Category Archives: Research Methods

Posts about analytical approaches of all kinds as well as posts about finding, evaluating, and using information.

BL Labs Competition – Tips, Advice and Looking at BL Data

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Mahendra Mahey

The new British Library Labs competition for 2015 is live and closes on 29 April 2015. The competition encourages anyone to come up with an idea of what you might do with British Library digital content. We will choose 2 … Continue reading →

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VOX: Voices Of eXperience

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Laura Carletti

What does it happen when Humanists & Technologists work together? What are the challenges and opportunities of cross-field and interdisciplinary collaborations? What is your personal experience? This Talk session proposes to listen to the voices of Humanists and Technologists involved in … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Text: Teaching DH with visual sources

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Melodee Beals

With one foot firmly in corpus linguistics, Digital History has often been about finding, collecting, collating, manipulating and linking textual information.  However, just as historians have learned to move beyond the text in traditional historical research, so too do we … Continue reading →

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Big Data for Musicology

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Tillman Weyde

Digital music libraries and collections are growing quickly and are increasingly made available for research. We feel that the use of large data collections need will enable a better understanding of music performance and music in general, which will benefit areas … Continue reading →

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Enriching digitised archival content

Posted on February 3, 2015 by George Weyman

Over the past year I have been project managing the content workstream of the British Library’s flagship digitisation programme with the Qatar Foundation, now launched and live on a bilingual free-to-use portal at www.qdl.qa. This service offers a unique resource … Continue reading →

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