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Does digital library things at Oxford, likes coins a bit too much, visits castles cos they’re cool.
We're offering to host a Visiting Fellow for policy professionals who want to know more about how and why the BodleianLibraries, Oxford is working on AI (hint: we collect, curate and preserve trustworthy information) 🎓 Policy Visiting Fellowships ⏱️ Deadline: 21st Nov 🔗
www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...
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OPEN Visiting Fellowships | University of Oxford
The OPEN Visiting Fellowship is a mutual learning and development opportunity for research and policy professionals. As Visiting Fellows, policy professionals have the opportunity to explore policy
https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/using-research-engage/policy-engagement/oxford-policy-engagement-network-OPEN/open-visiting-fellowships
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WeRateDogs
23 days ago
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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My husband is now in his Trains Era and whilst watching a documentary about the Beeching Railway cuts lamented he couldn’t see old timetables from our train station. “Were the timetables published?” I ask. Cos you know I work in a legal deposit library.
about 2 months ago
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Digital Scholarship at Oxford
about 2 months ago
The Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian Libraries invites library professionals to take part in a survey on AI Applications in Libraries. Participation takes 10–15 minutes and responses are anonymised:
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AI in Libraries - Horizon Scanning Bodleian Libraries
https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/horizon-scanning-ai-in-libraries
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An unexpectedly numismatic news story - a new role for the old Royal Ming building on Tower Hill
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Approving China 'mega' embassy would be unlawful, UK government told
Opponents are battling China's plan for a mega embassy in London's historic Royal Mint Court.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c864w2942vdo
about 2 months ago
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Clare Downham
2 months ago
Writing England’s origins in the middle of a flag fetish is hitting a nerve which hopefully inspires more reading & thought. The review of David Woodman’s book (posted yesterday) has amassed c. 12,000 views. Here is my earlier take on origins
#medievalsky
theconversation.com/its-a-myth-t...
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It’s a myth that England was created on the battlefield – most of it happened at the negotiating table
Not a simple tale of English kings overcoming Vikings, the creation of England involved far more bureaucracy than the epic legends let on
https://theconversation.com/its-a-myth-that-england-was-created-on-the-battlefield-most-of-it-happened-at-the-negotiating-table-206882
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3 months ago
Shout out to our amazing online team and participants!
@david.deroure.org
@jarona7.bsky.social
@williamjnixon.bsky.social
@andrewcusworth.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
#IntroDH
#AILibraries
#DHOxSS2025
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William J Nixon
3 months ago
It felt like the Radio 4 Today studio! Really great range of talks in our
#DHOxSS2025
@rluk.ac.uk
#AILibraries
strand and a pleasure and privilege to be part of Team DHOxSS this week. Thanks to our online participants and all our fabulous speakers.
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3 months ago
Day 4 is flying by! ⏳ Another great day of ideas, connection & collab, online and in person, and tomorrow’s closing keynote with Dr Katherine McDonough to look forward to🎤 Thanks for the photo competition entries, keep 'em coming!
#DHOxSS2025
#digitalhumanities
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@tostig1066.bsky.social
Bayeux fever is mounting!
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3 months ago
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William J Nixon
3 months ago
High score in Chuckie Egg (briefly) on a BBC Micro (though I was Team C64) at fantastic demo of retro games and the challenges of gaming digital preservation - & had a ZX81 with 16K RAM pack! Chance to reflect on 80s home PC culture. Fascinating to see younger attendees try the BBC Micro
#DHOxSS2025
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William J Nixon
3 months ago
A great walking tour with
#DHOxSS2025
colleagues earlier this evening with blue skies and for librarians, a very library focused tour taking in various Bodleian library buildings including the Weston, Radcliffe Camera, Duke Humfrey’s library and the Tower of the Five Orders
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William J Nixon
3 months ago
Thanks for joining us
@masudk.com
a fantastic keynote and launch for the AI in Research strand, looking forward to the rest of the week and more discussions and engagement
#DHOxSS2025
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David De Roure
3 months ago
Day 2 at
#DHOxSS2025
and this is a view from the live-streaming room in
@oxforderesearch.bsky.social
Which one is real?
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William J Nixon
3 months ago
Mission Control for the
#DHOxSS2025
#AILibraries
strand with Andrew Cusworth after a fantastic opening keynote from
@masudk.com
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Another year, another Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School full of fantastic speakers and enthusiastic learner!
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3 months ago
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Rare Book School
4 months ago
Christopher N. Warren will give a free public talk on “What is Computational Bibliography?” at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday 30 July, in UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Auditorium or via Zoom. Details:
rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures
#BookSky
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James O’Sullivan
4 months ago
One for
#DigitalHumanities
colleagues! Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time). Successful candidate will work under supervision of
@claireconnolly.bsky.social
. See
ore.ucc.ie
(Job ID: 088233)
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Daniel van Strien
5 months ago
Institutional Books: Massive Historical Text Corpus - 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages - 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages - Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata - Noncommercial early-access release
huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
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institutional/institutional-books-1.0 · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
https://huggingface.co/datasets/institutional/institutional-books-1.0
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5 months ago
Due to popular demand we have extended the deadline for poster submissions until Monday 16 June! The posters will be displayed in a welcome reception. Apply here:
tinyurl.com/mtnakcyt
@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social
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Claire Knowles
5 months ago
We are looking forward to hosting a Knowledge Futures Symposium at the
@universityofleeds.bsky.social
on 27th June
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/knowledgefut...
. Come along to listen to great panels and discuss this critical topic, more info on the website ⬇️
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Knowledge Futures Symposium
https://conferences.leeds.ac.uk/knowledgefutures/
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Dr Katie Eagleton
5 months ago
I am so proud of this brilliant project by our University Collections team - now in testing to share with the sector soon. It's interdisciplinarity at its best, that we hope will make a real difference.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews
Arsenic was historically mixed with copper to create a vivid green for book covers, which can irritate modern day readers
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/06/tool-to-identify-poisonous-books-developed-by-university-of-st-andrews?fbclid=IwY2xjawKwBgtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpTZpKZtHBHSOYE13Enuk-hYBm1VBro3TMp4wUx-X7dQD3SWaGmDSzCrLZeu_aem_ZU_Hzfo828-yLbXqdHrRjw
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Jane Winters
5 months ago
#DigitalHumanities
folk in Ireland and the UK, please consider completing this UK-Ireland DH Association survey on advocacy within and for DH. Your responses will help to shape Association policy and practice in the future. Thank you!
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UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Advocacy Survey
Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ukiedha
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Dr Jane Secker
5 months ago
Icepops, call for contributions closes in 1 week from today and bookings are now open including applications for a fully funded bursary place:
copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-eve...
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International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars (Icepops)
Icepops 2025 Icepops is the International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars. The sixth edition of Icepops (Icepops 2025) is taking place at the John…
https://copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-events/icepops-international-copyright-literacy-event-with-playful-opportunities-for-practitioners-and-scholars/
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6 months ago
Our amazing keynote speakers: Professor Caroline Bassett (University of Cambridge) Dr Katherine McDonough (Alan Turing Institute) More details:
tinyurl.com/2wvwrkvb
@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social
@uniofcam.bsky.social
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Clare Downham
6 months ago
Call for Papers! Very happy to be speaking at this event and excited to learn more about research in this area
www.uis.no/nb/arkeologi...
#medievalsky
#academia
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Conference on Landscapes of War and Fear
Conference on Landscapes of War and Fear (AD 600-1350) in Oslo, 4th to 5th November.
https://www.uis.no/nb/arkeologisk-museum/forskning/arrangementer/conference-on-landscapes-of-war-and-fear
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Colchester Museums
6 months ago
It’s beautiful. And it’s deadly. This delicate Victorian baby feeder, also known as a pap boat, is decorated with charming blue flowers, birds and fruit. It looks like it belongs on a shelf, not in a nursery.
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Dr Jane Secker
6 months ago
Exciting news - we have 5 fully funded bursaries to attend
#icepops25
in September at John Rylands library, University of Manchester
copyrightliteracy.org/2025/05/15/i...
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Icepops 2025: bursaries available
We are delighted to offer 5 full funded bursary places for this year’s Icepops conference, thanks to the generosity of the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) and the CILIP Information Literacy …
http://copyrightliteracy.org/2025/05/15/icepops-2025-bursaries-available/
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
6 months ago
The magna carta talks about eel nets and fishing rights, and I'm never going to let you forget it
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6 months ago
We're pleased to launch the
#DHOXSS2025
poster competition! Share your
#digitalhumanities
research at our poster session:
tinyurl.com/5n7pkfc9
Apply by 9 June:
tinyurl.com/mtnakcyt
@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social
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Eureka Henrich
6 months ago
Interested in oral history? I'll be running an introductory seminar in Sydney on 17 May for Oral History NSW - we'll cover all the basics and have time for a chat about your projects, ideas and questions. Details here:
www.oralhistorynsw.org.au/events/2025/...
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An Introduction to Oral History: Key Principles Everyone Should Know - 17 May 2025 — ORAL HISTORY NSW
In this introductory seminar, Oral History NSW committee member Dr Eureka Henrich will explore some of the key ideas behind oral history as a research methodology and will outline important steps in p...
https://www.oralhistorynsw.org.au/events/2025/05022introduction-seminar#!event-register/2025/5/17/an-introduction-to-oral-history-key-principles-everyone-should-know
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Tamsin C Russell
6 months ago
Fabulous project, about the exploration of emotion within the heritage sector. 👇
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I can turn anything numismatic - so happy Maundy Thursday everyone! A day when the monarch traditionally hands out coins and washes the feet of those in need (the foot washing bit stopped a few hundred years ago). Maundy coins are some of my faves. These Charles II coins from Royal Mint Museum:
7 months ago
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Institut für Digital Humanities
7 months ago
Not Just Language Analysis – Our New Summer School “Large Language Models for Digital Humanities Research”
#call
#llm
#summerschool
#dh
texperimentales.hypotheses.org/5826
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Not Just Language Analysis – Our New Summer School “Large Language Models for Digital Humanities Research”
Since 2018, the University of Cologne has been hosting a regular summer school dedicated to machine learning – which means I’ve had the pleasure of being part of the organizing team and its academic c...
https://texperimentales.hypotheses.org/5826
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Oooh if I didn’t already have a PhD in numismatics, this would sorely tempt me!
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Thank you - this is the digital preservation x knitting content my life needed right now.
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Doug McCarthy
7 months ago
digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...
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Knitting Through Digital Decay: A Collection of Digital Preservation Jumpers No One Asked For (But…
I’ve been truly overwhelmed by the interest in my Digital Preservation knitting patterns — thank you to everyone who has reached out…
https://digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-through-digital-decay-a-collection-of-digital-preservation-jumpers-no-one-asked-for-but-478c48009521
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A swift visit to the British Museum yesterday whilst at a conference at Senste House & a chance to visit some old faves - testaments to the power of international trade, travel and the flow of ideas in early medieval Europe
7 months ago
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Jennie Morgan
8 months ago
Interested in studying a MSc Heritage? This Wednesday I’ll be at the University of Stirling PGT Open Day with my Course Director hat on. Come visit our stunning campus (spring flowers are out!) & have a chat to me about the degree if you are curious
www.stir.ac.uk/study/visit-...
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Postgraduate Open Day | Study | University of Stirling
By attending our Postgraduate Open Day, you’ll be able to explore our stunning campus, learn more about our diverse range of Masters courses and PhD opportunities
https://www.stir.ac.uk/study/visit-us/postgraduate-open-day/
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Jennie Morgan
8 months ago
Great day working with
@annawoodham.bsky.social
on our “emotions in museum work” collaboration. A spring update here, including currently writing on ‘feeling rules’ in museums
museumemotion.stir.ac.uk?p=272
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Spring 2025 Update | New futures of care: Investigating emotionally laden work in museums
https://museumemotion.stir.ac.uk/?p=272
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Rebecca Kahn
9 months ago
Sometimes in this academic game we get to have truly supportive & happily productive experiences. Lunch in Leuven turned into this paper, written with two smart women,
@agneatha.bsky.social
and Edurne Kugeler. Fitting that it's about the human touch
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
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Human Perspectives and Social Infrastructures: Prioritising People in GLAM Digitisation | Journal of Open Humanities Data
https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.274
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
9 months ago
Don't litter, friends. In 1326 Roger Styford was walking in London, selling eels from a bucket & skinning them on the spot. Tired of carrying the skins, he dropped them in the street, & nearby shopkeepers came out & beat him to death. So: Save your eel skins to save your own. 🗃️🧪
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The Wiener Holocaust Library
9 months ago
This banknote, worth 10 cents, was issued
#OnThisDay
in 1944 in Westerbork camp in the Netherlands As normal currency was banned and confiscated within the camp these vouchers were distributed as an incentive for inmates to work Find out more at
#TheHolocaustExplained
🔗
https://buff.ly/382tqFo
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Privileged (but definitely not emotionally burdened) to have participated in a small way in this excellent research project by
@drmorgan.bsky.social
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@annawoodham.bsky.social
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Richard Ovenden
9 months ago
Here
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
we are running a project called 'The Algorithimic Archive', funded by the Mellon Foundation on the challenges & needs for archiving social media data. We need your help- if you use such data can you help us with this survey?
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Microsoft Forms
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Clare Downham
9 months ago
Dean
#Cumbria
early 10th century coin hoard discovered in a lead vessel prior to 1790 (when a cow stood on the spot where they were hidden!) Now lost, the hoard of 34 or more coins was mix of English, Anglo-Scandinavia, Arabic, and an Italian issue.
#medievalsky
#vikingsky
#coins
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Harriet Barratt
9 months ago
Excellent cautionary tale about mass word replacement in academic journals
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9 months ago
We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon. Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027!
#DH2027
#digitalhumanities
#Galway
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
9 months ago
Jane Eyre Jane Watir Jane Erthe Jane Fyre Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye... Until the Fyre Janes attackid.
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