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Conference paper (unpublished)
Where do I stand? Deconstructing digital collections [research] infrastructures: a perspective from Towards a National Collection
This presentation sheds light on the critical challenges of establishing a sustainable digital infrastructure in the United Kingdom. The work conducted by TaNC plays a crucial role in addressing key factors within the realm of digital infrastructure, including: Tools and Pipelines: This encompasses software and related components. User Knowledge Needs:...Pereda, Javier
digital infrastructure, GLAM, and Towards a National Collection
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Networks of libraries supporting open access book publishing
It is becoming increasingly clear that libraries, acting collectively, can have a major role in creating and sustaining non-profit, community owned, open access infrastructures as public goods. These networks may provide support indirectly, via collective financial support for third party entities, or directly by inter-connecting their existing physical infrastructures to...Gatti, Rupert
open book publishers, Thoth, open scholarship, COPIM, open book collective, and library networks
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Investing in the future of open infrastructure
Kaitlin Thaney, Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), discusses the challenges and strategies involved in fostering community-centered open infrastructure, emphasising the importance of sustainable, accessible, and open systems to advance research and knowledge sharing. Kaitlin outlines the work of IOI, focusing on their research-driven approach, the development of a catalogue of...Thaney, Kaitlin
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Balancing public-private partnerships with responsibilities to our communities
The Living with Machines project (2018-23) was a data science and digital history project between the British Library and The Alan Turing Institute. Its focus on the impact of mechanisation in the long 19th century was in part inspired by the Library's access to newspapers digitised for The British Newspaper...Ridge, Mia
digitisation, research project, newspapers, and Living With Machines
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Journal article
Working at scale: what do computational methods mean for research using cases, models and collections?
Open access, peer-reviewed article published in Science Museum Group Journal, as part of a double-length special issue for the AHRC TaNC discovery project, 'Congruence Engine'. The article gives a critical overview of how 'scale' operates as a keyword within computational humanities as well as reviewing a number of cognate fields,...Wilson, Daniel C S
machine learning, AI for GLAM, STS, scale, computational humanities, history, and congruence engine
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Book
Animals: Art, Science and Sound
Artworks, manuscripts, printed works and wildlife sound recordings come together in this major compendium of the greatest and strangest representations of animals on record. Published to accompany a 2023 British Library exhibition. Eighty detailed case studies highlight celebrated works, including John James Audubon’s The Birds of America, Matthew Paris’s Liber...Roy, Malini ; Sharp Jones, Cam ; Tipp, Cheryl
animals, sound, exhibitions, art, and science
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Journal article
Italian Futurist Books (1909-1944) at the British Library
The Futurist book was instrumental in the circulation of Futurist ideas and represents a very experimental phase in book production, paving the way for the book object, the artist’s book, advertising and design. The purpose of this article is to produce a survey of the Italian Futurist collections held at...Mirabella, Valentina
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Journal article
A Gold Girdle Book and its Connection with Anne Boleyn
The miniature prayer book with the shelfmark Stowe MS. 956 has long attracted attention because of a story associating it with Anne Boleyn. According to an oft-repeated account, this tiny girdle book with a gold metalwork binding was handed by Anne to one of her maids of honour on the...Jackson, Eleanor
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Journal article
The London Stage 1660-1800: A Short History, Retrospective Anatomy, and Projected Future
The London Stage, 1660-1800, a day-by-day performance calendar spanning 140 years, was for its time a magnificent achievement published in eleven volumes (1960-1968 [recte 1970]) running to 1058 pages of introductory matter and 7182 pages of text, plus 672 pages of volume indexes. A one-volume cumulative index compiled from scratch...Hume, Robert D.
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Dataset
Review of Information Studies Courses in Higher Education for Web Archive Provision
This project reviewed the curriculum of information studies postgraduate courses in a number of countries across Europe. The curriculum for Library Studies, Archival Studies, Record Management and Digital Curation/Preservation and Digital Humanities were reviewed to see if there was any reference to web archiving. As these web pages were reviewed...