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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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The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is the largest library in the world, with an estimated collection of over 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit library, it receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the United Kingdom. The library operates as a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. .. more

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · Sep 23
Registration for @AI4LAM@glammr.us's Fantastic Futures #FF2025 is now! Tickets will go fast, but fret not if you miss out - you can register to watch the full conference online on Thursday and Friday for free!

Get tickets www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
Programme www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
Fantastic Futures 2025 - ConfTool Pro - Login
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 4d
If you're interested in AI for libraries, archives and museums, the AI4LAM community is a year-round source of insights https://ai4lam.org/ [2/2]
ai4lam
AI4LAM is an international, participatory community focused on advancing the use of artificial intelligence in, for and by libraries, archives and museums.
ai4lam.org

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 5d
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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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 10d
Curious? The code is here github.com/harrylloyd-b...

Thanks Harry Lloyd and @adi-keinan.bsky.social for your work on this! And all the curators, metadata folk and crowdsourcing volunteers who helped earlier versions of this work
GitHub - harrylloyd-bl/convert-a-card: Generating ingestible records from catalogue cards as part of the Convert-a-Card project
Generating ingestible records from catalogue cards as part of the Convert-a-Card project - harrylloyd-bl/convert-a-card
github.com

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 10d
https://web.archive.org/web/20250623215117/https:/blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/convert-a-card-helping-cataloguers-derive-records-with-oclc-and-python.html [2/2]
Convert-a-Card: Helping Cataloguers Derive Records with OCLC APIs and Python
Last week Dr Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert delved into the invaluable work that she and others have done on the Convert-a-Card project since 2015. In this post, I’m going to pick up where she left off, and describe how we’ve been automating parts of the workflow.
web.archive.org

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 10d
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]

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 17d
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

Can't find our images anymore? Try Advanced Search
A photo of the British Library's St Pancras building with the text: Where are all the British Library images? Can't find our images? They're now listed as type 'illustration/art" (not photos'), so you'll need to use Flickr's Advanced Search to find our images. There's an Advanced option on search results pages. Select that to choose 'Content' then select 'Illustration/Art'

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 17d
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

bldigischol.bsky.social
Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 18d
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...
Digital Sustainability – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides
libereurope.github.io

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 18d
https://libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-guides/sustainability.html [2/2]

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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 20d
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!
sites.google.com

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 20d
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

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 21d
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

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 25d
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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Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social · 27d
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, ...
read.uolpress.co.uk

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 27d
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...
Banner with images of the 3 recipients of the CILIP 2025 Presidential Citations

Reposted by British Library, Lesley A. Hall, Justin Lewis

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 27d
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!
Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores
Help us to collect digital scores from composers and independent publishers.
www.bl.uk

Reposted by British Library, Frank Fischer

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adho-org.bsky.social @adho-org.bsky.social · 29d
#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

bldigischol.bsky.social
Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · Oct 7
We're so grateful to Sak for his work with @britishlibrary.bsky.social playbills - not only does blplaybills.org make them findable online, but we learn from his experiments!

https://hcommons.social/@mia/115333567347425105
Mia (@mia@hcommons.social)
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' https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/blplaybills-org-better-search-results-using-llms #OCR #TheaterHistory #LLMs #AI #ATR
hcommons.social

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · Oct 7
We're so grateful to Sak for his work with @britishlibrary.bsky.social playbills - not only does blplaybills.org make them findable online, but we learn from his experiments!

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Oct 7
The Museums Association's membership has voted to approve the 2025 update to the Code of Ethics 🗳️

We're pleased to announce that our members have ratified the updated code as part of the business of our AGM at this year's conference.

You can read the code on our website 👇
Draft Code of Ethics 2025 - Museums Association
The code provides a framework for the practical application of ethical considerations to our everyday work in museums
www.museumsassociation.org

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · Oct 7
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
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

bldigischol.bsky.social
Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · Oct 4
In case you missed it, British Library E-Theses Online Service (EThOS) update from Sept 3: https://www.bl.uk/collection/ethos

EThOS is the national database of UK doctoral theses.
E-Theses Online Service (EThOS) update
EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is the British Library’s database of UK doctoral theses.
www.bl.uk

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · Sep 30
Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.
www.eventbrite.co.uk