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Reusing digital content: towards making research using this content limited by what is possible rather than what is permissible

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Notes from a short talk I gave at the Mining Digital Repositories: Challenges and Horizons event at the KB, The Hague, 11 April 2014. Notes: https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/10422453

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Reusing digital content towards making research using this content limited by what is possible rather than what is permissible Dr James Baker Curator, Digital Research @j_w_baker
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.
www.bl.uk 3 More than resource discovery The emergence of the new digital humanities isnt 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)
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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)
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www.bl.uk 9 Pieter Francois: Winner of British Library Labs 2013
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www.bl.uk 19 Thank you! @j_w_baker james.baker@bl.uk http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/ 際際滷s: http://slidesha.re/R71gBz Notes: https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/10422453

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Reusing digital content: towards making research using this content limited by what is possible rather than what is permissible

  • 1. Reusing digital content towards making research using this content limited by what is possible rather than what is permissible 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 isnt 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)
  • 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)
  • 9. www.bl.uk 9 Pieter Francois: Winner of British Library Labs 2013