by the book that I recently co-authored with Rigas Arvanitis Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise. (2016). I will show a paradox: Arab knowledge production has tremendously increased but often without being translated into public awareness and policy. What does mean in terms...Hanafi, Sari
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Digital Sudan: Digitizing Cultural Heritage for the Democratization of Knowledge
For many decades, heritage in Sudan has been a battleground between the diverse political, religious and ethnic forces. This is affecting the way in which the educational and curriculum development processes are organized and how the acquisitions of public libraries, including the National Library, are selected. For many years, books...Satti, Nureldin
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The AI will see you now
There are serious concerns about the rise of automation and robots taking our jobs. But AI entering the workplace also presents a unique opportunity to rethink how we live and work. Are we headed for a utopia in which intelligent machines do many tasks, enabling us to spend more time...Clayton, Naomi ; Grimes, Keith ; Hester, Helen ; Moore, Phoebe V ; Ojanpera, Sanna
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Indicios de procedencias en libros españoles antiguos de la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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La biblioteca de F.W. Cosens, su dispersión y las adquisiciones de la Biblioteca Nacional de España
West, Geoffrey
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Ejemplares del Quijote de la British Library: algunos datos sobre las procedencias de las ediciones de 1604/1605
West, Geoffrey
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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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Unlocking the Wandering Minstrels’ Archive: a case study in creating a database of performances
The Wandering Minstrels Orchestra was an orchestra of noblemen and gentlemen which gave hundreds of private 'smoking concerts' in London and charity concerts across England between 1860 and 1898. Surviving scrapbooks of photographs, press cuttings, programmes, letters and drawings relating to the Minstrels, many of them now preserved at the...Tuppen, Sandra
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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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Supporting practical preservation work and making it sustainable with SPRUCE
Wheatley, Paul ; Pennock, Maureen
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Más sobre los manuscritos de Frederick William Cosens
West, Geoffrey
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Ediciones Vigía. Handmade Books from Cuba 1985-2007
West, Geoffrey
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The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts of Frederick William Cosens (1819-89)
West, Geoffrey
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Ediciones Vigía: handmade books from Cuba
West, Geoffrey
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The British Library’s collection of Basque books: whose were they and how did they get there?
West, Geoffrey
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Los fondos vascos de la British Library: indagaciones sobre su procedencia
West, Geoffrey
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La adquisición del Amadís de Gaula, Libros I-IV (Zaragoza, 1508) por el Museo Británico
West, Geoffrey
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Accident or by design. How and why did the British (Museum) Library acquire its holdings of Basque printed books?
West, Geoffrey
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The best Spanish library out of Spain. El ideal de Panizzi, ayer y hoy
West, Geoffrey
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Catálogo colectivo y bibliografía de impresos iberoamericanos hasta 1850: los fondos de las bibliotecas británicas
West, Geoffrey
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Atlantic crossings: the trade in Latin American books in Europe in the nineteenth century
West, Geoffrey
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Torres-García: dos artistas uruguayos y la vanguardia en Cataluña
West, Geoffrey
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Lost for words? The Earliest Representations of the Americas in European Sources
West, Geoffrey
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Sylvia Pankhurst's Germinal: work and play, organisation and the organic
Sylvia Pankhurst's little-known magazine Germinal (1923-24) emerged as her socialist newspaper The Workers Dreadnought was on the verge of collapse. It is self-consciously and necessarily more of a literary production than the Dreadnought but this paper suggests that concepts of internationalism and work (and so play) are shared by both....Price, Richard
Sylvia Pankhurst, poetry, literary magazines, little magazines, Suffragettes, politics, and modernism
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Collective intelligence or intelligent collecting: alternative survival strategies for audiovisual archives in the Information Age
Despite the evident prescriptive statement in the sub-title to this presentation, this sketch of the way things appear to me to be is intended to generate collaborative inquiry within IASA and its institutional members rather than present strategic actions that can be applied on return from this Conference.Clark, Chris
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The Philately of the Edwardian era as shown in its literature
As this Paper is being given in 2006 no one can be alive who has any meaningful experience of philately in the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII. To discover virtually anything at all the researcher must examine the literature and the archives of the period. As far as...Beech, David R.
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The British Library Philatelic Collections 1998 to 2005
This Paper is the third in a series that has reported to the Society and the philatelic world on the activities of the British Library Philatelic Collections. The first was given on 1st December, 1988 by my predecessor R F “Bob” Schoolley-West FRPSL and the second I gave on 9th...Beech, David R.
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Translating the enemy
This paper has three sources or “causes”, two of them “prior”, the third “final”. These are: firstly, the translation by the present writer of a fairly large group of poems and texts by the poet Velimir Khlebnikov (b1885, d1922), intended as a contribution to an anthology of English language translations...Chadwick, Brian
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The epic unwriting of Empire: a case study. Khlebnikov -nash edinstvennyi poet-epik XX veka
I was discussing with a friend the problems I was having in introducing my topic or theme. The friend in question is one of the artists who has been working on the film which I will show later. He had read through my text, which was, I thought, mainly finished,...Chadwick, Brian
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How to look after your Collection - A basic guide
Many philatelists understand that they are the guardians of the material in their collections for themselves and for future owners. It is unfortunate when some collectors show a disregard for looking after their collection and dismiss comment with a remark like “it will be OK in my life time”. It...Beech, David R.
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The Time of Place: Louis-Sebastien Mercier and the hours of the day
I was recently reading The White Cities, Joseph Roth’s reports from France, 1925–1939, when, amongst many other moments, I was struck by the following passage: The manufacturers have their villas on the other side of the Rhône. That’s where the workers live – not in villas, alas, but in tenements....Shaw, Matthew J.
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The sound of artists' books
Artists’ books – any books – are capable of sound, whether dropped, as in Keith Godard’s otherwise text-less and image-less Sounds (1972), or, fluttering noisily, drying out, in the chill spring wind, on the monastery roof in Sergo Paradjanov’s film, The Colour of Pomegranates (1969).Bury, Stephen
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Structuring curatorial responsibilities to incorporate sabbaticals, research etc
A.W. Pollard, a keeper of printed books at the British Museum at the beginning of last century and an important Shakespearean scholar in his own right, remarked that one of the incentives to his career as a published writer was the low pay of the curator. So the simple way...Bury, Stephen
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‘If the package is right, the pills are right’: Proprietary medicines, branding, and advertising, 1650-1850
Medical products, predominantly sold by newspaper and book printers, became the most heavily advertised branded good throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This fact, combined with the ever-increasing availability of digitised contemporary newspapers, has generated important work upon their advertisement and distribution. These studies have considerably enriched our understanding of...Basford, Jennifer
branding, material culture, advertising, proprietary medicine, and packaging
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Conference Panel: The past, present and future of digital scholarship with newspaper collections
Historical newspapers are of interest to many humanities scholars, valued as sources of information and language closely tied to a particular time, social context and place. Following library and commercial microfilming and, more recently, digitisation projects, newspapers have been an accessible and valued source for researchers. The ability to use...Ridge, Mia ; Colavizza, Giovanni
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Research Data Management in 'GLAM': Managing Data for Cultural Heritage
A presentation given at the ‘Open Science Infrastructures for Big Cultural Data’ Masterclass, Dec. 13-15th, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, looking at research data management in the context of open digital cultural collections, with a case study of the developments in data management and data management infrastructures at the British Library.Stewart, Sarah Anna
data management, museums, research data management, cultural heritage, data, digital collections, digital scholarship, archives, libraries, art galleries, and open research
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Towards a Networked Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Services and Persistent Identifiers at the British Library
Presentation given at the ‘Museums and Big Data’ Conference, April 30 - May 3rd, in Doha, Qatar. This presentation investigates the use of persistent identifiers in digital cultural heritage and digital collections.Stewart, Sarah Anna
museums, persistent identifiers, DOIs, cultural heritage, data, open research, digital scholarship, archives, DataCite, art galleries, digital collections, and libraries
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Is there a role for ILL in an open access world – a British Library perspective
The 2017 UUK report on the transition to open access reported that 54% of UK-authored articles in 2016 were accessible within 12 months of publication. This is compared to 32% of articles authored in 2014. Over the past five years, open access research has flourished in an environment of funding...Flanagan, Dimity
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Victorian decorated books with cloth covers in the second half of the nineteenth century
The developments of how the manufacture, embossing and blocking of cloth covers was achieved between 1825 and 1850 have been set out elsewhere. However, to set the scene for what came after 1850, I wish to briefly describe the machine embossing of cloth, and show some of the grain types....King, Ed
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ICDAR2019 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2019
This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of page analysis and recognition methods for historical documents with text mainly in Bengali language and script. It describes the competition rules, dataset, and evaluation methodology. Results are presented for five methods - three submit-ted, one re-run, and one open source state-of-the-art system....Clausner, Christian ; Antonacopoulos, Apostolos ; Derrick, Tom ; Pletschacher, Stefan
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Assessing the Impact of OCR Quality on Downstream NLP Tasks
A growing volume of heritage data is being digitized and made available as text via optical character recognition (OCR). Scholars and libraries are increasingly using OCR-generated text for retrieval and analysis. However, the process of creating text through OCR introduces varying degrees of error to the text. The impact of... -
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Conference Panel: Documenting the Olympics & Paralympics
The online panel event Documenting the Olympics & Paralympics is a collaboration between the British Library, the International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) at De Montfort University, and the British Society of Sports History (BSSH). Originally, this was supposed to be a full day face-to-face event, but due...Byrne, Helena
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Authority and Judgement in the Digital Archive
The transformative promise of the digital humanities is not without problems. This paper looks at digital archive curation using a database of 19th-century London concerts as a case study. We examine some of the barriers faced in its development, related to expertise, volume and complexity, the gap between cost and...Dix, Alan ; Cowgill, Rachel ; Bashford, Christina ; McVeigh, Simon ; Ridgewell, Rupert
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Spreadsheets as User Interfaces
Spreadsheets are ubiquitous, familiar, often overlooked, and embody vast financial and human investment, not least in their user interface. This paper shows how spreadsheets can be used as an integral part of interactive processes, for activities from simple data entry, to more complex grouping and linking of datasets, both as...Dix, Alan ; Cowgill, Rachel ; Bashford, Christina ; McVeigh, Simon ; Ridgewell, Rupert
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Inequities in Scholarly Communications
In today's political climate, we are well aware, if we weren't before, that inequities exist at all levels of society. This is true also in scholarly communications, which despite its many changes in the last few decades, still adheres to traditional values and structures. This talk offers a broad overview...Roh, Charlotte
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Social Justice Driven Open Access Bridging The Information Divide
“Open access is not only access and consumption but also and above all, production and dissemination...…[and] has the potential to contribute to and foster local research and development” Schöpfel (2017). The open access (OA) movement has been hailed in Africa as a significant contributor to its development as it opens...Raju, Reggie
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Leverage Academy-Owned Non-APC Open Access Publishing to Achieve Sustainable and Equitable Scholarly Communications
Latin America has kept a strong tradition in Open Access, as a natural way to disseminate knowledge in a cooperative manner, where neither author fees nor subscriptions have been involved. Academic institutions, in this region, are in charge of publishing journals in such a way that each institution’s investment mutually...Becerril-Garcia, Arianna
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Decolonising the Archive: Questions, Problems and Solutions?
Those working on or with colonial archives and collections face a number of challenges arising from the historical contexts of these materials: where they came from, how they were brought together (or separated), and who has been their custodian. In these circumstances, it is important that contemporary professionals do not...Bennett, Melissa
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Scaling Small: Enabling a More Diverse Ecosystem for Scholarly Book Publishing
This presentation provides an overview of the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project (https://www.copim.ac.uk/), which is dedicated to the creation of robust and resilient infrastructures, workflows, business models, governance structures, and reuse and preservation strategies for the publication of open access books. It will focus on how we...Adema, Janneke
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Using Open Source Tools to Decolonize Map Archives: The Case of Palestine Open Maps
An essential part of the colonial process was mapping the colonies: to know their historical and spatial characteristics as a prelude to conquering them (Abu Sitta, 2004). The maps produced through those processes now sit in various archives, and often serve as a snapshot of the spatial layout of those...Al-Shihabi, Majd
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Bricks and Mortals: Approaches to Decolonizing Museums at UCL
Subhadra Das is Curator of the Galton Collection at UCL. She reflects on the problematic issues of the naming of spaces and buildings at UCL, focusing on Francis Galton and his links with the history of eugenics. Subhadra considered how to bring this story to a wider public and in...Das, Subhadra
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Knowledge Justice in the Digital Archive: The Exclusions of ‘Open’ / The Inclusions of ‘Closed’
The digital revolution has arguably made more information – otherwise locked away in the exclusionary spaces of libraries, archives, personal collections, and memory – more accessible to more people, who can now both contribute to and draw from remarkable digitized repositories of free content, like Wikipedia. The open data, software,...Allmann, Kira
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Small and Medium Size Academic Publishers Matter!
Beyond the large publishing groups, with huge catalogs of international books and journals published in English and with extensive presence in academic institutions around the world, the small and medium size academic publishing houses exist. These publishers are concerned with building catalogs that cover global issues but also local ones....Giménez Toledo, Elea
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Open or Ajar? And How We Blow The B****Y Doors Off!
The Open Access movement has transformed access to publicly funded research outcomes. Since 2009 there has been a 216% increase in the number of Open Access journals registered with the Directory of Open Access Journals who have published over 5,276,127 articles between them. But what happens when open access content...Caplehorne, Josie ; Watson, Ben
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For Whom Should Science Be Opened?
Leslie Chan invites us to consider the uncritical acceptance of openness, proposing that there is no universal concept of open as the concept does not address how knowledge is created, shared and circulated in different communities and different contexts. Leslie advocates for a need to decenter whiteness in both academic...Chan, Leslie
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Understanding the concept of spatial recession and coining the Awadhi landscape
Roy, Malini
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Forging new identities: the role of the artist in 18th century northern India
Roy, Malini
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Iron Ladies? The true impact of pain in chronic illness: where pain really hurts
Bacchini, Simone
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Now You See It; Now You Don’t: The Experience of chronic illness in Six Italian Women Living With Autoimmune Disease
For those affected, chronic illness is a frightening, often isolating experience. Part of its power lies in its invisibility: to the onlooker, the chronically ill often appears “normal”. In addition, with the passing of time the absence of an immediate threat to life can lead the observer – medical professional...Bacchini, Simone
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Question and answer session 2 : Measuring and evaluating impact beyond journal articles
Recording of the Question and Answer discussion from Session 2: Measuring and evaluating impact beyond journal articles.Boruta, Luc ; Derrick, Gemma ; Boddington, Anne ; Adams, Helen
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Best of both: combining arts and science to measure the benefits of online culture for mental health in young people
An inter-disciplinary project undertaken by museum and psychiatry staff at the University of Oxford in 2020 set out to find out if online cultural content could be effective against common mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. The O-ACE (Online Active Community Engagement) project used traditional arts engagement research...Adams, Helen
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Making a Difference and 'Partnering for Impact'
This presentation will reflect on impact as defined in the Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) and that forms a key element of the current dual funding structure of research for Higher Education Institutions. Although impact in its broadest sense extends beyond research, it is most prominently highlighted in the REF as...Boddington, Anne
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Assessing the broader value of research culture: The hidden REF experience
The hidden REF was an experiment to counteract existing evaluation methods. UK REF Impact Case Studies have a narrative linearity which fails to appreciate the amazing plethora of interactions, individuals and different types of output that are part of our research culture. The hidden REF exercise aims to celebrate the...Derrick, Gemma
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Impact cannot be measured, and other sad half-truths about impact measurement
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. In this talk, I look at bringing algorithmic fairness to impact measurement, from web-scale attention tracking to computer-assisted data story-telling. Drawing on my experience with altmetrics, I argue that many proxies for impact correlate not...Boruta, Luc
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Increasing engagement through Towards a National Collection
At the centre of the £18.9m research development programme Towards a National Collection is the aim to increase engagement with the cultural heritage collections of the UK. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the programme is working to link collections and encourage cross-searching of multiple collection types, to...Bailey, Rebecca
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Users understand OpenGLAM. Do GLAMs?
For more than a decade, a dedicated bunch of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums [GLAM] around the world have been advocating for opening up cultural heritage collections while pushing for openness in their own institutions. Today, more than 1,200 GLAMs worldwide feature open access to their digitised assets – making...Sanderhoff, Merete
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The Ethics of Open Access in the Endangered Archives Programme
The Endangered Archives Programme (also known as EAP) gives funding to people running projects to digitise and preserve archival materials at risk of destruction. These can date from any time before the middle of the twentieth century, and from most parts of the world except Europe and North America. The...Schaik, Sam van
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What does the future hold for "open" and cultural heritage institutions?
GLAMs’ [Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums] public interest mission is squarely aligned with the open access ethos. Indeed, making their collections as openly accessible, shareable, and reusable as possible is the best way for GLAMs to achieve their mission as they digitize and offer their collections online. But only a...Vézina, Brigitte
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Defoe: A Spark-Based Toolbox for Analysing Digital Historical Textual Data
This work presents defoe, a new scalable and portable digital eScience toolbox that enables historical research. It allows for running text mining queries across large datasets, such as historical newspapers and books in parallel via Apache Spark. It handles queries against collections that comprise several XML schemas and physical representations.... -
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Contextualizing Victorian Newspapers
Beelen, Kaspar ; Ahnert, Ruth ; Beavan, David ; Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Hosseini, Kasra …
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A Deep Learning Approach to Geographical Candidate Selection through Toponym Matching
Recognizing toponyms and resolving them to their real-world referents is required for providing advanced semantic access to textual data. This process is often hindered by the high degree of variation in toponyms. Candidate selection is the task of identifying the potential entities that can be referred to by a toponym... -
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Developing Identifiers for Heritage Collections
'Developing Identifiers for Heritage Collections ' is a tool aimed at heritage professionals to support decision making for persistent identifier (PID) use. The project’s 2020 survey found the value of PIDs, for example in creating trustworthy links, was understood but needs to be more clearly addressed directly to decision makers...Madden, Frances
persistent identifiers, Towards a National Collection, and PIDs
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Shared Research Repository Service and competency framework for cultural heritage professionals
This presentation covers an overview of the British Library’s Shared Research Repository Service to make GLAM research discoverable and a proposed training programme for GLAM professionals to manage repository services as a result of a recent scoping report conducted by the British Library. British Library’s Shared Research Repository Service features...Basford, Jenny ; Holt, Ilkay
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Climate change approach at the British Library
Maja outlines the initiatives the British Library is taking to reach Net Zero including infrastructure issues to reduce emissions. Collection initiatives include the UK Web Archive curated Collection on Climate Change, Voices of Science, Contemporary Science Collections Guide on Climate Change and highlighting the use of nineteenth century maps to...Maricevic, Maja
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“Forever or 5 years”: Sustainability planning for Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities
This short presentation will focus on the requirements for sustainability planning for Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities, and more specifically for the federated repositories & data services’ ecosystem as part of the AHRC programme “Infrastructure for Digital Innovation and Curation in Arts and Humanities” (iDAH). From technical choices,...Sichani, Anna Maria
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Climate justice at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Founded in 1670, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh delivers world-leading plant science, conservation and education programmes. The Garden’s mission is to ‘Explore, Conserve and Explain the World of Plants for a Better Future’ and the new five year strategy, ’Responding to the Biodiversity Crisis and Climate Emergency’, was launched in...Mitchell, Lorna
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Valuing the breadth and depth of skills in the research library
Libraries are centres of technical and specialist expertise, the skills their staff can contribute to the wider organisation and as partners in research have been overlooked. This talk follows on from the RLUK-AHRC event The Technician Commitment and the role of research and academic libraries as centres of technical and...Knowles, Claire
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Closing remarks to Open and Engaged conference 2022.
Rachael's closing remarks summing up the discussion of the 2022 Open and Engaged event.Kotarski, Rachael
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(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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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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Balancing public-private partnerships with responsibilities to our communities
The Living with Machines project (2018-23) was a data science and digital history project between the British Library and The Alan Turing Institute. Its focus on the impact of mechanisation in the long 19th century was in part inspired by the Library's access to newspapers digitised for The British Newspaper...Ridge, Mia
digitisation, research project, newspapers, and Living With Machines
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Where do I stand? Deconstructing digital collections [research] infrastructures: a perspective from Towards a National Collection
This presentation sheds light on the critical challenges of establishing a sustainable digital infrastructure in the United Kingdom. The work conducted by TaNC plays a crucial role in addressing key factors within the realm of digital infrastructure, including: Tools and Pipelines: This encompasses software and related components. User Knowledge Needs:...Pereda, Javier
digital infrastructure, GLAM, and Towards a National Collection
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"This is not IP I'm familiar with." The strange afterlife and untapped potential of public domain content in GLAM institutions.
Cultural institutions are vital stewards of public domain works and artefacts, billions of which have now been digitised and placed online. Yet few institutions release this content for free and unrestricted reuse. Why? In this talk, Douglas will illuminate this complex landscape and show how open access can unlock opportunities...McCarthy, Douglas
open scholarship, GLAM, copyright, and intellectual property
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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