Ben O'Steen: Experiments at British Library Labs
Channel: NDF - National Digital Forum
Date: 17/10/2015

Day 1 of NDF 2015, 4.30pm Tuesday 13 October 2015

Leads British Library Labs, interested in crowdsourcing, creative reuse of library content and data sets, and makes machines that make things.

Ben O’Steen is the Technical Lead for the British Library Labs project, funded by The Andrew W Mellon Foundation. The Labs project seeks to bring the British Library’s existing content and researchers together, to explore and map out new areas of research and use approaches such as crowdsourcing. A key project of recent years has been the Mechanical Curator, which has led to hundreds of millions of extra views of British Library content and dozens of creative, research-based and entrepreneurial outputs that are known about.

Ben has over ten years of experience working with university library and archive systems and content, with a focus on preserving and providing research data and openly licensed material to researchers. Ben is also interested in making digital things ‘physical’ and has built a number of 3D printers and plotters.