Slides for a lecture I gave as part of the 'Libraries and Publishing in an Information Society' Masters module at City University, London, on 10 April 2015 Notes at https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/9fbd71e4e4e232052265

1. Future Libraries:
Considering ‘publishing’
Dr James Baker
Curator, Digital Research
@j_w_baker
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/

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“The emergence of the new digital
humanities isn’t an isolated academic
phenomenon. The institutional and
disciplinary changes are part of a
larger cultural shift, inside and outside
the academy, a rapid cycle of emergence
and convergence in technology and
culture”
Steven E Jones, Emergence of the Digital
Humanities (2014)

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Newspaper Man photograph courtesy of
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“Literary scholars and historians have in the past been limited in their
analyses of print culture by the constraints of physical archives and human
capacity. A lone scholar cannot read, much less make sense
of, millions of newspaper pages. With the aid of computational
linguistics tools and digitized corpora, however, we are working toward a
large-scale, systemic understanding of how texts were valued and
transmitted during this period”
David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, ‘Infectious Texts:
Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers’ (2013)
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dasmith/infect-bighum-2013.pdf

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discipline
camp and
camps sentence

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“Library based skunkworks - or semi-
independent, research-oriented software
prototyping and makerspace labs—are
an uncommon, yet uncommonly potent,
response to opportunities that open up
when we pay increased organizational
attention to digital tools, methods, and
cultures across the humanities […]
We might therefore consider a digital
humanities skunkworks operation not
only as a site for research innovation,
but as an organizational experiment in
breaking away from shop-worn
service relationships.”
Bethany Nowviskie, ‘Skunks in the Library: A
Path to Production for Scholarly R&D’,
Journal of Library Administration 53:1
(2013), 53-59.

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British Library Big Data Experiment
Machine Learning
Coming Soon!
Crowds & Structured
Data Generation
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Novel Encounters
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Thank you!
@j_w_baker
james.baker@bl.uk
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
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