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Poster (published)
Creating and Archiving Electronic Literature During the Pandemic
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on the way cultural heritage organisations engage with their audiences. At a time when public exhibitions and events have to be postponed indefinitely or cancelled, many GLAM institutions have chosen to increase their online presence instead, looking at virtual platforms as...Rossi, Giulia Carla
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Conference paper (published)
Prospects for a Big Data History of Music
This position paper sets out the possibility of a musicology based on the analysis of musical-bibliographical metadata as Big Data. It outlines the work underway, as part of the AHRC-funded project A Big Data History of Music, to align seven major datasets of musical-bibliographical metadata. After discussing some of the...Rose, Stephen ; Tuppen, Sandra
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Conference paper (unpublished)
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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Conference paper (published)
The Flashback Project: Rescuing disk-based content from the 1980s to the present day
This paper introduces the British Library's Flashback project, a proof-of-concept that explored the practical challenges of preserving digital content stored on physical media (magnetic and optical disks) using a sample of content from hybrid collection items dating from between 1980 and 2010. It describes some of the activities undertaken by...Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter ; Day, Michael ; Davies, Kevin ; Whibley, Simon …
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Poster (published)
Scaled and automated preservation planning for highly diverse digital collections: the Integrated Preservation Suite
This poster describes the Integrated Preservation Suite (IPS) project. IPS is a British Library initiative to develop and populate an infrastructure capable of supporting preservation planning of highly diverse digital collections at scale. IPS comprises: A Representation Information Registry with information about formats and wider technical environments relevant to the...Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter
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Conference paper (published)
Adventures with ePub3: when rendering goes wrong
The role of standards in digital preservation is widely acknowledged. The current version of the ePub standard, used for publishing and disseminating eBooks, is ePub3, specifically 3.1 (January 2017). A marked difference from ePub2 is support for fixed layout files and, whilst several different ePub readers are available, not all...Pennock, Maureen ; Day, Michael
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Presentation
"...with the Software in the Library": Best practices for research software management and citation
A presentation given at the University College London Knowledge Quarter KQ Codes Tech Social on July 17, 2019. Outlines the research data landscape, data services and collections at the British Library and best practices for research software management and citation including software management planning, licensing resources for open source software... -
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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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Conference paper (unpublished)
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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Conference paper (unpublished)
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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Presentation
Webs Of Life And Data: Impacts Of Open And Networked Data On Scientific Practices In Biodiversity Studies (Draft DPhil Research Proposal)
A presentation of my doctoral (DPhil) research topic at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, on Nov. 22, 2017. This is an early-stage presentation outlining the context of my research, which will investigate the impacts of open and networked data derived from digital natural history collections, on scientific practices...Stewart, Sarah A.
data management, museums, research data lifecycle, science and technology studies, biodiversity, digital collections, internet studies, DPhil, knowledge, and data
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Presentation
FREYA RDA UK Workshop July 2019
Presentation introducing the FREYA project at a joint RDA UK and FREYA workshop held 16 July 2019.Madden, Frances
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Presentation
The Power of PIDs
Lightning Talk slide presented at Carpentry Connect 2019 in Manchester UK.Madden, Frances
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Presentation
FREYA halfway webinar 9 May 2019
During the webinar we looked back at the progress of the first part of the project and discussed the PID Graph and the growth of a PID community.Lavasa, Artemis ; Dohna, Tina ; Ferguson, Christine A. ; Bunakov, Vasily ; Jong, Maaike De …
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Conference paper (published)
Considerations on the acquisition and preservation of ebook mobile apps
In 2018 and 2019, as part of the UK Legal Deposit Libraries’ sponsored ‘Emerging Formats’ project, the British Library’s digital preservation team undertook a program of research into the preservation of new forms of content. One of these content types was eBooks published as Mobile Apps. Research considered a relatively...Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter ; Day, Michael
access, mobile apps, acquisition, digital preservation, and preservation
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Presentation
The Integrated Preservation Suite: Demonstrating a scalable preservation planning toolset for diverse digital collections (demonstration)
The Integrated Preservation Suite is an internally funded project at the British Library to develop automated and scalable preservation planning capability for a highly diverse and growing digital collection. Core components include a technical knowledge base, a software repository, a policy and planning repository, and a preservation watch function, all...May, Peter ; Pennock, Maureen ; Russo, David
software preservation, preservation planning, preservation watch, digital preservation strategies, and knowledge base
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Poster (published)
Malware threats in digital preservation: Extending the evidence base (poster)
Virus checking is an established process in most pre-ingest digital preservation workflows. It is typically included as part of a general threat model response and there has to date been relatively little research into the virus checking function specifically within a long term context. The British Library recently began a...Pennock, Maureen ; Day, Michael ; Samaras, Evanthia
malware, Flashback, virus checking, and digital preservation
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Conference paper (published)
The Integrated Preservation Suite: Scaled and automated preservation planning for highly diverse digital collections (long paper)
The Integrated Preservation Suite is an internally funded project at the British Library to develop and enhance the Library's preservation planning capabilities, largely focussed on automation and addressing the Library's heterogeneous collections. Through agile development practices, the project is iteratively designing and implementing the technical infrastructure for the suite as...May, Peter ; Pennock, Maureen ; Russo, David
software preservation, knowledge base, preservation watch, and preservation planning
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Conference paper (published)
Cross-disciplinary Collaborations to Enrich Access to Non-Western Language Material in the Cultural Heritage Sector
The British Library is home to millions of items representing every age of written civilisation, including books, manuscripts and newspapers in all written languages. Large digitisation programmes currently underway are opening up access to this rich and unique historical content on an ever increasing scale. However, particularly for historical material...Derrick, Tom ; McGregor, Nora
HTR, page analysis, layout analysis, recognition, Bangla script, Arabic script, OCR, and datasets
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Lecture
The Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace evokes a response from almost everyone that you meet. Its fame is part of our culture. There were, of course two Crystal Palaces. They were built for different purposes. This talk will explain some of the motives that brought this about. I have concentrated upon British Library...King, Ed
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