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Conference paper (published)
Resolving places, past and present: toponym resolution in historical British newspapers using multiple resources
Newspapers and their metadata are richly geographical, not only in their distribution but also their content. Attending to these spatial features is a prerequisite in newspaper research. Following other projects to have geoparsed place names in newspapers, we describe our approach to linking historical geospatial information in text to real-world...Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; McDonough, Katherine ; Krause, Amrey ; Wilson, Daniel C.S. ; Hosseini, Kasra …
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CRISP: Crowdsourcing Representation Information to Support Preservation
In this paper, we describe a new collaborative approach to the collection of representation information to ensure long term access to digital content. Representation information is essential for successful rendering of digital content in the future. Manual collection and maintenance of RI has so far proven to be highly resource...Pennock, Maureen ; Jackson, Andrew N. ; Wheatley, Paul
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Poster (published)
Managing an ISO 16363 self assessment: a how-to guide
Audit and certification standards help demonstrate whether a repository is trustworthy. Their guidelines provide a framework with which to assess the on-going viability of a digital repository as well as the surrounding resources and infrastructure. Conducting a self-assessment helps organisations to better understand the state of their repositories before undertaking...Pennock, Maureen ; Smith, Caylin
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Cross-disciplinary Collaborations to Enrich Access to Non-Western Language Material in the Cultural Heritage Sector
The British Library is home to millions of items representing every age of written civilisation, including books, manuscripts and newspapers in all written languages. Large digitisation programmes currently underway are opening up access to this rich and unique historical content on an ever increasing scale. However, particularly for historical material...Derrick, Tom ; McGregor, Nora
HTR, page analysis, layout analysis, recognition, Bangla script, Arabic script, OCR, and datasets
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Conference paper (published)
Los libros españoles que fueron del Baron Achille Seillière ahora en la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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Multi-spectral Imaging at the British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and holds over 150 million items with an additional three million new items added each year. The 625 km of shelving contains manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints, drawings, music scores and patents. The fundamental purpose of the Library is...Duffy, Christina
multi-spectral imaging, text-recovery, iron gall ink, digital, digitization, reagent, data, library, fire-damage, imaging, and erasure
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Using METS, PREMIS and MODS for Archiving eJournals: Paper - iPRES 2008 - London
As institutions turn towards developing archival digital repositories, many decisions on the use of metadata have to be made. In addition to deciding on the more traditional descriptive and administrative metadata, particular care needs to be given to the choice of structural and preservation metadata, as well as to integrating...Dappert, Angela ; Enders, Marcus
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Risk Assessment; using a risk based approach to prioritise handheld digital information
The British Library (BL) Digital Library Programme (DLP) has a broad set of objectives to achieve over the next few years, from web-archiving to the ingest of e-journals through to mass digitisation of newspapers and books. These projects are decided by the DLP programme board and are managed by the...McLeod, Rory
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Modeling Organizational Preservation Goals to Guide Digital Preservation
Digital preservation activities can only succeed if they go beyond the technical properties of digital objects. They must consider the strategy, policy, goals, and constraints of the institution that undertakes them and take into account the cultural and institutional framework in which data, documents and records are preserved. Furthermore, because...Dappert, Angela ; Farquhar, Adam
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Costing the Digital Preservation Lifecycle More Effectively
Having confidence in the permanence of a digital resource requires a deep understanding of the preservation activities that will need to be performed throughout its lifetime and an ability to plan and resource for those activities. The LIFE (Lifecycle Information For E-Literature) and LIFE2 Projects have advanced understanding of the...Wheatley, Paul
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Conference paper (published)
Adapting Existing Technologies for Digitally Archiving Personal Lives. Digital Forensics, Ancestral Computing, and Evolutionary Perspectives and Tools
The adoption of existing technologies for digital curation, most especially digital capture, is outlined in the context of personal digital archives and the Digital Manuscripts Project at the British Library. Technologies derived from computer forensics, data conversion and classic computing, and evolutionary computing are considered. The practical imperative of moving...John, Jeremy Leighton
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Is there a role for ILL in an open access world – a British Library perspective
The 2017 UUK report on the transition to open access reported that 54% of UK-authored articles in 2016 were accessible within 12 months of publication. This is compared to 32% of articles authored in 2014. Over the past five years, open access research has flourished in an environment of funding...Flanagan, Dimity
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Conference paper (published)
The Integrated Preservation Suite: Scaled and automated preservation planning for highly diverse digital collections (long paper)
The Integrated Preservation Suite is an internally funded project at the British Library to develop and enhance the Library's preservation planning capabilities, largely focussed on automation and addressing the Library's heterogeneous collections. Through agile development practices, the project is iteratively designing and implementing the technical infrastructure for the suite as...May, Peter ; Pennock, Maureen ; Russo, David
software preservation, knowledge base, preservation watch, and preservation planning
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Developing a robust migration workflow for preserving and curating hand-held media
Many memory institutions hold large collections of hand-held media, which can comprise hundreds of terabytes of data spread over many thousands of data-carriers. Many of these carriers are at risk of significant physical degradation over time, depending on their composition. Unfortunately, handling them manually is enormously time consuming and so...Dappert, Angela ; Jackson, Andrew ; Kimura, Akiko
disk-copying robot, iPRES, data-carrier stabilization, auto loader, and digital preservation
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Conference paper (published)
An analysis of contemporary JPEG2000 codecs for image format migration
This paper presents results of an analysis of different implementations of the JPEG2000 standard, specifically part 1: JP2, an image format that is currently popular within the digital preservation community. In particular we are interested in the effect different JPEG2000 codecs (encoders and decoders) have on image quality in response...Palmer, William ; May, Peter ; Cliff, Peter
TIFF, image quality, generational loss, JPEG2000, migration, codec, and PSNR
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Conference paper (published)
Quality assured image file format migration in large digital object repositories
This article gives an overview on how different components developed by the SCAPE project are intended to be used in composite file format migration workflows; it will explain how the SCAPE platform can be employed to make sure that the workflows can be used to migrate very large image collections...Schlarb, Sven ; Cliff, Peter ; May, Peter ; Palmer, William ; Hahn, Matthias …
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Capturing and replaying streaming media in a web archive – a British Library case study
A prerequisite for digital preservation is to be able to capture and retain the content which is considered worth preserving. This has been a significant challenge or web archiving, especially for websites with embedded streaming media content, which cannot be copied via a simple HTTP request to a URL. This...Hockx-Yu, Helen ; Crawford, Lewis ; Coram, Roger ; Johnson, Stephen
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LIFE3: A predictive costing tool for digital collections
Predicting the costs of long-term digital preservation is a crucial yet complex task for even the largest repositories and institutions. For smaller projects and individual researchers faced with preservation requirements, the problem is even more overwhelming, as they lack the accumulated experience of the former. Yet being able to estimate...Hole, Brian ; Lin, Li ; McCann, Patrick ; Wheatley, Paul
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Conference paper (published)
LIFE3: Predicting Long Term Digital Preservation Costs
As we develop our ability to preserve digital collections through techniques such as migration and emulation, the decision process of what action to take and when to take it becomes increasingly complex. Cost is a crucial factor to consider but the financial implications of preservation planning decisions are not typically...Wheatley, Paul ; Hole, Brian
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Conference paper (published)
Implementing metadata that guides digital preservation services
Effective digital preservation depends on a set of preservation services that work together to ensure that digital objects can be preserved for the long-term. These services need digital preservation metadata, in particular, descriptions of the properties that digital objects may have and descriptions of the requirements that guide digital preservation...Dappert, Angela ; Farquhar, Adam
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Conference paper (published)
A framework for distributed preservation workflows
The Planets project is developing a service-oriented environment for the definition and evaluation of preservation strategies for human-centric data. It focuses on the question of logically preserving digital materials, as opposed to the physical preservation of content bit-streams. This includes the development of preservation tools for the automated characterization, migration,...Schmidt, Rainer ; King, Ross ; Steeg, Fabian ; Melms, Peter ; Jackson, Andrew …
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Conference paper (published)
Deal with conflict, capture the relationship: the case of digital object properties
Properties of digital objects play a central role in digital preservation. All key preservation services are linked via a common understanding of the properties which describe the digital objects in a repository's care. Unfortunately, different services deal with properties on sometimes different levels of description. While, for example, a preservation...Dappert, Angela
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Conference paper (published)
A METS based information package for long term accessibility of web archives
The British Library’s web archive comprises several terabyte of harvested websites. Like other content streams this data should be ingested into the library’s central preservation repository. The repository requires a standardized Submission- and Archival Information Package. Harvested Websites are stored in Archival Information Packages (AIP). Each AIP is described by...Enders, Markus
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Conference paper (published)
Using Automated Dependency Analysis to generate representation information
To preserve access to digital content, we must preserve the representation information that captures the intended interpretation of the data. In particular, we must be able to capture performance dependency requirements, i.e. to identify the other resources that are required in order for the intended interpretation to be constructed successfully....Jackson, Andrew
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Poster (published)
Malware threats in digital preservation: Extending the evidence base (poster)
Virus checking is an established process in most pre-ingest digital preservation workflows. It is typically included as part of a general threat model response and there has to date been relatively little research into the virus checking function specifically within a long term context. The British Library recently began a...Pennock, Maureen ; Day, Michael ; Samaras, Evanthia
malware, Flashback, virus checking, and digital preservation
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Conference paper (published)
ArchivePress: A Really Simple Solution to Archiving Blog Content
Blog archiving and preservation is not a new challenge. Current solutions are commonly based on typical web archiving activities, whereby a crawler is configured to harvest a copy of the blog and return the copy to a web archive. Yet this is not the only solution, nor is it always...Pennock, Maureen ; Davis, Richard
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Conference paper (published)
Considerations on the acquisition and preservation of ebook mobile apps
In 2018 and 2019, as part of the UK Legal Deposit Libraries’ sponsored ‘Emerging Formats’ project, the British Library’s digital preservation team undertook a program of research into the preservation of new forms of content. One of these content types was eBooks published as Mobile Apps. Research considered a relatively...Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter ; Day, Michael
access, mobile apps, acquisition, digital preservation, and preservation
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Conference paper (published)
Are you ready? Assessing whether organisations are prepared for digital preservation
In the last few years digital preservation has started to transition from a theoretical discipline to one where real solutions are beginning to be used. The Planets project has analyzed the readiness of libraries, archives and related organizations to begin to use the outputs of various digital preservation initiatives (and,...Sinclair, Pauline ; Billenness, Clive ; Duckworth, James ; Farquhar, Adam ; Humphreys, Jane …
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Presentation
The Integrated Preservation Suite: Demonstrating a scalable preservation planning toolset for diverse digital collections (demonstration)
The Integrated Preservation Suite is an internally funded project at the British Library to develop automated and scalable preservation planning capability for a highly diverse and growing digital collection. Core components include a technical knowledge base, a software repository, a policy and planning repository, and a preservation watch function, all...May, Peter ; Pennock, Maureen ; Russo, David
software preservation, preservation planning, preservation watch, digital preservation strategies, and knowledge base
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Conference paper (published)
People mashing: Agile digital preservation and the AQuA Project
Manual quality assurance (QA) of digitised content is typically fallible and can result in collections that are marred by a variety of quality and access issues. Poor storage conditions, technology obsolescence and other unforeseen problems can also leave digital objects in an unusable state. Detecting, identifying and ultimately fixing these...Wheatley, Paul ; Middleton, Bo ; Double, Jodie ; Jackson, Andrew ; McGuinness, Rebecca
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Conference paper (published)
Practical analysis of TIFF file size reductions achievable through compression
This paper presents results of a practical analysis into the effects of three main lossless TIFF compression algorithms – LZW, ZIP and Group 4 – on the storage requirements for a small set of digitized materials. In particular we are interested in understanding which algorithm achieves a greater reduction in...May, Peter ; Davies, Kevin
LZW, Group 4, LibTiff, TIFF, ZIP, compression, and ImageMagick
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Conference paper (published)
Not just a British library: enabling a global discovery experience
Within the walls of the British Library lies one of the greatest collections in the world. However, the value of the British Library lies not only in the preservation of heritage items, but also in its determination to keep pace with the many changes in the global information environment. As...Flanagan, Dimity
open access; repositories; discovery; persistent identifiers; text and data mining; digitisation
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Presentation
FREYA halfway webinar 9 May 2019
During the webinar we looked back at the progress of the first part of the project and discussed the PID Graph and the growth of a PID community.Lavasa, Artemis ; Dohna, Tina ; Ferguson, Christine A. ; Bunakov, Vasily ; Jong, Maaike De …
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Presentation
The Power of PIDs
Lightning Talk slide presented at Carpentry Connect 2019 in Manchester UK.Madden, Frances
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Presentation
FREYA RDA UK Workshop July 2019
Presentation introducing the FREYA project at a joint RDA UK and FREYA workshop held 16 July 2019.Madden, Frances
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Presentation
Webs Of Life And Data: Impacts Of Open And Networked Data On Scientific Practices In Biodiversity Studies (Draft DPhil Research Proposal)
A presentation of my doctoral (DPhil) research topic at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, on Nov. 22, 2017. This is an early-stage presentation outlining the context of my research, which will investigate the impacts of open and networked data derived from digital natural history collections, on scientific practices...Stewart, Sarah A.
data management, museums, research data lifecycle, science and technology studies, biodiversity, digital collections, internet studies, DPhil, knowledge, and data
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Towards a Networked Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Services and Persistent Identifiers at the British Library
Presentation given at the ‘Museums and Big Data’ Conference, April 30 - May 3rd, in Doha, Qatar. This presentation investigates the use of persistent identifiers in digital cultural heritage and digital collections.Stewart, Sarah Anna
museums, persistent identifiers, DOIs, cultural heritage, data, open research, digital scholarship, archives, DataCite, art galleries, digital collections, and libraries
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Research Data Management in 'GLAM': Managing Data for Cultural Heritage
A presentation given at the ‘Open Science Infrastructures for Big Cultural Data’ Masterclass, Dec. 13-15th, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, looking at research data management in the context of open digital cultural collections, with a case study of the developments in data management and data management infrastructures at the British Library.Stewart, Sarah Anna
data management, museums, research data management, cultural heritage, data, digital collections, digital scholarship, archives, libraries, art galleries, and open research
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Conference Panel: The past, present and future of digital scholarship with newspaper collections
Historical newspapers are of interest to many humanities scholars, valued as sources of information and language closely tied to a particular time, social context and place. Following library and commercial microfilming and, more recently, digitisation projects, newspapers have been an accessible and valued source for researchers. The ability to use...Ridge, Mia ; Colavizza, Giovanni
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Presentation
"...with the Software in the Library": Best practices for research software management and citation
A presentation given at the University College London Knowledge Quarter KQ Codes Tech Social on July 17, 2019. Outlines the research data landscape, data services and collections at the British Library and best practices for research software management and citation including software management planning, licensing resources for open source software... -
Conference paper (published)
Issues raised by a 'rap' translation of a poem by Velimir Khlebnikov 'Kamennaia baba'
Chadwick, Brian
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The sound of artists' books
Artists’ books – any books – are capable of sound, whether dropped, as in Keith Godard’s otherwise text-less and image-less Sounds (1972), or, fluttering noisily, drying out, in the chill spring wind, on the monastery roof in Sergo Paradjanov’s film, The Colour of Pomegranates (1969).Bury, Stephen
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Structuring curatorial responsibilities to incorporate sabbaticals, research etc
A.W. Pollard, a keeper of printed books at the British Museum at the beginning of last century and an important Shakespearean scholar in his own right, remarked that one of the incentives to his career as a published writer was the low pay of the curator. So the simple way...Bury, Stephen
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Lecture
The William Dyce and Edward Machell Cox collections of art sale catalogues in the British Library
In the flyer for this talk I called sale catalogues ‘unassuming’ and ‘half-hidden’. ‘Unassuming’ because they often are simple lists of works, ‘half-hidden’ because, in the British Library at least, they are not always catalogued separately and therefore are easy to miss. They are, however, extremely important for the study...Michaelides, Chris
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Translating the enemy
This paper has three sources or “causes”, two of them “prior”, the third “final”. These are: firstly, the translation by the present writer of a fairly large group of poems and texts by the poet Velimir Khlebnikov (b1885, d1922), intended as a contribution to an anthology of English language translations...Chadwick, Brian
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The epic unwriting of Empire: a case study. Khlebnikov -nash edinstvennyi poet-epik XX veka
I was discussing with a friend the problems I was having in introducing my topic or theme. The friend in question is one of the artists who has been working on the film which I will show later. He had read through my text, which was, I thought, mainly finished,...Chadwick, Brian
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Conference paper (unpublished)
How to look after your Collection - A basic guide
Many philatelists understand that they are the guardians of the material in their collections for themselves and for future owners. It is unfortunate when some collectors show a disregard for looking after their collection and dismiss comment with a remark like “it will be OK in my life time”. It...Beech, David R.
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The Time of Place: Louis-Sebastien Mercier and the hours of the day
I was recently reading The White Cities, Joseph Roth’s reports from France, 1925–1939, when, amongst many other moments, I was struck by the following passage: The manufacturers have their villas on the other side of the Rhône. That’s where the workers live – not in villas, alas, but in tenements....Shaw, Matthew J.