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Editorial
Foreword
SCHOLARLY YET READABLE' was the editor's prescription for The British Library Journal, for the first issue of which I am glad to write a foreword. Do not let us underestimate the skill required to make a publication of this kind both scholarly and readable, if by this we mean that...Eccles, Viscount
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Journal article
Newton in the timberyard: the device of Frans Houttuyn, Amsterdam
THE use of printers' and publishers' devices is as old as the printed book. Their origin goes back even further to heraldry and medieval shop signs. Few collections of devices used in the Netherlands have been published; there is one by Nielson on those in Latin which, though quite useful...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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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
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Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books: select manuscript acquisitions January 1970 to June 1973
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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
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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Dataset
Ground Truth transcriptions for training OCR of historical Bengali printed texts - Transkribus
This dataset comprises 74 digitised images (TIFF files) drawn from a selection of early printed Bengali books (1713-1914) digitised through the Two Centuries of Indian Print project (https://www.bl.uk/projects/two-centuries-of-indian-print). Also contained are ground truth transcriptions (XML) for each page that can be used for training optical character recognition software on historical...British Library ; Derrick, Tom
OCR, transcription, and Indian
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Dataset
Ground Truth transcriptions for training OCR of historical Bengali printed texts - Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents competition
This dataset comprises 81 digitised images (TIFF files) drawn from a selection of early printed Bengali books (1713-1914) digitised through the Two Centuries of Indian Print project (https://www.bl.uk/projects/two-centuries-of-indian-print). Also contained are ground truth transcriptions (XML) for each page that can be used for training optical character recognition software on historical...British Library ; Derrick, Tom
Indian, transcription, and OCR
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Conference paper (published)
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