Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections - Phase II Pitch

A pitch from UCLDH and the British Library on 14th July 2015 as part of the Jisc Research Data Spring program, phase II: reporting on our pilot project, and where we see the project going forward: Lots of money has been spent digitising heritage collections. Digitised heritage collections are data. But non-computationally trained scholars don't know what to ask of large quantities of data. Often they do not have access to high performance computing facilities and they don’t know how to use them. We have addressed this fundamental problem by extending research data management processes in order to enable novel research in the arts, humanities, and social and historical sciences and a deeper understanding of emerging research needs. In our first phase, we have successfully implemented large scale, complex search of a digitised collection: now we scale up…