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We've got some HUGE news! We've DOUBLED in size overnight! Not only have we added "some" more Cairo Genizah fragments, but "ALL" of them @theul.bsky.social !!!
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
We've got some HUGE news! We've DOUBLED in size overnight! Not only have we added "some" more Cairo Genizah fragments, but "ALL" of them @theul.bsky.social !!!
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
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This is a very interesting interview with @melissaterras.bsky.social on @transkribus.bsky.social 's co-operative model, and how to balance financial imperatives with academic imperatives.
#DigitalHistory
#DigitalHistory
Can AI be ethical and transparent? At READ-COOP, the unique European cooperative behind Transkribus, we prioritise democratic control and purpose over profit.
Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
Melissa Terras on why cooperatives are the future of AI
Discover why Melissa Terras believes cooperatives like READ-COOP represent the future of AI, fostering community-driven, sustainable technological innovation.
blog.transkribus.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This is a very interesting interview with @melissaterras.bsky.social on @transkribus.bsky.social 's co-operative model, and how to balance financial imperatives with academic imperatives.
#DigitalHistory
#DigitalHistory
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Another hilltop 360 for #HillfortsWednesday, this time from Mither Tap, Bennachie, Aberdeenshire, taken 2 weeks ago. I do declare that each Scottish hillfort I ascend is windier than the last, & this was definitely windier than Eildon Hill, which was pretty windy, tbf.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Another hilltop 360 for #HillfortsWednesday, this time from Mither Tap, Bennachie, Aberdeenshire, taken 2 weeks ago. I do declare that each Scottish hillfort I ascend is windier than the last, & this was definitely windier than Eildon Hill, which was pretty windy, tbf.
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The Khami Atlas of the World, drawn and painted ENTIRELY BY HAND in amazing detail (with no ruler) by Dan English (1912-1980). It includes the names of every river, hill and promontory, and every village, dorp and aul in all five continents.
Now THAT'S #MapMonday!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...
Now THAT'S #MapMonday!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The Khami Atlas of the World, drawn and painted ENTIRELY BY HAND in amazing detail (with no ruler) by Dan English (1912-1980). It includes the names of every river, hill and promontory, and every village, dorp and aul in all five continents.
Now THAT'S #MapMonday!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...
Now THAT'S #MapMonday!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...
The Khami Atlas of the World, drawn and painted ENTIRELY BY HAND in amazing detail (with no ruler) by Dan English (1912-1980). It includes the names of every river, hill and promontory, and every village, dorp and aul in all five continents.
Now THAT'S #MapMonday!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...
Now THAT'S #MapMonday!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The Khami Atlas of the World, drawn and painted ENTIRELY BY HAND in amazing detail (with no ruler) by Dan English (1912-1980). It includes the names of every river, hill and promontory, and every village, dorp and aul in all five continents.
Now THAT'S #MapMonday!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...
Now THAT'S #MapMonday!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS...
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Profoundly beautiful account of the history of snow studies, the fragility of snow and the impact of the anthropocene by Sverker Sörlin.
Also an appeal for a different way of doing #science
Also an appeal for a different way of doing #science
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Profoundly beautiful account of the history of snow studies, the fragility of snow and the impact of the anthropocene by Sverker Sörlin.
Also an appeal for a different way of doing #science
Also an appeal for a different way of doing #science
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How do we display data as we want, but still store it as we should? This podcast, produced by Vera Chiquet and virtualculture.ch, offers the data steward’s perspective on digitisation for #TrainingTuesday 🎧
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#DataStewardship #Digitatisation #Workflow
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#DataStewardship #Digitatisation #Workflow
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
How do we display data as we want, but still store it as we should? This podcast, produced by Vera Chiquet and virtualculture.ch, offers the data steward’s perspective on digitisation for #TrainingTuesday 🎧
➡️ campus.dariah.eu/resources/ex...
#DataStewardship #Digitatisation #Workflow
➡️ campus.dariah.eu/resources/ex...
#DataStewardship #Digitatisation #Workflow
When you're in Cambridgeshire and have a distinct lack of hillforts and beautiful coastline... This 1948 shot of Flower's Barrow near Lulworth Cove ticks boxes! #hillfortswednesday
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-GEOG...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-GEOG...
Landscape Histories from the Air : Hill fort, East Lulworth, Dorset
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
When you're in Cambridgeshire and have a distinct lack of hillforts and beautiful coastline... This 1948 shot of Flower's Barrow near Lulworth Cove ticks boxes! #hillfortswednesday
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-GEOG...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-GEOG...
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One cat per mouse
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.4.25; Bestiary; c.1230 CE; England; f.74v @camdiglib.bsky.social
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.4.25; Bestiary; c.1230 CE; England; f.74v @camdiglib.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
One cat per mouse
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.4.25; Bestiary; c.1230 CE; England; f.74v @camdiglib.bsky.social
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.4.25; Bestiary; c.1230 CE; England; f.74v @camdiglib.bsky.social
Famed British photographer Samuel Bourne traveled extensively in India during the 1860s. He had an eye for the perfect shot, but was his pursuit of perfection detrimental to local labour, knowledge and histories? #PhotoHistory
Chirantan Banik delves deeper:
www.theheritagelab.in/samuel-bourn...
Chirantan Banik delves deeper:
www.theheritagelab.in/samuel-bourn...
Untold Stories behind the making of Samuel Bourne’s ‘Picturesque’ Photographs of the Himalayas : a colonial narrative of the mountains.
This essay explores the erasures of local labour, knowledge and histories in Bourne’s photographs of India, with a focus on the Himalayas.
www.theheritagelab.in
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Famed British photographer Samuel Bourne traveled extensively in India during the 1860s. He had an eye for the perfect shot, but was his pursuit of perfection detrimental to local labour, knowledge and histories? #PhotoHistory
Chirantan Banik delves deeper:
www.theheritagelab.in/samuel-bourn...
Chirantan Banik delves deeper:
www.theheritagelab.in/samuel-bourn...
We've got enough we could probably form a whole band - 'The Badly Drawn Elephants' perhaps?
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We've got enough we could probably form a whole band - 'The Badly Drawn Elephants' perhaps?
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...
Blow me down with a shooting star! 💫 ✨ 🌟 🤩
A rare manuscript copy of 天元玉曆祥異賦 (The Tianyuan Jade Calendar in Verse Prose on the Auspicious and Unusual Signs). 10 vols with oodles of stunning hand coloured illustrations on this work of Chinese #astrology to explore!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FH-0...
A rare manuscript copy of 天元玉曆祥異賦 (The Tianyuan Jade Calendar in Verse Prose on the Auspicious and Unusual Signs). 10 vols with oodles of stunning hand coloured illustrations on this work of Chinese #astrology to explore!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FH-0...
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Blow me down with a shooting star! 💫 ✨ 🌟 🤩
A rare manuscript copy of 天元玉曆祥異賦 (The Tianyuan Jade Calendar in Verse Prose on the Auspicious and Unusual Signs). 10 vols with oodles of stunning hand coloured illustrations on this work of Chinese #astrology to explore!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FH-0...
A rare manuscript copy of 天元玉曆祥異賦 (The Tianyuan Jade Calendar in Verse Prose on the Auspicious and Unusual Signs). 10 vols with oodles of stunning hand coloured illustrations on this work of Chinese #astrology to explore!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FH-0...
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👏 Thanks to our amazing team, millions of Kew's specimens are already accessible globally — with even more to come.
Dive into the Kew Data Portal now to explore our collections! 🌱
data.kew.org
Dive into the Kew Data Portal now to explore our collections! 🌱
data.kew.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
👏 Thanks to our amazing team, millions of Kew's specimens are already accessible globally — with even more to come.
Dive into the Kew Data Portal now to explore our collections! 🌱
data.kew.org
Dive into the Kew Data Portal now to explore our collections! 🌱
data.kew.org
Will you be doing the Danse Macabre tonight or jumping on your steed to run and hide under the duvet? #Halloween
1) The Dance of Death, Nuremberg Chronicle (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-...)
2) The Cambridge Bestiary (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...)
😱 💀 👻 🧙♀️ 😬 ☠️ 🙈
1) The Dance of Death, Nuremberg Chronicle (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-...)
2) The Cambridge Bestiary (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...)
😱 💀 👻 🧙♀️ 😬 ☠️ 🙈
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Will you be doing the Danse Macabre tonight or jumping on your steed to run and hide under the duvet? #Halloween
1) The Dance of Death, Nuremberg Chronicle (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-...)
2) The Cambridge Bestiary (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...)
😱 💀 👻 🧙♀️ 😬 ☠️ 🙈
1) The Dance of Death, Nuremberg Chronicle (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-...)
2) The Cambridge Bestiary (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...)
😱 💀 👻 🧙♀️ 😬 ☠️ 🙈
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Requiem for a hillfort
Until the 1960s, the outline of Madmarston Iron Age hillfort #Oxfordshire was defined by fieldbanks and hedgerows
📷 © 1962 CUCAP AFQ74 @camdiglib.bsky.social
Since then it has been sadly obliterated by agriculture ☹️
📷 © 2022 HE Archive 27618_002
#HillfortsWednesday
Until the 1960s, the outline of Madmarston Iron Age hillfort #Oxfordshire was defined by fieldbanks and hedgerows
📷 © 1962 CUCAP AFQ74 @camdiglib.bsky.social
Since then it has been sadly obliterated by agriculture ☹️
📷 © 2022 HE Archive 27618_002
#HillfortsWednesday
October 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Requiem for a hillfort
Until the 1960s, the outline of Madmarston Iron Age hillfort #Oxfordshire was defined by fieldbanks and hedgerows
📷 © 1962 CUCAP AFQ74 @camdiglib.bsky.social
Since then it has been sadly obliterated by agriculture ☹️
📷 © 2022 HE Archive 27618_002
#HillfortsWednesday
Until the 1960s, the outline of Madmarston Iron Age hillfort #Oxfordshire was defined by fieldbanks and hedgerows
📷 © 1962 CUCAP AFQ74 @camdiglib.bsky.social
Since then it has been sadly obliterated by agriculture ☹️
📷 © 2022 HE Archive 27618_002
#HillfortsWednesday
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The application portal for the 2026 Cultural Heritage Data School is officially open 🥁
Join us from 13-17 April 2026 to explore the theme 'Critically Engaging Audiences with Cultural Heritage Data'.
Early bird deadline: 23 Nov
Virtual Q&A: 10 Nov
Apply online: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...
Join us from 13-17 April 2026 to explore the theme 'Critically Engaging Audiences with Cultural Heritage Data'.
Early bird deadline: 23 Nov
Virtual Q&A: 10 Nov
Apply online: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...
October 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The application portal for the 2026 Cultural Heritage Data School is officially open 🥁
Join us from 13-17 April 2026 to explore the theme 'Critically Engaging Audiences with Cultural Heritage Data'.
Early bird deadline: 23 Nov
Virtual Q&A: 10 Nov
Apply online: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...
Join us from 13-17 April 2026 to explore the theme 'Critically Engaging Audiences with Cultural Heritage Data'.
Early bird deadline: 23 Nov
Virtual Q&A: 10 Nov
Apply online: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...
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Female drummers and playing harp to a real King who is sick.
The Bahun psalter, Fitzwilliam Museum.
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FITZ...
The Bahun psalter, Fitzwilliam Museum.
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FITZ...
Medieval Medical Recipes : Psalter ('Bohun Psalter', previously known as the 'Riches Psalter' and the 'Psalter of John of Gaunt')
The Bohun psalter at the Fitzwilliam Museum belongs to a unique group of ten manuscripts produced in England during the second
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
October 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Female drummers and playing harp to a real King who is sick.
The Bahun psalter, Fitzwilliam Museum.
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FITZ...
The Bahun psalter, Fitzwilliam Museum.
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FITZ...
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Today our team member @annabregermusic.bsky.social tells her story - “Many little twists and turns have brought me to where I am now and I am absolutely thrilled about my interdisciplinary research project working on image analysis and historical music manuscripts.”
➡️ hermathsstory.eu/anna-breger/
➡️ hermathsstory.eu/anna-breger/
October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Today our team member @annabregermusic.bsky.social tells her story - “Many little twists and turns have brought me to where I am now and I am absolutely thrilled about my interdisciplinary research project working on image analysis and historical music manuscripts.”
➡️ hermathsstory.eu/anna-breger/
➡️ hermathsstory.eu/anna-breger/
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The Life continues on through the Battle of Hastings, shown here in almost Guernica-like style.
There's lots more to explore in the manuscript which is digitized here: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-EE-0... Read there about possible authoriship by Matthew Paris!
There's lots more to explore in the manuscript which is digitized here: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-EE-0... Read there about possible authoriship by Matthew Paris!
October 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The Life continues on through the Battle of Hastings, shown here in almost Guernica-like style.
There's lots more to explore in the manuscript which is digitized here: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-EE-0... Read there about possible authoriship by Matthew Paris!
There's lots more to explore in the manuscript which is digitized here: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-EE-0... Read there about possible authoriship by Matthew Paris!
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@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...
Bridging archives: The role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation
India’s manuscript tradition is among the richest in the world, spanning centuries, languages, and disciplines. Yet, much of this vast repository remains fragmented, fragile, and inaccessible. The tec...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...
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BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum (hybrid), 6 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage forum
This forum brings together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically.
www.sas.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum (hybrid), 6 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
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BHL has retrospectively assigned DOIs to 50,000+ historic journal articles These articles, which include the first scientific description of the Platypus (1799), are now part of the great linked network of scholarly research: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs 🧪
@crossref.bsky.social
@crossref.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
BHL has retrospectively assigned DOIs to 50,000+ historic journal articles These articles, which include the first scientific description of the Platypus (1799), are now part of the great linked network of scholarly research: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs 🧪
@crossref.bsky.social
@crossref.bsky.social
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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.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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!
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Tomorrow, we're back with another episode of Absolute Units!
We continue speaking with @katrinanavickas.bsky.social about the history of the commons and resistance to enclosure, this time focusing closer to the present day.
Expect riots, raves, Stonehenge, golf, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
We continue speaking with @katrinanavickas.bsky.social about the history of the commons and resistance to enclosure, this time focusing closer to the present day.
Expect riots, raves, Stonehenge, golf, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
October 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Tomorrow, we're back with another episode of Absolute Units!
We continue speaking with @katrinanavickas.bsky.social about the history of the commons and resistance to enclosure, this time focusing closer to the present day.
Expect riots, raves, Stonehenge, golf, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
We continue speaking with @katrinanavickas.bsky.social about the history of the commons and resistance to enclosure, this time focusing closer to the present day.
Expect riots, raves, Stonehenge, golf, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
October 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM