Discover how @jisc.bsky.social is driving down the costs of digital archival collections in the UK. digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/06/2...

We're pleased to announce the first keynote speaker for #DCDC25 is Professor Katy Shaw, director of the AHRC Creative Communities programme. Find out more about her session and book your ticket here ➡️ ji.sc/3Epaje6

Registration for DCDC25 is now live! The National Archives, @britishlibrary.bsky.social and @jisc.bsky.social invite you to ‘Choose your own future’: explore challenges, celebrate achievements & work as a common to find sustainable solutions. See you in Durham in July. dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/

Updated @jisc.bsky.social records retention management guide provides advice and guidance to UK further and higher education. www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/awa...

Discover how the @jisc.bsky.social group purchasing scheme saves HE institutions money on buying digital archival collections: www.jisc.ac.uk/digital-arch...

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New Royal Historical Society report on ‘The value of history in UK higher education and society’. It ‘highlights a growing divergence between the popularity of history—as a subject of study and public interest—and the security of historians within UK higher education’ #skystorians

Fabulous final keynote from Erik Boekesteijn #openengaged at the British Library

We're at the Jisc All Staff conference. 700 people in one room. #jisc. Talking about AI. Surprise surprise.

You should still be able to register for the Open Athens session tomorrow. One of the many Jisc cyber security services we provide to universities, colleges, and schools in the UK. www.jisc.ac.uk/cyber-security

Only 10 days left to apply to the DCDC2025 conference call for papers: dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/call-...

History Day is back and celebrating its 10th year! Join us on 5 Nov 11:00 - 16:00 at Senate House to explore the library, museum, archive and special collections from around the UK. Sign up for #HistDay24 is now open … see you there! Discover more at: buff.ly/3zyvHLE

For anyone interested in #digipres and related matters I blogged here about iPres 2024 conference with a few take aways here: anoldhanddigital.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/i...

An important (and overdue) Govt comissioned report now available: The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal www.gov.uk/government/p... Guardian report on the background to its delayed publication: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... #History 🗃️

Join us next Wed 25/9 at 17:30 either at the IHR Wolfson Room or online via Zoom as @brycchancarey.bsky.social of Northumbria University will kick off our Autumn seminar program with a paper on eighteenth century clerical naturalism. #c18th #britishhistory www.history.ac.uk/events/ratio...

"Academic publisher Wiley has revealed it is set to make $44 million (£33 million) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships that it is not giving authors the opportunity to opt-out from." AI in publishing going great then www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...

And here it is: the UKRI CEO role now readvertised. Very important for R&D, and hence for UK prosperity so let's hope for a really good field of candidates www.saxbam.com/appointment/...

Chunk of today preparing the launch of the forthcoming toolkit on #digitalpreservation and community-generated digital content. Launch due 7th November aka World Digital Preservation Day. Will interest folks at #ara2024

Agreed. I wrote this in January to try to get some attention on the issue. It’s going to cost the BL a great deal more than £400k … www.standard.co.uk/comment/brit...

As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!

Revisiting impact assessment in cultural heritage: open.substack.com/pub/cultural...

Free to copy a d use MIT AI Risc Repository airisk.mit.edu

📢🌟NEW RESOURCE! 🌟📢 Our digital handbook Getting Started with Open Research provides guidance for TUoS researchers at any level & in any subject area who are interested in learning more about open practices: doi.org/10.15131/she...

The National Library of Scotland's AI Statement, which sets out our approach to AI and the principles which underpin this, is now available on our Data Foundry: data.nls.uk/projects/ai-...

Resilient communities and sustainable solutions. The call for papers for the DCDC25 conference is now open with a deadline of 14 October.

A massive welcome to the influx of library people to Bluesky 🎉 - here's a brief thread of useful things to know. 1) Using the 📚 emoji automatically gets your post into the skybrarians feed, which means more relevant people will see it. You can 'pin to home' that feed (looks like this on desktop)