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Conference paper (unpublished)
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