ElasticSystem @ElasticSystem

An online, interactive portrait of the C19th librarian Thomas Watts, made by artist Richard Wright @NowMachine with the BritishLibrary. https://t.co/lNREJooQTb London, England Joined July 2018

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7 years ago

@BBCFOUR This is an unprofessional way to treat an audience of license payers.

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7 years ago

@erinroseglass An idea whose time has come! Let's work out a practical plan to make it happen...

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8 years ago

Check out this symposium about the work of @BL_Labs and the nice people that supported my @ElasticSystem project...

Hurry! Only a few tickets left for FREE @BL_Labs symposium 2018, Mon 12 Nov, London, goo.gl/HV9vE7. Find out about creative uses of @britishlibrary digital collections & who won our Research, Artistic, Commercial & Teaching/Learning awards. @BL_DigiSchol

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8 years ago

For my last research seminar at the #BritishLibrary, I laid out the entire history of cataloging at the library on this one table.

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8 years ago

The Asian and African Studies reading room at the #britishlibrary seems to have the friendliest readers – here are some of the #thankyou cards that have been sent to staff and displayed on the counter. #librarylife

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8 years ago

#ThingsDiscoveredAtTheBritishLibrary – a collection of relief #maps, different countries all modeled with their hills and valleys. This is Poland.

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8 years ago

#ThingsDiscoveredAtTheBritishLibrary – a collection of photographic negatives, so big that many of them are not yet been catalogued yet.

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8 years ago

#ThingsDiscoveredAtTheBritishLibrary – books that used to be kept inside other books, because book binding used to be a bit of a bind.

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8 years ago

Anyone know how you would search for items with the "Eccles" shelfmark?

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8 years ago

#ThingsDiscoveredAtTheBritishLibrary – special collections such as the Eccles collection which includes Oscar Wilde first editions along with other writers of that era.

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8 years ago

#ThingsDiscoveredAtTheBritishLibrary – the India Office collection including histories, memoires, islamic poems, songs and a book about “The Happy Union”. (V 10302 to V 10360)

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8 years ago

Oops, searchable shelfmarks are in format "08282 bb 1" to "08282 bb 60"

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8 years ago

#ThingsDiscoveredAtTheBritishLibrary – a collection of early socialist writings from 1900s period, including such titles as “Socialism and the Drink Question”. (at 08282.bb.1 to 08282.bb.60)

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8 years ago

"Academia Naturae Curiosorum" at AC.2871

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8 years ago

#ThingsDiscoveredAtTheBritishLibrary – these C19th science volumes full of “natural curiosities” containing accounts and illustrations of fabulous creatures.

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8 years ago

#ThingsDiscoveredAtTheBritishLibrary – huge collections of scientific documents – this one is from a whole wall devoted to Russian patents.

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8 years ago

#ThingsDiscoveredAtTheBritishLibrary – all the children's comics and annuals that we read when growing up (and possibly still do). Unfortunately no one under the age of 11 is allowed into the Reading Rooms!

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8 years ago

#ThingsDiscoveredAtTheBritishLibrary – a huge foreign language collection, much begun by Thomas Watts in the 1840s, who had “mastered all the Celtic and Slavonic tongues, as well as Hungarian, and to make some progress with Chinese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Danish and Swedish”

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8 years ago

@TokeEskildsen Thanks Toke. The whole image is re-rendered every day or so to ensure that the interface is as fast as possible.

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8 years ago

My new project the Elastic System launches today on the anniversary of the death of pioneering C19th #librarian Thomas Watts. Zoom into this #portrait to see the 4,300 #books as stored in the #BritishLibrary basements. #digitalart #openaccess ElasticSystem.net