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Hey UK GLAM friends, I'm super keen to get to the GLAM Labs conference in Edinburgh next June, but I need to find some funding. https://www.glamlabs.io/events/glam-labs-futures-26 Is there anything I could come and do for you around June next year that could help pay my way?
International GLAM Labs Community - GLAM Labs Futures 26
GLAM Labs Futures ● 25-26 June 2026 ● Scotland
www.glamlabs.io
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Hey UK GLAM friends, I'm super keen to get to the GLAM Labs conference in Edinburgh next June, but I need to find some funding. https://www.glamlabs.io/events/glam-labs-futures-26 Is there anything I could come and do for you around June next year that could help pay my way?
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Not taking ourselves too seriously, our team has a mascot. Let me introduce him:
Who is Peter the Penguin?
Who is Peter the Penguin?
September 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Not taking ourselves too seriously, our team has a mascot. Let me introduce him:
Who is Peter the Penguin?
Who is Peter the Penguin?
Not taking ourselves too seriously, our team has a mascot. Let me introduce him:
Who is Peter the Penguin?
Who is Peter the Penguin?
September 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Not taking ourselves too seriously, our team has a mascot. Let me introduce him:
Who is Peter the Penguin?
Who is Peter the Penguin?
It was my pleasure and privilege to again chair the panel that awarded the Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History.
In its fourth year, the prize was founded in memory of a much-missed friend and colleague. Richard would, I'm quite sure, have been delighted with the vitality and range of work […]
In its fourth year, the prize was founded in memory of a much-missed friend and colleague. Richard would, I'm quite sure, have been delighted with the vitality and range of work […]
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mastodon.social
September 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It was my pleasure and privilege to again chair the panel that awarded the Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History.
In its fourth year, the prize was founded in memory of a much-missed friend and colleague. Richard would, I'm quite sure, have been delighted with the vitality and range of work […]
In its fourth year, the prize was founded in memory of a much-missed friend and colleague. Richard would, I'm quite sure, have been delighted with the vitality and range of work […]
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The secret is out! I'm very excited to be the SLV LAB's latest Creative Technologist-in-Residence! I'm going to be spending the next few months playing around with place-based collections at the State Library of Victoria: https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/residencies-opportunities
Residencies & Opportunities | SLV LAB
SLV LAB, invites artists, designers, technologists and researchers to push the boundaries of cultural data and emerging technologies. \
lab.slv.vic.gov.au
September 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
The secret is out! I'm very excited to be the SLV LAB's latest Creative Technologist-in-Residence! I'm going to be spending the next few months playing around with place-based collections at the State Library of Victoria: https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/residencies-opportunities
Nice write-up of what our two placement students got up to over the summer, looked after by my colleague James Madconell.
https://library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scholarship/inside-digital-scholarship/Digital-Scholarship-Hosts-Archaeology-Placement-Stude
https://library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scholarship/inside-digital-scholarship/Digital-Scholarship-Hosts-Archaeology-Placement-Stude
Inside Digital Scholarship - Digital Scholarship - LibGuides@Southampton at University of Southampton Library
library.soton.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Nice write-up of what our two placement students got up to over the summer, looked after by my colleague James Madconell.
https://library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scholarship/inside-digital-scholarship/Digital-Scholarship-Hosts-Archaeology-Placement-Stude
https://library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scholarship/inside-digital-scholarship/Digital-Scholarship-Hosts-Archaeology-Placement-Stude
Starting to prepare for a lecture in January, a study of what the networks of authors in edited collections can reveal about the global history of evangelicalism in the twentieth century.
I take some of the approaches discussed here […]
I take some of the approaches discussed here […]
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mastodon.social
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Starting to prepare for a lecture in January, a study of what the networks of authors in edited collections can reveal about the global history of evangelicalism in the twentieth century.
I take some of the approaches discussed here […]
I take some of the approaches discussed here […]
A really nice glimpse into the business of creating animated resources, from my Southampton colleague Grant Cox.
It's based on a wartime knitting pattern for a child's toy, found in one of our digitised collections. Peter the Penguin has become an unofficial mascot for my team. (We take […]
It's based on a wartime knitting pattern for a child's toy, found in one of our digitised collections. Peter the Penguin has become an unofficial mascot for my team. (We take […]
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mastodon.social
September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A really nice glimpse into the business of creating animated resources, from my Southampton colleague Grant Cox.
It's based on a wartime knitting pattern for a child's toy, found in one of our digitised collections. Peter the Penguin has become an unofficial mascot for my team. (We take […]
It's based on a wartime knitting pattern for a child's toy, found in one of our digitised collections. Peter the Penguin has become an unofficial mascot for my team. (We take […]
Imagine you knew a young humanities scholar: bright, an excellent writer, keen to be read, to make a difference.
They have the choice between writing for their blog (and in other free online channels) or in peer-reviewed articles (which may be Open Access).
They are not professionally obliged […]
They have the choice between writing for their blog (and in other free online channels) or in peer-reviewed articles (which may be Open Access).
They are not professionally obliged […]
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mastodon.social
September 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Imagine you knew a young humanities scholar: bright, an excellent writer, keen to be read, to make a difference.
They have the choice between writing for their blog (and in other free online channels) or in peer-reviewed articles (which may be Open Access).
They are not professionally obliged […]
They have the choice between writing for their blog (and in other free online channels) or in peer-reviewed articles (which may be Open Access).
They are not professionally obliged […]
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Nice! HuggingFace's Daniel van Strien (@danielvanstrien) has released a Qwen2.5-based vision-language model to generate #iconclass classification codes from images:
https://huggingface.co/davanstrien/iconclass-vlm
Test space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/iconclass-predictions
https://huggingface.co/davanstrien/iconclass-vlm
Test space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/iconclass-predictions
davanstrien/iconclass-vlm · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
September 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Nice! HuggingFace's Daniel van Strien (@danielvanstrien) has released a Qwen2.5-based vision-language model to generate #iconclass classification codes from images:
https://huggingface.co/davanstrien/iconclass-vlm
Test space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/iconclass-predictions
https://huggingface.co/davanstrien/iconclass-vlm
Test space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/iconclass-predictions
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"After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs, and all associated content – will no longer be available." https://distlib.blogs.com/distlib/2025/08/typepad-shutdown-announcement.html
I'm taking this to mean that any typepad-based blog will be disappearing […]
I'm taking this to mean that any typepad-based blog will be disappearing […]
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mastodon.social
August 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs, and all associated content – will no longer be available." https://distlib.blogs.com/distlib/2025/08/typepad-shutdown-announcement.html
I'm taking this to mean that any typepad-based blog will be disappearing […]
I'm taking this to mean that any typepad-based blog will be disappearing […]
And there's Cambridge University Press requiring an author to opt out to stop them feeding content into their LLMs (rather than the default being No.) Not sure that's how you build consent.
(There's also no path to green open access for the work in question, after five years.)
(There's also no path to green open access for the work in question, after five years.)
August 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
And there's Cambridge University Press requiring an author to opt out to stop them feeding content into their LLMs (rather than the default being No.) Not sure that's how you build consent.
(There's also no path to green open access for the work in question, after five years.)
(There's also no path to green open access for the work in question, after five years.)
So of course I know that Copilot and its ilk will be the death of all good things, but at least it doesn't scold me for asking a stupid programming question like used to happen on StackOverflow.
August 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
So of course I know that Copilot and its ilk will be the death of all good things, but at least it doesn't scold me for asking a stupid programming question like used to happen on StackOverflow.
"List examples of this kind of character in novels of a certain time."
"Certainly! Here's Mr X in Novel Y."
"Are you sure? Which chapter?
"Chapter 3."
"No there isn't. Try again."
"Good catch Peter! It's chapter 5, defo."
"No it isn't."
"Thanks Peter, you're right again: it's chapter 7 […]
"Certainly! Here's Mr X in Novel Y."
"Are you sure? Which chapter?
"Chapter 3."
"No there isn't. Try again."
"Good catch Peter! It's chapter 5, defo."
"No it isn't."
"Thanks Peter, you're right again: it's chapter 7 […]
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mastodon.social
August 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"List examples of this kind of character in novels of a certain time."
"Certainly! Here's Mr X in Novel Y."
"Are you sure? Which chapter?
"Chapter 3."
"No there isn't. Try again."
"Good catch Peter! It's chapter 5, defo."
"No it isn't."
"Thanks Peter, you're right again: it's chapter 7 […]
"Certainly! Here's Mr X in Novel Y."
"Are you sure? Which chapter?
"Chapter 3."
"No there isn't. Try again."
"Good catch Peter! It's chapter 5, defo."
"No it isn't."
"Thanks Peter, you're right again: it's chapter 7 […]
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I've had a lot of fun rereading this series, so here are a few of my favourites.
First up, Mr Prendergast, who had Doubts (Evelyn Waugh)
peterwebster.me/2017/05/27/e...
First up, Mr Prendergast, who had Doubts (Evelyn Waugh)
peterwebster.me/2017/05/27/e...
Evelyn Waugh’s modern churchman
Mr Prendergast, the hapless protagonist of Evely Waugh’s Decline and Fall (1928), is one of the more unusual clerical characters in this series. The majority of the men we have met so far are…
peterwebster.me
July 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I've had a lot of fun rereading this series, so here are a few of my favourites.
First up, Mr Prendergast, who had Doubts (Evelyn Waugh)
peterwebster.me/2017/05/27/e...
First up, Mr Prendergast, who had Doubts (Evelyn Waugh)
peterwebster.me/2017/05/27/e...
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Some work still to do, but here's a new way into my series of posts on clergy in modern English fiction. There are some new ones coming up, but suggestions of others I've missed are very welcome.
peterwebster.me/the-clergy-i...
peterwebster.me/the-clergy-i...
July 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some work still to do, but here's a new way into my series of posts on clergy in modern English fiction. There are some new ones coming up, but suggestions of others I've missed are very welcome.
peterwebster.me/the-clergy-i...
peterwebster.me/the-clergy-i...
With my historian's hat on, a little note about a new article this week, on metaphysics, ethics, secularisation and Iris Murdoch.
https://peterwebster.me/2025/07/30/christian-readers-and-the-philosophy-of-iris-murdoch-1948-82/
The article it refers to isn't open access, but I should be happy […]
https://peterwebster.me/2025/07/30/christian-readers-and-the-philosophy-of-iris-murdoch-1948-82/
The article it refers to isn't open access, but I should be happy […]
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mastodon.social
July 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
With my historian's hat on, a little note about a new article this week, on metaphysics, ethics, secularisation and Iris Murdoch.
https://peterwebster.me/2025/07/30/christian-readers-and-the-philosophy-of-iris-murdoch-1948-82/
The article it refers to isn't open access, but I should be happy […]
https://peterwebster.me/2025/07/30/christian-readers-and-the-philosophy-of-iris-murdoch-1948-82/
The article it refers to isn't open access, but I should be happy […]
Nice write-up from my colleague Katie Green on the past and future of gallery spaces, and what my team have been up to at Southampton
https://library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scholarship/inside-digital-scholarship/From-National-to-Virtual-A-Brief-History-of-The-Galle
The virtual exhibition my team […]
https://library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scholarship/inside-digital-scholarship/From-National-to-Virtual-A-Brief-History-of-The-Galle
The virtual exhibition my team […]
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mastodon.social
July 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Nice write-up from my colleague Katie Green on the past and future of gallery spaces, and what my team have been up to at Southampton
https://library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scholarship/inside-digital-scholarship/From-National-to-Virtual-A-Brief-History-of-The-Galle
The virtual exhibition my team […]
https://library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scholarship/inside-digital-scholarship/From-National-to-Virtual-A-Brief-History-of-The-Galle
The virtual exhibition my team […]
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I'm one who thinks that #ai tools are far from ready to do #PeerReview. But I follow the discussion and frequently see suggestions that AI can do some of the auxiliary jobs, like recommending humans to do peer review.
Here's a new study on the "recommending humans" job […]
Here's a new study on the "recommending humans" job […]
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fediscience.org
June 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I'm one who thinks that #ai tools are far from ready to do #PeerReview. But I follow the discussion and frequently see suggestions that AI can do some of the auxiliary jobs, like recommending humans to do peer review.
Here's a new study on the "recommending humans" job […]
Here's a new study on the "recommending humans" job […]
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Reminder that if you like a website you should probably click on the "contact" link and tell the author you like their website
🐰 Oh I bet they get lots of email every day saying their website is cool, I'd just annoy them
🦝 Nope. I have a donations button and I'm not exaggerating when I say it […]
🐰 Oh I bet they get lots of email every day saying their website is cool, I'd just annoy them
🦝 Nope. I have a donations button and I'm not exaggerating when I say it […]
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retro.social
June 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Reminder that if you like a website you should probably click on the "contact" link and tell the author you like their website
🐰 Oh I bet they get lots of email every day saying their website is cool, I'd just annoy them
🦝 Nope. I have a donations button and I'm not exaggerating when I say it […]
🐰 Oh I bet they get lots of email every day saying their website is cool, I'd just annoy them
🦝 Nope. I have a donations button and I'm not exaggerating when I say it […]
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Sometimes, people wrote to me to tell me that something i've written was helpful.
Lemme tell you, when shit is bringing me down over here, those emails make a world of difference.
Write to people. Connect. Let someone know it mattered.
Lemme tell you, when shit is bringing me down over here, those emails make a world of difference.
Write to people. Connect. Let someone know it mattered.
May 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Sometimes, people wrote to me to tell me that something i've written was helpful.
Lemme tell you, when shit is bringing me down over here, those emails make a world of difference.
Write to people. Connect. Let someone know it mattered.
Lemme tell you, when shit is bringing me down over here, those emails make a world of difference.
Write to people. Connect. Let someone know it mattered.
Digital historians: you have until May 30th to submit entries for the 2025 Deswarte Prize. So pleased that this prize continues into its fourth year, in memory of a much missed colleague and friend.
Reposts very welcome […]
Reposts very welcome […]
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mastodon.social
May 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Digital historians: you have until May 30th to submit entries for the 2025 Deswarte Prize. So pleased that this prize continues into its fourth year, in memory of a much missed colleague and friend.
Reposts very welcome […]
Reposts very welcome […]
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A really nice piece of Special Collections digitisation from my excellent team: the annual reports of the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research
library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...
#historyOfScience #acoustics
library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...
#historyOfScience #acoustics
Inside Digital Scholarship - Digital Scholarship - LibGuides@Southampton at University of Southampton Library
library.soton.ac.uk
March 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A really nice piece of Special Collections digitisation from my excellent team: the annual reports of the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research
library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...
#historyOfScience #acoustics
library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...
#historyOfScience #acoustics
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New #openaccess special collection from the Open Library of Humanities, 'Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery' : https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/905/ #glam #museums #collectionsasdata
Open Library of Humanities |
Collection:
olh.openlibhums.org
March 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
New #openaccess special collection from the Open Library of Humanities, 'Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery' : https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/905/ #glam #museums #collectionsasdata
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This is from the executive director of the !8F, the digital services agency within the General Services Administration (GSA) that develops open-source tools to improve digital services across the federal government.
"I am the Executive Director of 18F and 18F’s longest running employee- I have […]
"I am the Executive Director of 18F and 18F’s longest running employee- I have […]
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infosec.exchange
March 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This is from the executive director of the !8F, the digital services agency within the General Services Administration (GSA) that develops open-source tools to improve digital services across the federal government.
"I am the Executive Director of 18F and 18F’s longest running employee- I have […]
"I am the Executive Director of 18F and 18F’s longest running employee- I have […]