A semi-regular reminder that all our photos on Flickr Commons are public domain - you don't need to ask us to use them in any way you can imagine! Though we do love hearing about how you've used them, so you can let us know if you want https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

#FF2025 folk - we've heard that some people received a phishing email from Global Travel Service about accommodation in London for the Fantastic Futures conference. This hasn't come from us organisers. If you have received such an email please ignore or block the sender.

Tickets for Fantastic Futures 2025 #FF2025 did go fast! There'll be a wait list, and there are 500 places overall to watch the main conference sessions on Thursday and Friday

Tickets for Fantastic Futures 2025 #FF2025 did go fast! There'll be a wait list, and there are 500 places overall to watch the main conference sessions on Thursday and Friday

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!

Registration for @[email protected]'s Fantastic Futures #FF2025 is now! Tickets will go fast, but fret not if you miss out - you can register to watch the full conference online on Thursday and Friday for free! Get tickets www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... Programme www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...

Reduce the environmental impact of your museum's learning, outreach and public programmes with this handy toolkit www.artfund.org/professional... @artfund.bsky.social @designmuseum.bsky.social @icomuk.bsky.social

The latest issue of our OA Journal 'Catalogue & Index' (ISSN 2399-9667) has now been published. Issue 212 (Sept 2025) contains articles on the topic of "Non-MARC Cataloguing and Metadata Practices." Read the full issue at: journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #cataloguing #metadata #nonMARC

#Finland #media #journalism #newspapers 'Newspapers published up to the end of 1939 are openly available, while subsequent issues can be explored on site at the legal deposit libraries.' www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/news/news...

Typepad users in the UK can nominate #Typepad sites to be archived to the UK Web Archive by emailing [email protected] The UK Web Archive isn't currently able to display saved sites, but they are able to save them For more on the UK Web Archive and UK legal deposit law, see www.webarchive.org.uk

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

Have you checked out Sak Supple's blplaybills.org lately? He's been experimenting with semantic search, and improving OCR for British Library playbills. A big boon for #TheaterHistory / #TheatreHistory! Please let him or us know if you have feedback or ideas

Got a Typepad blog? Better get it archived! (HT @miaout.bsky.social ) arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Have you checked out Sak Supple's blplaybills.org lately? He's been experimenting with semantic search, and improving OCR for British Library playbills. A big boon for #TheaterHistory / #TheatreHistory! Please let him or us know if you have feedback or ideas

🤗 Very proud of our staff members for having an article published in the latest issue of @learnedpublishing.bsky.social about the Living with Machines project on our @manifoldscholar.bsky.social platform! 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #OpenAccess #ExperimentalPublishing #OpenHumanities

If you have ideas for public engagement projects involving the British Library for this scheme, please complete our Research Collaboration: www.bl.uk/services/res...

Have you checked out the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Research Repository lately? Loads of datasets and publications to explore https://bl.iro.bl.uk/

A Dutch artist’s book I bought in 2018 for @britishlibrary’s collections gets a place in the sun on Instagram. Bit.ly/BLInstaSpijker

Have you checked out the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Research Repository lately? Loads of datasets and publications to explore bl.iro.bl.uk

Congratulations to everyone whose proposal was accepted for #FF2025 ! The standards were incredibly high, and we had to leave out so many excellent submissions.

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

Our slides for 'The Universal Viewer: radically inclusive software development for digital cultural heritage' for #DH2025 are available from doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

My slides on The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums doi.org/10.5281/zeno... from our #DH2025 panel on Openness in GLAM: Analysing, Reflecting, and Discussing Global Case Studies Thanks again to all the speakers for your fantastic contributions! And the audience for questions

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

Friday, 17 Jul, 09:00: “A Decade of @iiif.bsky.social: Advancing Open Science and Accessibility through Interoperable Digital Heritage” (speakers: Clarisse Bardiot, Jacob Hart, @udcmrk.bsky.social , Régis Robineau, Margaux Faure, Juliette Hueber, Dominique Stutzmann) | bit.ly/3GLgSch | #DH2025

Curious about the @universalviewer.io or @iiif.bsky.social after our #DH2025 session in SP-32: Digital Tools and Techniques for Cultural Heritage and History? Try it out universalviewer.io or get involved github.com/universalvie...

"Radically inclusive software development for digital cultural heritage" a discussion around @universalviewer.io | @miaout.bsky.social, S Akhter, J Misson (speakers); L Okorodudu, E Burnand | Thanks for the @iiif.bsky.social Shoutout| @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social ‬ | #DH2025

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!

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

An incredible 10 of our expert reviews have completed all of their assigned #FF2025 reviews! And 6 have made a start on their reviews... Just 12 days until they're all due and the shape of the Fantastic Futures 2025 programme will emerge

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...

It's conference week!⭐ And we have great news for those who can't join us in-person in Lausanne - the #LIBER2025 livestream! We’ll broadcast several key moments, incl. keynotes & the opening and closing ceremonies. 📌View the full schedule & stream link: ow.ly/gUW650Whoog

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!

Off to #LIBER2025 to launch Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides for Library Professionals! libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui... A labour of love, 18 guides created by bsky.app/profile/libe... peeps, to help library professionals quickly get their bearings on lots of digital topics!

@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 lots of bug fixes! Check out the release notes for a full log: github.com/UniversalVie... Thanks to all our contributors who make this open source software possible. And to all future contributors: keep an eye out for opportunities to get involved!

🔗 Big improvements to sharing and embedding functions will help you deploy UV in any context

🚀 Universal Viewer 4.2 is here! Here are some highlights: 📱Our last community sprint focused on mobile UX, so users can now enjoy a fully-featured UV experience on the go.

Today we released Institutional Books 1.0, a 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability. 🧵

260 submissions! Thanks to everyone who took the time to put together a proposal. You won't hear from us for a while but behind the scenes we'll look over them all to assign them to reviewers, then reviewers have a while to get their reviews in, then we'll review those for the final programme

Don't forget! Proposals for AI4LAM's Fantastic Futures 2025 conference must be in by Sunday night! https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/fantastic-futures-2025 https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/ Questions? Please ask today! #AI4LAM #FF2025

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

UK libraries news! Electronic legal deposit books are accessible again from all UK legal deposit (aka copyright) #libraries except the British Library (still recovering from the 2023 cyberattack). What's included? Ebooks collected before Oct 2023 via legal deposit are now available again.

Electronic Legal Deposit materials are back online in 5 legal deposit reading rooms after the British Library cyberattack! Hurrah. But not in London yet. ICYDK, this encompasses vast swathes of modern digital texts including journal papers & books, & other media. Great to see it back!

The wait is over - you can submit your #FF2025 proposals! Please see https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/fantastic-futures-2025 for details, FAQs (including review criteria) and links. The deadline is midnight anywhere, Sunday 1st June 2025.

Just over one week to go to submit your #FF2025 #AI4LAM conference proposals! From: @nfitzger#ff2025#AI4LAMttps://glammr.us/@nfitzger/114517342954750462

We've added our reviewing criteria to our Frequently Asked Questions on the #AI4LAM #FF2025 Fantastic Futures 2025 conference page sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/... - and don't forget that proposals are due by June 1! Keep your questions coming so we can keep answering them! #FF2025

Do you work with medieval manuscripts? Then please consider completing this questionnaire on the impact of cataloguing on the discoverability and usage of medieval manuscripts: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

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

Absolutely! If you're an author and not signed up to Public Lending Right, visit the PLR page at The British Library, join and register your books. www.bl.uk/plr/