Reports from the UKMHL and Historical Texts live lab
1. Melissa Terras, UK medical heritage library event
Reports from the UKMHL and Historical Texts live lab27/10/2016
2. Welcome, and Introductions!
Professor Melissa Terras
Professor of Digital Humanities, UCL Dept of Information Studies
Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities
m.terras@ucl.ac.uk, @melissaterras
8. Method
60k books from the British Library:
● 17th - 19th century
● 224GB compressed ALTO XML
● UCL High Performance Computing
● 4 humanities researchers
● Research questions to computational queries
17. With thanks to
• Owen Stephens (@ostephens)
– Consultant to Library sector,
– http://www.ostephens.com/
• Peter Findlay (@PFindlay_500)
– Jisc digital portfolio manager
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/staff/peter-findlay
• Jisc organising folks! And the Wellcome Library
for hosting.
• Bluclobber images by the project team: James Baker, James
Hetherington, David Beavan, Anne Welsh, Helen O’Neill, Will Finley,
Oliver Duke-Williams, Adam Farquhar.