Australian orchids suffer rapid pollination decline since the 1970s, study suggests www.abc.net.au/news/science...

We have improved our links with the Allmaps project, so that any of our maps can be freely, collaboratively georeferenced and then brought back into our Georeferenced Maps viewer 🗺️ Learn more > maps.nls.uk/view/help/ #Georeference #MapMonday #Maps

Hey! My post about my #slvresidency made it into the Editor's Choice section of the latest @DHNow: https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org

📢 This looks like a great opener for the upcoming @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar - "Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland" 👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Library of Congress has a really good planning framework: libraryofcongress.github.io/labs-ai-fram...

Everything Open 2026 is Coming to Canberra! The three day conference will have presentations on a range of open technologies topics from community members and project leaders. Call for Sessions is now open 🧑‍🏫. If you have something to speak about submit your proposals today!

New research could block AI learning from your online content www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...

The dictionary is a living, breathing and evolving record of how language is wrapped up in who we are as Australians. It is vital we protect it. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-anu...

"The archival field has been navigating the shift from bespoke, individualized practices to scalable, systemic solutions informed by field-wide, best practices/standards, all while contending w/ the on-the-ground realities of fragmented workflows+limited resources" about.jstor.org/wp-content/u...

Take me down to the octopus city Where the socialisation is Unexplained but pretty

The @transkribus.bsky.social "Egerton: English Secretary Hand" model is now public! app.transkribus.org/models/publi.... We have a website with sample transcriptions for different hands, information about our training conventions, and more: sites.northwestern.edu/egerton/

[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

OCLC explains the lay offs, "Artificial Intelligence and other technology changes require different skills and provide opportunity for efficiencies..." 📚 www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...

This is such cultural and intellectual vandalism. The Australian National Dictionary Centre is straightforwardly the sort of thing a national university worthy of the designation would support and sustain

Mitchell Starc takes the fastest five-wicket haul ever, Scott Boland becomes the best bowler since WWI, and the West Indies flirt with the lowest score of all time. These are the records to tumble on a remarkable day of Test cricket in Jamaica.

I can't believe ANU is proposing to disestablish ANDC @ozworders.bsky.social‬. Over the last 20 years of writing I've often consulted staff over the origins of obscure words and phrases. We need the dictionary to record and explain our changing language. www.smh.com.au/national/fro...

TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns! www.nps.gov/articles/000...

With Glitch closing down, I've moved my micro app that helps you create persistent links into the National Archives of Australia's RecordSearch database: https://wraggelabs.com/recordsearch-links/ #archives #histodons #maintenance

The Swedish National Archives shared 1.2m images of handwritten documents from 1600-1900+ In addition, they share a model for writing to text Such marvelous data opportunities, kudos 📈🤖🧠 medium.com/@linnea.karl... Example: sok.riksarkivet.se/om-soktjanst... huggingface.co/datasets/Rik...

👀 Funded collaborative PhD: Document Detectives: A Crowdsourced Approach for Reuniting Strayed Documents at the UK National Archives www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...

The Biodiversity Heritage Library needs a new home after all the Trump-fuckery at the Smithsonian. They've issued a call for support. Any #glam organisations that can help? https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/ (via @siobhan_leachman on LI)

Latest coverage of ‪@medimurdermaps.bsky.social‬: Noblewoman may have ordered brazen murder of priest outside St Paul’s in 1337 Historian mapping medieval murders has evidence John Ford’s stabbing was revenge hit by impenitent ex-lover www.theguardian.com/education/20... #History 🗃️

GLAM Workbench ­– preprint for 'Building User-Friendly Toolkits and Platforms for Digital Humanities'

When RMIT decided to junk a rare, $160k weaving loom, a group of artists, teachers and students united to rescue it. The story of this loom felt like a snapshot of everything that’s wrong with how we treat arts and crafts in tertiary education, so I wrote this: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

A new book demonstrates how humanities librarians and scholars brought special expertise, experience, and attributes that were critical to the defense of democracy in the face of tyranny.

📄 The scanners are humming, the film is flowing. The microfiche livestream is up—digitizing government docs in real time for Democracy’s Library. Perfect second-screen vibes: Preservation in progress. 🕢 Live M-F, 7:30am–3:30pm PT (except U.S. holidays) ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

Election wrap up with Australia's favourite archetypal everyperson, F Onthemoon. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I've written a new blog post on the #trove API keys debacle that answers some questions raised by my first two posts, and provides some updates on recent actions by the National Library of Australia. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/04/11/update-on-trove-data-access.html Please share! #glam […]

This remains totally outrageous. The National Library of Australia ought to be totally ashamed. And every Australian librarian should be writing to them in protest. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/04/11/u...

Whether you work with Trove/have used Tim’s tools, all humanists shd support him This is 1 example of a global #DigitalRetrenchment with some understandable roots(the post notes: cybersec, crawler bots+AI, I would add funding) but also in this case incomprehensible roots. Transparency matters.🗃️

AI Crawlers Are Harming #Wikimedia, Bringing #OpenSource Sites To Their Knees, And Putting The #OpenWeb At Risk - www.techdirt.com/2025/04/10/a... more bad stuff from #ai

Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.

This will have devastating impacts on the social infrastructure of American cities and towns, especially in rural communities where the library is often the only game in town.

I just pushed an update to the GLAM Name Search Index, adding a lot more data from the Public Record Office Victoria. You can now search across more than 13 million records in 293 datasets from 10 Australian libraries and archives! And it's free... #familyhistory #histodons […]

Super excited to share that my book on network analysis and visualization as a method for book history will be out soon!! It's basically a how-to-start guide for book historians interested in networks 😃 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268... #dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky

How to support Ukraine (from Australia) 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 www.unrefugees.org.au/emergency-re...

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

So all #trove API users need to be warned – they're probably beaching the terms of use and could have their keys suspended without warning. The NLA is apparently 'reviewing' API use, so beware!

So I've had a meeting with the NLA and I'm still in shock. Apparently under the current interpretation of the #trove API terms of use, you cannot access 'content', only 'metadata'. This means, for example, it is a breach of the terms of use to download the text of a newspaper article using the […]

This is appalling. Tim is about as open and public in his work as it's possible to be—the fact that the NLA shut off access, informed him by email, and then said 'get in touch if you want to have a conversation' feels more like Meta or X than a national library. Why not *start* with a conversation?

Sad and befuddling news. The NLA has removed digital historian Tim Sherratt’s Trove API access - threatening the award-winning work Tim has done over 15 years to highlight the possibilities of Trove data. Read more updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y... 🗃️

Calling all historians/biographers/writers/readers/lovely people 🤸 We've just joined this platform and would love to build a nice little community on here 📚 Let's start the conversation! We want to know: what's your most visited ADB entry? 🤔 Comment below! 📷 State Library of South Australia

Help! On Friday the National Library of Australia suspended my Trove API keys, threatening 15 year's work helping researchers use & understand Trove. If you use my tools or value my work you might like to let the NLA know. Details here […]

Many of you may have attended the town hall today that Clarivate offered as a way to...tamp down the response. Tamp it they did. After a barrage of thumbs down responses, the react button was deactivated. Participants were not given access to chat or able to view what questions were being asked.

Really good stuff from @siobhanh.bsky.social on the absolutely bleak Clarivate announcement.

Meanwhile in my home state... www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

The courage will be shown by individual libraries who will continue to use "Gulf of Mexico" and "Mount Denali" in our catalogs. Just like when LC cowardly revised the #LCSH to "Illegal immigration" in 2021, the onus will be on every library *except* LC to do the right thing. #critcat

The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample

Our speaker for next week's @long18thsem.bsky.social has had to withdraw. Instead, I will be speaking about 'Mapping Criminal Justice at London's Old Bailey, 1720-1820' - on behalf ofBob Shoemaker and myself. The same arrangements apply. www.history.ac.uk/events/mappi... @ihrlibrary.bsky.social