Présentation de Lucie Burgess, directrice des contenus à la British Library, lors de la journée de conférence « Transmettre la culture à l’ère du numérique » le 7 novembre 2013, Ministère de la culture et de la communication.

1. La mise à disposition des œuvres publiques
et partenariats de numérisation à la British
Library, Londres
Lucie BURGESS
Directrice des contenus, British Library
14h30 - 14h45
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
Secrétariat général
Département des programmes numériques

2. Cloud Culture @ British Library
Lucie Burgess, British Library
Automne Numérique
Paris, France
7th November 2013

3. The British Library
www.bl.uk
All images copyright British Library Board, all rights reserved
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4. The Cloud Culture equation
More
cultural
heritage
stored in
digital form
www.bl.uk
More
accessible to
more people
People
better
equipped
with more
tools to add
creatively to
the collection
Exponential
growth in
mass cultural
expression
Cloud
Culture
Cloud Culture, Charles Leadbeater, published by Counterpoint 2010. Can be
accessed from http://counterpoint.uk.com/reports-pamphlets/cloud-culture/
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5. Cloud Culture @ British Library
More
cultural
heritage
stored in
digital form
More
accessible to
more people
People
better
equipped
with more
tools to add
creatively to
the collection
Exponential
growth in
mass cultural
expression
Cloud
Culture
1. Digitise cultural
heritage; collect &
connect to born-digital
content
www.bl.uk
Cloud Culture, Charles Leadbeater, published by Counterpoint 2010. Can be
accessed from http://counterpoint.uk.com/reports-pamphlets/cloud-culture/
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6. Born-digital content @ British Library
1. Digitise cultural
heritage; collect
and connect to
born-digital content
www.bl.uk
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7. Cloud Culture @ British Library
More
cultural
heritage
stored in
digital form
More
accessible to
more people
People
better
equipped
with more
tools to add
creatively to
the collection
Exponential
growth in
mass cultural
expression
Cloud
Culture
1. Digitise cultural
heritage; collect &
connect to born-digital
content
www.bl.uk
Cloud Culture, Charles Leadbeater, published by Counterpoint 2010. Can be
accessed from http://counterpoint.uk.com/reports-pamphlets/cloud-culture/
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8. Open content @ British Library
3. Make content and
data available using
open licences
www.bl.uk
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9. Linked open data and the ‘semantic web’
1.
2.
3.
4.
Make raw data about content available
Make it openly licensed
Put it in RDF format – make it linkable ‘triples’
Put in on web using http
2. Make content and
data available using
open licences
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uju4wT9uBIA
www.bl.uk
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10. Linked open data @ British Library
2. Make content and
data available using
open licences
www.bl.uk
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11. Cloud Culture @ British Library
More
cultural
heritage
stored in
digital form
More
accessible to
more people
People
better
equipped
with more
tools to add
creatively to
the collection
Exponential
growth in
mass cultural
expression
Cloud
Culture
1. Digitise cultural
heritage; collect &
connect to born-digital
content
www.bl.uk
Cloud Culture, Charles Leadbeater, published by Counterpoint 2010. Can be
accessed from http://counterpoint.uk.com/reports-pamphlets/cloud-culture/
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12. Tools @ British Library – geo-referencing
3. Provide tools for
people to enrich the
content and
contribute their
stories
www.bl.uk
Ordnance Surveyors Drawing 40 (detail). Pen and Ink on paper. 1801. Overlaid
on Google Earth, © Inforterra Ltd and Bluesky.
British Library, Maps OSD 40(3).
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13. Tools @ BL labs #bl_labs
British Library Labs Sample Generator
From
Travel Routes
1888
To
1899
Account, Tour, Adventure, Visit. Journey, Expedition,
Excursion, Trip, Holiday, Guide, Plan, Route

Search terms
Digitally available content only
3. Provide tools for
people to enrich the
content and
contribute their
stories
Distribution of items in catalogue
Sample Size
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Generate
Pieter Francois is a Postdoctoral
Researcher at the University of Oxford.
The ‘Sample Generator’ connects one
or more major catalogues or collections
of digitized texts through metadata and
gives the sample a unique, citable URL
Dan Norton completed a
PhD at the University of
Dundee and is an Artist in
Residence at Hangar, Centre
for Art and Research, Barcelona.
His idea is to build a prototype of a
‘mixer’ for digital collections inspired
by music mixing tools used by DJs.
www.bl.uk
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14. Tools @ British Library
UK Soundmap
3. Provide tools for
people to enrich the
content and
contribute their
stories
www.bl.uk
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15. Cloud Culture @ British Library
More
cultural
heritage
stored in
digital form
More
accessible to
more people
People
better
equipped
with more
tools to add
creatively to
the collection
Exponential
growth in
mass cultural
expression
Cloud
Culture
1. Digitise cultural
heritage; collect &
connect to born-digital
content
www.bl.uk
Cloud Culture, Charles Leadbeater, published by Counterpoint 2010. Can be
accessed from http://counterpoint.uk.com/reports-pamphlets/cloud-culture/
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16. The Westminster Bridge problem
www.bl.uk
Website: copyright Tate and Image: copyright Cleveland Museum of Art
Complete poetical works of Wordsworth – public domain, available from www.bl.uk
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17. Thank you for listening
Lucie.burgess@bl.uk
Twitter @LucieCBurgess
www.bl.uk
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