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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 15h

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 🧪
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 8d

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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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 7d

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.

Absolute Units - a podcast from The Museum of English Rural Life.

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Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social · 7d

...And you thought you were stretched too thin!
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cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-0...

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 9d

For Michaelmas, here's a fine St. Michael I hadn't seen before, in Alexander of Bremen's commentary on the Apocalypse, CUL MS Mm.5.31, fol. 78v. #medievalsky

Digitized MS here: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MM-0...

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Tyler Shores @tylershores.bsky.social · 12d

Dear #Cambridge PhD and Research Students,

Come apply for our brand new @thinklab.bsky.social project with Wikipedia to investigate how AI meets standards of accuracy, attribution & transparency!

Help shape policy & the future of open knowledge. Apply by Oct 10 → bit.ly/applythinkla...

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Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social · 14d

There's always time for a #TeaBreak!
This photo is from the wonderful archive of Classicist Joyce M. Reynolds, which is full of records relating to the Roman provinces of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania (modern day Libya).
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CLAS...

Decoding the Desert : J. M. Reynolds personal photographs from childhood and adulthood

cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk

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Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social · 14d

There's always time for a #TeaBreak!
This photo is from the wonderful archive of Classicist Joyce M. Reynolds, which is full of records relating to the Roman provinces of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania (modern day Libya).
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CLAS...

Decoding the Desert : J. M. Reynolds personal photographs from childhood and adulthood

cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk

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RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 16d

It's the #AutumnalEquinox today at 18.20 GMT! This 16th-century paper machine, called a volvelle, helps explain how the sun moves through the sky from equinox to solstice throughout the year. Find a full explainer video on our exhibition website: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #BodyofKnowledge

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 18d

21st September is the feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, who is depicted here with his angelic symbol in the Book of Cerne.

Cambridge University Library; MS Ll.1.10; the Book of Cerne; 9th century; Mercia; (c. 820-840 C.E.); f. 2v @camdiglib.bsky.social

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 19d

Also, if you are into the medieval-renaissance printing press illustratory thing AND like a German flavor (as I do), you can access quality scans of the Nuremberg Chronicle courtesy of Cambridge. This color palette! Love!

cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-...

Treasures of the Library : Nuremberg Chronicle

The Liber Chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1493, or Nuremberg Chronicle as it is

cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk

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RLUK Research Libraries UK @rluk.ac.uk · 22d

🟠 #RLUKICIL | Re-entangling the visual archive | 23 Sep

Join us next Tues to hear reflections on @theul.bsky.social project with Zambian visual artists exploring new ways to engage with problematic archival material & collaborating outside library’s ‘traditional’ user base

🎟️ bit.ly/RLUKICIL

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Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social · 27d

What can you learn from a book you can’t read?
This visual reading of Sanskrit manuscripts from the collections at @theul.bsky.social explores how the colour red offers meaning and enchantment beyond language.
www.theheritagelab.in/visual-readi...

Seeing Red: A Visual Reading of Sanskrit Manuscripts

In this visual reading of Sanskrit manuscripts from the collections at Cambridge University Library, explore how the colour red offers meaning beyond language.

www.theheritagelab.in

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 28d

It's #HillfortsWednesday - huzzah 🥳

Here's Hollingbury Camp, a wonderful univallate Early Iron Age subsquare hillfort at the NE edge of Brighton East #Sussex

Aerial 📷 © 1948 K-D100 from the excellent CUCAP archive @camdiglib.bsky.social

cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-GEOG...

The rampart and ditch of an Iron Age hillfort, rampart worn down to the chalk by visitors, from the air. The interior of the hillfort is partially covered with gorse, the exterior by trees to the lower left and the bunkers and green of a golf course

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The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Earliest extant portrait of an English king: Aethelstan (r. 924–927) with St Cuthbert from the Parker Library copy of Bede's two Lives of St Cuthbert (CCCC MS 183)

Prof David Woodman of @camhistory.bsky.social highlights Aethelstan's impact on England's history
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/new...

Opening of a 10th-century manuscript that is now in the Parker Library as CCCC MS 183. Opening shows a full page portrait of King Aethelstan (d. 939) presenting a book to St Cuthbert, or rather the community of St Cuthbert, then already in exile from Lindisfarne. The full page image has a floral border in red, king under an arch on the left and St Cuthbert in front of a brick structure topped with a cross.
Right of the image contains the beginning of Life of St Cuthbert, written in Latin. First three lines in red (rubric) is followed by two lines of monumental script in multiple colours, after which the text itself continues in usual brown ink.

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XR Stories @xrstories.bsky.social · Sep 5

Join us online from 3:30pm on 25 September for a webinar about about two research and development collaborations funded by XR Network+ that are using Virtual Production technologies to advance the capabilities of digital simulations. Register your free place: hubs.li/Q03CwKvP0

XR Network+: Simulation and XR

Learn about two R&D projects using Virtual Production technologies to advance the capabilities of digital simulations.

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Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social · Sep 1

Q: When is it a good thing that life is dragon you round in circles?
A: When it's these dragons doing the dragin!
Check out the recently digitised Christ’s College Statutes, the ‘Treasury’ copy, from 1506!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CHRI...

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · Aug 19

Queen Caroline visited the 70-year-old Flamsteed, and 41-year-old observatory in 1716, where, she told Leibniz, "instead of the stars I had the most beautiful view of the world." She added, "His house and his figure have the air of Merlin." #histsci

Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · Aug 19

John Flamsteed, appointed England's first Astronomer Royal, born #OTD 1646; established Royal Observatory Greenwich, prepared comprehensive star catalogue of almost 3,000 stars, & stellar atlas Atlas Coelestis (both pub. posthumously).
Royal Observatory Greenwich

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Aug 19

🌱 BHL’s Call for Support soft-closes on Aug 31. 🧪
With @clirnews.bsky.social as our new fiscal sponsor, we now have an administrative & financial home, but we still need partners, hosts, funders & long-term investment to secure BHL's future. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL

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Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social · Aug 12

Not quite the #perseids, but Newton's observations of the comet of 1682!
#astronomy #sky #lookup
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Diagrams showing Newton's observations of the comet of 1682.

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Richard Nevell @richardnevell.bsky.social · Aug 11

As promised, we will have an online Wiki session on 26 August. You'll need to register to get the Zoom link. Come along and help us redress the gender and racial imbalances on Wikipedia's medieval topics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:M... #MAMOmonth #MedievalWiki

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Cambridge Development & Alumni Relations @yourscambridge.bsky.social · Jan 15

Hidden treasures of Cambridge Digital Library:

Take a look at some of the unexpected discoveries amongst the lesser known collections of @CamDigLib#libraries #archives #digitalcollections

ow.ly/DKq250AsEzO

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · Aug 8

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