Digital Scholarship @ British Library
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Enabling innovative research with British Library digital collections. Posts by our Digital Curators were at https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/ We're not age verified (!) so we can't see DMs. Relayed from Mastodon by Skymoth
Exciting news - the British Newspaper Archive's new platform is here Explore millions of digitised pages of newspapers and other publications from our British and Irish collections, dating as far back as the 1700s We can't wait to get exploring 🗞 link.bl.uk/7ci
Library and archive professionals – don't miss the EPICo Conference 2026 hosted here at the Library this autumn We’ll be exploring collaborative approaches to the management and preservation of physical library collections From 30 Sept – 2 Oct Find out more and book your place link.bl.uk/epico
We’re pleased to announce the grantees of the most recent round of the @esmeefairbairn.bsky.social Communities and Collections Fund 🙌 The fund supports projects using museum collections to improve inclusion and equitable working with community partners. Scroll to meet the awardees 🧵 1/3
📋 The #DH2026 FAQ is now live! Badge pick-up, getting to Daejeon, Whova, and presentation guidelines — everything you need before you arrive. Onsite presenters: please read the presentation section carefully. dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-faq
DH2026 FAQ - DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
DH2026 FAQ Location: Daejeon Convention Center (DCC), Daejeon, Republic of Korea | July 27–31, 2026 Official English Homepage · Google Maps (Plus Code: 99GR+3P Daejeon) Note: The Daejeon Convention…
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🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 With #DH2026 in #Daejeon starting next week, please join me in applauding the local organizers for publishing the complete "Book of (extended) Abstracts" ahead of schedule! In PDF with no less than 1013 pages, and also in glorious XML versions! […] [Original post on fedihum.org]
⏰ #DH2026 — Registration Deadlines Complete BOTH registration and payment by: - In-Person — 23:00 AoE, 6 July 2026 - Virtual — 23:00 AoE, 17 July 2026 All registration & payment must be completed in advance. Register now: dh2026.adho.org/conference-r... 📍 Daejeon, Korea · 27–31 July 2026
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📢 The DH2026 Main Conference Program is now live! 📍 Daejeon, Korea · July 29–31 🔎 Search your session: dh2026.adho.org/program-agen... 111 sessions · 421 talks · 94 posters · 3 keynotes Authors: please check your session details. #DH2026 #DigitalHumanities
Program Agenda – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
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Our Research Software Engineer Harry Lloyd has blogged about his time in post, what being a Digital Research RSE at the British Library is like, and why you should apply for his role! Applications open until 19th July www.bl.uk/stories/blog... ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...
Research software engineering at the British Library
Why should you apply for the job of Research Software Engineer in the Digital Research team at the British Library?
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EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...
EThOS records restored
We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.
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Our Research Software Engineer Harry Lloyd has blogged about his time in post, what being a Digital Research RSE at the British Library is like, and why you should apply for his role! Applications open until 19th July www.bl.uk/stories/blog... ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...
Research software engineering at the British Library
Why should you apply for the job of Research Software Engineer in the Digital Research team at the British Library?
bl.uk
Our Research Software Engineer Harry Lloyd has blogged about his time in post, what being a Digital Research RSE at the British is like, and why you should apply for his role! Applications open until 19th July, link in the blog post https://www.bl. [1/2]
Exciting news - our online platform of over 650,000 metadata records of UK doctoral theses (EThOS) is now available again Find out more about EThOS and how to use it on our website link.bl.uk/kxk
The National Library of the Netherlands and Europeana have published a feasibility study for the European Books Data Commons https://www.kb.nl/en/news/feasibility-study-paves-way-european-books-data-commons
EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored
EThOS records restored
We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.
bl.uk
EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...
EThOS records restored
We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.
bl.uk
LwM output! 'a dataset of text from English-language newspaper articles that describe some sort of accident involving machinery'; annotated by volunteers on Zooniverse between 2019 and 2023; selected from over 20 newspaper titles published between 1835 and 1920.' doi.org/10.23636/xrk...
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Test the use of local AI in improving access and interpretation of born-digital archives in this funded fellowship Apply by 15 July link.bl.uk/4j9
Help widen the knowledge and understanding of newspapers in our collection from Commonwealth countries in this funded fellowship Apply by 15 July link.bl.uk/jy5
Come and spend the next academic year embedded in our curatorial teams Two exciting fellowships are open to postdoctoral, early-career researchers which can be undertaken over 12-months full-time or part-time equivalent, as part of the Joanna and Graham Barker Fellowship Scheme Find out more👇
Looking forward to a day of #RSE topics at the: https://step-up.ac.uk/events/step-up-2026/schedule/ #DH #DigitalScholarship #StepUp2026 event
STEP-UP RSLondon 2026: Schedule
Developing a Strategic TEchnical Platform for University technical Professionals
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The Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI, 5th century) was one of the tragic victims of the Ashburnham House fire in 1731. Today, we’re delighted to release new multispectral imaging of the manuscript, allowing us to read its texts for the first time in hundreds of years. www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Rescued from the flames: the Cotton Genesis restored to life
New multispectral imaging at the British Library has helped us to read one of the earliest surviving illuminated Bibles.
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... by strange coincidence, the British Library @blmedieval.bsky.social has today released new multispectral imaging for this manuscript! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Rescued from the flames: the Cotton Genesis restored to life
New multispectral imaging at the British Library has helped us to read one of the earliest surviving illuminated Bibles.
bl.uk
FAQ: it's very suited to a strong engineer early in their career. The outgoing RSE had opportunities to mentor a junior data scientist, to collaborate closely with specialists and develop their skills leading self-contained projects - it's a good fit for someone who wants to grow in the role.
mia ridge@miaout.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm biased but there's an incredible Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer (DH RSE) job going at the British Library, working with the Digital Research team, curators and more ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web... #JobFairy #RSEs #JobKlaxon
Go the @bldigischol.bsky.social 's UV team and IIIF! 'switch between the visible light, ultraviolet and infrared images of a single folio in the same canvas. You can also pan out, zoom in and rotate the images and change their brightness and contrast to study the fragments in closer detail'
Medieval Manuscripts@blmedieval.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI, 5th century) was one of the tragic victims of the Ashburnham House fire in 1731. Today, we’re delighted to release new multispectral imaging of the manuscript, allowing us to read its texts for the first time in hundreds of years. www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Read the new Empowering Collections report now 📥 Back in 2019 we published Empowering Collections, a report which made recommendations calling for museums, funders and policy-makers to work together to ensure that museum collections are empowering, relevant and dynamic.
We have released a few more tickets for our upcoming conference on the Cotton Genesis, taking place this Friday 19 June. We'll be celebrating new research on the manuscript which has been supported by multispectral imaging of the entire volume and its fragments. events.bl.uk/events/multi...
Multispectral Gaze: New Approaches to the Cotton Genesis | British Library
The Cotton Genesis (British Library, Cotton MS Otho B VI) is one of the greatest works of manuscript art to survive from late Antiquity and one of the most
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