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Conference paper (unpublished)
Supporting practical preservation work and making it sustainable with SPRUCE
Wheatley, Paul ; Pennock, Maureen
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The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts of Frederick William Cosens (1819-89)
West, Geoffrey
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The British Library’s collection of Basque books: whose were they and how did they get there?
West, Geoffrey
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Ediciones Vigía: handmade books from Cuba
West, Geoffrey
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Ediciones Vigía. Handmade Books from Cuba 1985-2007
West, Geoffrey
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Accident or by design. How and why did the British (Museum) Library acquire its holdings of Basque printed books?
West, Geoffrey
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Atlantic crossings: the trade in Latin American books in Europe in the nineteenth century
West, Geoffrey
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Sylvia Pankhurst's Germinal: work and play, organisation and the organic
Sylvia Pankhurst's little-known magazine Germinal (1923-24) emerged as her socialist newspaper The Workers Dreadnought was on the verge of collapse. It is self-consciously and necessarily more of a literary production than the Dreadnought but this paper suggests that concepts of internationalism and work (and so play) are shared by both....Price, Richard
Sylvia Pankhurst, poetry, literary magazines, little magazines, Suffragettes, politics, and modernism
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From standard to community resource: a view on ISNIs and ORG IDs
Over the last year, the International Standard Name Identifier board have been considering the ways in which ISNI as a system can improve to meet new challenges and become more open and transparent. One particular consideration has been to make ISNIs a better solution for organisation identifiers. The British Library...Reimer, Torsten ; Madden, Frances
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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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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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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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ICDAR2019 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2019
This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of page analysis and recognition methods for historical documents with text mainly in Bengali language and script. It describes the competition rules, dataset, and evaluation methodology. Results are presented for five methods - three submit-ted, one re-run, and one open source state-of-the-art system....Clausner, Christian ; Antonacopoulos, Apostolos ; Derrick, Tom ; Pletschacher, Stefan
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Conference Panel: Documenting the Olympics & Paralympics
The online panel event Documenting the Olympics & Paralympics is a collaboration between the British Library, the International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) at De Montfort University, and the British Society of Sports History (BSSH). Originally, this was supposed to be a full day face-to-face event, but due...Byrne, Helena
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Authority and Judgement in the Digital Archive
The transformative promise of the digital humanities is not without problems. This paper looks at digital archive curation using a database of 19th-century London concerts as a case study. We examine some of the barriers faced in its development, related to expertise, volume and complexity, the gap between cost and...Dix, Alan ; Cowgill, Rachel ; Bashford, Christina ; McVeigh, Simon ; Ridgewell, Rupert
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Decolonising the Archive: Questions, Problems and Solutions?
Those working on or with colonial archives and collections face a number of challenges arising from the historical contexts of these materials: where they came from, how they were brought together (or separated), and who has been their custodian. In these circumstances, it is important that contemporary professionals do not...Bennett, Melissa
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‘If the package is right, the pills are right’: Proprietary medicines, branding, and advertising, 1650-1850
Medical products, predominantly sold by newspaper and book printers, became the most heavily advertised branded good throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This fact, combined with the ever-increasing availability of digitised contemporary newspapers, has generated important work upon their advertisement and distribution. These studies have considerably enriched our understanding of...Basford, Jennifer
branding, material culture, advertising, proprietary medicine, and packaging
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Lost for words? The Earliest Representations of the Americas in European Sources
West, Geoffrey