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Conference paper (unpublished)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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Conference paper (published)
“Webcomics Archive? Now I'm Interested”: Comics Readers Seeking Information in Web Archives
There is a longstanding tradition of understanding information needs and interaction behavior across different user groups to inform the design of digital products and services. There is a gap in such research of comics readers, specifically how they seek and interact with the information and interfaces of web-based archives provided...Berube, Linda ; Makri, Stephann ; Cooke, Ian ; Priego, Ernesto ; Wisdom, Stella
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Conference paper (unpublished)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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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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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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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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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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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