We built #MachinaEmblematica as an outreach/engagement tool rather than for research. But as someone with zero knowledge of 16C emblem books (or Latin!) I find it an amazing way to poke around & discover odd new things—far richer than randomly browsing #IIIF images alone. machina.rainersimon.io

The 4th edition of ACMI’s Future of Arts Culture & Technology symposium now has Early Bird tix on sale. Feb 11-13 with first round of speakers announced. Expect some new provocations … www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...

📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out! 97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper. 🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Join us for the 2025 Universal Viewer (UV) Annual Conference held online Tues 18 November 2025 14:00-18:00 UTC/GMT. Find out more and book your place: https://uvcon.io https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 [1/2]

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit." On robots.txt. www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog... Please share with any musicians you know!

A great job has opened up at the California Digital Library at the University of California-- the Technical Team Manager for Discovery and Delivery! #Jobs #libraries #TechManagers cdlib.org/about/job-op...

Museum cyberattacks “are no longer a question of if, but when.”Amy Adams and George Wilson on the National Museum of the Royal Navy attack www.museumnext.com/article/less...

The next #IIIF Community Call is on 'AI Bot Management', Weds October 8 at 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC. Call links etc at iiif.io/community What are you doing about bots swarming your GLAM website or IIIF collections? Pros and cons of different approaches? What does this mean for open content? #MuseTech

FYI: We are hiring a 3-year research postdoc at @camdighum.bsky.social to study AI and the future of creativity. Application deadline Sep 21; more info below. Please circulate / apply! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...

We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky

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

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

"the new AHRC funded Community Hub, which will support inclusive, community-led research across the UK GLAM and heritage sectors ... The ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub will offer three grant schemes - Seed Corn Grants, Skills Bursaries, and Project Grants" tinyurl.com/tnacommunity...

👀 Fantastic - and rare - opportunity in research data management and leadership 👇

Reminder: Annotorious brings Photoshop-like selection tools to your browser! • Intelligent Scissors • Magnetic Cursor • WebGPU-powered SegmentAnything I just wrote proper docs! Usage guides, examples, full API: github.com/annotorious/... github.com/annotorious/... #OpenSeadragon #IIIF

What strange hold do the manufacturers of storage lockers needing a one euro coin (returnable) have over museums? It seems such a waste of time for staff and visitors to deal with. Maybe there are stockpiles of such lockers we need to exhaust before they just provide ones using a key or number.

Many VLM-based OCR models have been released recently. Are they useful for libraries and archives? I made a quick Space to compare VLM OCR with "traditional" OCR using 11k Scottish exam papers from @natlibscot.bsky.social huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/ocr-time-capsule

👀 What a great role! One for US heritage data/digital/design colleagues.

Oh no. Tom Lehrer gone. At his great age, it’s not a tragedy, I know, but it just does feel bad not having his genius in the world.

OK, I'm assuming you're all aware now of @londonmuseum.bsky.social's #AI conversational search #chatbot, Clio: www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/introdu... ...

I enjoyed every part of @hugorifkind.bsky.social's book Rabbits except for the very specific claim as to how all English people pronounce Naomi.

The new Path tool is now available for testing on liiive.now! Smooth curves and precise control for annotating complex shapes. 🚀

😍 Great idea to reinvigorate thinking around these objects. Open to all: "We invite thinkers, mathematicians, creators, researchers, and enthusiasts from all walks of life to submit their interpretations, hypotheses, or creative responses to one of archaeology’s most intriguing enigmas." 📷 NMS

All the food tours in Trastevere claim they avoid the tourist traps, but then all seem to go to exactly the same places as each other.

With @yh-huang.bsky.social, I'm excited to share our Digital Collections Explorer, an open-source, multimodal viewer for digital collections! Users can search with both natural language inputs and reverse image search. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961 Public demo: digital-collections-explorer.com

And it's quite fun to do! Vote on posts or add your own

Hurrah! My next book is instantiated, and in-the-world! Library Catalogues As Data: Research, Practice, Usage. Edited with Paul Gooding and @semames.bsky.social. Proud of this one! Official publication date soon… www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/...

Really interesting report from the @britishcouncil.bsky.social - "Digital Cultural Heritage: Imagination, Innovation and Opportunity". Reflecting the situated experiences and innovative practices of practitioners in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Iraq, bringing a new lens to considering digital past.

If you are in #Paris and into #DigitalMedievalStudies, join us this Wednesday at École nationale des chartes - PSL! Free, registration required: www.chartes.psl.eu/gazette-char... #MedievalSky #DH #ManuscriptStudies #PreModernStduies #MedievalStudies

A long blog post with a grand title I've been wanting to write for ages to get a minor irritation out my head - why can't museum object record pages link directly to other object record pages (in the same collection) in free text fields and a small proposal to fix it - tiro.org.uk/posts/2025/0...

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 ⬇️

I wrote about the new V&A Storehouse East, an extraordinary wunderkammer of treasures from the national collection, where anyone can order up and get close to an object. Here I am caressing a pair of Yamamoto platform boots from 1971. www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/...

We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!

Learn how to explore museum collections, image datasets & cultural networks using R—no prior coding needed. Democratizing data in the humanities, one line of code at a time. @springernature.com #DataScience #ArtHistory #RStats #DigitalArtHistory Read: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

On June 11, discover how digital technologies are transforming the way we analyse, interpret, and teach historical texts and manuscripts. Four themed sessions on digital practices, AI tools, and more. Seminar organised by @kakapitan.bsky.social. Registration required ➡ https://lc.cx/y5g3wN

📢 Are you a student with an interest in AI, collections as data, and OpenGLAM? We have a new, fully-funded collaborative PhD opportunity available, led by the University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh. The PhD will explore library collections as data in the age of Extractive AI Capitalism.

We're hiring a postdoc (4 years) for the AI STORIES project and are looking for someone who is interested in using computational and qualitative methods to explore generative AI and literature. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Hey #digiclass :) Is there any fonts for Ancient Greek (free or not) that would get close to the one used in pre-modern printing of Ancient Greek (humanistic cursive) ? Feel free to RT :)

We’re halfway through our latest community sprint! Our community team have been hard at work – check out our community board to see what they’ve been building, including a new tool to add and view custom configs github.com/orgs/Univers...

The registration for the @iiif.bsky.social Annual Conference in Leeds (UK), 2-5June closes Friday, May 16! Still time to register: iiif.io/event/2025/l...

We are delighted to announce the reboot of DHNow! DHNow has relaunched from the Centers for Digital Scholarship in the Northeastern University Library, where we will continue showcasing important digital humanities scholarship and news to the DH community. Subscribe now! digitalhumanitiesnow.org

🤖 How can academic communities regain control over AI in knowledge production? New report by Open Future fellow @samuelmoore.org explores governance strategies for the "scholarly commons". Read more ⬇️ openfuture.eu/publication/...

The V&A's Order an Object service is now live! All the details here www.vam.ac.uk/info/order-a.... And if you need some inspiration for objects to visit, why not look for some baking ideas...

yo yo yo yo yo Museums +Tech CfP is open museumscomputergroup.org.uk/mcg-museumst...

Investing in social and cultural infrastructure such as leisure centres, libraries, concert halls and galleries can ‘offer significant and immediate returns’ and help government deliver on its objectives, study says. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/cultura...

UK DH community! On May 21, @nolauren.bsky.social & @taylor-arnold.bsky.social are giving a lecture at Lancaster on Distant Viewing!! 🖥️👀📷🎞️ RSVP at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lauren-til... @n8cir.bsky.social is providing bursaries for N8 affiliates! @dsilu.bsky.social @ukiedh.bsky.social

We've just published our new State of the Nations report: Arts, Culture and Heritage: Recent Trends in UK Workforce and Engagement in England. The report is written by Prof Dave O’Brien, Dr Mark Taylor and Dr Ruoxi Wang. Download it here: buff.ly/82NnAVD