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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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... -
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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
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The critical role of repositories in advancing open scholarship
There are thousands of repositories worldwide, which collectively preserve and provide access to hundreds of millions of scholarly resources. These repositories - mainly hosted by libraries, universities, governments and research centres - represent critical public infrastructure enabling researchers, students and the general public can reap the benefits of research. Yet,...Shearer, Kathleen
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Conference paper (unpublished)
"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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Conference paper (unpublished)
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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Conference paper (unpublished)
Networks of libraries supporting open access book publishing
It is becoming increasingly clear that libraries, acting collectively, can have a major role in creating and sustaining non-profit, community owned, open access infrastructures as public goods. These networks may provide support indirectly, via collective financial support for third party entities, or directly by inter-connecting their existing physical infrastructures to...Gatti, Rupert
open book publishers, Thoth, open scholarship, COPIM, open book collective, and library networks
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Investing in the future of open infrastructure
Kaitlin Thaney, Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), discusses the challenges and strategies involved in fostering community-centered open infrastructure, emphasising the importance of sustainable, accessible, and open systems to advance research and knowledge sharing. Kaitlin outlines the work of IOI, focusing on their research-driven approach, the development of a catalogue of...Thaney, Kaitlin
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Conference paper (unpublished)
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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Journal article
Working at scale: what do computational methods mean for research using cases, models and collections?
Open access, peer-reviewed article published in Science Museum Group Journal, as part of a double-length special issue for the AHRC TaNC discovery project, 'Congruence Engine'. The article gives a critical overview of how 'scale' operates as a keyword within computational humanities as well as reviewing a number of cognate fields,...Wilson, Daniel C S
machine learning, AI for GLAM, STS, scale, computational humanities, history, and congruence engine
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Book
Animals: Art, Science and Sound
Artworks, manuscripts, printed works and wildlife sound recordings come together in this major compendium of the greatest and strangest representations of animals on record. Published to accompany a 2023 British Library exhibition. Eighty detailed case studies highlight celebrated works, including John James Audubon’s The Birds of America, Matthew Paris’s Liber...Roy, Malini ; Sharp Jones, Cam ; Tipp, Cheryl
animals, sound, exhibitions, art, and science
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Journal article
Italian Futurist Books (1909-1944) at the British Library
The Futurist book was instrumental in the circulation of Futurist ideas and represents a very experimental phase in book production, paving the way for the book object, the artist’s book, advertising and design. The purpose of this article is to produce a survey of the Italian Futurist collections held at...Mirabella, Valentina
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Journal article
A Gold Girdle Book and its Connection with Anne Boleyn
The miniature prayer book with the shelfmark Stowe MS. 956 has long attracted attention because of a story associating it with Anne Boleyn. According to an oft-repeated account, this tiny girdle book with a gold metalwork binding was handed by Anne to one of her maids of honour on the...Jackson, Eleanor
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Journal article
The London Stage 1660-1800: A Short History, Retrospective Anatomy, and Projected Future
The London Stage, 1660-1800, a day-by-day performance calendar spanning 140 years, was for its time a magnificent achievement published in eleven volumes (1960-1968 [recte 1970]) running to 1058 pages of introductory matter and 7182 pages of text, plus 672 pages of volume indexes. A one-volume cumulative index compiled from scratch...Hume, Robert D.
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Dataset
Review of Information Studies Courses in Higher Education for Web Archive Provision
This project reviewed the curriculum of information studies postgraduate courses in a number of countries across Europe. The curriculum for Library Studies, Archival Studies, Record Management and Digital Curation/Preservation and Digital Humanities were reviewed to see if there was any reference to web archiving. As these web pages were reviewed... -
Research report
British Library Research Report 2019-20
It will come as no surprise that the impacts of a global pandemic on our research activities are a major theme of this, our fourth, annual Research Report. Regular readers will know that our reports reflect the breadth of research undertaken by our staff, students, fellows and collaborators during the...British Library
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Research report
Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014 Collection Scoping Document
This document aims to establish the scope of the web archive collection for the Commonwealth Games to be held in Glasgow. The proposed collection has been given the working title “Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014". Collection of internet sites relating to the XX Commonwealth Games which were held in Glasgow, Scotland,...MacGlone, Eilidh
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Journal article
The International Standard Name Identifier: extending identity management across the global metadata supply chain
This article describes how ISNI is being adopted as a common identifier across disparate sectors of publishing. Whether publishing and distributing recorded music, film or text ISNI is making good identity management a staple element in the global metadata supply chain. As the content creation industries become more engaged with...MacEwan, Andrew
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Journal article
Islamic Manuscripts from Aceh in the British Library
Aceh has long been renowned as a centre of Islamic scholarship, and some of the most famous Malay texts were composed in this area of north Sumatra. However, despite an abundance of philological and literary studies of texts from Aceh, little attention has yet been paid to the materiality of...Acehnese, Aceh, manuscripts, binding, Malay, Arabic, illumination, and Southeast Asia
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Blog post
Character, costumes and comedy: Pantomime posters in the Evanion collection
This blog post explores three pantomime posters within the Evanion collection at the British Library. The blog traces developments in Victorian pantomimes such as costumes, comedy, elaborate sets and celebrity appearances.Solomons, Amy
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Blog post
Star Baker or Avid Taste-Tester? – Exploring Evanion’s 19th-century baking ephemera collection
Developments in baking products in nineteenth-century Britain made baking easier, quicker and cheaper. Using advertisements from the Evanion collection, this blog looks at the revolution of the pudding in Victorian Britain.Solomons, Amy
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Presentation
WARCnet Special Report - An overview of Skills, Tools & Knowledge Ecologies in Web Archive Research
This is a recording of a presentation for the Aarhus Closing Conference 2022, 18 October 2022 on the WARCnet Special Report, ‘An overview of Skills, Tools & Knowledge Ecologies in Web Archive Research’ with the accompanying slides. It was presented by Sharon Healy, Helena Byrne, Nicola Bingham and Katharina Schmid....Healy, Sharon ; Byrne, Helena ; Bingham, Nicola ; Schmid, Katharina
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Presentation
Identifiers for Practice Research
Evans, Jenny
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Journal article
Conserving paper: reflections on cultures of conservation in Europe and East Asia
Since the 1970s, a continuous exchange of information about conservation between Europe and East Asia has greatly influenced approaches to the treatment of paper objects as well as the tools and materials used. This knowledge is often disseminated and absorbed in a purely practical manner, stripped out of its wider...Kralka, Paulina
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Research report
Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1904 Cylinder Collection (C62) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British Library’s Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1904 Cylinder Collection (C62). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document contains information about the recording context...Barnecutt, Vicky ; Niles, Don
world and traditional music, phonograph, British New Guinea, True Echoes, wax cylinder, Charles G Seligmann, Papua New Guinea, and Daniels Ethnographical Expedition
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Research report
Alfred Cort Haddon 1898 Expedition (Torres Strait and British New Guinea) Cylinder Collection (C80) – British New Guinea cylinders Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British New Guinea cylinders within the British Library’s Alfred Cort Haddon 1898 Expedition (Torres Strait and British New Guinea) Cylinder Collection (C80). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June... -
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Thomas Edge-Partington 1909-1914 British Solomon Islands Protectorate Cylinder Collection (C83) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the Thomas Edge-Partington 1909-1914 British Solomon Islands Protectorate Cylinder Collection, which is part of the British Library’s Royal Anthropological Institute Cylinder Collection (C83). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June... -
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Bronislaw Malinowski 1915-1918 Trobriand Islands, Territory of Papua Cylinder Collection (C46) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British Library’s Bronislaw Malinowski 1915-1918 Trobriand Islands, Territory of Papua Cylinder Collection (C46). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document contains information about the recording context... -
Research report
WHR Rivers and Arthur M Hocart 1908, New Georgia group, British Solomon Islands Protectorate Cylinder Collection (C108) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British Library’s WHR Rivers and Arthur M Hocart 1908, New Georgia group, British Solomon Islands Protectorate Cylinder Collection (C108). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document... -
Research report
John Layard 1914-1915 Atchin, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection (C177) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British Library’s John Layard 1914-1915 Atchin, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection (C177). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document contains information about the recording context and recording...Barnecutt, Vicky
John Layard, True Echoes, Vanuatu, World and Traditional Music, New Hebrides, Oceania, Malakula, ethnographic field recording, wax cylinder, and phonograph
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Research report
Eric Raff 1924 Efate, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection (C83) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the Eric Raff 1924 Efate, New Hebrides Cylinder Collection, which is part of the British Library’s Royal Anthropological Institute Cylinder Collection (C83). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022.... -
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Paul Montague 1914 Gondé, New Caledonia Cylinder Collection (C671) Research Document
This research document contains the results of historical research conducted on the British Library’s Paul Montague 1914 Gondé, New Caledonia Cylinder Collection (C671). This research was done as part of the True Echoes project between July 2019 and June 2022. The document contains information about the recording context and recording...Barnecutt, Vicky
True Echoes, World and Traditional Music, New Caledonia, phonograph, Paul Montague, ethnographic field recording, wax cylinder, Oceania, and Gondé
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Journal article
Investigating the Properties of Folded Parchment – A Preliminary Study
Parchment manuscripts form an important part of many historic collections. They are often found folded, with some displaying multiple fold patterns resulting from changing uses over their history. Parchment is a potentially fragile medium and folding can increase its susceptibility to damage, as well as hampering access and display. Treatment...Garside, Paul ; Dekeyser, Camille
humidification, folded parchment, FTIR-spectroscopy, and shrinkage temperature
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Journal article
Pursuing the Percys: the original owners of the Percy Psalter-Hours
In 2019 the British Library acquired the Percy Hours, a late thirteenth-century book of hours from York. This acquisition reunited the manuscript with the Percy Psalter, acquired by the Library in 1990. Together they originally formed a single volume psalter-hours. The Percy Psalter-Hours is one of a small number of...Jackson, Eleanor
Psalter-hours, heraldry, psalter, social history, book of hours, manuscript, patronage, and York
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Journal article
Beethoven Exhibition at the British Library
Ridgewell, Rupert
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Research report
Scoping Skills and Developing Training Programme for Managing Repository Services in Cultural Heritage Organisations
The objectives of this study are to frame open research skills and competencies for cultural heritage professionals by identifying their needs and requirements, and to design a training programme that will be easily utilised by those cultural heritage organisations (and specifically those that are IROs) seeking to establish or expand...Holt, Ilkay ; Miles, Susan ; Marples, Alice ; Kaur, Kirrn ; Cope, Jez …
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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/kvwc-ty06. 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
thesis, student, UK, dissertations, PhD, theses, doctoral, EThOS, higher education, 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/vtpx-we51. 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
thesis, student, UK, dissertations, PhD, research, doctoral, EThOS, higher education, and theses
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Dataset
Glasgow Courier
Glasgow Courier was a thrice weekly/bi-weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Kenilworth Advertiser
Kenilworth Advertiser was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Blandford Weekly News
Blandord Weekly News was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Bridlington and Quay Gazette
Bridlington and Quay Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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British Miner and General Newsman
British Miner and General Newsman was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal
Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Birkenhead News
Birkenhead News was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times
Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Dataset
Weekly Journal
The file consists of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in XML format for one year of Weekly Journal (Hartlepool) 1901. The full digitised newspaper comprises no. 1–407 (29 Nov.1901 – 17 Sep.1909). The digitised page images are available on the British Newspaper Archive website, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/weekly-journal-hartlepool The British Newspaper Archive...British Library
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North Cumberland Reformer
North Cumberland Reformer (1890 - 1898) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Dataset
Tamworth Miners' Examiner and Working Men's Journal
Tamworth Miners' Examiner and Working Men's Journal (1873 - 1876) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Lancaster Herald and Town and County Advertiser
Lancaster Herald and Town and County Advertiser was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Shropshire Examiner
Shropshire Examiner (1874-1877) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Colne Valley Guardian
Colne Valley Guardian was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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South Staffordshire Examiner
South Staffordshire Examiner (1874) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Stalybridge Examiner
Stalybridge Examiner (1876) which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Abstract
Historic machines from 'prams' to 'Parliament': new avenues for collaborative linguistic research
Research in computational linguistics has made successful attempts at modelling word meaning at scale, but much remains to be done to put these computational models to the test of historical scholarship (see e.g. Beelen et al. 2021). More importantly, a lot of computational research looks at texts in a historical...Ridge, Mia ; Tolfo, Giorgia ; Westerling, Kalle ; Pedrazzini, Nilo ; McGillivray, Barbara
crowdsourcing, computational linguistics, and digital humanities
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Dataset
Warrington Examiner
Warrington Examiner (1869-1901) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. (1858 - 1918) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Central Glamorgan Gazette
Central Glamorgan Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser
Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. (1863 - 1914) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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The Runcorn Examiner
The Runcorn Examiner (1870-1954) was a weekly newspaper and years 1870-1920 have been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Dataset
Weymouth Telegram
Weymouth Telegram (1860 - 1901) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Dataset
Living with Machines Zooniverse Participant Survey
Summary results from a survey of contributors to Living with Machines Zooniverse crowdsourcing projects. Responses were received between 24 May and 13 June 2022. We designed the survey so that we could align our reporting with two other audience / participant research groups. Firstly, we used the demographic categories that...British Library
online volunteering, digital participation, citizen science, citizen history, questionnaire, crowdsourcing, survey, and audience research
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Dataset
The Newspaper Press Directory (1881-1920)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Charles Mitchell. Newspapers listed primarily listed in alphabetical order of the town the newspaper where the title was published. Information for each title included: features connected with the district such as population and trade; principal towns in...C. Mitchell and Co. ; British Library
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Dataset
Frederick May's London Press Dictionary and Advertiser's Handbook (1883-1911)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Frederick May and successors, containing information on newspapers, magazines and periodicals and arranged in alphabetical and sometimes tabular order. Information for each title included price publisher office political and religious leaningFrederick May & Son ; British Library
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Dataset
Stretford and Urmston Examiner
Stretford and Urmston Examiner. (1879 - 1880) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Research report
Investigating small publisher fairs across the UK to support collection development for artists’ books and fine press
My placement project focussed on small publisher fairs across the UK to support the British Library’s development of its artists’ books and fine press publication holdings. With supervision and guidance from Jerry Jenkins, I collected data relating to the exhibitors at small publisher fairs in order to analyse the regional...Isherwood-Wallace, Eva
artists' book publishing, fine press publishers, publishing, independent publishers, book fairs, and independent presses
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Still image
UK Web Archive promotional material for UEFA Women’s EUROs England 2022
Promotional material by the UK Web Archive, for use by Legal Deposit Libraries, intended to publicise the collection of websites relevant to the UEFA Women's EURO 2022 (6 - 31 July 2022) hosted by England. This work contains the below files: 1. PDF version of the postcard. 2. An email...UK Web Archive
soccer, promotional material, football, Women’s European Championships, and UEFA Women's Euro England 2022
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Conference paper (unpublished)
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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Conference paper (unpublished)
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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Conference paper (unpublished)
“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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Conference paper (unpublished)
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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Conference paper (unpublished)
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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Conference paper (unpublished)
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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Exhibition object labels
Living with Machines: Human stories from the industrial age (exhibition board text)
‘Living with Machines: Human stories from the industrial age’ was a free exhibition at Leeds City Museum from July 2022-January 2023. It explored how machines and mechanisation changed life and work in Leeds and the surrounding regions. A collaboration between the British Library and Leeds City Museum, the exhibition was...Ridge, Mia ; McGoldrick, John
history of science, mechanisation, data science, industrialisation, history of technology, and information visualisation
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Dataset
St. Helens Examiner
St. Helens Examiner was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Dataset
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Dataset
The Stockton Examiner
The Stockton Examiner (1878-1879) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Warwickshire Herald
Warwickshire Herald was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Pontypridd District Herald
Pontypridd District Herald was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Darlington & Richmond Herald
Darlington & Richmond Herald was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Nuneaton Times
Nuneaton Times was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Poole Telegram
Poole Telegram was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library