British Library (BL) Labs is pleased to announce that the fourth annual British Library Labs Symposium is taking place on Monday 7th November from 9:30 - 17:30 in the British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, London NW1 2DB. The Symposium showcases innovative projects which use the British Library's digital content and provides a platform for development, networking and debate in the Digital Scholarship field.
The British Library Labs Symposium is free to attend, however you must book tickets in advance at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-library-labs-symposium-2016-tickets-25666320656
Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library, will present awards to the British Library Labs Competition (2016) finalists, who will also give presentations on their winning projects. After lunch, the winners of Shakespeare Off the Map will be announced. This will be followed by presentations from the winners of the British Library Labs Awards. The Awards recognise projects that have actively used the British Library's digital content in four key areas: Research, Commercial, Artistic and Teaching / Learning. A British Library Labs Staff Award will also be presented this year, in recognition of an individual or team who have played a key role in innovative work with the British Library’s digital collections. The event will conclude with a networking reception at which delegates and staff can meet and mingle over a drink.
Focus on Digital Scholarship at the Symposium this year includes a keynote from Professor Melissa Terras, Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, entitled: ‘'Unexpected repurposing: the British Library's Digital Collections and UCL teaching, research and infrastructure'. The keynote will highlight the British Library's digitised book collection - 60,000 volumes which are now in the public domain - and how those texts and images have been used with both students and researchers at UCL.
BL Labs (http://labs.bl.uk) is an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation which supports and inspires the public use of the British Library’s digital collections and data in exciting and innovative ways. The BL Labs team actively encourages scholars and innovators to work with us, thereby supporting the British Library’s mission to guarantee that the wealth and diversity of the Library’s intellectual digital heritage is available for the research, creativity and fulfilment of everyone.
Learn more about BL Labs, including our Awards and Competition, at http://labs.bl.uk. For any further information please contact [log in to unmask]