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    Opening up heritage research: research in GLAMs
    (2023-05-31)
    Holt, Ilkay
    This module covers the topics of understanding the research landscape in Galleries-Libraries-Archives-Museums (GLAMs), benefits of openness for heritage research and basic concepts of open principles. This session will help you to: Understand forms of research activities carried out in GLAMs Become familiar with the basics of open access Understand the benefits of making GLAM collections openly available.​
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    Does the digitalization of the book industry reduce its environmental impact?
    (2026-08)
    Sahli, Matthias
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    Bieser, Jan
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    Chenoweth, Jonathan
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    Love, Jeff
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    Lin, Mi
    Digitalization has transformed the book market with significant environmental consequences. Various life cycle assessments (LCAs) compare the per-unit greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of reading paper books and e-books. However, they do not capture the net GHG effects of digitalization, which also depend on changes in production and consumption volumes in both formats. This article assesses whether digitalization has increased or decreased the GHG footprint of the book market by combining evidence from LCAs with economic insights on how digitalization affects book supply and demand. Our results show that e-books can lower emissions for heavy readers, while paper books may be more climate-friendly when they are widely shared. While e-books offer advantages such as accessibility and portability that support substitution, many digitalization-driven supply and demand effects expand the overall book market by improving discoverability, lowering costs and prices, and accelerating publication and distribution. Our quantitative analysis indicates that e-books reduce emissions only if they substantially displace print, yet evidence suggests substitution rates are low and emissions may therefore increase. This shows that treating e-books as simple substitutes for paper books is overly simplistic, and that integrated environmental and economic perspectives are needed to assess their net sustainability impact.
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    Locating a National Collection project website
    (2022)
    Gadd, Stephen
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    Simon, Rainer
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    Rees, Gethin
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    Isaksen, Leif
    Project website for the Locating a National Collection (LaNC) project that houses instances of LaNC’s Peripleo maps interface alongside descriptive text (https://github.com/britishlibrary/locating-a-national-collection). The website was built using Joe Padfield’s simple-site, many thanks to him (https://github.com/jpadfield/simple-site). LaNC was a Foundation project within the AHRC-funded Towards a National Collection Programme.
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    Reimagining the Humanities Book: Bringing Living With Machines to Life Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research Practices
    (2025-10)
    Gallon, Emma
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    Bowman, Jamie
    Summary Limited options currently exist for humanities researchers looking to engage with open research practices and experimental forms in book publishing. The adapted publishing workflows and formats used for the experimental open access book project, Living with Machines, offer a model for reuse by publishers and authors. Iterative publication, open peer review and multimedia integration increased community engagement with the book and maximised the research data and other outputs generated by the research project. Closer coordination between editorial and production functions, new forms of collaboration between publishers, authors and reviewers, and clear process documentation were key learnings in the effective running of this experiment.
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    A brief overview: AI at the British Library - from utility tools to new research methods
    (2024)
    Ridge, Mia
    The British Library has been working with AI and related approaches –big data, deep neural networks, data science, machine learning, etc – for many years. This presentation shares examples of experiments, pilots and collaborations that have helped the Library understand the potential and challenges of AI with library collections for research and discovery. I discuss tools and methods that the BL developed internally or in collaboration, as well as external tools that we tried with BL collections. I focus on AI work with collections – there's a whole other world of potential for libraries and GLAMs as venues and visitor attractions.
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    Prospects for a Big Data History of Music
    (2014-09-09)
    Rose, Stephen
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    Tuppen, Sandra
    This position paper sets out the possibility of a musicology based on the analysis of musical-bibliographical metadata as Big Data. It outlines the work underway, as part of the AHRC-funded project A Big Data History of Music, to align seven major datasets of musical-bibliographical metadata. After discussing some of the technical challenges of data alignment, it suggests how analysis and visualization of this data might transform musicological understandings of cultural transmission and canon formation.
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    Getting started with heritage GLAM repositories: role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research
    (2023-05-31)
    Holt, Ilkay
    This session covers topics on the role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research and positioning research repositories in an organisation including policy and development.​ This session will help you to: Understand the benefits of making GLAM collections openly available Understand the value of research repositories Understand policy and legal considerations in managing repositories Be aware of key communities to engage with to establish repositories.​ ​
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    Getting started with heritage GLAM repositories​: policy development and positioning research repositories
    (2023-05-31)
    Miles, Susan
    This session covers topics on the role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research and positioning research repositories in an organisation including policy and development.​ This session will help you to: Understand the benefits of making GLAM collections openly available Understand the value of research repositories Understand policy and legal considerations in managing repositories Be aware of key communities to engage with to establish repositories.​
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    Living with Machines - Communities
    (2019)
    Ridge, Mia
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    Getting started with heritage GLAM repositories​: Role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research
    (2023-03-23)
    Holt, Ilkay
    This session covers topics on the role of repository infrastructure in open access to heritage research and positioning research repositories in an organisation including policy and development.