Emma Stanford
@emmastanford.bsky.social
Your earnest friend in special collections digitization + access. Currently @ Stanford University Libraries, previously Hoover Institution Library & Archives, previously Bodleian Libraries, @e_stanf on Twitter.
Usually Google Docs can shut up with its suggestions but this time I couldn’t agree more, ORCID
June 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Usually Google Docs can shut up with its suggestions but this time I couldn’t agree more, ORCID
The coolest little #IIIF image tile demo from @latest.allmaps.org: observablehq.com/@allmaps/til... (I zoomed in on the dog because of #branding)
March 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The coolest little #IIIF image tile demo from @latest.allmaps.org: observablehq.com/@allmaps/til... (I zoomed in on the dog because of #branding)
Just now found myself typing "books" into the Library of Congress linked data service and hitting "search" and I'm worried that if I don't get this out in the open right away someone will try to blackmail me with it
April 24, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Just now found myself typing "books" into the Library of Congress linked data service and hitting "search" and I'm worried that if I don't get this out in the open right away someone will try to blackmail me with it
It's also picking some incredibly poignant lines to repeat
March 14, 2024 at 5:19 PM
It's also picking some incredibly poignant lines to repeat
I know OpenAI is evil but I'm running Whisper on my laptop and guys it's just a little buddy trying its best
March 14, 2024 at 5:17 PM
I know OpenAI is evil but I'm running Whisper on my laptop and guys it's just a little buddy trying its best
I'm teaching some students about digitization and thought it would be fun to estimate how many years it will take to digitize all our collections at our current rate. Apropos of nothing, this manuscript is 1200 years old and these images are 30 years old. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/783d...
February 29, 2024 at 11:00 PM
I'm teaching some students about digitization and thought it would be fun to estimate how many years it will take to digitize all our collections at our current rate. Apropos of nothing, this manuscript is 1200 years old and these images are 30 years old. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/783d...
Ben suggests a new model with a middle-layer URI registry serving requests from multiple repositories that duplicate the same content, routing resources from the repositories to different institutional and aggregator sites (I hope I got that right, Ben)
February 7, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Ben suggests a new model with a middle-layer URI registry serving requests from multiple repositories that duplicate the same content, routing resources from the repositories to different institutional and aggregator sites (I hope I got that right, Ben)
Well this is extremely cool: the David Rumsey Map Collection and Luna Imaging have launched browsable, correctable full-text search powered by #IIIF annotations and mapKurator machines-reading-maps.github.io/rumsey/
December 5, 2023 at 6:56 PM
Well this is extremely cool: the David Rumsey Map Collection and Luna Imaging have launched browsable, correctable full-text search powered by #IIIF annotations and mapKurator machines-reading-maps.github.io/rumsey/
BDLSS walked so @weirdmedieval.bsky.social could run ❤️
October 31, 2023 at 8:10 PM
BDLSS walked so @weirdmedieval.bsky.social could run ❤️
So the scoop is that @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social's new search platform for manuscripts and archives is called MARCO and I do like it; I think it's very nice. 📜
October 26, 2023 at 8:00 PM
So the scoop is that @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social's new search platform for manuscripts and archives is called MARCO and I do like it; I think it's very nice. 📜
The Bodleian is launching single-search across archives and manuscripts (aka FAMOUS)! Look at this speaker lineup. I might log onto Zoom at 6am for it. 📜 visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct23/...
October 24, 2023 at 7:39 PM
The Bodleian is launching single-search across archives and manuscripts (aka FAMOUS)! Look at this speaker lineup. I might log onto Zoom at 6am for it. 📜 visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct23/...
It should not have come as a surprise to me that the British Museum's press office thinks split infinitives are ungrammatical.
October 19, 2023 at 4:50 PM
It should not have come as a surprise to me that the British Museum's press office thinks split infinitives are ungrammatical.
I can't believe they really mean "digitize" here. The press release is titled "British Museum sets out plans to digitise fully the collection" (in 5 years!) but the body of it describes "improving and completing the online record of every object". Are we just talking about catalogue records? 📜
October 19, 2023 at 4:44 PM
I can't believe they really mean "digitize" here. The press release is titled "British Museum sets out plans to digitise fully the collection" (in 5 years!) but the body of it describes "improving and completing the online record of every object". Are we just talking about catalogue records? 📜
That rustling you hear is a thousand medievalists and early modernists forming ranks
October 18, 2023 at 8:20 PM
That rustling you hear is a thousand medievalists and early modernists forming ranks
New Gerard Manley Hopkins holographs online from @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, which is how I found out he wrote a poem about how getting a birthday letter after your actual birthday is just the worst, especially during dahlia season: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/b8c8...
October 9, 2023 at 10:55 PM
New Gerard Manley Hopkins holographs online from @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, which is how I found out he wrote a poem about how getting a birthday letter after your actual birthday is just the worst, especially during dahlia season: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/b8c8...
Tuesdays am I right
October 3, 2023 at 5:04 PM
Tuesdays am I right
*Actually they were forged in hell by a series of committees with specific domain expertise over the course of eight years and my God, the result is so much worse
October 3, 2023 at 12:19 AM
*Actually they were forged in hell by a series of committees with specific domain expertise over the course of eight years and my God, the result is so much worse
Notes about this manuscript (Exeter College MS. 1):
- I want a directory of MS. 1s from every collection.
- The "Contents" UI is nearly unusable here but that's at least partly the fault of the medieval scribe/collator (pictured, I assume) digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d012...
- I want a directory of MS. 1s from every collection.
- The "Contents" UI is nearly unusable here but that's at least partly the fault of the medieval scribe/collator (pictured, I assume) digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d012...
September 29, 2023 at 8:32 PM
Notes about this manuscript (Exeter College MS. 1):
- I want a directory of MS. 1s from every collection.
- The "Contents" UI is nearly unusable here but that's at least partly the fault of the medieval scribe/collator (pictured, I assume) digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d012...
- I want a directory of MS. 1s from every collection.
- The "Contents" UI is nearly unusable here but that's at least partly the fault of the medieval scribe/collator (pictured, I assume) digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d012...
It's actually impossible to read this poster without imagining a mid-Atlantic accent n2t.net/ark:/54723/h...
September 29, 2023 at 5:43 PM
It's actually impossible to read this poster without imagining a mid-Atlantic accent n2t.net/ark:/54723/h...
There's no perfect first post so here goes: This week I tested out some speech-to-text software that rendered "Mein Kampf" as "my c***". I guess if it's 99% accurate you should assume the other 1% is obscene homophones.
September 22, 2023 at 10:37 PM
There's no perfect first post so here goes: This week I tested out some speech-to-text software that rendered "Mein Kampf" as "my c***". I guess if it's 99% accurate you should assume the other 1% is obscene homophones.