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Enabling innovative research with British Library digital collections. Posts by our Digital Curators https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/ Relayed from Mastodon by Skymoth

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The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is the largest library in the world, with an estimated collection of over 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit library, it receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the United Kingdom. The library operates as a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. .. more

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 16d
Registration for @[email protected]'s Fantastic Futures #FF2025 is now! Tickets will go fast, but fret not if you miss out - you can register to watch the full conference online on Thursday and Friday for free!

Get tickets www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
Programme www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
Fantastic Futures 2025 - ConfTool Pro - Login
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 2d
We're so grateful to Sak for his work with @britishlibrary.bsky.social playbills - not only does blplaybills.org make them findable online, but we learn from his experiments!

https://hcommons.social/@mia/115333567347425105
Mia (@[email protected])
In which Sak Supple shares his experiments with using LLMs to transcribe 18th and 19th century playbills from the British Library - manicules, long 's' and all! 'blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs' https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/blplaybills-org-better-search-results-using-llms #OCR #TheaterHistory #LLMs #AI #ATR
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 2d
We're so grateful to Sak for his work with @britishlibrary.bsky.social playbills - not only does blplaybills.org make them findable online, but we learn from his experiments!
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 2d
The Museums Association's membership has voted to approve the 2025 update to the Code of Ethics 🗳️

We're pleased to announce that our members have ratified the updated code as part of the business of our AGM at this year's conference.

You can read the code on our website 👇
Draft Code of Ethics 2025 - Museums Association
The code provides a framework for the practical application of ethical considerations to our everyday work in museums
www.museumsassociation.org
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mia @miaout.bsky.social · 2d
In which Sak Supple shares his experiments with using LLMs to transcribe 18th and 19th century playbills from the British Library - manicules, long 's' and all! 'blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs' www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

#OCR #TheaterHistory #LLMs #AI #ATR
blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs
Search for, view and download 300 years of theatre posters from Great Britain and Ireland, 1600–1902.
www.bl.uk
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 5d
In case you missed it, British Library E-Theses Online Service (EThOS) update from Sept 3: https://www.bl.uk/collection/ethos

EThOS is the national database of UK doctoral theses.
E-Theses Online Service (EThOS) update
EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is the British Library’s database of UK doctoral theses.
www.bl.uk
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 9d
Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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IIIF Consortium @iiif.bsky.social · 9d
Join us on October 8 for a conversation about managing bots, including:

🔸 How institutions are managing overwhelming bot traffic;
🔸 the downstream ramifications of those safeguards;
🔸 and possible solutions for keeping IIIF resources available for reuse

Zoom info: iiif.io/community
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DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 9d
📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH
CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.
dh2026.adho.org
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 9d
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social‬:
Our blogs have a new look: https://bit.ly/BL-Blogs

All previously published blog posts 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
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 9d
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.
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
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 10d
https://web.archive.org/web/20230921100918/https://www.bl.uk/help/ethical-terms-of-use
About: https://www.flickr.com/people/britishlibrary/ [2/2]
Ethical terms of use
Learn about our framework for including digitised collections in online projects, which considers both legal and ethical issues.
web.archive.org
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 10d
We've just updated the broken 'terms of use' links for our Flickr Commons images:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230325130540/https://www.bl.uk/about-us/terms-and-conditions/content-on-flickr-and-wikimedia-commons
Ethical terms of use [1/2]
Content on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world’s greatest libraries. We hold over 13 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 57 million patents and 3 million sound recordings. Open to everyone, the Library also offers exhibitions, events and a Treasures Gallery that displays over 200 items, including The Lindisfarne Gospel, Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, Shakespeare’s First Folio, lyrics by The Beatles and the world’s earliest dated printed book, Diamond Sutra.
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 10d
A semi-regular reminder that all our photos on Flickr Commons are public domain - you don't need to ask us to use them in any way you can imagine! Though we do love hearing about how you've used them, so you can let us know if you want
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
British Library
Explore British Library’s 1,073,564 photos on Flickr!
www.flickr.com
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 13d
#FF2025 folk - we've heard that some people received a phishing email from Global Travel Service about accommodation in London for the Fantastic Futures conference. This hasn't come from us organisers. If you have received such an email please ignore or block the sender.
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 14d
Tickets for Fantastic Futures 2025 #FF2025 did go fast! There'll be a wait list, and there are 500 places overall to watch the main conference sessions on Thursday and Friday
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 16d
Are you an early career researcher with an interest in our collection? Apply to develop an independent research project funded by AHRC.

Hear more about the opportunity at a virtual town hall event on Monday 6 October: bit.ly/BL-EarlyCare...
A group of students sat at a table examining documents and books from the Library's collection.
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 16d
The latest issue of our OA Journal 'Catalogue & Index' (ISSN 2399-9667) has now been published. Issue 212 (Sept 2025) contains articles on the topic of "Non-MARC Cataloguing and Metadata Practices."

Read the full issue at: journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...
#cataloguing #metadata #nonMARC
Pages 1-2: Editorial by The Editors. Pages 3-11: ‘We are here not because we are metadata-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become metadata-makers’ by Helen K. R. Williams. Pages 12-25: Envisioning Dante by Ourania Karapasia. Pages 26-33: Decolonising heritage collections by Jessica Roberts. Pages 34-44: Unchartered cells by Carol Hunter. Pages 45-48: The challenges of data ingest, transformation and aggregation at the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase by Jennie-Claire Crate. Pages 49-58: Non-MARC cataloguing by Anne Welsh. Pages 59-62: Book review: Ethics in Linked Data by Elizabeth Cooper. Pages 63-65: Book review: Records and information management by Sarah Henning.
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Kate Arthurs @kate-arthurs.bsky.social · 17d
Reduce the environmental impact of your museum's learning, outreach and public programmes with this handy toolkit www.artfund.org/professional... @artfund.bsky.social @designmuseum.bsky.social @icomuk.bsky.social
Rethinking environmental responsibility in public programming
This toolkit will help museum learning teams to reduce the environmental impact of learning, outreach and public programmes.
www.artfund.org
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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · Sep 9
Now available via our Research Repository: Datasets of digitised Malay and Indonesian manuscripts in the British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social
doi.org/10.23636/ghz...
A complete set of metadata (catalogue descriptions) for 482 manuscripts. Happy exploring!
#openaccess @bldigischol.bsky.social
Datasets of digitised Malay and Indonesian manuscripts in the British Library
Datasets of digitised Malay and Indonesian manuscripts in the British Library
doi.org
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