George Weyman – THATCamp British Library Labs http://britishlibrarylabs2015.thatcamp.org 13 February 2015, British Library Conference Centre Fri, 13 Feb 2015 07:20:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Enriching digitised archival content http://britishlibrarylabs2015.thatcamp.org/2015/02/03/enriching-digitised-archival-content/ Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:19:30 +0000 http://britishlibrarylabs2015.thatcamp.org/?p=174 Continue reading ]]>

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 on the history of the Gulf region, drawing on primary collections at the British Library including the India Office Records, visual arts, digitised sound collections and the maps collections. You can learn more at www.qdl.qa/en/about.

My interest in this session is to riff with some digital tools proposed by the group for enriching the content without any further development to the portal. For example, that might mean:

Or many other ideas besides. I do hope you’ll join and contribute. Here’s a video to help you decide:

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