Since 1987 National Life Stories has run a series of innovative interviewing programmes funded almost entirely from sponsorship, charitable and individual donations and voluntary effort. Its collections cover a huge range of topics such as art, architecture, science, literature, food, farming and industries such as water, steel and electricity.
This collection includes end of project reports and research outputs from an assortment of NLS projects and activities.
National Life Stories (NLS) is an independent charitable trust within the Oral History department of the British Library. Founded in 1987, its mission is to record and preserve a wide range of voices through in-depth biographical accounts, to make them available and inspire their use.’ The charity’s expertise is in oral history fieldwork, with a focus on the long life story methodology.
This collection contains NLS Annual Reviews from 2005 onwards, plus 10 National Life Story Collection newsletters published between 1999 and 2005.
National Life Stories (NLS) is an independent charitable trust within the Oral History department of the British Library. Founded in 1987, its mission is to record and preserve a wide range of voices through in-depth biographical accounts, to make them available and inspire their use.’ The charity’s expertise is in oral history fieldwork, with a focus on the long life story methodology.
This toolkit provides information on the creation of datasheets for web archives datasets. The datasheet concept is based on past work from Gebru et al. at Microsoft Research. The datasheet template and samples here were developed through a series of workshops with web archives curators, information professionals, and researchers during Spring and Summer 2023. The toolkit is composed of several parts including templates, examples, and guidance documents.
Initiated by the British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services built on the experience of and positive responses received from the open scholarship training programme, which was run in 2023. CHOSN is a community of practice for research support and research-active staff who work in GLAMs, organisations interested in developing and sharing open scholarship knowledge and skills, organising events, and supporting each other in this area.
CHOSN aims to provide a platform to create synergy for those aiming for good practice in open scholarship. This collection includes any outputs such as presentations and webinar recordings resulted from CHOSN activities.