British Library Archive

  • Working with commercial partners

    Working with commercial partners

    On Monday 29 October, Cathy Pink gave an invited presentation on research data management with commercial partners at the latest DataCite workshop. The workshop was jointly run by JISC and the British Library, and focused on issues around citing sensitive data. Cathy’s slides are now available for download from our institutional repository: Presentation — Working with commercial partners (Cathy [...]

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  • Reflections on data sharing

    Reflections on data sharing

    In its outreach and training activities, the DCC has had a long-term interest in reaching new generations of research staff, including doctoral students and those classed as early career researchers. read more

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  • IMPACT Final Conference – Blog-index

    IMPACT Final Conference – Blog-index

    The whole conference was blogged and photographed with presentations uploaded to Slideshare and videos to Vimeo. These are also embedded within the blogs on this site. This post contains direct links to all posts made at the Final Conference.  Please do feel free to add comments or thoughts below the posts. Monday 24 October 2011 […]

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  • IMPACT Final Conference – Research Parallel Sessions Brief Summary

    IMPACT Final Conference – Research Parallel Sessions Brief Summary

    Parallel Session 1: Research was dedicated to presentations and discussions around the state of the art research tools for document analysis developed via the IMPACT Project. As you might guess from the slides below, the information packed into these presentations could fill a whole new two-day conference!  But for now, a brief summary will have to suffice and […]

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  • IMPACT Final Conference – Language Parallel Session

    IMPACT Final Conference – Language Parallel Session

    The language parallel session consisted of a series of presentations and demonstrations of the IMPACT language tools and hosted by Katrien Depuydt (INL). Named Entity Work in IMPACT: Frank Landsbergen Frank began by defining named entities (NE). They are a word or string referring to a proper location, person or organisation (or date, time, etc). […]

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  • IMPACT Final Conference – Digitisation Tips Parallel Session

    IMPACT Final Conference – Digitisation Tips Parallel Session

    Aly Conteh (BL) hosted the parallel Q&A session on Digitisation tips. Pannel members included Astrid Verheusen (Manager of the Digital Library Programme and Head of the Innovative Projects Department, KB National Library of the Netherlands), Geneviève Cron (OCR expert, Bibliothèque nationale de France), Christa Müller (Director Digital Services Department, Austrian National Library), Majlis Bremer-Laamanen (Director […]

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  • Introducing the partners: The British Library

    Introducing the partners: The British Library

    The stakeholders for Patients Participate! are spread across different communities: patients, charities, funders of research, researchers and policy makers (among others). The partnership that has been put together to carry out the project reflects the diverse interests that are represented in this project. Although all the organisations involved are household names in their own community, [...]

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