Megan Gooch
@agneatha.bsky.social
Does digital library things at Oxford, likes coins a bit too much, visits castles cos they’re cool.
We're offering to host a Visiting Fellow for policy professionals who want to know more about how and why the BodleianLibraries, Oxford is working on AI (hint: we collect, curate and preserve trustworthy information)
🎓 Policy Visiting Fellowships
⏱️ Deadline: 21st Nov
🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...
🎓 Policy Visiting Fellowships
⏱️ Deadline: 21st Nov
🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...
OPEN Visiting Fellowships | University of Oxford
The OPEN Visiting Fellowship is a mutual learning and development opportunity for research and policy professionals. As Visiting Fellows, policy professionals have the opportunity to explore policy
www.ox.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We're offering to host a Visiting Fellow for policy professionals who want to know more about how and why the BodleianLibraries, Oxford is working on AI (hint: we collect, curate and preserve trustworthy information)
🎓 Policy Visiting Fellowships
⏱️ Deadline: 21st Nov
🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...
🎓 Policy Visiting Fellowships
⏱️ Deadline: 21st Nov
🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
October 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
My husband is now in his Trains Era and whilst watching a documentary about the Beeching Railway cuts lamented he couldn’t see old timetables from our train station. “Were the timetables published?” I ask. Cos you know I work in a legal deposit library.
September 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
My husband is now in his Trains Era and whilst watching a documentary about the Beeching Railway cuts lamented he couldn’t see old timetables from our train station. “Were the timetables published?” I ask. Cos you know I work in a legal deposit library.
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The Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian Libraries invites library professionals to take part in a survey on AI Applications in Libraries. Participation takes 10–15 minutes and responses are anonymised:
AI in Libraries - Horizon Scanning Bodleian Libraries
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian Libraries invites library professionals to take part in a survey on AI Applications in Libraries. Participation takes 10–15 minutes and responses are anonymised:
An unexpectedly numismatic news story - a new role for the old Royal Ming building on Tower Hill www.bbc.com/news/article...
Approving China 'mega' embassy would be unlawful, UK government told
Opponents are battling China's plan for a mega embassy in London's historic Royal Mint Court.
www.bbc.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
An unexpectedly numismatic news story - a new role for the old Royal Ming building on Tower Hill www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Writing England’s origins in the middle of a flag fetish is hitting a nerve which hopefully inspires more reading & thought. The review of David Woodman’s book (posted yesterday) has amassed c. 12,000 views. Here is my earlier take on origins #medievalsky theconversation.com/its-a-myth-t...
It’s a myth that England was created on the battlefield – most of it happened at the negotiating table
Not a simple tale of English kings overcoming Vikings, the creation of England involved far more bureaucracy than the epic legends let on
theconversation.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Writing England’s origins in the middle of a flag fetish is hitting a nerve which hopefully inspires more reading & thought. The review of David Woodman’s book (posted yesterday) has amassed c. 12,000 views. Here is my earlier take on origins #medievalsky theconversation.com/its-a-myth-t...
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Shout out to our amazing online team and participants!
@david.deroure.org
@jarona7.bsky.social
@williamjnixon.bsky.social
@andrewcusworth.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
#IntroDH
#AILibraries
#DHOxSS2025
@david.deroure.org
@jarona7.bsky.social
@williamjnixon.bsky.social
@andrewcusworth.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
#IntroDH
#AILibraries
#DHOxSS2025
Day 4 at #DHOxSS2025 (yesterday...) I took this shot in the online strand studio. Convenors William and Andrew, ops Daisy and Ayla (right to left). And just to add, the online participants have been fab!
August 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Shout out to our amazing online team and participants!
@david.deroure.org
@jarona7.bsky.social
@williamjnixon.bsky.social
@andrewcusworth.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
#IntroDH
#AILibraries
#DHOxSS2025
@david.deroure.org
@jarona7.bsky.social
@williamjnixon.bsky.social
@andrewcusworth.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
#IntroDH
#AILibraries
#DHOxSS2025
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It felt like the Radio 4 Today studio! Really great range of talks in our #DHOxSS2025 @rluk.ac.uk #AILibraries strand and a pleasure and privilege to be part of Team DHOxSS this week. Thanks to our online participants and all our fabulous speakers.
Day 4 at #DHOxSS2025 (yesterday...) I took this shot in the online strand studio. Convenors William and Andrew, ops Daisy and Ayla (right to left). And just to add, the online participants have been fab!
August 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It felt like the Radio 4 Today studio! Really great range of talks in our #DHOxSS2025 @rluk.ac.uk #AILibraries strand and a pleasure and privilege to be part of Team DHOxSS this week. Thanks to our online participants and all our fabulous speakers.
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Day 4 is flying by! ⏳ Another great day of ideas, connection & collab, online and in person, and tomorrow’s closing keynote with Dr Katherine McDonough to look forward to🎤
Thanks for the photo competition entries, keep 'em coming!
#DHOxSS2025
#digitalhumanities
Thanks for the photo competition entries, keep 'em coming!
#DHOxSS2025
#digitalhumanities
August 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Day 4 is flying by! ⏳ Another great day of ideas, connection & collab, online and in person, and tomorrow’s closing keynote with Dr Katherine McDonough to look forward to🎤
Thanks for the photo competition entries, keep 'em coming!
#DHOxSS2025
#digitalhumanities
Thanks for the photo competition entries, keep 'em coming!
#DHOxSS2025
#digitalhumanities
@tostig1066.bsky.social Bayeux fever is mounting!
🧶 bayeux tapestry jumper is finished, blocked and sewn up! Please don’t ask me about weaving in ends I don’t want to talk about that right now. Probably my favourite thing I’ve ever knitted ever #showmeyourknits #knitsky #knitting
August 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
@tostig1066.bsky.social Bayeux fever is mounting!
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High score in Chuckie Egg (briefly) on a BBC Micro (though I was Team C64) at fantastic demo of retro games and the challenges of gaming digital preservation - & had a ZX81 with 16K RAM pack! Chance to reflect on 80s home PC culture. Fascinating to see younger attendees try the BBC Micro #DHOxSS2025
August 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
High score in Chuckie Egg (briefly) on a BBC Micro (though I was Team C64) at fantastic demo of retro games and the challenges of gaming digital preservation - & had a ZX81 with 16K RAM pack! Chance to reflect on 80s home PC culture. Fascinating to see younger attendees try the BBC Micro #DHOxSS2025
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A great walking tour with #DHOxSS2025 colleagues earlier this evening with blue skies and for librarians, a very library focused tour taking in various Bodleian library buildings including the Weston, Radcliffe Camera, Duke Humfrey’s library and the Tower of the Five Orders
August 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A great walking tour with #DHOxSS2025 colleagues earlier this evening with blue skies and for librarians, a very library focused tour taking in various Bodleian library buildings including the Weston, Radcliffe Camera, Duke Humfrey’s library and the Tower of the Five Orders
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Thanks for joining us @masudk.com a fantastic keynote and launch for the AI in Research strand, looking forward to the rest of the week and more discussions and engagement #DHOxSS2025
I was delighted to open the #DHOxSS2025 #AILibraries workshop stream today with a keynote on AI and Research Libraries. Really engaging conversations with colleagues in the summer school and lots of learning. Thank you for the invitation @dhoxss.bsky.social.
August 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Thanks for joining us @masudk.com a fantastic keynote and launch for the AI in Research strand, looking forward to the rest of the week and more discussions and engagement #DHOxSS2025
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Day 2 at #DHOxSS2025 and this is a view from the live-streaming room in @oxforderesearch.bsky.social Which one is real?
August 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Day 2 at #DHOxSS2025 and this is a view from the live-streaming room in @oxforderesearch.bsky.social Which one is real?
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Mission Control for the #DHOxSS2025 #AILibraries strand with Andrew Cusworth after a fantastic opening keynote from @masudk.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Mission Control for the #DHOxSS2025 #AILibraries strand with Andrew Cusworth after a fantastic opening keynote from @masudk.com
Another year, another Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School full of fantastic speakers and enthusiastic learner!
#DHOxSS2025 is just around the corner… 🎉📚
We can’t wait to see you all there!
#HumDat
#ADA
#Text2tech
#TEI
#IntroDH
#AILibraries
@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@stannescollege.bsky.social
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social
We can’t wait to see you all there!
#HumDat
#ADA
#Text2tech
#TEI
#IntroDH
#AILibraries
@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@stannescollege.bsky.social
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Another year, another Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School full of fantastic speakers and enthusiastic learner!
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Christopher N. Warren will give a free public talk on “What is Computational Bibliography?” at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday 30 July, in UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Auditorium or via Zoom.
Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures
#BookSky #DigitalHumanities
Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures
#BookSky #DigitalHumanities
July 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Christopher N. Warren will give a free public talk on “What is Computational Bibliography?” at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday 30 July, in UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Auditorium or via Zoom.
Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures
#BookSky #DigitalHumanities
Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures
#BookSky #DigitalHumanities
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One for #DigitalHumanities colleagues!
Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time).
Successful candidate will work under supervision of @claireconnolly.bsky.social.
See ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)
Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time).
Successful candidate will work under supervision of @claireconnolly.bsky.social.
See ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)
July 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
One for #DigitalHumanities colleagues!
Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time).
Successful candidate will work under supervision of @claireconnolly.bsky.social.
See ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)
Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time).
Successful candidate will work under supervision of @claireconnolly.bsky.social.
See ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)
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Institutional Books: Massive Historical Text Corpus
- 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages
- 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages
- Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata
- Noncommercial early-access release
huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
- 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages
- 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages
- Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata
- Noncommercial early-access release
huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
institutional/institutional-books-1.0 · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
June 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Institutional Books: Massive Historical Text Corpus
- 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages
- 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages
- Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata
- Noncommercial early-access release
huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
- 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages
- 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages
- Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata
- Noncommercial early-access release
huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
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Due to popular demand we have extended the deadline for poster submissions until Monday 16 June!
The posters will be displayed in a welcome reception.
Apply here: tinyurl.com/mtnakcyt
@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social
The posters will be displayed in a welcome reception.
Apply here: tinyurl.com/mtnakcyt
@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Due to popular demand we have extended the deadline for poster submissions until Monday 16 June!
The posters will be displayed in a welcome reception.
Apply here: tinyurl.com/mtnakcyt
@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social
The posters will be displayed in a welcome reception.
Apply here: tinyurl.com/mtnakcyt
@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social
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We are looking forward to hosting a Knowledge Futures Symposium at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social on 27th June conferences.leeds.ac.uk/knowledgefut.... Come along to listen to great panels and discuss this critical topic, more info on the website ⬇️
Knowledge Futures Symposium
conferences.leeds.ac.uk
June 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We are looking forward to hosting a Knowledge Futures Symposium at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social on 27th June conferences.leeds.ac.uk/knowledgefut.... Come along to listen to great panels and discuss this critical topic, more info on the website ⬇️
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I am so proud of this brilliant project by our University Collections team - now in testing to share with the sector soon. It's interdisciplinarity at its best, that we hope will make a real difference. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews
Arsenic was historically mixed with copper to create a vivid green for book covers, which can irritate modern day readers
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I am so proud of this brilliant project by our University Collections team - now in testing to share with the sector soon. It's interdisciplinarity at its best, that we hope will make a real difference. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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#DigitalHumanities folk in Ireland and the UK, please consider completing this UK-Ireland DH Association survey on advocacy within and for DH. Your responses will help to shape Association policy and practice in the future. Thank you!
UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Advocacy Survey
Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.
www.surveymonkey.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
#DigitalHumanities folk in Ireland and the UK, please consider completing this UK-Ireland DH Association survey on advocacy within and for DH. Your responses will help to shape Association policy and practice in the future. Thank you!
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Icepops, call for contributions closes in 1 week from today and bookings are now open including applications for a fully funded bursary place: copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-eve...
International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars (Icepops)
Icepops 2025 Icepops is the International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars. The sixth edition of Icepops (Icepops 2025) is taking place at the John…
copyrightliteracy.org
June 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Icepops, call for contributions closes in 1 week from today and bookings are now open including applications for a fully funded bursary place: copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-eve...
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Our amazing keynote speakers:
Professor Caroline Bassett (University of Cambridge)
Dr Katherine McDonough (Alan Turing Institute)
More details: tinyurl.com/2wvwrkvb
@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social
@uniofcam.bsky.social
Professor Caroline Bassett (University of Cambridge)
Dr Katherine McDonough (Alan Turing Institute)
More details: tinyurl.com/2wvwrkvb
@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social
@uniofcam.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Our amazing keynote speakers:
Professor Caroline Bassett (University of Cambridge)
Dr Katherine McDonough (Alan Turing Institute)
More details: tinyurl.com/2wvwrkvb
@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social
@uniofcam.bsky.social
Professor Caroline Bassett (University of Cambridge)
Dr Katherine McDonough (Alan Turing Institute)
More details: tinyurl.com/2wvwrkvb
@discoxford.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@david.deroure.org
@agneatha.bsky.social
@uniofcam.bsky.social