21 April 2018
On the Road (Again)
Now that British Summer Time has officially arrived, and with it some warmer weather, British Library Labs are hitting the road again with a series of events in Universities around the UK. The aim of these half-day roadshows is to inspire people to think about using the library's digitised collections and datasets in their research, art works, sound installations, apps, businesses... you name it!
A digitised copy of a manuscript is a very convenient medium to work on, especially if you are unable to visit the library in person and order an original item up to a reading room. But there are so many other uses for digitised items! Come along to one of the BL Labs Roadshows at a University department near you and find out more about the methods used by researchers in Digital Scholarship, from data-mining and crowd sourcing to optical character recognition for transcribing the words from an imaged page into searchable text.
At each of the roadshow events, there will be speakers from the host institution describing some of the research projects they have already completed using digitised materials, as well as members of the British Library who will be able to talk with you about proposed research plans involving digitised resources.
The locations of this year's roadshows are:
Mon 9th April - BL Labs Roadshow 2018 (Open University) - internal event
Mon 26th March - BL Labs Roadshow 2018 (CityLIS) - internal event
Thu 12th April - BL Labs Roadshow 2018 (University of Bristol & Cardiff Digital Cultures Network)
Tue 24th April - BL Labs Roadshow 2018 (UCL)
Wed 25th April - BL Labs Roadshow 2018 (University of Kent)
Wed 2nd May - BL Labs Roadshow 2018 (University of Edinburgh)
Tue 15th May - BL Labs Roadshow 2018 (University of Wolverhampton)
Wed 16th May - BL Labs Roadshow 2018 (University of Lincoln)
Tue 5th June - BL Labs Roadshow 2018 (University of Leeds)
See a full programme and book your place using the Eventbrite page for each event.
If you want to discover more about the Digital Collections, and Digital Scholarship at the British Library, follow us on Twitter @BL_Labs, read our Blog Posts, and get in touch with BL Labs if you have some burning research questions!