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Conference paper (unpublished)
Bibliographic records as 'Big Data': seeking harmony in music metadata
The collaborative research project ‘A Big Data History of Music’ draws on a disparate array of music catalogues created over nearly two centuries. During that time, many different cataloguing rules have existed; national and international standards have developed for cataloguing printed materials, and, in many countries, separate protocols established for...Tuppen, Sandra
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Journal article
Shrove-tide dancing: balls and masques at Whitehall under Charles II
The tradition of the Shrove-tide court entertainment with dancing and music, strong in the first half of the seventeenth century in England, was restored with the monarchy after 1660. Shrove-tide masques, balls and plays, along with dishes of pancakes and fritters, remained a feature of the court calendar to the...Tuppen, Sandra
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Dataset
Early Music Online
Access is provided via the Official URL. These digitised volumes contain approximately 10,000 musical compositions, which have been individually indexed. The volumes mainly consist of partbooks of vocal polyphony, but also include some early printed tablatures for keyboard or plucked string instruments. They include music printed in Italy, Germany, France...Rose, Stephen ; Tuppen, Sandra
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Journal article
Purcell in the 18th century: music for the 'Quality, Gentry, and others'
Henry Purcell was the only composer of his generation to be honoured with performances of his music at both the Academy of Ancient Music and Concerts of Ancient Music in the 18th century. Both organizations also programmed 18th-century music for The Tempest, believing it to be by Purcell. Excerpts from...Tuppen, Sandra
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Ejemplares del Quijote de la British Library: algunos datos sobre las procedencias de las ediciones de 1604/1605
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
La biblioteca de F.W. Cosens, su dispersión y las adquisiciones de la Biblioteca Nacional de España
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Indicios de procedencias en libros españoles antiguos de la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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Journal article
Būmīgirāyī va ta's̲īr-i ān bar adabiyāt-i dāstānā-i mu'ās̲ir-i Irān
بومی گرایی واکنش روشنفکرانی بود که می خواستند مخاطبان خود را به اصالت ها و ریشه هایشان توجه دهند، بنابراین کشورهای فراوانی که در معرض استعمار قرار داشتند، به این موضوع توجه کردند و طبیعتا جریان های گوناگون روشنفکری در ایران نیز به آن بی توجه نماندند. در بررسی جریان...Sedighi, Alireza
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 74 to Stowe Ch 297
This dataset comprises 32 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1000 - 1903), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 74 to Stowe Ch 297). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 1389 to Sloane MS 3173
This dataset comprises 32 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1200 - 1899), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 1389 to Sloane MS 3173). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 2518 to Or 5834
This dataset comprises 33 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (900 - 1899), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 2518 to Or 5834). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image and...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add MS 27169 to Or 12983
This dataset comprises 21 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1100 - 1899), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add MS 27169 to Or 12983). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Italian Academies Project Database XML Records
Italian Academies 1525-1700 metadata.This dataset comprises 8598 XML records representing 587 Academies, 7100 people and 911 works. Some of the XML files in this dataset contain links to images, which are available in the Italian Academies Project Database Images dataset: https://doi.org/10.21250/iad2 XML nodes with the 'ImageId' attribute contain the filename...Gianfrancesco, Lorenza ; Testa, Simone ; Everson, Jane ; Reidy, Dennis ; Sampson, Lisa …
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Dataset
Italian Academies Project Database Images
Italian Academies 1525-1700 images. This dataset comprises 1084 image files in JPEG format. The images include emblems, portraits and title pages for academies, people and works. The XML metadata associated with these images contains references to their file names: https://doi.org/10.21250/iad1Gianfrancesco, Lorenza ; Testa, Simone ; Everson, Jane ; Reidy, Dennis ; Sampson, Lisa …
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Dataset
Digitised maps of the former British East Africa
This dataset comprises 581 images of maps of the former British East Africa created between 1890 and 1940 and a spreadsheet of related catalogue records. All Open Government Licence v1.0 (OGL). A user-friendly geographical search index of the maps is available on Google Maps. These JPEG files were converted from...Dykes, Nick
War Office Archive, documents, Intelligence, Uganda, East Africa, British East Africa, Maps, Military maps, and Kenya
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Blog post
Karl Marx’s 200th birthday
This year sees the 200th birthday of political philosopher Karl Marx, who was born in the German town of Trier on 5 May 1818. In connection with the anniversary, the British Library opened a new display in its Treasures Gallery earlier this week. ‘Karl and Eleanor – Life in the...Siclovan, Diana
British Library, Germany, Eleanor Marx, Anglo-German, Germanic, history, printed books, exhibitions, British Museum, and Karl Marx
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Dataset
SherlockNet data
Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Explore Over 400 Years of Book Illustrations: Starting from February 2016, as part of the British Library Labs Competition, we embarked on a collaboration with the British Library Labs and the British Museum to tag and caption the entire British Library 1M Collection, a set...Zhao, Luda ; Do, Brian ; Wang, Karen
tagging, Flickr, images, tags, digitised, Microsoft, sherlocknet, and books
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Dataset
Linked Open British National Bibliography - Forthcoming Books N-Triples and RDF/XML
This dataset includes metadata for forthcoming books to be published or distributed in the UK.Deliot, Corine
British National Bibliography, forthcoming, linked open data, BNB, N-Triples, RDF/XML, NT, CIP, and metadata
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Linked Open British National Bibliography - Books. 1950- N-Triples and RDF/XML.
This dataset includes metadata for books published or distributed in the UK since 1950.Deliot, Corine
British National Bibliography, BNB, NT, linked open data, RDF/XML, N-Triples, books, and metadata
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Dataset
UK Selective Web Archive Classification Dataset. 1996 - 2010. TSV.
The dataset comprises a manually curated selective archive produced by UKWA which includes the classification of sites into a two-tiered subject hierarchy. In partnership with the Internet Archive and JISC, UKWA had obtained access to the subset of the Internet Archive’s web collection that relates to the UK. The JISC...UK Web Archive
archive, web domain dataset, JISC UK, classification dataset, UKWA Open Data, and 1996-2014
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Linked Open British National Bibliography - Serials. 1950- N-Triples and RDF/XML
This dataset includes metadata for serials published or distributed in the UK since 1950.Deliot, Corine
British National Bibliography, serials, linked open data, BNB, N-Triples, RDF/XML, NT, and metadata
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Dataset
JISC UK Web Domain Dataset Format Profile. 1996 - 2010.
The dataset is a format profile, summarising media type (MIME type) data formats contained within all of the HTTP 200 OK responses in the 1996 - 2010 tranche of the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset. In partnership with the Internet Archive and JISC, UKWA had obtained access to the subset...UK Web Archive
archive, 1996-2010, web domain dataset, JISC UK, UKWA Open Data, and format profile
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JISC UK Web Domain Dataset Host Link Graph. 1996 - 2010. TSV.
The dataset comprises ~2.5 billion 200 OK responses from the 1996 - 2010 tranche of the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset which have been scanned for hyperlinks. For each link, UKWA extracts the host that the link targets, and uses this to build up a picture of which hosts have...UKWA Open Data
archive, 1996-2012, web domain dataset, JISC UK, host link graph, and UKWA Open Data
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JISC UK Web Domain Dataset Geoindex. 1996 - 2010. TSV.
The dataset comprises ~2.5 billion 200 OK responses in the 1996 - 2010 tranche of the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset Dataset which have been scanned for geographic references - specifically postcodes. This set of postcode citations, found at particular URLs and crawled at particular times, forms an historical geoindex...UK Web Archive
archive, 1996-2011, JISC UK, geoindex, UKWA Open Data, and web domain dataset
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JISC UK Web Domain Dataset Crawled URL Index. 1996 - 2013. CDX.
The dataset comprises original compound index (CDX) files that have been re-assembled into 18 separate CDX files for each year of crawling activity represented (1996 - 2013). Please note that the individual CDX files are not sorted. In order to enable access to web archives, UKWA uses CDX files to...UKWA Open Data
archive, 1996-2013, crawled URL index, web domain dataset, JISC UK, and UKWA Open Data
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Book chapter
The Arab Legion
The military is a key component of the state. It is also a crucial tool of imperial control. The Arab Legion, therefore, as the Jordanian national army financed by Britain and staffed by British and Arab officers, was a crucial feature of the formative Jordanian state. It was the bedrock...Jevon, Graham
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Journal article
The Arab Legion and the 1948 War: The Conduct of 'Collusion'
The partition of Palestine and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War proved to be one of the defining moments of the twentieth century and its continued contemporary resonance has helped maintain a lively historiography. One of the key contentions remains the question of ‘collusion’ between the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan and the...Jevon, Graham
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Learning object
Putting topography in its place
Felicity Myrone explores how the ‘placing’ of topography and the collections’ perceived status and current accessibility at the British Library is the result of complex and often unintentional sequences of events.Myrone, Felicity
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Learning object
Prints and drawings at the British Museum and British Library
Felicity Myrone explores how prints and drawings are generally encountered in museum and library collections, and how this affects their meaning and status.Myrone, Felicity
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Learning object
What is K.Top?
George III's extensive collection of maps and views is known as the King's Topographical Collection or 'K.Top' for short. Felicity Myrone explores the history and extent of this rich collection, encompassing up to 40,000 items.Myrone, Felicity
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Learning object
Looking at topographical images
Suggestions from Felicity Myrone about how to approach and define topographical images.Myrone, Felicity
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Learning object
British topography: ‘Our real national art form’?
Felicity Myrone explores how topographical art has been defined and categorised since the 18th century – by artists, critics, art historians and collectors.Myrone, Felicity
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Dataset
Digitised Books - Images identified as Medium Sized Images. c. 1567 - c. 1900. JPG
The dataset comprises c. 217,101 images identified as 'Medium Sized Images' from the British Library's Flickr Commons collections, dating between c. 1567 - c. 1900. The images were algorithmically gathered from 49,455 digitised books, equating to 65,227 volumes (25+ million pages), published between c. 1510 - c. 1900; Medium Sized...British Library ; British Library Labs
medium sized images, books, images, digitised, and Microsoft
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Digitised Books - Images of the bound covers of books. c. 1510 - c. 1900. JPG
The dataset comprises c. 61,561 images identified as 'Book Covers' from the British Library's Flickr Commons collections, dating between c. 1510 - c. 1900.British Library ; British Library Labs
digitised, books, Microsoft, images, and bookcovers
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Dataset
AAS Card Catalogues: Chinese (Wade Giles)
This dataset contains digitised cards from the Wade-Giles card catalogue.British Library
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Journal article
Response to Alexandra Harris, 'Landscape Now'
Alex invites us to join in a conversation about “the place of art, and the history of art, in national understandings of landscape now”. She notes that over the last twenty years there has been an upsurge in interest in writing about nature, place, and environment not seen since the...Myrone, Felicity
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Journal article
The once and future library: the role of the (national) library in supporting research
The global research environment is changing rapidly and with it the role of libraries in facilitating research. Taking the British Library as an example, this article provides a situational analysis of the challenges research libraries face in this context. It outlines a new, or at least modified, role for research...Reimer, Torsten
strategy, research, transformation, library, open access, and scholarly communications
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Journal article
Connecting the Persistent Identifier Ecosystem: Building the Technical and Human Infrastructure for Open Research
The persistent identifier (PID) landscape extends to cover objects, individuals and organisations engaged in the process of research. Established services such as DataCite, Crossref, ORCID and ISNI are providing a foundation for a trusted ecosystem and a new generation of services. Scalable identifier systems will support researchers and capture research...Dappert, Angela ; Farquhar, Adam ; Kotarski, Rachael ; Hewlett, Kirstie
persistent identifiers, research infrastructure, interoperable services, scholarly communication, and data citation
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Journal article
Changing the Rules? RDA and cataloguing in Europe
This paper provides an overview of plans to implement RDA: Resource Description & Access in Europe to replace existing cataloguing rules. It is based on survey information gathered by EURIG and CILIP CIG. It includes background on the development of RDA as a replacement for AACR2.Danskin, Alan ; Gryspeerdt, Katharine
AACR2, EURIG, linked data, cataloguing, and Europe
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Journal article
E-journal Archiving and Preservation Workshop
In March 2007, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the British Library invited attendees to a workshop focusing on the archiving and preservation of e-journals. Speakers from the publishing and library environments came together at the British Library to discuss developments and requirements in...Cass, Emma ; Hockx-Yu, Helen ; Jackson, Carol ; Pothen, Philip ; Tillett, Samantha
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Journal article
Retaking Responsibility for How We Communicate. A Review of Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future
Since the publication of the Budapest Open Access Initiative statement in 2002, Open Access has grown from an ideal to a reality. Open Access and the Humanities explores scholarly practices, communications, and cultures in light of this change and argues that humanists can and should retake responsibility for how they...Baker, James
labour, open access, humanities, markets, and publishing