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Research and practice in heritage
The British Library is an example of an independent research organisation and the types of research that is undertaken in GLAM institutions is outlined. Research within GLAM institutions will feed into things like exhibitions, access, assessment and interpretation of the collections. Activities can include providing the metadata for collection items, preservation, conservation, development of...Kotarski, Rachael
PR Voices, SPARKLE, Practice based research, Independent Research Organisation, and GLAM
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Research Data Management
Research Data Management (RDM) is an active process and should be considered throughout the research lifecycle. Ethical principles such as FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible) data sharing and the CARE principles are outlined. Data Management Plans and where to store research data are also addressed.Holt, Ilkay
ethical research data management, GLAM, data management plans, and research data management
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Persistent identifiers
This talk outlines the basics of persistent identifiers and some of the activity the British Library is doing around persistent identifiers. How persistent identifiers such as DOIs and ORCiDs are used within research systems is described.Kotarski, Rachael
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Repositories to facilitate open research
Description of the British Library's research repository service, how it works, what you can find there and the range of research undertaken at the British Library.Basford, Jenny
research, GLAM, and repository
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British Library Shared Repository Service: Research Showcase. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
This talk outlines the experience of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew with the British Library's shared repository service. The range of research undertaken at Kew is outlined. The reasons Kew was interested in establishing a repository included needing a mechanism to publicly share all its research outputs, to be able to meet their future obligations...Griffin, Anne
research, independent research organisation, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, repository service, and GLAM
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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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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)
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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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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Conference paper (unpublished)
Closing remarks to Open and Engaged conference 2022.
Rachael's closing remarks summing up the discussion of the 2022 Open and Engaged event.Kotarski, Rachael
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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)
Climate change approach at the British Library
Maja outlines the initiatives the British Library is taking to reach Net Zero including infrastructure issues to reduce emissions. Collection initiatives include the UK Web Archive curated Collection on Climate Change, Voices of Science, Contemporary Science Collections Guide on Climate Change and highlighting the use of nineteenth century maps to...Maricevic, Maja
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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
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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 (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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Identifiers for Practice Research
Evans, Jenny
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Historic machines from 'prams' to 'Parliament': new avenues for collaborative linguistic research
Research in computational linguistics has made successful attempts at modelling word meaning at scale, but much remains to be done to put these computational models to the test of historical scholarship (see e.g. Beelen et al. 2021). More importantly, a lot of computational research looks at texts in a historical...Ridge, Mia ; Tolfo, Giorgia ; Westerling, Kalle ; Pedrazzini, Nilo ; McGillivray, Barbara
crowdsourcing, computational linguistics, and digital humanities