New in the International Journal for Digital Art History: @evisualyn.bsky.social traces the evolution of authenticity infrastructures from documentary film to AI-era content credentials, exploring provenance, visual verification, OSINT, and the future of trust in digital images. #DigitalArtHistory

Interdisciplinary fellowships @ Metropolitan Museum of Art. Deadline: 10/15/26 Supports research projects of various disciplines that use Met resources to explore connections between cultures & collections, bridging the arts, humanities, & sciences. Fellowship period: 9/1/27 - 8/31/28

📢 Breaking #HeritageScience news: Dates announced for the Second Call of the RICHeS Access Fund Get up to £20,000 to cover the total cost of a heritage or conservation science research project! ⏰ Official launch: 14 September 2026 ⭐ Applicant webinar: 21 October 2026 Learn more: buff.ly/ypUckVt

RICHeS Access Fund – RICHeS

The RICHeS Access Fund helps researchers, organisations and heritage professionals gain access to cutting-edge equipment, collections and expertise, including mobile units. By covering costs that…

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'Seven, or, how to play a game' by Joanna Kavenna is so specific to my interests I can only believe it was written for me. Or maybe everyone reading it gets a version tailored for then?

Do you use digitized medieval manuscripts in any capacity? Do you have opinions about the metadata that describes them? We want to hear from you! Please take a moment to fill out our very short survey. Please repost and share with anyone you know who might be interested! forms.gle/sBPXAnoRhwe1...

Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: Metadata Preferences

A brief survey about what metadata formats people prefer to go along with their digitized medieval manuscripts. The results of this survey will be used to consider what metadata we make available thro...

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Are you familiar with the University of Washington special collections Decorative and Decorated Papers digital collection? If not, you SHOULD be... what a cool resource! digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...

This is absolutely the stuff of nightmares

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holy *crap* "One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months" full story here: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Please join us at 9am KST for "Size Matters: Extracting Dimensional Metadata from Cultural Heritage Digitization Targets," in person in Daejeon (rm 209-211) or online at #DH2026! We'll present Autosizer, a new pair of text/image models for calculating physical dimensions from existing catalog data.

"With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience---Museums are embracing data-driven curation and a shifting technology landscape" arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience

Museums are embracing data-driven curation and a shifting technology landscape.

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Ever heard of “The Magic Carpet on Wheels”? Come with me on a medieval manuscript magic carpet ride across North America in the 1950s!

The papyrologists already know, but FYI for everyone else: there's a brand new papyri.info out this week. Kudos to the team! digipres.club/@ryanfb/1169... #papyrology #DH

"The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI" by Jacob Polay, Chloë Farr, and Jessica Jack for Active History. I'm so glad to see these critiques!

The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI

talkie’s poor representation of history is a side effect of a larger problem. The model was conceptually built as an experimental tool to see if language models can accurately predict the future, a…

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Zeus's Law does sound like a buddy cop show. He plays fast and loose with the mortals, but he always gets results.

Just published open-access: @sarahciston.com et al., *Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI* direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon.... @berrydm.bsky.social

Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI

How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventin

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How has the Museum Data Service helped Art UK break new records? Through the MDS, record and image ingestion is now at least 20 times faster than at any other time during @artukdotorg.bsky.social 's history. David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social explains in museumdata.uk/blog/how-has...

How has the MDS helped Art UK break new records? - Museum Data Service

How did the Museum Data Service help Art UK set new records? Through the MDS, record and image ingestion is now at least 20 times faster than at any other time during Art UK’s history.

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Reading Felix Platter's C16th diary - it alternates between such familiar situations (bad dancing) and then some utterly terrible mad stuff. Still, sad to finish it.

We're hiring a #ProjectManager to lead a multi-year, cross-institutional programme spanning cultural programming, professional development, research, and policy. ⭐ More info + #apply: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland 📅 Closing date: 3pm, 24 July 2026. #Jobfairy

How do we calculate loss of written works? A depressing but important new study notes that "the loss was far greater than scholars once thought. Researchers estimate that up to 60% of medieval literary works and more than 95% of the manuscripts that once carried them have disappeared over time." 📜🖋️

Up to 60% of medieval texts and 95% of manuscripts have vanished, study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine

A new study estimates 60% of medieval texts and over 95% of manuscripts were lost through centuries of copying and destruction.

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In summary: come and see, you will never see so many famous docs from that period all at once in the UK. If you're coming on Sunday it's Archives Fest, ticketed and with loads of extra goodies www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/exh...

Revolution 250: America's Independence Story 1763–1783

Marking the 250th anniversary of The US Declaration of Independence, this powerful free exhibition charts the emergence of the United States of America.

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Read the feasibility study for the European Books Data Commons and discover the next steps! Explore how European libraries can make the full text of millions of digitised books available for research, innovation and contribute to a European AI infrastructure built on public values: bit.ly/4gs09tY

Feasibility study paves the way for a European Books Data Commons

The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and the Europeana Foundation have just published a feasibility study for the European Books Data Commons (EBDC).

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As promised! The @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social has generously provided support for two days of public-facing ms activities this July. The events will be free of charge, and there is funding for ECR travel (defined as ≤7 years post-PhD, with preference for those not yet in permanent employment). 1/

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse@stemma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

STEMMA will be hosting its inaugural Manuscripts Week this year starting 20 July. Watch our socials for details, including opportunities to get involved.

📢 Job Opportunity: Postdoc Researcher (50%) – Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage Informatics 📍Rome ⏳8 August 2026 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/opportuni... 🎓 Early-career researchers with a PhD in Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage Informatics, Computer/Information Science, or related fields.

When @bodleian.ox.ac.uk faced a real cyberattack threat, they shut down 20 "Specialist Digital Resources"—and discovered hidden researcher communities who depended on them. Watch this CNI session on bringing 13 of the resources back online while balancing competing user, tech, and security needs.

Balancing Information Security and User Needs to Rebuild Specialist Digital Resources

Tipping the Scales—Balancing Information Security and User Needs to Rebuild Specialist Digital Resources In response to an increased and very real threat of cyberattack (as the United Kingdom…

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The exhibition for the British and Mexican artist Leonora Carrington is well worth scoring tickets to.

First 50 euro museum tote bag I've ever seen. I guess now it's a race between £10 pints (£8.25 is my current worst price paid) and 100 euro tote bags.

A permissive license crafted for machine-learning models from Linux Foundation and backed by Nvidia. openmdw.ai

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A permissive license crafted for machine-learning models

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arXiv goes independent blog.arxiv.org/2026/06/30/a...

💡 HSDS Grants Programme Round 2 NOW OPEN 💡 Got heritage science data that deserves a wider audience? Ready to build cutting-edge digital tools for research? We can help. ✨ 🔓 Theme 1: Generate Datasets (up to £25k) 🖥️ Stream 2: Build virtual research environments (up to £15k) Visit buff.ly/oU5RGiJ

New training opportunities 👀 The Heritage Science Data Service is running another FREE webinar on depositing heritage science data! 💡 ‘How to deposit data with the HSDS’ 💡 14 July 2026 (11:00-13:00 BST) 💡 Learn more and register: buff.ly/AKirgxD #HeritageScience @hsds-update.bsky.social

Upcoming Training

How to deposit data with the HSDS - This training session introduces depositing heritage science data, particularly with the Heritage Science Data…

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📣 🧐 Come see over half a million freely available records. Dive in and explore! 👇 View 194,000 new releases and 10 new features in one place 👇 www.virtualtreasury.ie/2026-new-rel... New to the Virtual Treasury? Check out our Help page for mini-videos and a User Guide www.virtualtreasury.ie/help

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