Digital Scholarship Blog
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Founded in 2010, the Digital Scholarship Department at British Library supports researchers and staff to make innovative use of our digital collections and data. We are a group of cross-disciplinary experts in the areas of digitization, librarianship, digital history, digital humanities, and computer, and data science, looking at how technology is transforming research, and in turn, our services.
Digital Scholarship Blog
8M ago
The British Library is delighted to host its annual Open and Engaged Conference on Monday 30 October, in-person and online, as part of International Open Access Week. In line with this year’s #OAWeek theme: Open and Engaged 2023: Community over Commercialisation will address approaches and practices to open scholarship that ..read more
Digital Scholarship Blog
8M ago
This blog post is by Dr Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert, Digital Curator for Asian and African Collections, British Library. She's on Mastodon as @adi@glammr.us. Last week I came back from my very first ICDAR conference, inspired and energised for things to come! The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) is ..read more
Digital Scholarship Blog
8M ago
Digitised archives and library collections are rich resources for creative practitioners, including video game makers, who can bring history to life in new ways with immersive storytelling. A wonderful example of this is Astrologaster by Nyamyam, an interactive comedy set in Elizabethan London, based on the manuscripts of medical astrologer ..read more
Digital Scholarship Blog
8M ago
This blog post was originally published on Wikimedia’s community blog, Diff, by Satdeep Gill (WMF) and Dr Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert (Digital Curator for Asian and African Collections, British Library) The British Library has joined hands with the Wikimedia Foundation to support the Wikisource Loves Manuscripts (WiLMa) project, sharing 76 Javanese manuscripts ..read more
Digital Scholarship Blog
9M ago
A year ago I started work on my RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship project to analyse computationally the descriptions in the Library’s incunabula printed catalogue. As the project comes to a close this week, I would like to update on the work from the last few months leading to the publication ..read more
Digital Scholarship Blog
9M ago
In the spring of 2020, during the first UK lockdown, I wrote an article for the British Library English and Drama blog, titled ‘Writing tools for Interactive Fiction’. Quite a few things have changed since then and as the Library launched its first exhibition on Digital Storytelling this June, it ..read more
Digital Scholarship Blog
10M ago
Contents Introduction Share Family and National Bibliographies What is a National bibliography? BNB in the Share Family Benefits Future developments Beta service Further information Introduction The British National Bibliography (BNB), first published in January 1950, is a weekly listing of new books and journals published or distributed in the United ..read more
Digital Scholarship Blog
10M ago
Three of us from the British Library Digital Research Team will be attending Digital Humanities 2023 in Graz, Austria next week. The last DH Conference we attended was in Utrecht in 2019 and we can’t wait to participate again in person this year. We are looking forward to meeting new ..read more
Digital Scholarship Blog
10M ago
This Friday we are looking forward to hosting MIX 2023 at the Library. Presented in partnership with Bath Spa University’s Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries, The Writing Platform and MyWorld, this conference explores the intersection of writing and technology, creating an opportunity for scholars and practitioners to share and ..read more
Digital Scholarship Blog
11M ago
On the 22nd June in 1948 the HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex, bringing people from the Caribbean who had been invited to help rebuild "the motherland" after the devastation of the Second World War. Seventy-five years later, stories from the Windrush generation are shared in a ground breaking ..read more