Living Knowledge: British Library on ‘the Mechanical Curator’
Channel: British Library
Date: 2015-02-05

British Library Chief Executive Roly Keating talks about a simple algorithm called ‘the Mechanical Curator’ which crawls digitised books and pulls out images.  The Library has now pulled out over 1m images which you can see on the British Library’s Flickr page.

An extract from Roly Keating’s speech from the launch of Living Knowledge, the British Library’s vision for its future as it looks ahead to 2023.