*Friday 12 May* Workshop with British Library Labs Roadshow *New Date*
Please note this workshop was originally scheduled for 31 March and has been re-arranged for Friday 12 May. If you booked for the original date and can attend on 12 May there is no need to do anything. If you cannot make the new date please email labs [at] bl [dot] uk to cancel your place.
Following the success of the British Library Labs visit to Sheffield Hallam in 2016, the British Library team returning for another afternoon of workshops and presentations. Book your place now via Eventbrite.
This workshop will showcase examples of the British Library’s digital content and data as well as addressing some of the challenges and issues of working with it. The British Library Labs will also show how interesting and exciting projects from researchers, artists, educators and entrepreneurs have been developed via the annual British Library Labs Competition and Awards.
This year we intend to focus on some of the lessons we have learned over the last four years of working with the Labs, promote our awards and get attendees thinking of what they might do with the British Library’s collections. The team will also talk about future plans at the Library to support Digital Scholarship. The day will include presentations from the researchers who are working on interesting Digital Humanities projects at Sheffield Hallam University.
Hundreds of thousands of digital items and objects are being created and collected for researchers to use such as digitised manuscripts, sheet music, newspapers, maps, archived websites, radio, performances, TV news broadcasts, and artworks, as well as the more expected items like scanned versions of books. This wonderful cacophony of content is having a significant effect on how institutions like the British Library support the research needs of their users.
- Will people discover new information when they are no longer restricted to viewing a single page from a single book at a time?
- How can the British Library build systems that provide a coherent route across its content, regardless of whether it is a televised news report or a unique signature drawn in the margins of a map?
- How can we use crowd-sourced information, computer vision and machine-learning techniques to provide people with better tools to better judge and interpret the context of illustration or work?
- How can we exploit animations and interactive infographics to better convey the information found in our holdings?
This is the research space that British Library Labs explores and we want to encourage researchers at Sheffield Hallam University to work with us and share their research questions and innovative ideas around this.
Friday 12 May 2017
12.30PM – 3.30PM
CANTOR 9002
This is a free event and refreshments will be provided. For further information and to reserve a place please book via Eventbrite.
Please note this workshop was originally scheduled for 31 March and has been re-arranged for Friday 12 May. If you booked for the original date and can attend on 12 May there is no need to do anything. If you cannot make the new date please email labs [at] bl [dot] uk to cancel your place.