In September, a box of old film reels was donated to the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. One of them was a nearly 130-year-old, long-lost film by iconic French filmmaker George Méliès. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. 🧵 blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...

It's been a long time in the making, but here's the new Library Data Lab at Southampton, giving dataset and API access to digitised collections. Currently in beta: all comments welcome. Intro from my colleague Matt: southampton.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page... Service datalab.library.soton.ac.uk

In 2019 the British Library acquired the Percy Hours, a late 13th-century Book of Hours produced in York, reuniting it with the Percy Psalter, purchased in 1990. The two manuscripts were originally a single psalter-hours volume. The Percy Psalter-Hours is one of the very few

Please touch! A major sculpture exhibition in Leeds where blind and partially blind practitioners are central to the curatorial process and make up the majority of participating artists. Includes 10,000 digestive biscuit casts embossed with Braille henry-moore.org/whats-on/bey...

AI completions of historical poems bias emotion toward positivity and away from arousal. LLMs prompted with an emotion taxonomy and a poem, for 3 taxonomies x 3K human poems [Chadwyck-Healey sampled for poet DOB 1600-2000] + 3K AI poems [9 LLMs completing first 5 lines of human poem].

Join us for one last time at All Day Hey! 2026, a curated conference for curious developers, designers, and technology leaders. With speakers from Google, Firefox, Deno, Webflow and Tetra Logical, you'll find plenty of practical takeaways for you and your team.

Attention fellow museum nerds; I built a GPT to help construct usable queries for @artinstitutechi.bsky.social's public API. It saves me a bunch of time, and I hope others find it useful as well. chatgpt.com/g/g-695edcd0...

We are pleased to announce the official release of Distributed Text Services (DTS) v1.0 — a stable specification, ready for broad adoption. This release is the result of years of collaborative development, and community feedback. The specification are available at: dtsapi.org/specificatio...

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released a draft of the WIPO Toolkit on Access to Copyrighted Works in the Collections of Cultural Heritage Institutions: Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Stakeholders invited to comment on draft by March 22, 2026.

🧵 (4 posts) More than 800 Iron Age objects discovered at Melsonby in North Yorkshire are to go on public display for the first time in a major new exhibition. Chariots, Treasure and Power: Secrets of the Melsonby Hoard will run at the Yorkshire Museum from 15 May 2026 to summer 2027, offering 1/4

Cambridge Digital Library is home to 130 collections containing 1.5 million images of 160,000 items (6593 of which have transcription), that originate from at least 2000 places around the globe... 👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮 Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

It's time for Interop 2026! This is a cross-browser effort where we agree on a set of focus areas to improve compatibility. Here's how things went in 2025, and what we're taking on for 2026: hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/laun...

'AI tools developed at the University of Oxford for analysing ... text collections. They enable the identification of keywords, topics, and categories of terms' - particularly in crowdsourced / community archives github.com/Digital-Scho...

In the MORPHSS report **Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM**, we explore the narrow focus of existing frameworks of open research & propose more inclusive ways of accommodating the diversity of open practice across all disciplines.

📣 Public talk: Appropriated Intelligence — Making AI Training Fair Ed Newton-Rex (Fairly Trained) on unlicensed AI training, creators’ rights, and what fairness could look like. Chaired by @markgotham.bsky.social 📅 11 Feb, 17:30 📍 KCL Embankment Room Register www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation. Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements

The #LOCKSS Program is surveying memory institutions to assess #DigitalPreservation practices, capacity, & needs. Results will help identify gaps and opportunities for community-owned preservation infrastructure. Anyone working with born-digital or digitized collections is encouraged to participate.

Join us Feburary 11 for a demo of @danielvanstrien.bsky.social's IIIF Illustration Detector. Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community

New paper! Ethnic minorities in online museum collections: skews and bias in digital material culture. With Inna Kizhner , Daniil Skorinkin, Yael Netzer, and Moshe Lavee. Analysis of how Jewish and Armenian ethnic minorities are represented by digital online collections of major historical museums.

I can finally share the happy news 🚀 liiive.now — my tool for real-time collaborative annotation of #IIIF images — is going open source! First code is available here: github.com/rsimon/liiive Self-hosted setup coming by end of February. #OpenSource #DigitalHumanities

ICYMI we announced KC Champions this morning! 📣 If you'd like to support your favorite non-profit, academy-owned project that is free to everyone and doesn't steal user data or profit from sketchy policies, you can learn more here: about.hcommons.org/kc-champions/

A little stop motion video I made of an almanac in the University of Rochester collection to try and give viewers an idea of how it functions 😊 (Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)

📅 #Workshop: 'Linking Data and Digitizations for Medieval Manuscripts' | 3./4. Februar 2026, @unifr.bsky.social #medievalsky @fragmentarium.bsky.social

Job posting: Library Technology and Systems Architect @ National Gallery of Art. Closes: 02/02/2026; Salary $121,785- $158,322/yr (GS13)

🌟 Win a fully funded trip to #CopimConference Early‑career #librarians are invited to apply for one of 3 sponsored places 📍 London, UK 📅 26-27 February 2026 ⏳ Apply by Sunday 1 February 2026 🔗 copim.pub/sponsored-pl...

Morning folks - for all the people at Govcamp who were asking me about the National Data Library here is an actual, official update with some specifics...for the first time I think 🎉 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Come work with us! Tallinn Uni is hiring a second lecturer in DH&AI. Estonian proficiency not required, foreign applicants welcome, required phd can be in progress (expected to be completed), competitive salary+benefits, nice working environment close to the sea candidate.recrur.com/public/jobad...

In December, hundreds of library, museum, archive and research staff gathered at the British Library to share the state of the art in AI research for cultural heritage. Find out more: https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/fantastic-futures-2025-highlights-and-resources #AI4LAM

Some of these posts will include work with the Digital Research team, and all collaborative PhD and placement students can attend our internal training talks, hack & yacks, reading groups and workshops!

Online and in-person, February 21st! www.getty.edu/calendar/who...

In February 2026 @senatehouselib.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a Printer in Residence. This is to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the upcoming exhibition ‘The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond’, and to provide a contemporary response to it in print. 1/3

#MuseumDocumentation : please tell @jdk653.bsky.social how you manage not to kill your colleagues and visitors

We’re excited to share that Knowledge Commons has a fresh new look! 🎨✨ Our updated theme on hcommons.org brings a cleaner design, improved navigation, and a more welcoming experience for our community. Same mission, new coat of paint — take a look! 🔗 buff.ly/VfAg9Uz

You like Automatic Text Recognition (ATR/OCR/HTR) ? You like challenges ? Well, we open a competition for ATR/OCR of medieval manuscripts, in cross-lingual & diachronic settings for the Latin script. 📆 20/01 Registration 📆 21/03 Test set released 📆 3/04 Deadline for results Link cmmhwr26.inria.fr

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Free event at the British Library on Monday 9 Feb (18.30 GMT): ‘Web archive research in an age of Smart Data’

We’re hiring a two-year DH postdoc for our HAVI project, to work on a new type of knowledge graph architecture for the humanities (and beyond). Deadline soon (18 Jan)! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Nice bit of digital humanities here - using AI to transcribe more than 32,000 manuscripts in the space of a few months. But with two years of preparation in training the model and creating standards for automating manuscript transcription www.inria.fr/en/comma-med...

At the University of Leeds, we are seeking a dynamic and highly skilled Lead Engineer to lead a project development team for Digital Library services, to support digital access to the Libraries’ Cultural Collections? It is a fantastic opportunity: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Nominations are open for DH Awards 2025. Anyone can nominate things that are #DigitalHumanities, available to voters, and updated in 2025. #DH Nominations close 2026-02-26 and the only way something gets on the ballot. You only need to nominate something once. dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

Trying to work out if the wallpaper in Vecna's house in Stranger Things S5 on @netflix.com is William Morris. It seems similiar to collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O248603... but not quite?

Surely by this point Clive Myrie's introductions on Celebrity Mastermind are a dig at the booker.

PhD and Postdoc positions drop! The Research Council of Norway funded MishMash Centre for AI & Creativity has announced 18 doctoral and 6 postdoc positions in arts and/or science. I’m a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and so pleased to see this happening. mishmash.no/news/positio...

Museums, unsurprisingly, defend the authenticity of the objects in their collections But the Met in New York is using AI to imagine the great quantity of works that have been lost to time, "imagining a third thing between two known things." www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...

From the archive: The unbuilt plans for hotels above South Kensington tube station www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/unb...

Paste any IIIF manifest → model classifies every page locally → see where illustrations appear. Part of small-models-for-glam: small, efficient models for cultural heritage work. Not everything needs GPT-4! Try it: huggingface.co/spaces/small-models-for-glam/iiif-illustration-detector

#MuseumDocumentation 📢! The National Gallery's online collections now enable filtering by date made, date of acquisition, medium, support, and artist www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ex... - hat tip to the Creative and IS teams for UX design and implementation

New Publication: "Understanding Conversational AI: Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of Large Language Models" (270 pages, Ubiquity Press, open access). Feel free to read it and share it widely! www.ubiquitypress.com/books/m/10.5...

Announcing the first AI for Peace Workshop @ ICLR 2026. The workshop aims to provide a forum for examining the relationship between AI research and its military, surveillance, and conflict-related applications. aiforpeaceworkshop.github.io