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Book
Armorial blocks and tools specially cut for the British Museum Library Bindery
In 1866, the British Museum Library’s official bookbinder, Charles Tuckett junior, compiled a catalogue of motifs (created using bookbindings tools) which had been made for the bindery. Books formerly from the libraries of historic collectors were often decorated in a particular style, frequently featuring a coat of arms. When the...Marks, P. J M.
Arms blocks, Coat of arms, Armorial block, British Museum Library Bindery, Charles Tuckett junior, and Bookbinding tools
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Journal article
Challenging legacies at the British Library
The British Library established a corporate Anti-Racism Project (2020) designed to encourage participation via six subgroups, with staff recommendations incorporated into “Enacting Change”, the Library's Race Equality Action Plan (2022). The research and recommendations of the Cataloguing and Metadata subgroup fed into a pilot project proposed as a proof of...Danskin, Alan
Caribbean, anti-racism, South Asia, Cataloguing, and Metadata
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Conference paper (unpublished)
(Re)investing in a national repository infrastructure for cultural heritage
Since 2018, the British Library (BL) has invested considerable resource in establishing the necessary infrastructure for a national repository service for cultural heritage organisations, using Samvera Hyku. This has entailed working closely with all known Hyku suppliers and developers, as well as collaborating with the University of Virginia on an...Basford, Jenny ; Holt, Ilkay ; Jevon, Graham ; Ramsey, Nora
open access, OR2023, and repository
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Report
Printed Books Selection and Binding Preparation Section at the British Museum / British Library. History and procedures
Historically, the Trustees of the Library always ensured that there were funds to repair and rebind the books in their care. The sums given varied and increased as new preservation and conservation techniques were devised. The latter included deacidifcation and lamination. Treatments were applied by the bindery located at the...King, Ed
lamination, service evaluation report , deacidification, Department of Printed Books, binding contracts, technical report, rebinding, preservation, and British Library Bindery
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Research report
Contextualising a digital photographic archive of Siberian Indigenous peoples: PhD placement report
This report covers work undertaken over six months (part-time) on the PhD placement ‘Contextualising a digital photographic archive of Siberian Indigenous peoples’. The work was carried out between October 2022 and March 2023 under the supervision of Dr Katya Rogachevskaia, Lead Curator for the British Library’s Slavonic and East European...Maslenova, Anna
visual narratives, photographic archive, ethnographic expeditions, Russian colonial practices, and indigenous peoples of Siberia
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Presentation
The Stein Dunhuang Collection: Unravelling its Provenance, history and contemporary significance in a decolonisation context
This talk delivered to British Library staff reported on Doumy's Coleridge Research Fellowship, which investigated the provenance of the Stein Dunhuang collection at the British Library. The talk discusses the research undertaken, key findings, and outputs from the project.Doumy, Mélodie
British Library, Dunhuang, decolonisation, Coleridge Research Fellowship, Silk Road, provenance, and Marc Aurel Stein
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Software
Hybrid Correspondence Network Processing Script
The Python code was developed to to interrogate the ways in which digital and analogue correspondence files (letters and e-mails) function within the Archive of Harold Pinter; reflecting upon what these patterns might mean for archivists, curators and researchers working with hybrid correspondence collections. This code is collection agnostic and...Mckean, Callum
Harold Pinter, data science, hybrid archives, and visualisations
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Journal article
Data Analysis and Network Visualisation as Tools for Curating Hybrid Correspondence Archives
This pilot project uses data analytics in Python and network analysis in Gephi to interrogate the ways in which digital and analogue correspondence files (letters and e-mails) function within the Archive of Harold Pinter; reflecting upon what these patterns might mean for archivists, curators and researchers working with hybrid correspondence...Mckean, Callum
visualisations, data science, hybrid archives, and Harold Pinter
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Dataset
Datasets for toponym recognition and disambiguation for nineteenth-century English newspapers
We present two datasets, one for the task of toponym recognition and one for the task of toponym disambiguation. The datasets are derived from the "Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers" (DOI: https://doi.org/10.23636/r7d4-kw08). The toponym recognition dataset consists of two JSON files (ner_fine_train.json and ner_fine_dev.json), whereas the toponym...Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Nanni, Federico
toponym disambiguation, nineteenth-century newspapers, named entity recognition, entity linking, toponym resolution, toponym recognition, and dataset
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Dataset
DeezyMatch training set for OCR
Optical character recognition (OCR) is the process of automatically transcribing text from images. The presence of OCR-induced errors in digitised text is a common problem in the digital humanities. OCR errors are usually due to the misrecognition of characters, such as "h" recognised as "b", or "c" recognised as "o".... -
Dataset
Incunabula Printed Catalogue Dataset: Volumes 1-10
This dataset includes the catalogue entries derived from volumes 1-10 of the "Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now at the British Museum" (know as BMC). The BMC was published between 1908-2007 and comprises detailed descriptions of the incunabula collection at the British Library. The dataset was created...British Library
datasets, catalogues, early printing, book history, early printed books, metadata, and incunabula
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Dataset
Incunabula Printed Catalogue Dataset Metadata: Volumes 1-10
This dataset includes the combined catalogue entries derived from volumes 1-10 of the "Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now at the British Museum" (know as BMC). The BMC was published between 1908-2007 and comprises detailed descriptions of the incunabula collection at the British Library. The dataset was...British Library
datasets, catalogues, early printing, incunabula, early printed books, metadata, and book history
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Poster (published)
Datafication and reuse of the descriptions of the incunabula collections at the British Library
The poster discusses the AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship project which investigates the legacies of curatorial voice in the descriptions of incunabula collections at the British Library and their future reuse.Atanassova, Rossitza
historical catalogues, computational analysis, incunabula, catalogue data, and practitioner research
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Geographical dataset
Sarah FitzGerald's PhD placement project folder
This dataset is a zip file that contains the complete folder structure that Sarah used to manage this project. The content includes her planning, work, and outcomes, in the form of reports, presentations and blog posts. In addition to the data visualisations on the projects relating to Africa, Sarah also...FitzGerald, Sarah
West Africa, research collaboration, projects, Africa, humanities, digital scholarship, and data visualisation
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Dataset
EAP031 Catalogue Metadata
This Excel spreadsheet contains the metadata that describes the archival collection digitised in Bulgaria by the EAP031 "The Treasures of Danzan Ravjaa" project team. The metadata was originally created by the EAP031 project team that digitised the archive in 2005. The project team was led by Professor Caroline Humphrey. This...EAP031 Project Team
metadata, manuscripts, and Tibetan
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Research report
Mapping British Library Collections with National Trust Sites: Report on findings from initial mapping exercise March–August 2020
This report outlines the top level mapping activity undertaken between March–August 2020 to identify links between the British Library’s collections and National Trust properties, and its key findings. Its aim was to identify and facilitate future collaborative research opportunities between the two institutions. The original brief for this work can...Evans, Lucy ; Louca-Richards, Zoe
research, heritage, British Library, collections, National Trust, and partnership
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Workflow
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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Dataset
Gephi Dataset for "Mapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through Correspondence"
Microsoft CSV file dataset created in Gephi that can be uploaded in Gephi to create the visualisation of the network.British Library
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Dataset
Spatial network dataset for "Mapping the Caribbean Diaspora through Andrew Salkey"
Microsoft csv. file dataset created for Kepler mapping the geographical movement of correspondentsBritish Library