Help shape the future of BHL 🌱 As we begin to modernise the BHL platform, we’re inviting BHL users to share their experiences through a 3–5 minute survey. Your responses will directly inform our priorities, identify problems, guide improvements, and shape a better BHL experience: bit.ly/4fpc75D 🧪

BHL User Experience

BHL is beginning a major modernisation of its platform. We’d like users to help shape what comes next. This 3–5 minute survey asks about how you use BHL and the improvements you’d like to see. Your r...

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🎥 Our Annual FAIRsharing Webinar for 2026 is now available! doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Learn how our community-curated registry of standards, databases and policies has grown in scope, connectivity and reuse; also, how we support data management, FAIR assessment, policy implementation & more.

Along with your DMP and other grant materials, checklists are great tools to help inform meeting agendas as you work through a research project planning process with your team. Examples of checklists, one for each phase of the research cycle 👇 datamgmtinedresearch.com/plan#plan-ch...

Chapter 6 Planning Data Management | Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research

Figure 6.1: Planning in the research project life cycle. Planning data management is distinct from the two-to-five-page data management plan (DMP) discussed in Chapter 5. Here we are spending a...

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Calling all #researchlibraries - my colleagues and I are mapping the #FAIR support across #Europe If you can spare 15 min please fill out and share our survey vuamsterdam.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Um, apparently this was *very* soon, as it was published yesterday. Delighted to share my latest article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Against cultural heritage wastelands

The twin scholarly booms of the 2010s, digital humanities and public humanities, introduced a relatively accessbile suite of platforms for managing digital and digitised content. Sudden interest in...

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Heather Froehlich@heatherfro.bsky.social · last mo.

Proofs! coming soon to an Internet Histories near you

Keynote Speech - Patrick Weil 📖To begin the second day of the LIBER 2026 Annual Conference there will be a presentation from Patrick Weil, focusing on Open knowledge and creating opportunities. #LIBER2026

🔑 Second Keynote at #LIBER2026 As we begin the third morning of the conference, we're still reflecting on the inspiring keynote delivered on Day 2 by Patrick Weil, "The Power of Libraries in an Uncertain World." 📽️Follow the final conference day via livestream from 12:00 CEST: ow.ly/Qf5O50ZjVl6

Keynote Speech - Jemimah Steinfeld 📚 Currently happening: a deep and vital discussion on day 3 of the #LIBER2026 Annual Conference concerning the topic of Missing Pages: The Global Assault on Research Libraries, presented by Jemimah Steinfeld, related to modern societal issues on censorship.

#TIL: Index on Censorship https://www.indexoncensorship.org/ "Freedom of expression is under attack. Everywhere you turn, powerful forces – whether driven by money or wielding authority – are trying to silence us. And with every passing day, the threat grows stronger. But for over 50 years […]

📍 Persée est présent à la conférence annuelle de @libereurope.bsky.social pour présenter un poster sur un enjeu clé des bibliothèques numériques : la qualité des données, indispensable à la fiabilité des collections et à une intégration responsable de l'IA. Venez échanger avec nous ! #LIBER2026

🌟 #LIBER2026 Live Streaming Available Get access to several key moments, including all keynote speakers, and the opening and closing ceremonies. Tune in and be part of the conference week, wherever you are. 📌🔗 Find the schedule & access the stream: https://ow.ly/rCma50Zeh0B

It's Conference Week! ⭐ Follow this week's conversations by using #LIBER2026 & get ready with these resources: 📌 Livestreaming: liberconference.eu/follow-liber2026-online/ 📌 Conference programme: liberconference.eu/programme/ 📌 Discover Norway: liberconference.eu/about-norway/

➡️ LIBER Response to EC Call for Evidence on the expected targeted initiative for a better #copyright environment for European creativity & innovation. The aim of the call is to collect the information for the review of the 2019 Copyright in the DSMD. Read our response: https://ow.ly/zIKb50ZgQFM

LIBER's Response - Call for Evidence for Better Copyright Environment for European Creativity & Innovation - LIBER Europe

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New @arl.org and CNI Report: Strategic Implications of AI Futures for #ResearchLibraries: Workshop Report, written by Karen Estlund and Cynthia Hudson Vitale from the workshop, Futurescape Libraries: Mapping Possibilities for Tomorrow’s Information Hubs. Read the report: www.arl.org/news/arl-and...

ARL and CNI Release Report on Strategic Implications of AI Futures for Research Libraries — Association of Research Libraries

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the research and information environment in consequential ways. To help research library leaders think strategically about those changes, the Association of Resear...

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Aktionswoche zum Umgang mit Daten: Love Data Week (09.02.-13.02.2026) Auch 2026 bietet forschungsdaten.info einen Überblick zu Veranstaltungen im deutschsprachigen Raum. forschungsdaten.info/fdm-im-deuts... #FDMPower #LoveData26 #Forschungsdaten #Forschungsdatenmanagement #FDM #RDM #OpenScience

📣🧠Introducing our new webinar series: LIBER AI Pulse 💬Kicked off by AI Taskforce, the sessions will feature #LIBER Working Groups discussing #AI from their focus area. Registration for each session is now open! 📅 Session 1: Feb 27 (12:30 CET): ow.ly/O7T750Y5pcF About the series: ow.ly/qZXW50Y5pcG

The report by the Swiss Science Council SSC on Research Libraries as Data Hubs, to which I had the pleasure to contribute, is now available: zenodo.org/records/1737... #researchlibraries #academiclibraries

Ich freue mich, bei der kommenden Weiterbildungsrunde von #bibliosuisse Grundlegende KI-Kompetenzen für Bibliotheksteams unterrichten zu dürfen. Nebst Prompting und Recherche wird ein Fokus auch auf Ethikfragen liegen. Mehr dazu inkl. Anmeldemöglichkeit unter www.bibliosuisse.ch/angebote/det...

📣Save the Date for the LIBER Winter Event 2026! 📅 26-27 November 2026 📍 The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK), Croatia Find out more here: https://ow.ly/h9Gp50XzSnV #WELIBER26

Join us online on 2 Dec for ‘Old, New, Precarious Data’, the 1st event of the 2025-6 @dh-researchhub.bsky.social seminar series on incompleteness & loss in digital cultural heritage collections. Speakers include @beatricecannelli.bsky.social, @heatherfro.bsky.social, Leontien Talboom & Amelia Acker

Old, New, Precarious Data

Old, New, Precarious Data is the first event of the 2025-2026 DHRH flagship seminar series on incompleteness and loss in digital cultural heritage collections.

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I'm happy to announce the going live of the Swiss Natural History Collections portal swissnatcoll.ch, a project, I had the pleasure to contribute to over the past few years. It's hosted by @gbif.org and provides open access to biological & paleontological specimen data. youtu.be/KgHyJqWjLvo?...

Swiss natural history collections network (SwissCollNet)

YouTube video by Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT

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I wrote some words for this.weekinsecurity.com about the security and privacy risks with AI browsers, like Perplexity's Comet and OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas, and why they should really come with enormous warning labels: "⚠️ Use at your own risk! ⚠️"

AI browsers are a hot mess of security risks

AI-enabled web browsers are putting their users' data, security, and privacy at risk from rudimentary prompt injection attacks.

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Another day another study showing that "AI assistants" do not work reliably for cognitive tasks. "Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory" www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

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Something I was able to experience time and time again. Leading with kindness and integrity should be normal, and not something special. "With great power comes great responsibility" is very true in supervising theses.

Nature@nature.com · 10mo ago

Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research go.nature.com/4hriohE

For #OAWeek, the OABN & @uolpress.bsky.social bring you a resource focused on how to include material that you *don't* own in your #OA book. 'Frequently Asked Questions on Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books': openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/22/f...

Watch the video to learn how the first project of the EU-level Copyright Infrastructure Development Network (CITF) explored how copyright data must evolve for the future. ©️✅ 💡 Want to know more? Check out the full project report and watch the #CITF seminar on Youtube! Links to both in the comments.

Our #LIBER working group on #RDM will be hosting a free #webinar on managing research software. Spread the news and join us if you have time.

LIBER Europe@libereurope.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Upcoming webinar: Managing Research Software 🌐 💡 In this session, hosted by LIBER Research Data Management Working Group, you'll learn about research software, what requirements exist around managing it, and practicalities on writing Software Management Plans. 👉 Register now: ow.ly/Tu2g50WZgRh

Das Brainstormen kann starten: Der Call for Papers für die 114. BiblioCon 2026 ist offen 🚀 Einreichungen sind bis zum 30.11.2025 möglich. Die #BiblioCon26 findet unter dem Motto "Analog trifft Algorithmus" vom 19.-22.05.2026 in Berlin statt. 2026.bibliocon.de/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers - 114. BiblioCon 2026 – Bibliotheken-Kongress Berlin

Bitte klicken Sie auf diesen Button um zum Einreichungssystem zu gelangen.

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EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS today released Apertus, Switzerland's first large-scale, multilingual language model (LLM). As a fully open LLM, it serves as a building block for developers and organizations to create their own applications. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for trans...

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💡Interesting training for all research support staff, including #researchlibrarians. Sign up as an organisation to train up to three members of staff!: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/developing...

Developing Research Data and Software Management (RDSM) Policies

Virtual workshops and drop-in sessions to help organisations to develop or update research data and software management policies.

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Digital Curation Centre@digitalcuration.bsky.social · last yr.

📚Calling all research librarians! Are you supporting researchers to manage their data and software more effectively? We're partnering with @rdaeurope.bsky.social to deliver virtual training in September 2025. 🔗Register now with up to three colleagues from your institution bit.ly/3GxUuD7