Category Archives: Text Mining

Posts about analyzing texts and large sets of text (see also Data Mining).

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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Getting experienced

Posted on February 5, 2015 by David King

Digitised literature gives us the opportunity to explore how people experienced the past. However, if extracting tangible things from texts such as names and places can be tricky, consider the challenge of extracting something intangible such as an experience. If … 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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