OhioDIG (Ohio Digitization Interest Group)
@ohiodig.bsky.social
Ohio Digitization Interest Group: informal discussion group open to all w/ interest in cultural heritage digitization, description, access, digital preservation. We meet 6x a yr, half in person/half virtual. Free meetings since 2005! https://ohiodig.org
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And our next open submission window is January 2026
See submission guidelines here - pay attention to the sub-pages with information about journal style, our AI policy, and our open review process.
See submission guidelines here - pay attention to the sub-pages with information about journal style, our AI policy, and our open review process.
Submission Guidelines – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
And our next open submission window is January 2026
See submission guidelines here - pay attention to the sub-pages with information about journal style, our AI policy, and our open review process.
See submission guidelines here - pay attention to the sub-pages with information about journal style, our AI policy, and our open review process.
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ACLS Digital Justice Seed & Development Grants. (Due to ofa.acls.org by 9:00 PM EST on 11/20/25)
The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program supports projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice in digital scholarly practice, contribute to understanding of racial & social justice issues.
The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program supports projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice in digital scholarly practice, contribute to understanding of racial & social justice issues.
ACLS Online Fellowship and Grant Administration System
ofa.acls.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
ACLS Digital Justice Seed & Development Grants. (Due to ofa.acls.org by 9:00 PM EST on 11/20/25)
The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program supports projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice in digital scholarly practice, contribute to understanding of racial & social justice issues.
The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program supports projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice in digital scholarly practice, contribute to understanding of racial & social justice issues.
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No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Register by Mon 5pm EST!
11/12 #OhioDIG "Tech Tools for Transcription" virtual meeting. Text/audio transcription, incl #Transkribus, Generative AI tools, Open AI’s Whisper, vendor services. FREE, thx to our panelists, hosts, volunteers!
#transcription #digitization
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11/12 #OhioDIG "Tech Tools for Transcription" virtual meeting. Text/audio transcription, incl #Transkribus, Generative AI tools, Open AI’s Whisper, vendor services. FREE, thx to our panelists, hosts, volunteers!
#transcription #digitization
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OhioDIG Meeting Registration--Virtual--2025-11-12
Please join the Ohio Digitization Interest Group for our November meeting (virtual) at 10:30am on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 for a panel discussion.
Registration: Please register by Monday, Novembe...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Register by Mon 5pm EST!
11/12 #OhioDIG "Tech Tools for Transcription" virtual meeting. Text/audio transcription, incl #Transkribus, Generative AI tools, Open AI’s Whisper, vendor services. FREE, thx to our panelists, hosts, volunteers!
#transcription #digitization
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11/12 #OhioDIG "Tech Tools for Transcription" virtual meeting. Text/audio transcription, incl #Transkribus, Generative AI tools, Open AI’s Whisper, vendor services. FREE, thx to our panelists, hosts, volunteers!
#transcription #digitization
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The next one in this series of workshops is 11/13, 2025 at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST. Theme: Edit-a-Thons.
Register now at bit.ly/DPLA-wiki-workshop
#Wikipedia
Register now at bit.ly/DPLA-wiki-workshop
#Wikipedia
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The next one in this series of workshops is 11/13, 2025 at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST. Theme: Edit-a-Thons.
Register now at bit.ly/DPLA-wiki-workshop
#Wikipedia
Register now at bit.ly/DPLA-wiki-workshop
#Wikipedia
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Cleveland, OH: Northeast Ohio Broadcast Archives Manager, Cleveland Public Library
Cleveland, OH: Northeast Ohio Broadcast Archives Manager, Cleveland Public Library
archivesgig.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Cleveland, OH: Northeast Ohio Broadcast Archives Manager, Cleveland Public Library
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New survey researching how recent policy shifts within the U.S. in higher education are impacting DEI reparative metadata/cataloging efforts in academic libraries & archives in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico. 📚 #critcat uncg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Ramification of DEI shifts in higher education on reparative cataloging activity
Survey for "Ramification of DEI shifts in higher education on reparative cataloging activity".
uncg.qualtrics.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
New survey researching how recent policy shifts within the U.S. in higher education are impacting DEI reparative metadata/cataloging efforts in academic libraries & archives in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico. 📚 #critcat uncg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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spreadsheets are still the undisputed champion of digital preservation #digipres #ipres2025
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
spreadsheets are still the undisputed champion of digital preservation #digipres #ipres2025
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🎉Another great read for #WDPD2025 🎉Digitizing illustrated periodicals preserves more than pages. It safeguards cultural memory, expands access, and opens new audiences. Exact Editions shows us #WhyPreserve for #WDPD2025. Read more👉 www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/bl...
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎉Another great read for #WDPD2025 🎉Digitizing illustrated periodicals preserves more than pages. It safeguards cultural memory, expands access, and opens new audiences. Exact Editions shows us #WhyPreserve for #WDPD2025. Read more👉 www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/bl...
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Register for 11/12 #OhioDIG "Tech Tools for Transcription" virtual meeting. Text/audio transcription, incl #Transkribus, Generative AI tools, Open AI’s Whisper, vendor services. FREE, thx to our panelists 👇, hosts, volunteers! 1/2
#transcription #digitization
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#transcription #digitization
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OhioDIG Meeting Registration--Virtual--2025-11-12
Please join the Ohio Digitization Interest Group for our November meeting (virtual) at 10:30am on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 for a panel discussion.
Registration: Please register by Monday, Novembe...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Register for 11/12 #OhioDIG "Tech Tools for Transcription" virtual meeting. Text/audio transcription, incl #Transkribus, Generative AI tools, Open AI’s Whisper, vendor services. FREE, thx to our panelists 👇, hosts, volunteers! 1/2
#transcription #digitization
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#transcription #digitization
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Archives & Museums club visited Digital Initiatives and Mahn Center yesterday! Always happy to make new friends and share our work 🥰
Caption: Students view archives materials in Digital Initiatives.
#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityArchives #ForeverOHIO #archives #tour #ArchivesDive
Caption: Students view archives materials in Digital Initiatives.
#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityArchives #ForeverOHIO #archives #tour #ArchivesDive
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Archives & Museums club visited Digital Initiatives and Mahn Center yesterday! Always happy to make new friends and share our work 🥰
Caption: Students view archives materials in Digital Initiatives.
#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityArchives #ForeverOHIO #archives #tour #ArchivesDive
Caption: Students view archives materials in Digital Initiatives.
#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityArchives #ForeverOHIO #archives #tour #ArchivesDive
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From Kiribati to Wellington and beyond, global #wdpd2025 celebrations are rolling - with stories, events and new releases all World #digitalpreservation Day long. Dive in this year's theme #whypreserve and find out what great things to expect 👉 https://www.dpconline.org/news/start-of-wdpd2025 🎉
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
From Kiribati to Wellington and beyond, global #wdpd2025 celebrations are rolling - with stories, events and new releases all World #digitalpreservation Day long. Dive in this year's theme #whypreserve and find out what great things to expect 👉 https://www.dpconline.org/news/start-of-wdpd2025 🎉
Hybrid event on 11/12 from Ohio University.
Roundtable: Enslavement & Abolition in Antebellum Texts & Contemporary Artists’ Books 11/12 1pm
Roundtable: Enslavement & Abolition in Antebellum Texts & Contemporary Artists’ Books 11/12 1pm
Check out our Mid-Semester Events Update!
Incl:
- HYBRID! Roundtable: Enslavement & Abolition in Antebellum Texts & Contemporary Artists’ Books 11/12 1pm
- Online exhibit: A Glance into Manuscript & Printed #Leaves, 1200-1700
#DigitalArchives #RareBooks #OHIOUniversity
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Incl:
- HYBRID! Roundtable: Enslavement & Abolition in Antebellum Texts & Contemporary Artists’ Books 11/12 1pm
- Online exhibit: A Glance into Manuscript & Printed #Leaves, 1200-1700
#DigitalArchives #RareBooks #OHIOUniversity
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email : Webview : Upcoming Events from Archives & Special Collections and Digital Initiatives
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November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hybrid event on 11/12 from Ohio University.
Roundtable: Enslavement & Abolition in Antebellum Texts & Contemporary Artists’ Books 11/12 1pm
Roundtable: Enslavement & Abolition in Antebellum Texts & Contemporary Artists’ Books 11/12 1pm
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Listen in to the latest episode of Tea-break Archaeology!
www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/teabreak/40
Featuring guest @lisafdavis.bsky.social
www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/teabreak/40
Featuring guest @lisafdavis.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Listen in to the latest episode of Tea-break Archaeology!
www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/teabreak/40
Featuring guest @lisafdavis.bsky.social
www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/teabreak/40
Featuring guest @lisafdavis.bsky.social
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Springfield, OH: Special Collections & Instruction Librarian, Wittenberg University
Springfield, OH: Special Collections & Instruction Librarian, Wittenberg University
archivesgig.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Springfield, OH: Special Collections & Instruction Librarian, Wittenberg University
My colleague Madison Good will be giving a virtual talk about artist Margaret Armstrong & the books we have designed by her on Wednesday. Details & registration: library.osu.edu/events/the-b...
November 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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We're blown away by the level of interest so far and looking forward to a great couple of days exploring accessibility and/in archives and collections!
As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n
Microsoft Forms
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November 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We're blown away by the level of interest so far and looking forward to a great couple of days exploring accessibility and/in archives and collections!
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Library (archives, research) folk, could you give me your best one liners about Why Cataloguing Matters, please?
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Library (archives, research) folk, could you give me your best one liners about Why Cataloguing Matters, please?
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
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We're offering 150 scholarships for #PLA2026!
Recipients get comp. conference registration, travel stipend & one year of ALA/PLA membership, incl. access to American Libraries & Public Libraries magazines, discounts on webinars + more.
Learn more: https://www.placonference.org/scholarships
Recipients get comp. conference registration, travel stipend & one year of ALA/PLA membership, incl. access to American Libraries & Public Libraries magazines, discounts on webinars + more.
Learn more: https://www.placonference.org/scholarships
October 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We're offering 150 scholarships for #PLA2026!
Recipients get comp. conference registration, travel stipend & one year of ALA/PLA membership, incl. access to American Libraries & Public Libraries magazines, discounts on webinars + more.
Learn more: https://www.placonference.org/scholarships
Recipients get comp. conference registration, travel stipend & one year of ALA/PLA membership, incl. access to American Libraries & Public Libraries magazines, discounts on webinars + more.
Learn more: https://www.placonference.org/scholarships
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Today's @scholarslab.bsky.social Coffee+Code is @mebrett.bsky.social, Manager for Collections, Processing, & Digital Initiatives at the Jefferson Library at Monticello. Worked on @tropy.bsky.social teaching workshops, & presenting today on using it on her dissertation. +
Our fall term events are, as always, free & open to the public! More events to come, including invited speakers; & our many coming makerspace workshops don't get announced right when term starts (to give students time to design them). Our upcoming events are always listed at scholarslab.org/event
Events
The Scholars’ Lab
scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today's @scholarslab.bsky.social Coffee+Code is @mebrett.bsky.social, Manager for Collections, Processing, & Digital Initiatives at the Jefferson Library at Monticello. Worked on @tropy.bsky.social teaching workshops, & presenting today on using it on her dissertation. +
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As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n
Microsoft Forms
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October 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n
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The second major cloud outage in less than two weeks, Azure's downtime highlights the “brittleness” of a digital ecosystem that depends on a few companies never making mistakes. www.wired.com/story/the-mi...
The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures
The second major cloud outage in less than two weeks, Azure's downtime highlights the “brittleness” of a digital ecosystem that depends on a few companies never making mistakes.
www.wired.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The second major cloud outage in less than two weeks, Azure's downtime highlights the “brittleness” of a digital ecosystem that depends on a few companies never making mistakes. www.wired.com/story/the-mi...
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The 2026 RBMS Conference, "Advocacy" CFP is live! The conference will be in June in Milwaukee, and online.
Submit your proposals by December 12th! 📜 #SpecialCollections #Archives web.cvent.com/event/0F0104...
Submit your proposals by December 12th! 📜 #SpecialCollections #Archives web.cvent.com/event/0F0104...
RBMS 2026. Online registration by Cvent
Join us for the RBMS Conference and be part of a transformative experience. Help create a more inclusive future for rare book and manuscript libraries.
web.cvent.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The 2026 RBMS Conference, "Advocacy" CFP is live! The conference will be in June in Milwaukee, and online.
Submit your proposals by December 12th! 📜 #SpecialCollections #Archives web.cvent.com/event/0F0104...
Submit your proposals by December 12th! 📜 #SpecialCollections #Archives web.cvent.com/event/0F0104...
Coming up in #OhioDIG free events:
-Nov 12 (virt) Tech Tools for Transcription
-Jan (virt) Image Quality Assessment
-Mar (virt) Digital Preservation
-May (in person) TBD Joint w/ OPC @ CWRU CLE
-Jul (in person) TBD @ WSU Dayton
-Sep (in person) TBD seeking host
#digitalarchives ohiodig.org/meetings
-Nov 12 (virt) Tech Tools for Transcription
-Jan (virt) Image Quality Assessment
-Mar (virt) Digital Preservation
-May (in person) TBD Joint w/ OPC @ CWRU CLE
-Jul (in person) TBD @ WSU Dayton
-Sep (in person) TBD seeking host
#digitalarchives ohiodig.org/meetings
OhioDIG MEETINGS – Ohio Digitization Interest Group – OhioDIG
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October 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Coming up in #OhioDIG free events:
-Nov 12 (virt) Tech Tools for Transcription
-Jan (virt) Image Quality Assessment
-Mar (virt) Digital Preservation
-May (in person) TBD Joint w/ OPC @ CWRU CLE
-Jul (in person) TBD @ WSU Dayton
-Sep (in person) TBD seeking host
#digitalarchives ohiodig.org/meetings
-Nov 12 (virt) Tech Tools for Transcription
-Jan (virt) Image Quality Assessment
-Mar (virt) Digital Preservation
-May (in person) TBD Joint w/ OPC @ CWRU CLE
-Jul (in person) TBD @ WSU Dayton
-Sep (in person) TBD seeking host
#digitalarchives ohiodig.org/meetings
Register for 11/12 #OhioDIG "Tech Tools for Transcription" virtual meeting. Text/audio transcription, incl #Transkribus, Generative AI tools, Open AI’s Whisper, vendor services. FREE, thx to our panelists 👇, hosts, volunteers! 1/2
#transcription #digitization
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#transcription #digitization
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OhioDIG Meeting Registration--Virtual--2025-11-12
Please join the Ohio Digitization Interest Group for our November meeting (virtual) at 10:30am on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 for a panel discussion.
Registration: Please register by Monday, Novembe...
docs.google.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Register for 11/12 #OhioDIG "Tech Tools for Transcription" virtual meeting. Text/audio transcription, incl #Transkribus, Generative AI tools, Open AI’s Whisper, vendor services. FREE, thx to our panelists 👇, hosts, volunteers! 1/2
#transcription #digitization
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#transcription #digitization
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