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Conference paper (unpublished)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Conference paper (unpublished)
"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Conference paper (unpublished)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Conference paper (unpublished)
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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Conference paper (unpublished)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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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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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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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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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
Realising and expanding the benefits of heritage GLAM repositories: open scholarship in practice
This module provides a case study of how a research repository can help an institution adhere to open scholarship principles.Jevon, Graham ; Ramsey, Nora
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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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Presentation
Opening up heritage research: open access to cultural heritage
This module covers the topics of understanding research landscape in GLAM organisations, benefits of openness for heritage research, basic concepts of open principles, value of repositories in GLAMs and BL’s Shared Research Repository as an example.Miles, Susan
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Presentation
Realising and expanding the benefits: Running a cultural heritage repository
This module covers the technical overview and requirements for running a cultural heritage repository including an overview of the British Library’s Shared Research Repository, platforms and software, content administration, technical features.Jevon, Graham
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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
Opening up heritage research: open access to cultural heritage
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
Opening up heritage research: research in GLAMs
This session covers the topics of understanding the research landscape in GLAM organisations, benefits of openness for heritage research, basic concepts of open principles and frameworks.Holt, Ilkay
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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
Exploring the scholarly communications ecosystem
This module provides an overview on the topics of scholarly publishing, rights management and copyright, research data management, persistent identifiers, and digital preservation accompanied with a breakout activity to discuss challenges and prioritise topics for an online follow up session.Holt, Ilkay
scholarly publishing, scholarly communications, persistent identifiers, digital preservation, and research data management