Example configuration of Peripleo geodata mapping software, developed for the BL's "Locating a National Collection" project - fork this!
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Generating ingestible records from catalogue cards as part of the Convert-a-Card project
The Universal Viewer is an open source project to enable cultural heritage institutions to present their digital artifacts in an IIIF-compliant and highly customisable user interface.
Build web applications that meet the British Library service standards.
Ongoing BL development of code produced in 2022/23 by Isaac Dunford as part of a Digital Humanities Internship funded by the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton.
Code used to support Huw Rowland's 2025 Coleridge Fellowship working on Topographic Survey of India reports
Conversion of union lists for India Office Records maps from a range of data models into a unified model to improve ease of access
Content repo for the binders on branches of Incunabula-Catalogue-Entry-Detection used for Hack & Yacks in 2023/24 and at DHNB 24
Structuring metadata from OCR of the Proudfoot Early Malay Printed Books catalogue
BL contribution to the 2026 HIPE-OCRepair competition run by ICDAR/IMPRESSO
Demo of embedding, graph retrieval and RAG with library collections using Streamlit and T-SNE
Converting ISTC data to flat CSV format for a public data release in Jan 2025
BL adaptation of the Marriot Reparative Metadata Assessment Tool to work with collections at scale