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Mapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through the Correspondence of Andrew Salkey
This is a guest post by Natalie Lucy, a PhD student at University College London, who recently undertook a British Library placement to work on a project Mapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through the correspondence of Andrew Salkey.Lucy, Natalie
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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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Models for MapReader ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023 Geohumanities Workshop paper
Collection of fine-tuned models created during research published in Kasra Hosseini, Daniel C. S. Wilson, Kaspar Beelen, and Katherine McDonough. 2022. MapReader: a computer vision pipeline for the semantic exploration of maps at scale. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities '22). Association for...Hosseini, Kasra ; Beelen, Kaspar ; McDonough, Katherine ; Wilson, Daniel C. S.
computational humanities, computer vision, maps, models, and image classification
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Mapping the Caribbean Diaspora through Andrew Salkey's Correspondence
A British Library PhD Placement project to map the Caribbean Diasporic Network evident in the correspondence files of the Andrew Salkey Archive using data visualisation platforms Gephi and Kepler. The aim of the project was to map the movement of the correspondents across the globe overtime and create visualisations of...British Library
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Locolligo British Library tutorial
This explanation of how to transform and wrangle geographical cultural heritage and humanities data using Locolligo software. Delivered as part of the British Library’s internal ‘Hack and Yack’ training programme on 19 Jan 2023, this document was provided as a handout. Locolligo is a single-page, browser-based JavaScript application to facilitate...Gadd, Stephen
location, geography, map, and cultural heritage
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Examining sports history through digitised & born digital resources
This workshop was held on November 11, 2022 as part of the Sporting Irish Lives conference hosted by Ulster University at their Belfast campus. It was aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers that study the topic of sport. The running time for this session was 70 minutes so...Byrne, Helena
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Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 2)
This is the second of a two-part lesson introducing deep learning based computer vision methods for humanities research. This lesson digs deeper into the details of training a deep learning based computer vision model. It covers some challenges one may face due to the training data used and the importance...Strien, Daniel van ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Wevers, Melvin ; Smits, Thomas ; McDonough, Katherine
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Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 1)
This is the first of a two-part lesson introducing deep learning based computer vision methods for humanities research. Using a dataset of historical newspaper advertisements and the fastai Python library, the lesson walks through the pipeline of training a computer vision model to perform image classification.Strien, Daniel van ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Wevers, Melvin ; Smits, Thomas ; McDonough, Katherine
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Character, costumes and comedy: Pantomime posters in the Evanion collection
This blog post explores three pantomime posters within the Evanion collection at the British Library. The blog traces developments in Victorian pantomimes such as costumes, comedy, elaborate sets and celebrity appearances.Solomons, Amy
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Star Baker or Avid Taste-Tester? – Exploring Evanion’s 19th-century baking ephemera collection
Developments in baking products in nineteenth-century Britain made baking easier, quicker and cheaper. Using advertisements from the Evanion collection, this blog looks at the revolution of the pudding in Victorian Britain.Solomons, Amy
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Peripleo Linked Pasts tutorial
This is a tutorial in mapping cultural heritage and humanities data and making these available on the web using Peripleo software. Delivered as part of the Linked Pasts symposium on 23 Nov 2022, this document was provided as a handout. Peripleo is a prototype application for the discovery and spatial...Rees, Gethin ; Simon, Rainer ; Gadd, Stephen
location, cultural heritage, map, and geography
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Locating a National Collection project website
Project website for the Locating a National Collection (LaNC) project that houses instances of LaNC’s Peripleo maps interface alongside descriptive text (https://github.com/britishlibrary/locating-a-national-collection). The website was built using Joe Padfield’s simple-site, many thanks to him (https://github.com/jpadfield/simple-site). LaNC was a Foundation project within the AHRC-funded Towards a National Collection Programme.Gadd, Stephen ; Simon, Rainer ; Rees, Gethin ; Isaksen, Leif
location, geography, map, and cultural heritage
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WARCnet survey: COVID-19 Web Collections
This survey aimed to explore the methodologies and strategies employed by heritage institutions in collecting and documenting COVID-19-related developments on the Web. With a primary focus on European efforts, the survey sought to understand the scope and collection tactics of COVID-19 Web archives. Conducted under the auspices of the WARCnet...Bingham, Nicola ; de Wild, Karin ; Nyvang, Caroline ; Geeraert, Friedel
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TEI Metadata for an 8-volume copy of the Macklin Bible in the collection of the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester (11819)
Volumes 1-7 contain: The Holy Bible : embellished with engravings from pictures and designs by the most eminent English artists (London: printed by Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin, 1800). Volume 8 contains: The Apocrypha : embellished with engravings from pictures and designs by the most eminent English artists (London: printed...Billingsley, Naomi
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TEI Metadata for 24 individual plates in the second edition of the Macklin Bible in the collection of the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester (R47430)
The Holy Bible, embellished by the most eminent British artists (London: Cadell & Davies, 1824). This publication was the second edition of this illustrated Bible. The 24 XML files contain the TEI metadata for each plate by Naomi Billingsley. The XML files here contain the researcher-authored metadata for the plates,...Billingsley, Naomi
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TEI Metadata for a 2 volume copy of the Bowyer-Fittler Bible in the collection of the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester (R14793)
The Holy Bible ornamented with engravings by James Fittler from celebrated pictures by old masters (London: printed by Thomas Bensley for Robert Bowyer, 1795). The 2 XML files contain the TEI metadata for each volume by Naomi Billingsley. The XML files here contain the researcher-authored metadata for the volumes, which...Billingsley, Naomi
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A Guide to Open Access
Find out what open access means, how to publish research on an open access basis, and discover the resources and tools that enable free, online access to publications.British Library
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A Guide to Copyright and Creative Commons in Research
Learn the basics of copyright and licensing, find out what to consider when publishing your work and how to make use of published materials in your own research.British Library
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