 Hello everyone. My name is indeed Neil Stewart. I'm digital library manager at LSE Library. For those of you with mobile devices, computers, tablets, you can have a look at the website I'm going to talk about while I speak. That URL for those of you who might not be able to read it is booth.lse.ac.uk and I'm talking about Charles Booth London. So who you might ask was Charles Booth. Well he was a Victorian businessman, philanthropist and social reformer. That's in the middle with his family circa I think 1910. He lived between 1840 and 1916. And he had a project and that project was to, wait for it, discover the level of poverty in Victorian London. So Booth actually initially disbelieved that poverty was as prevalent as thinkers of the day proposed. But his project which lasted over about 20 years showed that it was actually much higher, some 30% of people in a city of 6 million lived below the poverty line. Incidentally the poverty line was something that Booth himself conceived it of. So how did he do this? Well the project team actually went and walked the streets of London and talked to people. So policemen, school board visitors, religious figures and residents and workers themselves. They recorded data both qualitative and quantitative. And what you might ask was produced. Well we hold the full archive at LSE Library. It's a jewel in the crown for us. Of note for this presentation there were the poverty maps, 12 of them. And there were the notebooks including the police notebooks. And it's important to note that those police notebooks relate to particular areas so amenable to geolocation. So what did we have? Well we had one very old website from 2002 which in terms of the internet is positively prehistoric. It did a pretty good job of displaying archival materials, the maps, not so much. It had become challenging to manage as well. And we had one slightly newer website from 2012 which was called Phone Booth. Someone called Peter had a brilliant idea of calling that Phone Booth. It's experimental prototypical, it has modern mapping functionality and it did have geolocation of the notebooks as well. Pause for breath. So what did our projects seek to do? Well we wanted to bring the functionality of the original website together with that of Phone Booth. But there were also some institutional drivers. 2016 was the 100th anniversary of the death of Charles Booth. So we had an exhibition in the library about his work and his project. We had a research festival at the school talking about Booth's contemporary resonance. And there was a memorial event at LSE for the many members of his family. So the work we did, first of all we thought about our audience to discover who was using the old sites. And we found it was researchers, students and teachers, but also family historians, genealogists, and of course the mythical general reader, so people who were generally interested. User experience, we tried to pay close attention to our users for what can be a complex archive. Particularly given that we wanted to relate the police notebooks to individual points on the map. And that is perhaps a bit tricky to explain to users. Just a quick mention of the technical work we did. It was all done in-house by our excellent colleague Tom Carter. We used Triple IF, Triple IF's Universal Viewer for Viewing the Notebooks. Open street maps for the modern street layer and elastic search for searching and indexing the notebooks. And here's an idea of the visual design. The screenshots here give an idea of the iterative design process that we went through. We've taken colour ratio, the colours come from the maps, we've got LSE look and feel there. It's responsively designed, so anyone using this in the audience on a tablet or a mobile phone, it should be working pretty well. And I have to say well done to our design partners, Mickey and Mallory, for helping us with that. So here's what we came up with. Beautiful high resolution version of the 12 maps stitched together, so we joined them up. There's modern map application functionality going on here, so you can drag, zoom. And there's opacity, so you can flip between Victorian London and the modern map. And this is a bit of a close-up note here. This is Jude's classification, so black streets are deemed to be lowest class, vicious, semi-criminal, very Victorian. These dots represent geo-located notebooks. So you can actually click on those dots and access the notebook for the relevant area. This is an idea of what we did with the archive of notebooks. It may look a little bit white on screen there. It hopefully gives an intuitive way into the archive of the notebooks. So the search and browse. Note also the thematic design continuity for the maps. And this gives you an idea of accessing one of the notebooks itself. So this is the universal viewer as it were in action. It allows very deep zoom, so you can really zoom into the beautiful Victorian cop plate script. And page turning, and we've got descriptive metadata round the sides there. And this is one of the ways in that we try to devise. So we try to make it easy for people to access the archive. We call these highlights. They are admittedly a little bit perhaps on the salacious side. But they've proved to be quite successful as well. They have given people an in to the archive. So what kind of reception did we get? Well, we launched at the end of November last year. We had a very successful publicity drive. We had a lot of hits. At its peak we saw over 2,100 sessions in a single day on the site. We got picked up, of course, by LSE channels, but also notably Londonist and the Smithsonian magazine. And it encouraged us to do more work. And the one I'd like to pick out here is this last one, this idea of a gazetteer of Victorian London. So we didn't have the ability to search the map of Victorian London with the original application. Interestingly, some 50% of streets from that time have disappeared or have been renamed or have been in other ways merged into other streets. So we want to address that. We're going to do that by creating a gazetteer of Victorian London and shout out to GB1900 projects who are helping us to do that. Thank you very much. There's the URL once again and there's some image credits in my email address. Thank you.