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Dataset
Theatrical playbills from Britain and Ireland
The dataset comprises 264 volumes of digitised theatrical playbills published between 1660 – 1902 (mostly 19th century) from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Digitised from the British Library's physical collection of over 500 volumes of playbills. The dataset in Portable Document Format (PDF). The playbills cover theatres in Bath (Royal),...British Library Labs ; Kirk, Tanya
singlesheet, playbill, and playbills
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Journal article
A Hiatus in the Cutting of Buddhist Caves in the Western Deccan
This article places the expansion of Buddhist monasteries in the Western Deccan in its wider context, examining how social, political and economic forces might have impacted on the tempo of Buddhist cave cutting. A framework for dating the caves is outlined and a hiatus in their construction during the first...Rees, Gethin
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Dataset
Digitised Books - Images identified as Plates. c. 1528 - c. 1900. JPG
The dataset comprises c. 385,237 images identified as 'Plates' from the British Library's Flickr Commons collections, dating between c. 1528 – c. 1900. The images were algorithmically gathered from 49,455 digitised books, equating to 65,227 volumes (25+ million pages), published between c. 1510 - c. 1900; Plates have currently been...British Library ; British Library Labs
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Journal article
Connecting the Persistent Identifier Ecosystem: Building the Technical and Human Infrastructure for Open Research
The persistent identifier (PID) landscape extends to cover objects, individuals and organisations engaged in the process of research. Established services such as DataCite, Crossref, ORCID and ISNI are providing a foundation for a trusted ecosystem and a new generation of services. Scalable identifier systems will support researchers and capture research...Dappert, Angela ; Farquhar, Adam ; Kotarski, Rachael ; Hewlett, Kirstie
persistent identifiers, research infrastructure, interoperable services, scholarly communication, and data citation
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Journal article
The once and future library: the role of the (national) library in supporting research
The global research environment is changing rapidly and with it the role of libraries in facilitating research. Taking the British Library as an example, this article provides a situational analysis of the challenges research libraries face in this context. It outlines a new, or at least modified, role for research...Reimer, Torsten
strategy, research, transformation, library, open access, and scholarly communications
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Dataset
Digitised Books - Images of the bound covers of books. c. 1510 - c. 1900. JPG
The dataset comprises c. 61,561 images identified as 'Book Covers' from the British Library's Flickr Commons collections, dating between c. 1510 - c. 1900.British Library ; British Library Labs
digitised, books, Microsoft, images, and bookcovers
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Dataset
Digitised Books - Images identified as Medium Sized Images. c. 1567 - c. 1900. JPG
The dataset comprises c. 217,101 images identified as 'Medium Sized Images' from the British Library's Flickr Commons collections, dating between c. 1567 - c. 1900. The images were algorithmically gathered from 49,455 digitised books, equating to 65,227 volumes (25+ million pages), published between c. 1510 - c. 1900; Medium Sized...British Library ; British Library Labs
medium sized images, books, images, digitised, and Microsoft
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Journal article
The Arab Legion and the 1948 War: The Conduct of 'Collusion'
The partition of Palestine and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War proved to be one of the defining moments of the twentieth century and its continued contemporary resonance has helped maintain a lively historiography. One of the key contentions remains the question of ‘collusion’ between the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan and the...Jevon, Graham
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Book chapter
The Arab Legion
The military is a key component of the state. It is also a crucial tool of imperial control. The Arab Legion, therefore, as the Jordanian national army financed by Britain and staffed by British and Arab officers, was a crucial feature of the formative Jordanian state. It was the bedrock...Jevon, Graham
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Dataset
JISC UK Web Domain Dataset Crawled URL Index. 1996 - 2013. CDX.
The dataset comprises original compound index (CDX) files that have been re-assembled into 18 separate CDX files for each year of crawling activity represented (1996 - 2013). Please note that the individual CDX files are not sorted. In order to enable access to web archives, UKWA uses CDX files to...UKWA Open Data
archive, 1996-2013, crawled URL index, web domain dataset, JISC UK, and UKWA Open Data
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Dataset
JISC UK Web Domain Dataset Format Profile. 1996 - 2010.
The dataset is a format profile, summarising media type (MIME type) data formats contained within all of the HTTP 200 OK responses in the 1996 - 2010 tranche of the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset. In partnership with the Internet Archive and JISC, UKWA had obtained access to the subset...UK Web Archive
archive, 1996-2010, web domain dataset, JISC UK, UKWA Open Data, and format profile
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Dataset
JISC UK Web Domain Dataset Host Link Graph. 1996 - 2010. TSV.
The dataset comprises ~2.5 billion 200 OK responses from the 1996 - 2010 tranche of the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset which have been scanned for hyperlinks. For each link, UKWA extracts the host that the link targets, and uses this to build up a picture of which hosts have...UKWA Open Data
archive, 1996-2012, web domain dataset, JISC UK, host link graph, and UKWA Open Data
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Dataset
JISC UK Web Domain Dataset Geoindex. 1996 - 2010. TSV.
The dataset comprises ~2.5 billion 200 OK responses in the 1996 - 2010 tranche of the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset Dataset which have been scanned for geographic references - specifically postcodes. This set of postcode citations, found at particular URLs and crawled at particular times, forms an historical geoindex...UK Web Archive
archive, 1996-2011, JISC UK, geoindex, UKWA Open Data, and web domain dataset
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Dataset
Linked Open British National Bibliography - Serials. 1950- N-Triples and RDF/XML
This dataset includes metadata for serials published or distributed in the UK since 1950.Deliot, Corine
British National Bibliography, serials, linked open data, BNB, N-Triples, RDF/XML, NT, and metadata
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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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Dataset
Linked Open British National Bibliography - Books. 1950- N-Triples and RDF/XML.
This dataset includes metadata for books published or distributed in the UK since 1950.Deliot, Corine
British National Bibliography, BNB, NT, linked open data, RDF/XML, N-Triples, books, and metadata
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Dataset
Linked Open British National Bibliography - Forthcoming Books N-Triples and RDF/XML
This dataset includes metadata for forthcoming books to be published or distributed in the UK.Deliot, Corine
British National Bibliography, forthcoming, linked open data, BNB, N-Triples, RDF/XML, NT, CIP, and metadata
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Dataset
SherlockNet data
Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Explore Over 400 Years of Book Illustrations: Starting from February 2016, as part of the British Library Labs Competition, we embarked on a collaboration with the British Library Labs and the British Museum to tag and caption the entire British Library 1M Collection, a set...Zhao, Luda ; Do, Brian ; Wang, Karen
tagging, Flickr, images, tags, digitised, Microsoft, sherlocknet, and books