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Journal article
MapReader: A Computer Vision Pipeline for the Semantic Exploration of Maps at Scale
We present MapReader, a free, open-source software library written in Python for analyzing large map collections (scanned or born-digital). This library transforms the way historians can use maps by turning extensive, homogeneous map sets into searchable primary sources. MapReader allows users with little or no computer vision expertise to i)...Hosseini, Kasra ; Wilson, Daniel C.S. ; Beelen, Kaspar ; McDonough, Katherine
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Journal article
Babbage among the insurers: Big 19th-century data and the public interest
This article examines life assurance and the politics of ‘big data’ in mid-19th-century Britain. The datasets generated by life assurance companies were vast archives of information about human longevity. Actuaries distilled these archives into mortality tables – immensely valuable tools for predicting mortality and so pricing risk. The status of...Wilson, Daniel C.S.
big data, Thomas Rowe Edmonds, Charles Babbage, public interest, and insurance
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Policy report
British Library Persistent Identifier Policy
The purpose of this policy is to outline the approach to the use of identifiers and persistent identifiers (PIDs) in internal and external facing British Library systems, to define a consistent set of requirements for PIDs to use when managing and developing services and to articulate the responsibilities in applying...British Library
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Dataset
Digitised Books. c. 1510 - c. 1900. JSONL (OCR derived text + metadata)
The dataset comprises metadata and OCR generated text from 49,455 digitised books published between c. 1510 - c. 1900. The books cover a wide range of subject areas including philosophy, history, poetry and literature. The dataset is in JSON Lines (JSONL) text format.British Library Labs ; British Library
OCR and monographs
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Conference paper (published)
Towards a Foundation for Collaborative Digital Archiving with Local Concert-Giving Organisations
The centenaries of former chapters of the British Music Society (BMS), established in 1918, have prompted their governing bodies to take stock of their histories and build on the cataloguing, documentation and preservation of their archival collections. The InterMusE project aims to support this shared instinct to archive by capturing... -
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Dunhuang scrolls: Innovative storage solutions at the British Library
The British Library’s Stein collection contains about 14,000 scrolls, fragments and booklets in Chinese from a cave in the Buddhist Mogao Caves complex near Dunhuang in north-west China. This article describes storage and access solutions for the collection in the context of a busy research library and the currently ongoing...Kralka, Paulina ; Muzart, Marya
conservation, storage, paper, Central Asia, Dunhuang, and scroll
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Presentation
Developing Identifiers Resource and Q&A
A presentation as part of 'Developing Identifiers for Heritage Collections' webinar held on 21st April 2021.Madden, Frances
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Presentation
Persistent Identifiers Demonstrator
A presentation as part of 'Developing Identifiers for Heritage Collections' webinar held on 21st April 2021.Page, Roderic
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Presentation
Developing Identifiers for Heritage Collections: Introduction and Case Studies
A presentation as part of 'Developing Identifiers for Heritage Collections' webinar held on 21st April 2021. Photo Credit: Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society © ArchivePlus/Max Bamber 2016Madden, Frances
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Book
US Fine Presses Established after 1945: A Guide to the British Library’s Holdings
This project grew out of a conversation in late 2019 with Phil Hatfield, then Head of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, who had recently pledged financial support towards the cataloguing of a backlog of US fine press publications that had been acquired by our curatorial...Petrovic, Jean