'Baudelaire is the source of that cruel aperçu that the city changes faster than a human heart.' - #walterbenjamin #oncities

Last session of the first workshop. Tom Derrick takes us through the Digital Scholarship Programme of the #britishlibrary . #2CIP

The last team is telling us about their Innovative Digital Project. One Hundred Ways to Make Buddhadev Bose Great Again. Exciting! #2CIP

The second team describes its project under the Innovative Digital Projects scheme/game. Very interesting ideas coming up. #2CIP

Post-lunch session about to begin #2CIP

Tom Derrick. crowdsourcing the stars with #galaxyzoo and other collaborative digital projects. #2CIP

Tom Derrick on digital research in the humanities. Introducing the work that is being done at the #britishlibrary #2CIP

Prof Dasgupta discusses the Bengali Short Title Catalogue granthsouthasia.in #2cip @bl_IndianPrint

Digitizing the #vmh holdings including the Hyde papers and #bourne &shepherd collections. #sctr #2CIP

Prof Amlan Das Gupta talks about the work that has been happening at #sctr , #jadavpuruniversity . #2CIP

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Tom Derrick, Digital Curator, discusses possibilities for developing OCR tools for reading digitised Bengali text BL Indian Print Nora McGregor

wide representation at the workshop! metropolotan library, csssc, west bengal public library, and many more! #2CIP

Tom Derrick. Thinking of ways to bring books, manuscripts and printing equipment to life through 3D modelling! #2CIP #britishlibrary

aaand the inevitable question of #OCR for bengali. google? abbyy? or developing open source like transkribus? #2CIP

making the holdings more accessible for the public, not just for researchers and scholars. tom derrick #britishlibrary #2CIP

#britishlibrary making its collections' data sets available for research at a new, beta site data.bl.uk. #2CIP

Tom Derrick. Need to enable and encourage use of the collection for research. #2CIP

Dr. Layli Uddin, Project Curator, talks about one of the earliest Bengali cookbooks. It was commissioned by the Maharaja of Burdwan. #2CIP