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Presentation
Introduction
The presentations from this first webinar address some of the topics that attendees at the first in person event for the Repository Training Programme for Cultural Heritage Professionals raised. The topics covered in this webinar included: research activities in GLAM, benefits of research repositories, persistent identifiers, research data management, and...Holt, Ilkay
copyright, repository, persistent identifiers, rights management, GLAM, and research data management
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Poster (published)
Quality Assurance for Born-Digital Interactive Narratives: The New Media Writing Prize Collection as a case study
The UK Legal Deposit Libraries have been researching and building experimental collections of emerging formats for the past five years, including curated collections of web-based interactive narratives in the UK Web Archive. The New Media Writing Prize Collection is one of such collections, created using web archiving tools to capture...Rossi, Giulia Carla ; Pyke, Tegan
innovation, resilience, quality assurance, New Media Writing Prize, digital interactive narratives, web archiving, and emerging formats
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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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Conference paper (unpublished)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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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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Poster (unpublished)
Changing Nature of the Visual Depiction of the Levant in the Early Printed Maps
This poster is part of a wider research project which demonstrates the transformation of topography, toponyms, and the hydrographic network of Cyprus and the Levant region represented in the maps, from the earliest printed map of the region (printed in 1477) up to the mid-19th century.Peszko, Magdalena
maps, toponyms, Middle East, cartography, early printed maps, and Levant
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Conference paper (published)
Locating a National Collection through Audience Research DH2022 Long Abstract
This abstract was submitted to the DH2022 conference where I presented a long paper. It explores how geography can help to engage the public with digital cultural heritage collections. It draws on audience research that examined values and motivations in the UK alongside the use of location-based interfaces such as...Rees, Gethin ; Vitale, Valeria ; Hunt, Alex ; Horgan, John ; Strachan, Peter
location, metadata, web maps, geography, cultural heritage, and interface design
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Presentation
Identifiers for Practice Research
Evans, Jenny
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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 (published)
The BigScience ROOTS Corpus: A 1.6TB Composite Multilingual Dataset
As language models grow ever larger, the need for large-scale high-quality text datasets has never been more pressing, especially in multilingual settings. The BigScience workshop, a 1-year international and multidisciplinary initiative, was formed with the goal of researching and training large language models as a values-driven undertaking, putting issues of...Laurençon, Hugo ; Saulnier, Lucile ; Wang, Thomas ; Akiki, Christopher ; Villanova del Moral, Albert …
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Conference paper (published)
Entities, Dates, and Languages: Zero-Shot on Historical Texts with T0
In this work, we explore whether the recently demonstrated zero-shot abilities of the T0 model extend to Named Entity Recognition for out-of-distribution languages and time periods. Using a historical newspaper corpus in 3 languages as test-bed, we use prompts to extract possible named entities. Our results show that a naive...De Toni, Francesco ; Akiki, Christopher ; De La Rosa, Javier ; Fourrier, Clémentine ; Manjavacas, Enrique …
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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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Conference paper (published)
Exploring Software, Tools and Methods used in Web Archive Research
This paper is one part of a larger research project, titled, Web Archives - Researcher Skills and Tools (WARST). In this poster we focus on the data from the WARST study which examines the software, tools and methods used in the web archive research lifecycle.Schmid, Katharina ; Healy, Sharon ; Byrne, Helena
web archiving, web archive research, web archive users, and web archive creators
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Conference paper (published)
Towards a Collections Model for Preservation Planning at the British Library
The development of a framework for preservation planning at the British Library has highlighted the need for a more-structured understanding of its digital collections, in particular with regard to identifying the specific sets of objects that would be the focus of preservation plans. Work has recently commenced on developing a...Day, Michael ; Pennock, Maureen
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Conference paper (published)
Design Patterns in Digital Preservation: Understanding Information Flows
This paper proposes a framework to help understand the different ways digital preservation goals can achieved, and the contextual factors these choices depend on. This is done through a worked example: three different design patterns representing the three possible modes of archival information flow, each illustrated with realistic examples and...Jackson, Andrew N
OAIS, design patterns, community, risk management, and innovation
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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)
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)
“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