mia ridge
@miaout.bsky.social
Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol at British Library. EB Secretary @adho-org. Access + UX for digital heritage, AI/machine learning and crowdsourcing in cultural heritage / GLAM / digital humanities. She, they. More at https://www.miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!
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We’re continuing to improve our website together as a community! 🚀
Our 2nd WEB DEV sprint kicked off yesterday. Check out our Miro for the MVP and our community board to see what we’re working on 💫
miro.com/app/board/uX...
github.com/orgs/Univers...
Our 2nd WEB DEV sprint kicked off yesterday. Check out our Miro for the MVP and our community board to see what we’re working on 💫
miro.com/app/board/uX...
github.com/orgs/Univers...
Miro | The Visual Workspace for Innovation
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November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We’re continuing to improve our website together as a community! 🚀
Our 2nd WEB DEV sprint kicked off yesterday. Check out our Miro for the MVP and our community board to see what we’re working on 💫
miro.com/app/board/uX...
github.com/orgs/Univers...
Our 2nd WEB DEV sprint kicked off yesterday. Check out our Miro for the MVP and our community board to see what we’re working on 💫
miro.com/app/board/uX...
github.com/orgs/Univers...
'writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. ... i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.'
mystical.garden/@thekla/1149...
mystical.garden/@thekla/1149...
thekla (@[email protected])
so the other day i was watching a video about the climate impact of ai and it was overall pretty good, but one part has been nagging at me for the past few days: they compared the carbon intensity of...
mystical.garden
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
'writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. ... i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.'
mystical.garden/@thekla/1149...
mystical.garden/@thekla/1149...
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“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!
Introducing the 'Software Paper': New ways to publish on research software in Computational Humanities Research
When Lauren Tilton first approached me about joining the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) journal’s Editorial Board as an Associate Editor, the thing that made the invitation so compelling and ...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!
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I have just published a blog post to support #library managers in building a culture of innovation in their library. Hope you find it useful janecowell8.medium.com/test-try-lea...
Test, Try, Learn: Building a Culture of Innovation in Public Libraries
Public libraries sit at the heart of their communities continually adapting to changing technologies, shifting user needs, and increasing…
janecowell8.medium.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I have just published a blog post to support #library managers in building a culture of innovation in their library. Hope you find it useful janecowell8.medium.com/test-try-lea...
With travel and parties for holidays coming up, it's a good time to backup your devices, just in case they're lost/damaged/stolen.
This reminder is brought to you via an unlikely car explosion in a carpark also taking out my brother's car and laptop
This reminder is brought to you via an unlikely car explosion in a carpark also taking out my brother's car and laptop
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
With travel and parties for holidays coming up, it's a good time to backup your devices, just in case they're lost/damaged/stolen.
This reminder is brought to you via an unlikely car explosion in a carpark also taking out my brother's car and laptop
This reminder is brought to you via an unlikely car explosion in a carpark also taking out my brother's car and laptop
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New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
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Experimenting with enabling MCP for access to V&A collections data - www.vam.ac.uk/blog/digital...
Trialing the V&A MCP server: A new way to search the V&A Collections • V&A Blog
A new way to search the V&A Collections We’re excited to announce the trial launch of our V&A MCP Server, a new way for AI tools including services such as ChatGPT and Claude to access...
www.vam.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Experimenting with enabling MCP for access to V&A collections data - www.vam.ac.uk/blog/digital...
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Curious about AI4LAM? You can join the Slack or Google Group via ai4lam.org or check out the community call tonight at 4pm GMT
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Curious about AI4LAM? You can join the Slack or Google Group via ai4lam.org or check out the community call tonight at 4pm GMT
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As part of my Wikimedian in Residence position at the Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute I've recently created documentation on linking publications to Natural History Collections in #Wikidata doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Linking publications to collections : adding cites work, uses or acknowledged statements to Wikidata
This resource outlines simple workflows for adding “cites work”, “uses” and “acknowledges” statements to Wikidata items for publications. These statements link publications to natural history collecti...
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
As part of my Wikimedian in Residence position at the Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute I've recently created documentation on linking publications to Natural History Collections in #Wikidata doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Important role - new Chair of the Board of @ukri.org
£33k for one day a week. Closes 11 Jan. Would be good from my perspective to get someone who understands higher education and the value of the arts, humanities and social sciences!
plusportal.perrettlaver.com/VacancyDetai...
£33k for one day a week. Closes 11 Jan. Would be good from my perspective to get someone who understands higher education and the value of the arts, humanities and social sciences!
plusportal.perrettlaver.com/VacancyDetai...
Perrett Laver - Leading Global Executive Search Firm
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November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Important role - new Chair of the Board of @ukri.org
£33k for one day a week. Closes 11 Jan. Would be good from my perspective to get someone who understands higher education and the value of the arts, humanities and social sciences!
plusportal.perrettlaver.com/VacancyDetai...
£33k for one day a week. Closes 11 Jan. Would be good from my perspective to get someone who understands higher education and the value of the arts, humanities and social sciences!
plusportal.perrettlaver.com/VacancyDetai...
Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the AI4LAM community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free! www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
Fantastic Futures 2025 - ConfTool Pro - Login
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November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the AI4LAM community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free! www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
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November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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Online registration for Fantastic Futures 2025 is now open! Watch all the Thursday and Friday sessions for free: https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/
#FF2025 #Ai4LAM
#FF2025 #Ai4LAM
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Online registration for Fantastic Futures 2025 is now open! Watch all the Thursday and Friday sessions for free: https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/
#FF2025 #Ai4LAM
#FF2025 #Ai4LAM
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From the British Library: Restoring our services – November 2025 update
https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/restoring-our-services-november-2025-update
Note the pause on ordering items if you're planning to use the reading rooms Dec 1 - 7!
https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/restoring-our-services-november-2025-update
Note the pause on ordering items if you're planning to use the reading rooms Dec 1 - 7!
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
www.bl.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
From the British Library: Restoring our services – November 2025 update
https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/restoring-our-services-november-2025-update
Note the pause on ordering items if you're planning to use the reading rooms Dec 1 - 7!
https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/restoring-our-services-november-2025-update
Note the pause on ordering items if you're planning to use the reading rooms Dec 1 - 7!
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This one's going on the reading list too: on "how disabled people can achieve meaningful control over archival collections that document their history and struggles," using Manchester’s Disabled People’s Archive as a case study. In the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice.
Who Owns Our History? Archiving the Disabled People’s Movement
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d1540329e135">This article examines how disabled people can achieve meaningful control over archival
c...
www.scienceopen.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This one's going on the reading list too: on "how disabled people can achieve meaningful control over archival collections that document their history and struggles," using Manchester’s Disabled People’s Archive as a case study. In the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice.
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I'm seeing a trend in our students at UBC as well. STEM students, but particularly CS students, looking to the humanities to provide more depth and meaning to their studies. Lean in and stay strong, humanities. Your time is here!
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I'm seeing a trend in our students at UBC as well. STEM students, but particularly CS students, looking to the humanities to provide more depth and meaning to their studies. Lean in and stay strong, humanities. Your time is here!
It's wonderful to see the @universalviewer.io community recognised like this! It's gone from strength to strength recently, with community sprints on everything from the developer experience to a better UX and adding features @iiif.bsky.social
Recognising the Power of Community Collaboration, the @universalviewer.io project (universalviewer.io) is shortlisted in the 6th Annual OpenUK Awards Community category sponsored by @Arm, taking place on 4th December at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. #openukawards
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's wonderful to see the @universalviewer.io community recognised like this! It's gone from strength to strength recently, with community sprints on everything from the developer experience to a better UX and adding features @iiif.bsky.social
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Recognising the Power of Community Collaboration, the @universalviewer.io project (universalviewer.io) is shortlisted in the 6th Annual OpenUK Awards Community category sponsored by @Arm, taking place on 4th December at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. #openukawards
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Recognising the Power of Community Collaboration, the @universalviewer.io project (universalviewer.io) is shortlisted in the 6th Annual OpenUK Awards Community category sponsored by @Arm, taking place on 4th December at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. #openukawards
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Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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I resent LLMs for many reasons, but forcing me to act like a cop to keep fake garbage out of publication is high on the list. I want to read people’s work in a spirit of generosity and curiosity again (‘I wonder what cool ideas might be in here?’) instead of ‘I got you now, you lying little shit’
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I resent LLMs for many reasons, but forcing me to act like a cop to keep fake garbage out of publication is high on the list. I want to read people’s work in a spirit of generosity and curiosity again (‘I wonder what cool ideas might be in here?’) instead of ‘I got you now, you lying little shit’
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Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research?
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research?
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
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On 1 December, submissions close for the #DHBenelux2026 conference, which will take place in Maastricht in June 2026 with 'Digital Storytelling' as its theme. That means you have 10 days left to submit your abstract on any digital humanities research! See the CfP: 2026.dhbenelux.org/call-for-pap...
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
On 1 December, submissions close for the #DHBenelux2026 conference, which will take place in Maastricht in June 2026 with 'Digital Storytelling' as its theme. That means you have 10 days left to submit your abstract on any digital humanities research! See the CfP: 2026.dhbenelux.org/call-for-pap...
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The 4th edition of ACMI’s Future of Arts Culture & Technology symposium now has Early Bird tix on sale. Feb 11-13 with first round of speakers announced. Expect some new provocations … www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...
Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium | 11 - 13 Feb 2026
A two-day symposium exploring the future of arts, culture, and technology in Australia – and the mindsets, capabilities and skills we need to get there.
www.acmi.net.au
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The 4th edition of ACMI’s Future of Arts Culture & Technology symposium now has Early Bird tix on sale. Feb 11-13 with first round of speakers announced. Expect some new provocations … www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...
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⏰ Reminder: #DH2026 Call for Papers Deadline Approaching!
The submission deadline for DH2026 is coming up:
📅 December 8, 2025
23:59 KST (Korea Standard Time)
14:59 GMT (UK)
09:59 EST (US East Coast)
Join us in Daejeon, South Korea (July 27-31, 2026)!
www.conftool.pro/dh2026/
The submission deadline for DH2026 is coming up:
📅 December 8, 2025
23:59 KST (Korea Standard Time)
14:59 GMT (UK)
09:59 EST (US East Coast)
Join us in Daejeon, South Korea (July 27-31, 2026)!
www.conftool.pro/dh2026/
DH2026 Daejeon - ConfTool Pro - Login
Log in to your account to access your submitted contributions and view the results of the reviewing process, and - upon registration for participation - view your registration and payment details. …
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November 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
⏰ Reminder: #DH2026 Call for Papers Deadline Approaching!
The submission deadline for DH2026 is coming up:
📅 December 8, 2025
23:59 KST (Korea Standard Time)
14:59 GMT (UK)
09:59 EST (US East Coast)
Join us in Daejeon, South Korea (July 27-31, 2026)!
www.conftool.pro/dh2026/
The submission deadline for DH2026 is coming up:
📅 December 8, 2025
23:59 KST (Korea Standard Time)
14:59 GMT (UK)
09:59 EST (US East Coast)
Join us in Daejeon, South Korea (July 27-31, 2026)!
www.conftool.pro/dh2026/