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Neil Grindley
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Working at Jisc since 2007. Interested in digital humanities, libraries, archives, digital preservation and curation.
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We're pleased to announce the first keynote speaker for #DCDC25 is Professor Katy Shaw, director of the AHRC Creative Communities programme. Find out more about her session and book your ticket here ➡️ ji.sc/3Epaje6
April 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Aha! Like seeing an old friend up there onscreen. The classic OAIS model graphic. Been a while since I've seen it. #bdcam25
April 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The most important research moment is not when the researcher opens the [archival] box, but when the archivist fills the box.

I like that. Especially in the context of underrepresented communities and partially represented topics.

#bdcam25
April 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Just settling down for "Latin American Feminist Organizations in the Archived Web" at the #BDCAM25 conference. Great chance over the next few days to immerse myself in current digital scholarship activity.

Turns out all the formal web archiving programmes are exclusively in the global north.
April 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The Anglicans and the Catholics dominating the skyline here in Liverpool. Librarians making up the third point of the triangle on the 13th floor of The Spire Building. Interesting discussions at #RLUK25. First face to face meeting for 6 years.
March 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Sitting in the Clarivate session on their activity in the AI space. The next wave is here 'actionable AI'. They can reason, plan and execute, apparently. Must be how Clarivate is coming up with their strategy at the moment.
March 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The Discovering Collections Discovering Communities (DCDC) conference registration has gone live today!
dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/

It's a total steal at just £130 for a full (3 day) conference ticket!!

(Bit more if you want to do the networking events)

Go get 'em. Go on!
#DCDC25
DCDC25 - DCDC25
A collective call to action, DCDC25 invites you to come together, no matter where you are in the world or the stage of your career, to Choose Your Own Future: to celebrate what is already being achiev...
dcdcconference.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Discover how the @jisc.bsky.social group purchasing scheme saves HE institutions money on buying digital archival collections: www.jisc.ac.uk/digital-arch...
Digital archival collections group purchasing scheme - Jisc
Collectively lowering the cost of acquiring digital archival collections.
www.jisc.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 11:43 AM
"Don't be a dinosaur. Embrace open access." ...

Brigett Vezina, #TaNC. Policy Forum. #unlockingcollections
November 21, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Policy forum at #TaNC on discussing report launching today. zenodo.org/records/1383...
Can use this report to advocate to funders and to our own organisations about the core requirements of building the UK Digital Collection. #unlockingcollections
November 21, 2024 at 2:15 PM
It's a treat to hear about the marine archaeology work done by Unpath'd Waters project. unpathdwaters.org.uk
Important heritage and environmental considerations. #TaNC #unlockedcollections
Unpath’d Waters – unleashing the potential of UK maritime heritage - https://unpathdwaters.org.uk
Reshaping the future of UK marine heritage. Making records accessible for the first time across all four UK nations and opening them to the world. About Unpath’d Waters The UK’s marine heritage is ex...
unpathdwaters.org.uk
November 21, 2024 at 11:31 AM
I think the conclusion to the question "can or should you use machine learning to identify bias in collections?" was ... maybe. Best done very slowly and carefully. #unlockingcollections #TaNC
November 20, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Susan Pui San Lok is rehearsing Stuart Hall's question from 1999, "Whose heritage?". How have artists works been names and described and who has been neglected? How can Machine Learning be deployed to enable us to see where the gaps are? #TaNC
November 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM
At the #TaNC conference. About to hear about the Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage project. Did they enable digital cross-search of collections, to surface patterns of bias, to uncover hidden and unexpected connections? (That was the aim). gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...
Gateway to Research (GtR) - Explore publicly funded research
The Gateway to Research: UKRI portal onto publically funded research
gtr.ukri.org
November 20, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Went to a tremendous exhibition yesterday at The British Museum. The artist Hew Locke spent 2 years going through BM collection finding items connected with colonialism, slavery, and imperialism. On display alongside some of his own work. www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
November 11, 2024 at 1:05 PM
I was in Lewes last night for the bonfire celebrations. Difficult to describe exactly how eccentric it is. Cosplay morris dancers doing mardi gras/day of the dead parades with flaming torches and papal effigies. Deeply bizarre but highly entertaining. Then Trump this morning. What a come down.
November 6, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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Join our free webinar on 7 Nov World Digital Preservation Day to find out how @jisc.bsky.social can help you with all things digital preservation www.jisc.ac.uk/events/digit...
Digital preservation - advice and guidance to consultancy - Jisc
This online session is an opportunity for us to introduce you to Jisc's offer around advice, guidance and consultancy relating to Digital Preservation and how that fits into an holistic approach to ke...
www.jisc.ac.uk
October 29, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Library futures ... "Your job is to create curiosity. People should leave libraries with more questions than they had when they walked in." Erik Boekesteijn delivering final keynote at #openengaged He was consultant on creating Storyhouse in Chester. www.storyhouse.com
Home | Storyhouse
www.storyhouse.com
October 21, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Hearing about recently launched Museums Data Service. AHRC & Bloomberg funded. museumdata.uk Going for 80m records from 1700 museums over next 10 years. They want to ensure data contribution is as easy and flexible as possible. #openengaged
October 21, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Eloy Rodrigues from OpenAIRE identifying 3 areas of work for 2024/25. 1. Reassert the value proposition for repositories. 2. Propogate best practices for repositories
3. Assist with creation and coordination of national networks.
#openengaged
October 21, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Ed Jewel from Libraries Connected giving us big numbers for the social benefits that public libraries deliver. £6 return on every £1 invested. £3.4bn worth of social value per year. Impressive! (Might have to look under the hood at those numbers). #openengaged
October 21, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Crumbs. Didn't realise what a negligible amount of non-standard format submissions were put forward for last REF.
2021.ref.ac.uk/results-anal...
#openengaged #OAweek
October 21, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Discussion of barriers to x-disciplinary working. Prof. Hugh Shanahan - he is a computer scientist who publishes in sociology journals. Not really helping his departmental comp sci REF profile! Challenging getting effective evaluation and validation of research #openengaged #OAweek
October 21, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Prof. Jane Winters - difference between research in science and research in humanities. (Science) Is this data correct? (Humanities) Are these records / is this collection interesting enough to use for my research. #openandengaged
October 21, 2024 at 9:36 AM
At the @britishlibrary.bsky.social for Open and Engaged conference. Kicking off with a panel on x-disciplinary approach to open scholarship. Paola Castano is a space scientist and sociologist. She is all about interrelations and connections. #OpenEngaged
October 21, 2024 at 9:19 AM