Updates from Digital Scholarship at the British Library

I've been posting on the work blog far more frequently than I have here. Launching and running In the Spotlight, crowdsourcing the transcription of the British Library's historic playbills collection, was a focus in 2017-18. Some blog posts:

• Mia Ridge, Christian Algar, and Alex Mendes, ‘Introducing… Playbills In the Spotlight – Digital Scholarship Blog’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), September 2017, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2017/09/introducing-playbills-in-the-spotlight.html.
• Mia Ridge, Christian Algar, and Alex Mendes, ‘You’re Invited to Come and Play – In the Spotlight’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), November 2017, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2017/11/youre-invited-to-come-and-play-in-the-spotlight.html.
• Alex Mendes, ‘Crowdsourcing Using IIIF and Web Annotations’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), November 2017, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2017/11/crowdsourcing-using-iiif-and-web-annotations.html;
• Mia Ridge, ‘All I Want for Christmas Is… Playbills!’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), December 2017, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2017/12/alliwantforchristmas.html;
• Mia Ridge, ‘Shine a Light on Past Entertainments with In the Spotlight’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), March 2018, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2018/03/shine-a-light-on-past-entertainments-with-in-the-spotlight.html;

And a press release and newsletters:

• ‘LibCrowds Spring Newsletter’, British Library LibCrowds Newsletter, 31 May 2017, https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=08e409d3d85876a17ac4c1d09&id=3484f0e816;
• ‘British Library Crowdsourcing Updates, Winter 2017’, British Library LibCrowds Newsletter, 21 December 2017, https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=08e409d3d85876a17ac4c1d09&id=c01f6548ad;
• ‘Shine a Light on the Past! Spring 2018 Crowdsourcing Updates from the British Library’, British Library LibCrowds Newsletter, 4 April 2018, https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=08e409d3d85876a17ac4c1d09&id=1a9896c135;
• ‘Celebrating 100,000 Contributions on the LibCrowds Platform’, British Library LibCrowds Newsletter, 30 July 2018, https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=08e409d3d85876a17ac4c1d09&id=e31e0638bd;
• ‘Your Input Needed! Help Us Understand Who’s “In the Spotlight”’, British Library LibCrowds Newsletter, 8 September 2018, https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=08e409d3d85876a17ac4c1d09&id=22b9de4978;
• Mia Ridge and Christian Algar, ‘Press Release: British Library Crowdsourcing Project to Unlock a Treasure Trove of 18th and 19th Century Theatre Playbills’, The British Library Press Office, 10 November 2017, https://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2017/november/playbills-crowdsourcing-website-launch.

Other updates from work, including a new project, information about the Digital Scholarship Reading Group I started, student projects, and an open data project I shepherded:

• Mia Ridge, ‘Seeking Researchers to Work on an Ambitious Data Science and Digital Humanities Project’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), August 2018, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2018/08/livingwithmachines.html;
• Mia Ridge, ‘Some Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Scholarship in 2018’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), April 2018, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2018/04/some-challenges-and-opportunities-for-digital-scholarship-in-2018.html;
• Mia Ridge, ‘The Italian Academies Database – Now Available in XML’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), May 2018, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2018/05/the-italian-academies-database-now-available-in-xml.html;
• Mia Ridge, ‘What Do Deep Learning, Community Archives, Livy and the Politics of Artefacts Have in Common?’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), 4 May 2018, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2018/05/what-do-deep-learning-community-archives-livy-and-the-politics-of-artefacts-have-in-common.html;
• Mia Ridge, ‘British Library Resources on Digital Scholarship for PhD Students’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), 27 February 2017, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2017/02/digital-scholarship-resources-for-phd-students.html;
• Mia Ridge, ‘How Can a Turtle and the BBC Connect Learners with Literature?’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), 3 May 2017, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2017/05/how-can-a-turtle-and-the-bbc-connect-learners-with-literature.html;
• Mia Ridge, ‘There’s a New Viewer for Digitised Items in the British Library’s Collections’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), 7 December 2016, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2016/12/new-viewer-digitised-collections-british-library.html;
• ‘Student Project Report: Scribal Handwriting: An Automated Manuscript Analysis Tool’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), 28 August 2018, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2018/08/student-project-scribal-handwriting-an-automated-manuscript-analysis-tool.html;
• Thomas Evans and Mia Ridge, ‘Re-Imagining a Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts – from Search to Browse’, British Library Digital Scholarship Blog (blog), 16 December 2016, http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2016/12/re-imagining-a-catalogue-of-illuminated-manuscripts.html.