Recognising the Power of Community Collaboration, the @universalviewer.io project (universalviewer.io) is shortlisted in the 6th Annual OpenUK Awards Community category sponsored by @Arm, taking place on 4th December at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. #openukawards

This is promising to be a great conference, check the programme and register quick. We are looking forward to welcoming you all to #FF2025 in December!

Great to see this tribute with @britishlibrary.bsky.social contributions from @adi-keinan.bsky.social, Harry Lloyd and myself.

I have been working to update the European Art Dataset on Biglam's HF page. I'm happy to announce that it is fully updated along with 5 Yolov11 models. This dataset has ~15,000 images annotated for object detection. #MachineLearning #DigitalHumanities

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...

Bibliography seminar klaxon! blogs.bl.uk/european/202...

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...

Have a great conference!

It is all happening.

A warm welcome to #RLUK25 delegates by RLUK Chair @masudk.com before we hear from our opening keynotes christophersmith.bsky.social and Lucy Everest @liverpooluni.bsky.social

Excited to announce the themes for AI4LAM's Fantastic Futures 2025 conference, with @nfitzger.glammr.us.ap.brid.gy and Rossitza for @bldigischol.bsky.social : blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... #AI4LAM #FF2025 #AI #GLAM

Including an exciting opportunity to work with @bldigischol.bsky.social and Printed Heritage Collections on www.bl.uk/more/researc... #bldigital #DH #datascience #printedbooks

We are delighted to be hosting the #IIIF conference in Leeds 2-6 June. Find out more about IIIF and why it is an important standard for images, audio, video and soon 3D in our latest DLIP project blog post. leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/i...

#PhDPlacement @britishlibrary.bsky.social claxon! www.bl.uk/more/researc... You will work with staff from @bldigischol.bsky.social and Printed Heritage Collections. Applications close 21st February 17.00 GMT! Further details at www.bl.uk/more/researc... #collectionsasdata #incunabula #datascience

@semames.bsky.social the video is out!

Video from our 'Libraries and AI' panel is now online! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsRk... Thanks @britishlibrary.bsky.social @cawston.bsky.social @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social @tomchatfield.bsky.social @timandraharkness.bsky.social, Maja Maricevic and Svein Arne #AIDebates

Powering the world with clean energy is common sense. It will secure the future for our grandchildren. The clean energy transformation is - and remains - unstoppable www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/t...

Curious about the area with the 'haystacks' which happens to be in my neighbourhood.

Looking forward to it!

The acquisitions have been made possible with funding from National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), British Library Collections Trust (BLCT) and Friends of the National Libraries (FNL).

Join our free webinar on 13 February to explore how libraries can embrace digital transformation sustainably. Learn strategies to reduce tech's environmental impact, see real-world examples, and discover innovative, climate-conscious digital practices: bit.ly/BLClimateWeb...

'Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring a library' — Walter Savage Landor

Join the next in the British Library series of Positive Climate Action webinars on 13 February, with speakers from www.arkhenum.com, Jadavpur University and School of Advanced Studies, University of London. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/libraries-... #GreenLibraries

@theodorad.bsky.social Great to see you here Tedi. Here is a suggestion of a list to follow bsky.app/profile/did:...

What a wonderful Christmas present! Thank you @miaout.bsky.social for your lead on this and the volume editors @gworthey.bsky.social and Isabel Galina

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...

We are delighted to host the 2025 #IIIF conference at @universityofleeds.bsky.social - call for proposals is now open. Join us in June for a wonderful conference and a rich experience of Leeds.

Why do we share collections as #OpenGLAM ? Digital Curator Mia Ridge gives her perspective https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2024/12/open-cultural-data-an-open-glam-perspective-at-the-british-library.html

Thank you @scottjenson.bsky.social for your pro bono work on #UniversalViewer. Like the suggested new look in the video, how we present the digital object does not have to mirror the way we use the analogue object. #UX

'Crowdsourcing at the British Library' https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2024/11/recovered-pages-crowdsourcing.html - an overview, based on content retrieved from the Internet Archive

Now published, #TaNC report 'Unlocking the Potential of Digital Collections. A call to action' zenodo.org/records/1383... #MuseTech #DH

Looking forward to the next #IIIF Annual Conference in Leeds, June 2-5, 2025. Call for Proposals now open.

My first post here! Promoting a forthcoming online event organised by Alyssa Steiner to celebrate 45 years of the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue. cerlblog.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/t... #bibliographic #data #incunabula #digitalhumanities #earlyprinting

I promise my feed isn't usually so heavy on promotion of my blog posts, but here's my latest one about 19th-century London German newspaper wars (ok, not quite that dramatic, but an interesting little story I hope). blogs.bl.uk/european/202...

Collection Metadata colleagues, and thanks for all your hard work!