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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 6d

Hwæt! 🐉

Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?

#NationalPoetryDay

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · 14d

Registration now open! Join us at The @britishlibrary.bsky.social for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference on the theme of "AI Everywhere, All at Once" 🎉

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#FF2025 @bldigischol.bsky.social

ai4lam - Fantastic Futures 2025

AI Everywhere, All at Once AI4LAM’s annual conference, December 3 – 5, 2025, British Library, London The British Library and the Programme Committee for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference are del...

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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · Sep 2

If you're thinking of a project that includes an Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) component, or if you'd like to know more about this topic, this new paper is for you!
Available as open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

From research proposal to project management. A guide from the Transkribus community on planning and executing workflows for researchers and GLAM-professionals - International Journal of Digital Human...

Transitioning from research proposal to project management in Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) for cultural heritage text collections demands meticulous planning, realistic budgeting, and efficient te...

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · Aug 19

The #GreenLibraries Week map is live. You can take a sneaky peek at what the British Library and National Library of Scotland have already got planned for this year. Join them on the map - submit your green activities today: www.cilip.org.uk/page/GreenLi...

Remember last year's bee? This year we're using the seedling on our map. Send us your entries and get featured too! Graphic of the small bee and a seedling. URL on the bottom.

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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our training series "Discover Digital Sustainability" has made it to the Curiously Green newsletter published by Wholegrain Digital 🤩
Thank you for sharing your knowledge on how to green the web! 🙏
www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-gr...
@britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social

Curiously Green

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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · Jul 11

My colleague Valentina Vavassori asked heritage organisations about how they do Automatic Text Recognition - the results were super interesting and rich! Here's the data and a brief analysis: blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...
@britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social #OCR #HTR #ATR

Automatic Text Recognition in Cultural Heritage Institutions survey: a brief analysis and a published dataset

This post is by Dr Valentina Vavassori, Digital Curator for Automatic Text Recognition. Introduction A few months ago, we circulated a brief survey to understand how other institutions use Automatic T...

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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · Jul 11

Next Thursday the team at @bldigischol.bsky.social will be talking about the UV's amazing community at @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social . Say hi if you want to talk about UV and IIIF over a pastel de nata!

The Digital Research team at DH2025

Several of the Digital Research team had proposals accepted and will be attending the Digital Humanities 2025 conference in Lisbon. To help get conversations started, we’ve compiled some information a...

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · Jul 8

Keep an eye out for our Digital Research team at #DH2025 in Lisbon next week! @adi-keinan.bsky.social @miaout.bsky.social @universalviewer.io @nfitzger.glammr.us.ap.brid.gy blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

The Digital Research team at DH2025

Several of the Digital Research team had proposals accepted and will be attending the Digital Humanities 2025 conference in Lisbon. To help get conversations started, we’ve compiled some information a...

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mia @miaout.bsky.social · Jul 1

Members of the British Library's Digital Research team will be at #DH2025 in Lisbon, July 15-18! Find out what we're presenting blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... - and say hi if you'll be there for #DigitalHumanities chats too!

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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · Jun 13

@britishlibrary.bsky.social RSE Saira Akhter just blogged with reflections from the IIIF Annual Conference 2025 - including some @universalviewer.io goodies and #IIIF implemented with #OCR #HTR workflows blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

Reflections from the IIIF Annual Conference 2025

This year’s IIIF Annual Conference and Showcase took place in Leeds. The Universal Viewer (UV) product team were in attendance once again, as well as Optical Character Recognition/Handwritten Text Rec...

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Neil Fitzgerald @nfitzger.glammr.us.ap.brid.gy · Jun 3

And we're off with the #iiif conference: https://iiif.io/event/2025/leeds/day1-tuesday/ in #leeds with the launch of the release candidate for v4 that introduces formal 3D support in IIIF lead by: https://iiif.io/community/groups/3d/tsg/ #3d #dh #digitalscholarship

Day 1 - Tuesday, June 3th

IIIF is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. It’s also an international community developing and implementing the IIIF APIs. IIIF is backed by a consortium of leading cultural institutions.

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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · May 29

Last March I ran a series of training events for @britishlibrary.bsky.social staff on digital sustainability - with so many incredible contributions from across the GLAM sector. Here's a blog post about this programme, feedback and future action: blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...
@bldigischol.bsky.social

Discover Digital Sustainability

This blog post is by Dr Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert, Digital Curator for Asian and African Collections, British Library. She's on Mastodon as @[email protected] and Bluesky as @adi-keinan.bsky.social As someon...

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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · May 27

Deadline for submissions is fast approaching - 1 June 2025. Hope you can join us! #FF2025

Neil Fitzgerald @nfitzger.glammr.us.ap.brid.gy · May 16

Very pleased to share this #ff2025 announcement along with @mia @ratanass #glam #dh #ml #digitalscholarship

From: @AI4LAM
https://glammr.us/@AI4LAM/114517307783112560

AI4LAM (@[email protected])

The submission portal for #FF2025 proposals is now open, please see the conference webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/fantastic-futures-2025 for further details and updated FAQs. The deadline for submission of proposals is midnight anywhere, Sunday 1st June 2025.

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Neil Fitzgerald @nfitzger.glammr.us.ap.brid.gy · May 16

Very pleased to share this #ff2025 announcement along with @mia @ratanass #glam #dh #ml #digitalscholarship

From: @AI4LAM
https://glammr.us/@AI4LAM/114517307783112560

AI4LAM (@[email protected])

The submission portal for #FF2025 proposals is now open, please see the conference webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/fantastic-futures-2025 for further details and updated FAQs. The deadline for submission of proposals is midnight anywhere, Sunday 1st June 2025.

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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · May 15

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...

DEV EX Community Sprint May-July 2025 • UniversalViewer

A set of three community sprints to improve visibility of config options, improve documentation around analytics, update tools and dependencies and much more!

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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · Apr 29

Want to contribute to open source software used by libraries and galleries all around the world? Our next community sprints will be kicking off May 7, June 10, and July 1! Our focus for these three sprints is...

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · Apr 29

Calling all digital researchers! Join us for our May Doctoral Open Day on Digital Collections and Resources.

From our newspaper archive to digital mapping and the use of collections data, find out more about how our collections can support your studies: bit.ly/BLOpenDayMay25

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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · Apr 14

Are you a PhD student? Interested in working with @britishlibrary.bsky.social collections? Take a look at the next Doctoral Open Day, which is on the Library's digital collections. I'll be talking about the Digital Research Team @bldigischol.bsky.social! Friday 23 May
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Not Just Books: Digital Collections and Resources | British Library

Our Doctoral Open Days are for any PhD students interested in working with our collection during their studies. Each Open Day showcases a different area of

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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · Apr 9

I've recently attended and delivered a keynote at the #Wikisource 2025 Conference in Bali, Indonesia, which was an absolute delight. Read here about my impressions: blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... @bldigischol.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Wikisource 2025 Conference: Collaboration, Innovation, and the Future of Digital Texts

This blog post is by Dr Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert, Digital Curator for Asian and African Collections, British Library. She's on Mastodon as @[email protected] and Bluesky as @adi-keinan.bsky.social The Wikis...

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mia @miaout.bsky.social · Apr 9

Looking for ways to entertain kids during the Easter holidays? The first English public library event listings are starting to appear on libraryon.org/events (or check your local library website)

Discover Library Events | LibraryOn

Explore engaging events at your local library and beyond. From workshops to author talks, find something for everyone.

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mia @miaout.bsky.social · Mar 19

Such a great project! And the event featured @bldigischol.bsky.social 's very own @adi-keinan.bsky.social

Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · Mar 19

In February, the International the Wikisource Conference 2025 brought together more than 100 volunteers to share ideas and foster global collaboration. Learn more about the conference, including the Wiksource Roadmap, which aims to improve user experience and expand partnerships ➡️ w.wiki/DTcy

Dozens of Wikisource Conference 2025 attendees pose on a set of winding stairs with many making a “W” with their hands. Text says: Wikimedia contributors convene in Indonesia for the Wikisource Conference 2025.

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rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · Mar 19

Our colleague Valentina Vavassori is gathering information about cultural heritage institutions' experience with Automatic Text Recognition and how we can continue to collaborate on advancing ATR use for making collections more accessible and usable. Read more at blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

Help us explore Automatic Text Recognition in cultural heritage institutions!

This post is by Dr Valentina Vavassori, Digital Curator for Automatic Text Recognition. At the British Library, one of our core values is to

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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · Mar 13

Fantastic Future 2025 Conference (3-5 December 2025 @britishlibrary.bsky.social), CfP now open!

mia @miaout.bsky.social · Mar 13

Excited to announce the themes for AI4LAM's Fantastic Futures 2025 conference, with @nfitzger.glammr.us.ap.brid.gy and Rossitza for @bldigischol.bsky.social : blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

#AI4LAM #FF2025 #AI #GLAM

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