Michael Day
@bindonlane.bsky.social
Change ringer. I will mostly post about work (digital preservation, libraries) and on occasion about bellringing, the First World War, the city of Bath, and other topics
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LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains."
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Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
buttondown.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains."
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the AI4LAM community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free! www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the AI4LAM community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free! www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
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We installed a new Jane Austen display case in time for Jane's 250th birthday in December. The display is available in the Treasures Gallery (free) at the British Library in London until 15 March 2026. Blogpost: www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We installed a new Jane Austen display case in time for Jane's 250th birthday in December. The display is available in the Treasures Gallery (free) at the British Library in London until 15 March 2026. Blogpost: www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
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If I had £10-15k... The copy of Over the Brazier that Robert Graves gave to Siegfried Sassoon on 6th May 1916 is being auctioned in two days' time.
www.forumauctions.co.uk/component/co...
www.forumauctions.co.uk/component/co...
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
If I had £10-15k... The copy of Over the Brazier that Robert Graves gave to Siegfried Sassoon on 6th May 1916 is being auctioned in two days' time.
www.forumauctions.co.uk/component/co...
www.forumauctions.co.uk/component/co...
For #ArmisticeDay, a view of Grootebeek British Cemetery, near Ouderdom (West Flanders, Belgium), from a trip last month
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
For #ArmisticeDay, a view of Grootebeek British Cemetery, near Ouderdom (West Flanders, Belgium), from a trip last month
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🚨BREAKING NEWS On #wdpd2025, the #dpc has released a new version of the Global #bitlist of Endangered Digital Materials: a powerful call to action from the global #digipres community.
The Bit List identifies the digital materials most at risk of being lost […]
[Original post on digipres.club]
The Bit List identifies the digital materials most at risk of being lost […]
[Original post on digipres.club]
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🚨BREAKING NEWS On #wdpd2025, the #dpc has released a new version of the Global #bitlist of Endangered Digital Materials: a powerful call to action from the global #digipres community.
The Bit List identifies the digital materials most at risk of being lost […]
[Original post on digipres.club]
The Bit List identifies the digital materials most at risk of being lost […]
[Original post on digipres.club]
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🎉GET READY FOR #WDPD2025 TOMORROW🎉 Expect vlogs, blogs, campaign launches (including one from the #DPC 🥳), and plenty to think about as we raise awareness for digital preservation around the globe. Read up on buff.ly/uvCS2Jm and stay tuned for more - much more - posts!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🎉GET READY FOR #WDPD2025 TOMORROW🎉 Expect vlogs, blogs, campaign launches (including one from the #DPC 🥳), and plenty to think about as we raise awareness for digital preservation around the globe. Read up on buff.ly/uvCS2Jm and stay tuned for more - much more - posts!!
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New LIBER Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guide focused on Digital Sustainability!
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
Digital Sustainability – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides
libereurope.github.io
October 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
New LIBER Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guide focused on Digital Sustainability!
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
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Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
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Just in time for #GreenLibrariesWeek , a new LIBER Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guide focused on Digital Sustainability
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint [1/2]
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint [1/2]
October 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Just in time for #GreenLibrariesWeek , a new LIBER Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guide focused on Digital Sustainability
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint [1/2]
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint [1/2]
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The Project Gutenberg community mourns the passing of our CEO, Dr. Greg Newby (@gbnewby).
Without his years of leadership, Project Gutenberg wouldn't be what it is today. Learn more about him and his contributions at
www.gutenberg.org/about/newby....
Without his years of leadership, Project Gutenberg wouldn't be what it is today. Learn more about him and his contributions at
www.gutenberg.org/about/newby....
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
www.gutenberg.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The Project Gutenberg community mourns the passing of our CEO, Dr. Greg Newby (@gbnewby).
Without his years of leadership, Project Gutenberg wouldn't be what it is today. Learn more about him and his contributions at
www.gutenberg.org/about/newby....
Without his years of leadership, Project Gutenberg wouldn't be what it is today. Learn more about him and his contributions at
www.gutenberg.org/about/newby....
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At Cambridge University Library, the #DigitalPreservation Programme team is working with colleagues to test the Workbench, a new interface for managing digital collections, including born-digital archives.
#UserExperience #Archives #Libraries
caylinsmith.medium.com/closing-the-...
#UserExperience #Archives #Libraries
caylinsmith.medium.com/closing-the-...
Closing the Loop: From User Testing to Real Change in the Workbench
Alongside the preservation repository, members of the Digital Preservation Programme team have made significant progress on developing the…
caylinsmith.medium.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
At Cambridge University Library, the #DigitalPreservation Programme team is working with colleagues to test the Workbench, a new interface for managing digital collections, including born-digital archives.
#UserExperience #Archives #Libraries
caylinsmith.medium.com/closing-the-...
#UserExperience #Archives #Libraries
caylinsmith.medium.com/closing-the-...
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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!
Please share with any musicians you know!
Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores
Help us to collect digital scores from composers and independent publishers.
www.bl.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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!
Please share with any musicians you know!
#OTD 1915: two Staffordshire bellringers, Sgts Walter Richard Washbrook (Tunstall) and Reginald Grimmit Stone (Burton-on-Trent) of the North Staffordshire Regiment, were killed during the 46th (North Midland) Division attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt: opusculum.wordpress.com/2020/10/13/s...
Staffordshire bellringers at the Hohenzollern Redoubt
In the Spring of last yeat, I visited the Canadian National Vimy Memorial for the very first time and spent some time wandering around the memorial park and its associated memorials and cemteteries…
opusculum.wordpress.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
#OTD 1915: two Staffordshire bellringers, Sgts Walter Richard Washbrook (Tunstall) and Reginald Grimmit Stone (Burton-on-Trent) of the North Staffordshire Regiment, were killed during the 46th (North Midland) Division attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt: opusculum.wordpress.com/2020/10/13/s...
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I like the 'boots of concrete' phrase :-) > 'Large companies have built vast consolidated infrastructure - we are used to thinking of information as immaterial, however, AI has also emphasized how the cloud has boots of concrete.' buff.ly/MAzHirK
Information: a brief schematic history
In a piece on the informational disciplines and the iSchool, I sketched this very schematic and informal overview of information, broadly construed. My focus is pragmatic, related to library…
www.lorcandempsey.net
October 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I like the 'boots of concrete' phrase :-) > 'Large companies have built vast consolidated infrastructure - we are used to thinking of information as immaterial, however, AI has also emphasized how the cloud has boots of concrete.' buff.ly/MAzHirK
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Don't miss our free, online Open and Engaged Conference 2025, as part of #InternationaOpenAccessWeek.
This year we're exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved.
Register for free: bit.ly/BLEngagedCon...
This year we're exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved.
Register for free: bit.ly/BLEngagedCon...
October 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Don't miss our free, online Open and Engaged Conference 2025, as part of #InternationaOpenAccessWeek.
This year we're exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved.
Register for free: bit.ly/BLEngagedCon...
This year we're exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved.
Register for free: bit.ly/BLEngagedCon...
Almost at the end of a short stay in Ieper; which included walks from Zonnebeke to Sint-Juliaan, and from Reninghelst to Dikkebus
October 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Almost at the end of a short stay in Ieper; which included walks from Zonnebeke to Sint-Juliaan, and from Reninghelst to Dikkebus
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Hwæt! 🐉
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
October 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Hwæt! 🐉
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
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Our blogs have a new look: bit.ly/BL-Blogs
All previously published blogs will be available in our archive, launching in coming weeks. Watch this space for an update on when that goes live.
All previously published blogs will be available in our archive, launching in coming weeks. Watch this space for an update on when that goes live.
Blogs and updates from curators, staff and guests - British Library
Get the latest stories and updates from our curators, cataloguers, reference staff and guest contributors. Find out more about amazing items in our collection.
bit.ly
September 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Our blogs have a new look: bit.ly/BL-Blogs
All previously published blogs will be available in our archive, launching in coming weeks. Watch this space for an update on when that goes live.
All previously published blogs will be available in our archive, launching in coming weeks. Watch this space for an update on when that goes live.
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Great new tool from Flickr foundation - the Data Lifeboat, to package up Flickr image collections and get them out of dodge quickly, with metadata and readmes. Speaking to urgency of portability of digital cultural heritage given current times. They need some testers to play and give feedback 👇
Even great code has some bugs!
Be among the first to try out our new Flickr archiving tool Data Lifeboat, and help us find those bugs! Head over to datalifeboat.flickr.org to get started.
Original images from US National Archives and State Library of NSW on Flickr Commons.
Be among the first to try out our new Flickr archiving tool Data Lifeboat, and help us find those bugs! Head over to datalifeboat.flickr.org to get started.
Original images from US National Archives and State Library of NSW on Flickr Commons.
September 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Great new tool from Flickr foundation - the Data Lifeboat, to package up Flickr image collections and get them out of dodge quickly, with metadata and readmes. Speaking to urgency of portability of digital cultural heritage given current times. They need some testers to play and give feedback 👇
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Preserve Together is delighted to launch our new training courses “Understanding File Formats for Digital Preservation” and “Developing Digital Preservation Strategy”. To find out more, visit the Courses page our website: www.preservetogether.com/courses
September 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Preserve Together is delighted to launch our new training courses “Understanding File Formats for Digital Preservation” and “Developing Digital Preservation Strategy”. To find out more, visit the Courses page our website: www.preservetogether.com/courses
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Wool, Dorset sent to Mr Bates, Newport #OTD 1908:
Dear Cyril, thanks for 3 PCs. Have walked down to Wool to see Mr S. Lovely day. Love Dad.
#PostedInThePast
Dear Cyril, thanks for 3 PCs. Have walked down to Wool to see Mr S. Lovely day. Love Dad.
#PostedInThePast
September 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Wool, Dorset sent to Mr Bates, Newport #OTD 1908:
Dear Cyril, thanks for 3 PCs. Have walked down to Wool to see Mr S. Lovely day. Love Dad.
#PostedInThePast
Dear Cyril, thanks for 3 PCs. Have walked down to Wool to see Mr S. Lovely day. Love Dad.
#PostedInThePast
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If you're working with depositors of born-digital projects (like theses), here's a small tool to play with - output of Ailie O'Hagan's RLUK Fellowship: ailieohagan.github.io/Get-Preserva...
It gives preservation actions around different types of deposit, and what depositors can be encouraged to do.
It gives preservation actions around different types of deposit, and what depositors can be encouraged to do.
June 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
If you're working with depositors of born-digital projects (like theses), here's a small tool to play with - output of Ailie O'Hagan's RLUK Fellowship: ailieohagan.github.io/Get-Preserva...
It gives preservation actions around different types of deposit, and what depositors can be encouraged to do.
It gives preservation actions around different types of deposit, and what depositors can be encouraged to do.
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Congratulations to everyone whose proposal was accepted for #FF2025 ! The standards were incredibly high, and we had to leave out so many excellent submissions.
August 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Congratulations to everyone whose proposal was accepted for #FF2025 ! The standards were incredibly high, and we had to leave out so many excellent submissions.
