Digital Scholarship @ British Library
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Enabling innovative research with British Library digital collections. Posts by our Digital Curators https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/
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RE: https://techhub.social/@BL_DigiSchol/115532805972798286
One last call out before we email people preparing posters for #FF2025 - any recommendations for fast, reliable printers near the @britishlibrary.bsky.social in St Pancras?
One last call out before we email people preparing posters for #FF2025 - any recommendations for fast, reliable printers near the @britishlibrary.bsky.social in St Pancras?
Digital Scholarship at the BL (@[email protected])
Can anyone recommend printers near St Pancras / the British Library for people printing their #FF2025 posters?
techhub.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
RE: https://techhub.social/@BL_DigiSchol/115532805972798286
One last call out before we email people preparing posters for #FF2025 - any recommendations for fast, reliable printers near the @britishlibrary.bsky.social in St Pancras?
One last call out before we email people preparing posters for #FF2025 - any recommendations for fast, reliable printers near the @britishlibrary.bsky.social in St Pancras?
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I'm going to be speaking at the Environmental Impact of Digital event: 25 November, 11am-3pm, organised by the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Bodleian Libraries. Fully booked onsite but available online: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-en...
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The Environmental Impact of Digital
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November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I'm going to be speaking at the Environmental Impact of Digital event: 25 November, 11am-3pm, organised by the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Bodleian Libraries. Fully booked onsite but available online: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-en...
@bldigischol.bsky.social
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One last call out before we email people preparing posters for #FF2025 - any recommendations for fast, reliable printers near the @britishlibrary.bsky.social in St Pancras?
Can anyone recommend printers near St Pancras / the British Library for people printing their #FF2025 posters?
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
One last call out before we email people preparing posters for #FF2025 - any recommendations for fast, reliable printers near the @britishlibrary.bsky.social in St Pancras?
RE: https://glammr.us/@universalviewer/115542994436445391
All are welcome! Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 to catch up with recent work and learn about what's next
All are welcome! Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 to catch up with recent work and learn about what's next
Universal Viewer (@[email protected])
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We're looking forward to seeing you at UVCON next week! Join us for a half-day of presentations and conversation about the past, present and future of the Universal Viewer. Here's a peek at the schedule
glammr.us
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
RE: https://glammr.us/@universalviewer/115542994436445391
All are welcome! Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 to catch up with recent work and learn about what's next
All are welcome! Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 to catch up with recent work and learn about what's next
What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
Guides: What's currently available: Introduction
This guide provides up to date details of which services are currently available following a cyber-attack, and which aren't.
bl.libguides.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
Huge thanks to all our @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues who've been working so hard on this for so long!
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Huge thanks to all our @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues who've been working so hard on this for so long!
Join us for the 2025 Universal Viewer (UV) Annual Conference held online Tues 18 November 2025 14:00-18:00 UTC/GMT. Find out more and book your place: https://uvcon.io
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 [1/2]
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 [1/2]
UVCON
UVCON
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November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Join us for the 2025 Universal Viewer (UV) Annual Conference held online Tues 18 November 2025 14:00-18:00 UTC/GMT. Find out more and book your place: https://uvcon.io
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 [1/2]
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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
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New research on how public libraries and librarians in England tackle mis/dis-information - short survey, please complete & share app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/a... #IntellectualFreedom
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New research on how public libraries and librarians in England tackle mis/dis-information - short survey, please complete & share app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/a... #IntellectualFreedom
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My topic guide on Digital Sustainability is now out! It includes topics like digitisation, digital preservation, websites, data management, green software & IT, AI and more -- and has recommendations for tutorials, communities of practice and some things to watch and read.
#GreenLibrariesWeek
#GreenLibrariesWeek
New LIBER Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guide focused on Digital Sustainability!
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
Digital Sustainability – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides
libereurope.github.io
October 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
My topic guide on Digital Sustainability is now out! It includes topics like digitisation, digital preservation, websites, data management, green software & IT, AI and more -- and has recommendations for tutorials, communities of practice and some things to watch and read.
#GreenLibrariesWeek
#GreenLibrariesWeek
Work at the British Library on pulling structured information from scanned card catalogues:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250805102551/https:/blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/convert-a-card-past-present-and-future-of-catalogue-cards-retroconversion.html [1/2]
https://web.archive.org/web/20250805102551/https:/blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/convert-a-card-past-present-and-future-of-catalogue-cards-retroconversion.html [1/2]
October 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Work at the British Library on pulling structured information from scanned card catalogues:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250805102551/https:/blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/convert-a-card-past-present-and-future-of-catalogue-cards-retroconversion.html [1/2]
https://web.archive.org/web/20250805102551/https:/blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/convert-a-card-past-present-and-future-of-catalogue-cards-retroconversion.html [1/2]
Curious about using 'public domain' British Library Flickr images? https://web.archive.org/web/20240525111448/https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2024/04/curious-about-using-public-domain-british-library-flickr-images.html
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October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Curious about using 'public domain' British Library Flickr images? https://web.archive.org/web/20240525111448/https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2024/04/curious-about-using-public-domain-british-library-flickr-images.html
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Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
New LIBER Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guide focused on Digital Sustainability!
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
Digital Sustainability – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides
libereurope.github.io
October 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
New LIBER Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guide focused on Digital Sustainability!
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
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In her great talk hosted by @pelagios.bsky.social, @miaout.bsky.social mentioned the AI4LAM project, which has this awesome "Awesome List" of AI resources for the GLAM sector sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/...
ai4lam - Awesome List
Use this page to learn more about the AI4LAM Awesome List and how to contribute to it!
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October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
In her great talk hosted by @pelagios.bsky.social, @miaout.bsky.social mentioned the AI4LAM project, which has this awesome "Awesome List" of AI resources for the GLAM sector sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/...
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In which Sak Supple shares his experiments with using LLMs to transcribe 18th and 19th century playbills from the British Library - manicules, long 's' and all! 'blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs' www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
#OCR #TheaterHistory #LLMs #AI #ATR
#OCR #TheaterHistory #LLMs #AI #ATR
blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs
Search for, view and download 300 years of theatre posters from Great Britain and Ireland, 1600–1902.
www.bl.uk
October 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In which Sak Supple shares his experiments with using LLMs to transcribe 18th and 19th century playbills from the British Library - manicules, long 's' and all! 'blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs' www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
#OCR #TheaterHistory #LLMs #AI #ATR
#OCR #TheaterHistory #LLMs #AI #ATR
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Call for HEI Partners/Academic Supervisors to supervise a PhD with BL European collections curators on 'Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South' - includes support from us in @bldigischol.bsky.social www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South
Learn how Yugoslavia forged a unique path between East and West.
www.bl.uk
October 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Call for HEI Partners/Academic Supervisors to supervise a PhD with BL European collections curators on 'Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South' - includes support from us in @bldigischol.bsky.social www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
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My most excellent colleague @adi-keinan.bsky.social mentions the @bldigischol.bsky.social internal training programme on digital scholarship - a lot of our material has been turned into public guides at libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui... (thank you @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social ) #KnowledgeIsHuman
Welcome – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides
libereurope.github.io
October 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My most excellent colleague @adi-keinan.bsky.social mentions the @bldigischol.bsky.social internal training programme on digital scholarship - a lot of our material has been turned into public guides at libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui... (thank you @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social ) #KnowledgeIsHuman
Are you missing specific blog posts from our Digital Scholarship blog? You can check what's been captured by the Internet Archive at https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/ *
October 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Are you missing specific blog posts from our Digital Scholarship blog? You can check what's been captured by the Internet Archive at https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/ *
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#DH2026 CFP is now live! Submit your work on fostering meaningful connection between communities, cultures and emerging technologies.
🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement
🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement
October 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
#DH2026 CFP is now live! Submit your work on fostering meaningful connection between communities, cultures and emerging technologies.
🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement
🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement
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Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Please share with any musicians you know!
Please share with any musicians you know!
Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores
Help us to collect digital scores from composers and independent publishers.
www.bl.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Please share with any musicians you know!
Please share with any musicians you know!
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Hey! We have two new draft chapters of the Living with Machines book up online for your delectation! One on Mapreader and one on the Environmental Scan. read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/liv...
Living with Machines | University of London Press
*Living With Machines* is a data-driven history of the coming of the machine age in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Featuring an innovative open access edition enhanced with interactive maps, ...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hey! We have two new draft chapters of the Living with Machines book up online for your delectation! One on Mapreader and one on the Environmental Scan. read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/liv...
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Our President, @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social announces her Presidential Citations.
🎉Congratulations to @philbradley.bsky.social, Dr Carla Hayden & Maja Maricevic. Three individuals who've shown exceptional dedication, leadership & innovation. #CILIPAGM www.cilip.org.uk/page/preside...
🎉Congratulations to @philbradley.bsky.social, Dr Carla Hayden & Maja Maricevic. Three individuals who've shown exceptional dedication, leadership & innovation. #CILIPAGM www.cilip.org.uk/page/preside...
October 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Our President, @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social announces her Presidential Citations.
🎉Congratulations to @philbradley.bsky.social, Dr Carla Hayden & Maja Maricevic. Three individuals who've shown exceptional dedication, leadership & innovation. #CILIPAGM www.cilip.org.uk/page/preside...
🎉Congratulations to @philbradley.bsky.social, Dr Carla Hayden & Maja Maricevic. Three individuals who've shown exceptional dedication, leadership & innovation. #CILIPAGM www.cilip.org.uk/page/preside...
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Go Maja! 'Maja Maricevic is awarded the Presidential Citation in recognition of her outstanding work as a driving force behind the evolution of the Green Libraries movement.'
Our President, @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social announces her Presidential Citations.
🎉Congratulations to @philbradley.bsky.social, Dr Carla Hayden & Maja Maricevic. Three individuals who've shown exceptional dedication, leadership & innovation. #CILIPAGM www.cilip.org.uk/page/preside...
🎉Congratulations to @philbradley.bsky.social, Dr Carla Hayden & Maja Maricevic. Three individuals who've shown exceptional dedication, leadership & innovation. #CILIPAGM www.cilip.org.uk/page/preside...
October 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Go Maja! 'Maja Maricevic is awarded the Presidential Citation in recognition of her outstanding work as a driving force behind the evolution of the Green Libraries movement.'