Projects

Automatic Transcription of Historical Handwritten...

Helping advance the state-of-the-art in handwritten text recognition technologies for Arabic.

British Library Labs

Competitions, events and collaborative projects that support and inspire the use of our digital collections

Collective Wisdom

The Collective Wisdom project captures the collective wisdom of researchers and practitioners in crowdsourcing, citizen...

Computing for Cultural Heritage

Trialing a new postgraduate certificate, Computing for Cultural Heritage, with The National Archives and Birkbeck Univer...

Crowdsourcing at the British Library

Learn more about crowdsourcing projects and initiatives at the British Library.

Digital Preservation Capability Assessment

This project looked at our preservation capabilities as applied to digital legal deposit material

Digital Scholarship Training Programme

Developing staff skills to support digital researchers.

Emerging Formats

This project builds our ability to collect publications designed for mobile devices that respond to reader interaction o...

Everyone Engaged

It's our mission to make our heritage available to everyone for research, inspiration and enjoyment.

Everything Available

We're modernising our support for researchers of all kinds.

Flashback

We will preserve and give you access to content on thousands of CD-ROMs in our collections.

Georeferencer

Help us make our maps fully searchable and viewable using online geotechnologies.

Heritage Made Digital

We're transforming digital access to our collections of heritage materials.

India 75 Events

A series of events celebrating 75 years of Indian independence.

Integrated Preservation Suite

We're tackling the threat of technical obsolescence facing our digital collections