See you there! (in the afternoon)

There'll be quite a few Digital Curators and friends from our team at the Doctoral Open Day at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on June 29

«"When given suitable resources the Civil Service can often outperform private companies like Palantir," the former government technology advisor said. Eden added MHCLG had created a "better, easier to use, and cheaper" system.»

200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social

New Publication: 'Citizen science contributions to environmental risks assessment and management: A systematic map and qualitative evidence synthesis.' link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

More countries should have a show like Gruen: "We do the show because we want to give people some agency in the way that they're being manipulated by these multi-billion-dollar industries" Wil Anderson hates advertising. So why does he host a show about it? - ABC News www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Museum Directors Research 2026: What’s on the museum sector’s mind? via Art Fund www.artfund.org/professional...

Part of important experiments with 'types of data governance that establish a global knowledge commons, while supporting local communities' How Open Licensing is Changing with AI: The NOODL License community.mozilladatacollective.com/how-open-lic...

“Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it.“

Bots are breaking the web. This sucks.

Not a defense of this particular project, which looks great but is also apparently a marketing tool for some kind of AI company. As the OP mentions, the EFF has a somewhat less slick tool that nevertheless explains browser fingerprinting more fully. coveryourtracks.eff.org

Salome Viljoen argues that we’re thinking about “data privacy” all wrong. It’s not that there’s a guy in a room tracking my movements through the web; no one GAF about me individually. It’s that this entire apparatus has *society-wide* effects we haven’t reckoned with. www.jstor.org/stable/45400...

Beautifully designed scrolly story about the need to work with communities as economies de-carbonise - ABC (Australia) News www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

We’re recruiting a (Senior) Research Software Engineer. We work closely with researchers, developing thoughtful, impactful digital research projects. We’re looking for someone who enjoys collaborative, applied work at the intersection of research and technology. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/145925-...

Letters from Oscar Wilde written during his time as editor of The Woman’s World show his commitment to promoting the work of women writers. New @britishlibrary.bsky.social English and Drama blog post by Suzy Corrigan: www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

France passes law on the restitution of cultural artifacts looted during colonial rule

ACLS / MLA / AHA / Authors Guild won the NEH case against the mass termination of grants.

Mia marked herself 'safe' from the dhconvalidator.dh2026

Is avoiding the risk of being mistaken for creepy camera glasses partly why translucent coloured glasses frames are so in right now?

⏰ Just over a month remaining to submit your nominations for the Deswarte Prize in Digital History, the prize that celebrates the best of digital history internationally. Full info here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

Classification of #LLM Errors in Data Extraction for Systematic Reviews and Factors Affecting the LLM-Based Tool’s Performance by Farhad Shokraneh farhadinfo.medium.com/classificati...

‘Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage’ is now out in the wild! You can download an open-access copy (PDF) or read the free digital edition on Manifold uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Loved working on this with Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social & the @uolpress.bsky.social team.

At last! The archived British Library blogs are viewable online. Check the index of blogs at blogs-archive.bl.uk and the hundreds of posts on the Digital Scholarship blog going back to 2013 blogs-archive.bl.uk#digital-scho...

📢 NEW hub for #CitizenScience researchers and practitioners in the UK. - Connect with other #CitSci researchers in the UK. - Learn more about #InclusiveCitSci and how to do it. - Find the latest research and key events. Explore the hub 👉️ citizen-science-uk.york.ac.uk cc. @ecsa.ngo

I read: 'Are "Vintage LLMs" the start of a new humanistic field? Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930' resobscura.substack.com/p/are-vintag... (Probably not, but it does remind me of work in Living with Machines about the wider impact of language about accidents in newspapers)

The deadline to apply for these posts is extended to May 10. They're all a great way to learn from and with the international digital humanities community, and each post has a year with full support to learn the ropes

Had a great chat about the potential of AI to link collections records with knowledge about the people and ideas behind them with @jamie.net - coffee and chats in the sunshine are a lovely start to my role at the Museum Data Service!

my latest for @theverge.com is about something i’ve been hearing constantly: Gen Z hates ”AI”, and many young people are deeply resentful of the jobs, schools, and institutions that are now pressuring or forcing them to use it.

Ooh! 'How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives' - Annie Dillard, author (b. 30 Apr 1945) Via the always fab wordsmith.org

The IIIF Universal Viewer community is on fire - a new release a few days ago, and look at all those contributors! It's especially exciting to see new contributors Release v4.3.0 · GitHub github.com/UniversalVie...

Applications now open for a fully-funded PhD studentship exploring Yugoslavia’s multifaceted role during the Cold War, co-supervised with @exeter.ac.uk . This is one of a number of studentships available as part of AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. Find out more: link.bl.uk/q95

Some further reading, while you're here: endings.uvic.ca/index.html The Endings Project is IMNHO a really important resource on best practices for the afterlife of digital projects. kdl.kcl.ac.uk/about/archivin… Kings DIgital Lab's approach to the problem of maintaining unfunded sites.

We are offering two great initiatives for humanities and social sciences researchers interested in applying to Horizon Europe. On 1st June we are holding an ERC Reading Day where you can read previously successful ERC grant proposals from a selection of 50 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/eur...

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

Why did they call their AI music generator Suno and not Blandcamp?

I read 'Beyond Control and Compensation' Open Future openfuture.eu/blog/beyond-... 'the question is not whether institutions should control their collections but whether it is legitimate to expect those who extract disproportionate value from a shared resource to contribute to its sustainability'

I dropped some news* then went on holiday (and promptly got shingles. Yes, it hurts! Get a vaccine if you can!). What did I miss? * www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

@ryancordell.org on DHers who build 'technological imagination. Specific platforms, applications, and even coding languages come and go, but a technological imagination is able to abstract a problem—whether intellectual, professional, or personal—and formulate a plan' ryancordell.org/research/ane...

Hardly noticed but at the end of last week the Government vision for archives in England was launched. No money attached as far as I know. Aim is for archives to be 'at the heart of society' through being accessible, inclusive and sustainable www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

The University of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute is delighted to announce that its two-day conference will be held in Sheffield on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd September 2026. Registration now open 👇 www.dhi.ac.uk/congress

If you haven't seen, the DisCouRSE Network's Flexible Fund is currently open. It's targeted at digital Research Professionals (#dRTPs). It would be lovely to see arts and humanities, #DH, and cultural heritage orgs benefit from this funding! Info here: discourse-network.github.io/funding/roun...

News | Museum Data Service recruits @britishlibrary.bsky.social digital expert @miaout.bsky.social joins project on secondment as head of service

If you can remember the National Gallery's Microgallery* (or if you can't), you might be interested in this #MuseumDocumentation #MuseumComputing www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/the-n... *developed by @cogapp.com in HyperCard 2.0 and THINK C, launched 2 months BEFORE the public launch of the WWW

For a site that's all about managing itineraries for trips, TripIt is incredibly awkward about place names. Not being able to find medium-sized locations is one thing, but rewriting trip headlines to a random place is another

JOB: Machine Learning Engineer at Cambridge Digital Humanities for interesting (fixed term) project with CAMPOP www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...

Trust in Archives Initiative has just released the initial version of its much-anticipated Toolkit. It helps archives navigate the evolving landscape of #GenAI and the urgent questions it raises for the heritage sector. #GLAMS

There are some really good points in this: NHS patients should be able to write up their own medical records – Will Parman www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Big and *great* news! @artukdotorg.bsky.social, @collectionstrust.bsky.social & @uniofleicester.bsky.social couldn't have made a better choice. Really looking forward to working with @miaout.bsky.social to maximise the use of the National Gallery's & UK'S #MuseumDocumentation data.

New Head of Service for Museum Data Service 📣 We are delighted to announce that Dr Mia Ridge @miaout.bsky.social will become Head of Service for Museum Data Service, the transformative initiative which is connecting all the object records across the UK’s museums 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

Big news! I'm incredibly privileged to take on leadership of the Museum Data Service while continuing half-time in my role at the British Library. The MDS is already a success story, and I'm so excited about taking it further! artuk.org/discover/sto...