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Conference paper (unpublished)
Lost for words? The Earliest Representations of the Americas in European Sources
West, Geoffrey
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Exhibition object labels
West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
Fargion , Janet Topp ; Wallace, Marion
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Exhibition object labels
‘Sounds of Africa’, part of the Africa ’05 season
Wallace, Marion
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Research report
Image Capture: IMPACT Best Practice Guide
One of the most important stages in any digitisation project is to design and implement a consistent approach to capturing digital images. How an institution does this will to a large extent depend on what kind of material it wants to digitise, the aim for which it digitises, available funds...IMPACT Project ; Fitzgerald, Neil ; Mühlberger, Günter ; Anderson, Niall
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Research report
Outsourcing: IMPACT Best Practice Guide
Museums, Libraries and Archives have been digitising their collections for more than twenty years, but industrial digitisation – the conversion of millions of information resources into digital form – is still a relatively young field. For that reason, many institutions lack the internal knowledge or physical resources to manage large-scale...IMPACT Project ; Zechmeister, Gerd ; Fischer, Mark-Oliver ; Anderson, Niall ; Fitzgerald, Neil
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Research report
Material Selection for Digitisation: IMPACT Briefing Paper
Mass digitisation involves the transformation of huge amounts of information from one form to another. The act of digitisation necessitates the creation of still more information – not only the new digital object itself, but information about what the object is, where it fits within a collection, where it is...IMPACT Project ; Fitzgerald, Neil ; Anderson, Niall
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Research report
Project Planning: IMPACT Best Practice Guide
Digitisation projects take in expertise from a wide variety of institutional sources, from subject curators and preservation staff, hardware and software specialists, to experts in intellectual property law. Depending on the physical capacity of the institution and the size and type of the collections to be digitised, the process may...IMPACT Project ; Conteh, Aly ; Fitzgerald, Neil ; Anderson, Niall
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Research report
Intellectual Property and Copyright: IMPACT Best Practice Guide
It may not possible or practical to find certain rights owners and so gain their permissions. If their material is still required for the project, it is important therefore to be able to identify and mange the risks involved in using a third party’s material where no permission has been...IMPACT Project ; White, Ben ; Fitzgerald, Neil ; Anderson, Niall
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Research report
Mass Digitisation QA: IMPACT Case Studies
Case Studies of Mass Digitisation QA: Quality control system for mass digitisation at the Bibliothèque National de France and Microsoft Digitisation Project (MDP) at the British Library.IMPACT Project ; Cron, Geneviève ; Fitzgerald, Neil ; Anderson, Niall
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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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Working paper
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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Working paper
An Introduction to AI for GLAM
There is a growing interest in utilising Machine Learning (ML) techniques within Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM), and a corresponding demand for training to enable practitioners to engage confidently in this area. Staff at these institutions are seeking practical knowledge and skills in ML concepts and methods specific to...van Strien, Daniel ; Bell, Mark ; McGregor, Nora Rose ; Trizna, Michael
ICML, GLAM, and Machine Learning
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Working paper
Documenting Geographically and Contextually Diverse Data Sources: The BigScience Catalogue of Language Data and Resources
In recent years, large-scale data collection efforts have prioritized the amount of data collected in order to improve the modeling capabilities of large language models. This prioritization, however, has resulted in concerns with respect to the rights of data subjects represented in data collections, particularly when considering the difficulty in... -
Journal article
Flexibility and egalitarianism: musical insights from hunter-gatherers
Among egalitarian hunter-gatherer groups across the African continent, musical practices and egalitarianism are argued to be constitutive of one another. Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers also practice egalitarianism, however, their musical practices represent a seeming anomaly alongside those of African hunter-gatherer groups. Discussion of ‘hunter-gatherer musics’ that includes Southeast Asian perspectives has...Rudge, Alice
egalitarianism, polyphony, aesthetics, hunter-gatherer, diversity, and flexibility
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Book
A catalogue of manuscript and printed reports, field books, memoirs, maps, etc., of the Indian Surveys, deposited in the map room of the India office
A catalogue of manuscript and printed reports, field books, memoirs, maps, etc., of the Indian Surveys, deposited in the map room of the India office is the published listing of the holdings of the map collection of the India Office, the working archive used for the administration of India from...Markham, Clements
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Book
Catalogue of Burmese Printed Books in the India Office Library
The India Office Library’s Burmese printed books, numbering some 2,800 works, constitute one the largest collections in the West and include many representative examples of Burmese writing from the early nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. They are thus of special value and interest for students, scholars,...Whitbread, Kenneth
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Book
Guide to the National Reference Library of Science and Innovation
This Guide outlines the scope, contents and layout of the National Reference Library of Science and Invention and describes its various aids, services and practices. It is, however, only a brief guide and it cannot give all the details which those who intend to use the Library extensively might find...National Reference Library of Science and Invention
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Journal article
A manuscript of poems by Robert Sidney: some early impressions
IN January of this year the British Library, with the aid of generous grants from the Pilgrim Trust and the Radcliffe Trust, purchased from an unrevealed source through Messrs. Sotheby's an autograph manuscript, now numbered Additional MS. 58435, comprising sonnets, pastorals, songs, and epigrams composed by Robert Sidney (1563-1626), Earl...Kelliher, Hilton ; Duncan-Jones, Katherine
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Journal article
The von Siebold Collection from Tokugawa Japan: 1. Dr Philipp Franz von Siebold's career in the Orient
BY 1867 the collection of Japanese printed books and manuscripts in the British Museum Numbered barely three hundred items whereas, for example, that of printed books alone in Hebrew ran to well over ten thousand. This relatively small collection of Japanese Materials in what were then two sections of the...Brown, Yu-Ying
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Journal article
Some occasional aspects of Johann Hermann Schein
IN 1973 the Department of Printed Books of the British Library, Reference Division, acquired a collection of some ninety separate pieces of occasional verse in Latin and German, mainly epithalamia, published in Leipzig between 1608 and 1630. Amongst these are four relating to the composer Johann Hermann Schein (born 1586,...Paisey, David