Semantic tagging for old maps… and other things
Dr Bernhard Haslhofer from University of Vienna giving details on their winning entry into the DM2E Open Humanities competition (http://dm2e.eu/open-humanities-award-winners-announced/) MapHub – tools...
View ArticleJoined Up Early Modern Diplomacy
Another winner of a DM2E Open Humanities award being presented today by Robyn Adams (http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/people/robynadams) from the Center for Editing Lives and Letters. Project looked at...
View ArticleSee the Connection? Toward a WYSIWYNC Literature
Keynote from Ted Nelson Talking about electronic literature for over 20 years. Felt alienated from the web because of ‘what it is not’. Starting with the question – “what is literature”? For TN – a...
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Automatic love
I think more people in libraries should learn scripting skills – that is how to write short computer programmes. The reason is simple – because it can help you do things quickly and easily that would...
View ArticleRIOXX v2.0
Original concerns for RIOXX: Primary: How to represent the funder How to represent the project/grant Secondary: How to represent the persistent identifier of the item described Provisions of...
View ArticleEPrints developments
Sketchy notes on this session: Les Carr updating us on developments in EPrints software / development What is EPrints for? Supporting researchers Supporting research data Supporting research outputs...
View ArticleOpen Access at UCL and Bournemouth University
Quite different institutions but similarities in publications management at systems level: Both use Symplectic Elements to manage publications and EPrints for IR BU Research and Knowledge Exchange...
View ArticleE2E – end to end open access
Valerie McCutcheon talking about the ‘end to end open access’ (or E2E) project. Project is working with a wide range of institutions types – big/small, geographically dispersed, from ‘vanilla’ systems...
View ArticleLessons in Open Access Compliance in HE (LOCH)
LOCH Pathfinder project. Presented by Dominic Tate Partners – University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews In (very) brief: The approach is: Managing Open Access payments – including a review of...
View ArticlePublications Router
http://broker.edina.ac.uk Currently takes data from UKPMC, looks for an affiliation statement in text of publication, pushes to appropriate institutional repository based on that affiliation (if the IR...
View ArticleArchiveSpace at Edinburgh
Presentation by Scott Renton: Current Management: Standard ISAD(G), Schema EAD (XML) Laid down by GASHE and NAHSTE projects managed by “CMSyst” an in-house built MySQL/PHP applicaiotn Data feeds to...
View ArticleInformation Integration: Mash-ups, APIs and the Semantic Web
Over the last couple of years, the British Library have been running a set of internal courses on digital skills for librarians. As part of this programme I’ve delivered a course called “Information...
View ArticleBig Data, Small Data & meaning
This blog post was written during a presentation at the British Library Labs Symposium in November 2014. It is likely full of errors and omissions having been written real-time. Tim Hitchcock...
View ArticleTILT: Text to Image Linking Tool
This blog post was written during a presentation at the British Library Labs Symposium in November 2014. It is likely full of errors and omissions having been written real-time. Why this tool?...
View ArticleVictorian Meme Machine
This blog post was written during a presentation at the British Library Labs Symposium in November 2014. It is likely full of errors and omissions having been written real-time Bob Nicholson from Edge...
View ArticlePalimpsest: An Edinburgh Literary Cityscape
This blog post was written during a presentation at the British Library Labs Symposium in November 2014. It is likely full of errors and omissions having been written real-time. Dr Beatrice Alex,...
View ArticleDigital Music Lab: Analysing Big Music Data
This blog post was written during a presentation at the British Library Labs Symposium in November 2014. It is likely full of errors and omissions having been written real-time. Adam Tovell, Digital...
View ArticleVisibility: Measuring the value of public domain data
This blog post was written during a presentation at the British Library Labs Symposium in November 2014. It is likely full of errors and omissions having been written real-time. Peter Balman, software...
View ArticleLessons from the Labs
This blog post was written during a presentation at the British Library Labs Symposium in November 2014. It is likely full of errors and omissions having been written real-time. Adam Farquhar,...
View ArticleLinked Data for Libraries: Publishing and Using Linked Data
Today I’m speaking at the “Linked Data for Libraries” event organised and hosted by the Library Association of Ireland, Cataloguing & Metadata Group; the Digital Repository of Ireland; and Trinity...
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