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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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Ilkay Holt @ilkayholt.bsky.social · 7h
Final week to submit proposals for #OpenRepos2026, don’t miss out! #OpenRepos This year, OR2026 will take place ONLINE on June 8-11, 2026. It is a great opportunity to meet the open repositories community, engage with peers and showcase your work. or2026.openrepositories.org/program/call...
Call for Proposals – Open Repositories 2026
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 8h
New article: 'Seeing Library Collections Through New Lenses: The Potential of Large-Scale Digital Collections' in the Journal of Victorian Culture's Digital Forum, edited by @emilyjlm.bsky.social and Joanna Taylor

doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...
Seeing Library Collections Through New Lenses: The Potential of Large-Scale Digital Collections
Abstract. Digital collections have fundamentally transformed historical research, enabling search with extraordinary precision across vast archives. While
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 10h
Want to level up your library career this year?

We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme.

Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 13d
'Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring -
Not even a mouse...

Because everyone was watching talks from the 2025 Fantastic Futures #FF2025 conference! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Two days of talks on AI and machine learning in GLAMS #AI4LAM #FF2025
Fantastic Futures 2025 at the British Library
All recorded papers and Q&A sessions from AI4LAM's 2025 Fantastic Futures Conference, hosted by the British Library.
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · Dec 5
Safe travels to all the #ff2025 #ai4lam visitors from all of us in the British Library Digital Research Team! See you at Fantastic Futures 2026 in Washington D.C. next September!

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · Dec 5
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · Dec 5
Keep an eye on the #ai4lam YouTube channel for recordings https://www.youtube.com/@ai4lam120/videos . There are lots of ways to stay connected with the #ai4lam community throughout the year, join today and we'll see you at future community calls and events! https://sites.google. [2/3]
AI4LAM
Artificial Intelligence for Libraries, Archives & Museums (AI4LAM) is a collaborative framework for libraries, archives and museums to organize, share and elevate their knowledge about and use of artificial intelligence. On this channel you will find recordings of past global community calls, webinars organised by regional chapters and working groups, and relevant conference presentations. Learn more about this global community at our website, where you will find instructions to join the email list or Slack channel.
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · Dec 5
Closing keynote at #ff2025 from @dorothyjberry.bsky.social "What are we looking at? Massive Models and Minimal Description" starts with a quote from @ryancordell.org and discussion of luddism & AI in archives and libraries.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · Dec 5
Loads of great talks at #ff2025 - this was fab 👇

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · Dec 5
Next year's conference date/location will be announced soon!

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Bohyun Kim @bohyunkim.bsky.social · Dec 5
What would be some of the concrete and *realistic* terms/features of “responsible AI” practices in your opinion (not of the pie-in-the-sky type)? I would love to hear from folks at #FF2025 if you have thoughts on this topic. Thank you!

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{ "jason": "clark" } @jasonclark.bsky.social · Dec 5
Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)."

Slides:
docs.google.com/presentation...

Code:
github.com/jasonclark/a...
small-language-models-trust-clark-ff2025-shared
Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) to Create Trustworthy GenAI Jason A. Clark @jasonclark Montana State University Fantastic Futures 2025
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · Dec 5
Fantastic new wildflower plates and descriptions shared as a benchmark task from Smithsonian folks - github.com/Smithsonian/... with comparison of Gemini VLM models and Qwen models on it #ff2025

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Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · Dec 5
“Wildflowers as Benchmarks: Creating a LAM-Specific LLM Evaluation Using Historical Botanical Text” presented by @drastician.bsky.social & @miketrizna.bsky.social at #FF2025 bit.ly/3KGOs5a
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · Dec 5
I feel like 2025 is the year that getting structured data for catalogues from cards got real #FF2025 - so much work in orgs around the world! Come share at join.slack.com/t/ai4lam/sha...

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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 5
Folks concerned about prompt optimization for tasks might want to look at packages like DSpy https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy #ff2025
GitHub - stanfordnlp/dspy: DSPy: The framework for programming—not prompting—language models
DSPy: The framework for programming—not prompting—language models - stanfordnlp/dspy
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Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · Dec 5
'Distrusting, techno-pessimistic and conservative'. National Libraries and the Politics of AI Training Data by Steven Claeyssens & Sophie Ham from @kb.nl #FF2025 bit.ly/3KGOs5a
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