Registration now open! Join us at The @britishlibrary.bsky.social for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference on the theme of "AI Everywhere, All at Once" 🎉 sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/... #FF2025 @bldigischol.bsky.social

Now available via our Research Repository: Datasets of digitised Malay and Indonesian manuscripts in the British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social doi.org/10.23636/ghz... A complete set of metadata (catalogue descriptions) for 482 manuscripts. Happy exploring! #openaccess @bldigischol.bsky.social

If you're thinking of a project that includes an Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) component, or if you'd like to know more about this topic, this new paper is for you! Available as open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The #GreenLibraries Week map is live. You can take a sneaky peek at what the British Library and National Library of Scotland have already got planned for this year. Join them on the map - submit your green activities today: www.cilip.org.uk/page/GreenLi...

Our training series "Discover Digital Sustainability" has made it to the Curiously Green newsletter published by Wholegrain Digital 🤩 Thank you for sharing your knowledge on how to green the web! 🙏 www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-gr... @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social

My colleague Valentina Vavassori asked heritage organisations about how they do Automatic Text Recognition - the results were super interesting and rich! Here's the data and a brief analysis: blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social #OCR #HTR #ATR

Next Thursday the team at @bldigischol.bsky.social will be talking about the UV's amazing community at @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social . Say hi if you want to talk about UV and IIIF over a pastel de nata!

Keep an eye out for our Digital Research team at #DH2025 in Lisbon next week! @adi-keinan.bsky.social @miaout.bsky.social @universalviewer.io @nfitzger.glammr.us.ap.brid.gy blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

Members of the British Library's Digital Research team will be at #DH2025 in Lisbon, July 15-18! Find out what we're presenting blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... - and say hi if you'll be there for #DigitalHumanities chats too!

@britishlibrary.bsky.social RSE Saira Akhter just blogged with reflections from the IIIF Annual Conference 2025 - including some @universalviewer.io goodies and #IIIF implemented with #OCR #HTR workflows blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

And we're off with the #iiif conference: https://iiif.io/event/2025/leeds/day1-tuesday/ in #leeds with the launch of the release candidate for v4 that introduces formal 3D support in IIIF lead by: https://iiif.io/community/groups/3d/tsg/ #3d #dh #digitalscholarship

Last March I ran a series of training events for @britishlibrary.bsky.social staff on digital sustainability - with so many incredible contributions from across the GLAM sector. Here's a blog post about this programme, feedback and future action: blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... @bldigischol.bsky.social

Deadline for submissions is fast approaching - 1 June 2025. Hope you can join us! #FF2025

Very pleased to share this #FF2025 announcement along with @mia#ff2025@ratanass #glam #dh #ml #digitalscholarship From: @AI4LAM https://glammr.us/@AI4LAM/114517307783112560

We’re halfway through our latest community sprint! Our community team have been hard at work – check out our community board to see what they’ve been building, including a new tool to add and view custom configs github.com/orgs/Univers...

Want to contribute to open source software used by libraries and galleries all around the world? Our next community sprints will be kicking off May 7, June 10, and July 1! Our focus for these three sprints is...

Calling all digital researchers! Join us for our May Doctoral Open Day on Digital Collections and Resources. From our newspaper archive to digital mapping and the use of collections data, find out more about how our collections can support your studies: bit.ly/BLOpenDayMay25

Are you a PhD student? Interested in working with @britishlibrary.bsky.social collections? Take a look at the next Doctoral Open Day, which is on the Library's digital collections. I'll be talking about the Digital Research Team @bldigischol.bsky.social! Friday 23 May events.bl.uk/events/not-j...

I've recently attended and delivered a keynote at the #Wikisource 2025 Conference in Bali, Indonesia, which was an absolute delight. Read here about my impressions: blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... @bldigischol.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Looking for ways to entertain kids during the Easter holidays? The first English public library event listings are starting to appear on libraryon.org/events (or check your local library website)

Such a great project! And the event featured @bldigischol.bsky.social 's very own @adi-keinan.bsky.social

Our colleague Valentina Vavassori is gathering information about cultural heritage institutions' experience with Automatic Text Recognition and how we can continue to collaborate on advancing ATR use for making collections more accessible and usable. Read more at blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

Fantastic Future 2025 Conference (3-5 December 2025 @britishlibrary.bsky.social), CfP now open!

Call for book chapter proposals: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition. Edited by me, Paul Gooding, @semames.bsky.social & @jnockels.bsky.social. Proposals on any critical topic relating to automated and advanced text recognition (including OCR, HTR, etc) are welcome by 31st March 25.

🚀 Version 4.1.0 of Universal Viewer has arrived! 🎉 The UV community has been hard at work on new features and fixes to help you share your content with the world. Some highlights include...

Webinar, 13 Feb 2025: Libraries and positive climate action: is digital a problem or a solution? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/libraries-...

Doctoral Open Day: Global Languages, Culture and Societies One day event for researchers. Friday 14 February 2025, 10.00 - 16.00. British Library Knowledge Centre. See here for more details: thebritishlibraryresearch.seetickets.com/event/global... @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Very exciting events coming up: AI Data Debates at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 23/1 - Libraries and AI: Opportunity or threat? 20/2 - Creativity and AI: Friend or foe? 27/3 - Democracy and AI: Who decides? thebritishlibrary.seetickets.com/tour/the-ai-... #AIdebates @bldigischol.bsky.social

So much have been achieved in last years Digital Scholarship Training Programme - check out Nora's blog post 👇

Our chapter is 'Embedding Digital Humanities in the British Library: The Digital Research Team at Ten' www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... Yay @bldigischol.bsky.social folk @adi-keinan.bsky.social Neil Fitzgerald @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social @stellawisdom.bsky.social

Sharing excellent work by fabulous @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues is 😍 In this thread, that's a Metadata Analyst, a Curator of Modern Archives & Manuscripts and a Research Software Engineer - all part of the modern library! bsky.app/profile/bldi...

Based on a talk I've given a few times at cultural heritage events and uni lectures: 'Open cultural data - an open GLAM perspective at the British Library'

Nice to see some old work I coordinated at the British Library finally being published online. Thanks @miaout.bsky.social and @bldigischol.bsky.social blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

@britishlibrary.bsky.social Universal Viewer ran a community sprint last month, focusing on accessibility. Teams from across the globe worked together, got a lot done, learned a lot and also had fun. Great example of #OpenSource in action: blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... @bldigischol.bsky.social

Time is running fast🏃‍♂️… and the deadline was extended! ⏰ Don't miss the opportunity to submit your proposal to @adho Digital Humanities 2025, in NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal). The CFP is open until December 8th. + info: dh2025.adho.org/call-for-pro...

Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability and Environment at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Application deadline: Tuesday 7 January 2025, 12 noon. See here for more info: www.bl.uk/more/researc...

Happy Birthday, Wikisource!

Glad you asked @dh-dev.com! We're hiring a Lead Curator, Digital Mapping who I'm sure will be very interested in such things. I shared with my Digital Curator colleague who used to work with our Hebrew Manuscripts and she knew all about this impressive work! ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...