Digital Scholarship at the British Library

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James Baker

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Digital Scholarship
at the British Library
Dr James Baker
Curator, Digital Research
@j_w_baker

www.bl.uk 2
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www.bl.uk 3
More than resource discovery…
“The emergence of the new
digital humanities isn’t an
isolated academic
phenomenon. The
institutional and
disciplinary changes are
part of a larger cultural
shift, inside and outside the
academy, a rapid cycle of
emergence and convergence
in technology and culture”
Steven E Jones, Emergence of
the Digital Humanities (2014)

www.bl.uk 5
“Literary scholars and historians have in the past been limited in their
analyses of print culture by the constraints of physical archives and human
capacity. A lone scholar cannot read, much less make sense
of, millions of newspaper pages. With the aid of computational
linguistics tools and digitized corpora, however, we are working toward a
large-scale, systemic understanding of how texts were valued and
transmitted during this period”
David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, ‘Infectious
Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers’ (2013)
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dasmith/infect-bighum-2013.pdf

www.bl.uk 6
‘Early users of medieval books of
hours and prayer books left signs of
their reading in the form of fingerprints
in the margins. The darkness of
their fingerprints correlates
to the intensity of their use
and handling. A densitometer -- a
machine that measures the darkness
of a reflecting surface -- can reveal
which texts a reader favored.’
Kathryn M. Rudy, ‘Dirty Books:
Quantifying Patterns of Use in
Medieval Manuscripts Using a
Densitometer’, Journal of Historians
of Nederlandish Art (2010)

www.bl.uk 7
discipline
camp and
camps sentence

www.bl.uk 10
Pieter Francois: Winner of British Library Labs 2013 Bob Nicholson: Winner of British Library Labs 2014

www.bl.uk 13
Thank you!
@j_w_baker
james.baker@bl.uk
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
Slides: slideshare.net/drjwbaker http://slidesha.re/1oKLmMk

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Digital Scholarship at the British Library

1. Digital Scholarship at the British Library Dr James Baker Curator, Digital Research @j_w_baker

2. www.bl.uk 2 Some admin… You are free to: – Copy, share, adapt, or re-mix – Photograph, film, or broadcast – Blog, live-blog, or post video of; this presentation provided that: – You attribute the work to its author and respect the rights and licences associated with its components – You distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one Text attribution Greg Wilson, Two Solitudes, SPLASH 2013 (29 October 2013) http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/splash-2013 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License unless stated otherwise.

3. www.bl.uk 3 More than resource discovery… “The emergence of the new digital humanities isn’t an isolated academic phenomenon. The institutional and disciplinary changes are part of a larger cultural shift, inside and outside the academy, a rapid cycle of emergence and convergence in technology and culture” Steven E Jones, Emergence of the Digital Humanities (2014)

4. www.bl.uk 4

5. www.bl.uk 5 “Literary scholars and historians have in the past been limited in their analyses of print culture by the constraints of physical archives and human capacity. A lone scholar cannot read, much less make sense of, millions of newspaper pages. With the aid of computational linguistics tools and digitized corpora, however, we are working toward a large-scale, systemic understanding of how texts were valued and transmitted during this period” David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, ‘Infectious Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers’ (2013) http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dasmith/infect-bighum-2013.pdf

6. www.bl.uk 6 ‘Early users of medieval books of hours and prayer books left signs of their reading in the form of fingerprints in the margins. The darkness of their fingerprints correlates to the intensity of their use and handling. A densitometer -- a machine that measures the darkness of a reflecting surface -- can reveal which texts a reader favored.’ Kathryn M. Rudy, ‘Dirty Books: Quantifying Patterns of Use in Medieval Manuscripts Using a Densitometer’, Journal of Historians of Nederlandish Art (2010)

7. www.bl.uk 7 discipline camp and camps sentence

8. www.bl.uk 8

9. www.bl.uk 9

10. www.bl.uk 10 Pieter Francois: Winner of British Library Labs 2013 Bob Nicholson: Winner of British Library Labs 2014

11. www.bl.uk 11

12. www.bl.uk 12

13. www.bl.uk 13 Thank you! @j_w_baker james.baker@bl.uk http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/ Slides: slideshare.net/drjwbaker http://slidesha.re/1oKLmMk