mia ridge
@miaout.bsky.social
Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol at British Library. EB Secretary @adho-org. Access + UX for digital heritage, AI/machine learning and crowdsourcing in cultural heritage / GLAM / digital humanities. She, they. More at https://www.miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!
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Contact - mia ridge
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If you've messaged me on Bluesky, I won't see it! You can contact me with personal requests via www.miaridge.com/contact/ or at work digitalresearch@bl.uk
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The transcription of Edinburgh University Library’s Receipt Book for the Book Borrowing Surgeons project is well underway. Kit Baston gives an update on her project, funded by an OEC Jean Guild Grant. #edinburghsurgeons #edinburghuniversitylibrary #RCSEd
oldedinburghclub.org.uk/kit-baston-t...
oldedinburghclub.org.uk/kit-baston-t...
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The transcription of Edinburgh University Library’s Receipt Book for the Book Borrowing Surgeons project is well underway. Kit Baston gives an update on her project, funded by an OEC Jean Guild Grant. #edinburghsurgeons #edinburghuniversitylibrary #RCSEd
oldedinburghclub.org.uk/kit-baston-t...
oldedinburghclub.org.uk/kit-baston-t...
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What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
Guides: What's currently available: Introduction
This guide provides up to date details of which services are currently available following a cyber-attack, and which aren't.
bl.libguides.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
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📢 Call for Reviewers: #DH2026 Daejeon
Join us in shaping the conference program!
✅ Min. 4 submissions
✅ Double-blind review
✅ ADHO Code of Conduct
Apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#DH2026 #ADHO
Join us in shaping the conference program!
✅ Min. 4 submissions
✅ Double-blind review
✅ ADHO Code of Conduct
Apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#DH2026 #ADHO
Reviewer Nomination for DH2026
Reviewers must meet two or more of the following criteria [please tick the appropriate selection boxes]:
docs.google.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
📢 Call for Reviewers: #DH2026 Daejeon
Join us in shaping the conference program!
✅ Min. 4 submissions
✅ Double-blind review
✅ ADHO Code of Conduct
Apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#DH2026 #ADHO
Join us in shaping the conference program!
✅ Min. 4 submissions
✅ Double-blind review
✅ ADHO Code of Conduct
Apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#DH2026 #ADHO
I enjoyed reading the prescient 'Do Archive Catalogues Make History?: Exploring Interactions between Historians and Archives' by Richard Dunley and the sadly missed Jo Pugh
doi.org/10.1093/tcbh... or hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unswo...
doi.org/10.1093/tcbh... or hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unswo...
Do Archive Catalogues Make History?: Exploring Interactions between Historians and Archives
Abstract. Archival research is foundational to the writing of most works of academic history and is a central part of the professional identity of historia
doi.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I enjoyed reading the prescient 'Do Archive Catalogues Make History?: Exploring Interactions between Historians and Archives' by Richard Dunley and the sadly missed Jo Pugh
doi.org/10.1093/tcbh... or hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unswo...
doi.org/10.1093/tcbh... or hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unswo...
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ChatGPT is critically dependent on Wikipedia, its most-cited source (but Wikipedia doesn’t need ChatGPT at all). If you care about what LLMs are telling people, making sure Wikipedia is accurate should be your first priority. www.linkedin.com/pulse/wikipe...
Wikipedia is the Anchor of ChatGPT’s Knowledge
A new study from SEO experts at Ahrefs has quantified what many have long suspected: Wikipedia is the single most-cited source in ChatGPT’s answers by a wide margin. “ChatGPT’s citations aren’t confin...
www.linkedin.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
ChatGPT is critically dependent on Wikipedia, its most-cited source (but Wikipedia doesn’t need ChatGPT at all). If you care about what LLMs are telling people, making sure Wikipedia is accurate should be your first priority. www.linkedin.com/pulse/wikipe...
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Happy Friday, bluesky. In a rare moment of sharing something that’s NOT research or fiber art, here’s the new album from my band. Hope you like it.
umbrellabirds.bandcamp.com/album/back-t...
umbrellabirds.bandcamp.com/album/back-t...
Back To Land, by Umbrellabirds
11 track album
umbrellabirds.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Happy Friday, bluesky. In a rare moment of sharing something that’s NOT research or fiber art, here’s the new album from my band. Hope you like it.
umbrellabirds.bandcamp.com/album/back-t...
umbrellabirds.bandcamp.com/album/back-t...
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'Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis
Feeling overwhelmed by divisive opinions, endless rows and unreliable facts? Here’s how to weather the data storm
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
'Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
I love a good news story about agrivoltaics (farming under solar panels) - let's hope it does take off! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Will farming under solar panels take off?
Farming under solar panels is still in the early stages in India, but will it catch on?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I love a good news story about agrivoltaics (farming under solar panels) - let's hope it does take off! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Careful Consequence Checker,
a free, self-directed tool for understanding the impacts of building, buying or adopting an AI-powered product or service www.careful.industries/consequences Thank you @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
a free, self-directed tool for understanding the impacts of building, buying or adopting an AI-powered product or service www.careful.industries/consequences Thank you @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Consequences — Careful Industries
A free tool to help you rapidly assess potential risks and issues with AI-powered products, tools and services.
www.careful.industries
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The Careful Consequence Checker,
a free, self-directed tool for understanding the impacts of building, buying or adopting an AI-powered product or service www.careful.industries/consequences Thank you @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
a free, self-directed tool for understanding the impacts of building, buying or adopting an AI-powered product or service www.careful.industries/consequences Thank you @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
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New blog post from me and Prof Albert Sanchez-Graells on some
challenges for responsible AI use in local govt in England. Our main finding from speaking with practitioners is more governance support is needed for rolling out existing tools, such as Copilot www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
challenges for responsible AI use in local govt in England. Our main finding from speaking with practitioners is more governance support is needed for rolling out existing tools, such as Copilot www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
Lessons from developing a Consequences tool for local authorities — Careful Industries
Findings from our research into local authorities’ procurement and adoption of AI, conducted with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute.
www.careful.industries
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
New blog post from me and Prof Albert Sanchez-Graells on some
challenges for responsible AI use in local govt in England. Our main finding from speaking with practitioners is more governance support is needed for rolling out existing tools, such as Copilot www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
challenges for responsible AI use in local govt in England. Our main finding from speaking with practitioners is more governance support is needed for rolling out existing tools, such as Copilot www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
A surprise benefit of mRNA vaccines could be better treatments for cancer, extending lives without the side effects of chemo? Yay for good news! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Covid vaccines may increase the lifespan of cancer patients – this could be a game changer | Devi Sridhar
A study suggests mRNA vaccines could help the body fight malignant cells, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A surprise benefit of mRNA vaccines could be better treatments for cancer, extending lives without the side effects of chemo? Yay for good news! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Can anyone recommend a good text / source for sea monsters and imagined marine life in early modern period? Niche request. Cheers!
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Can anyone recommend a good text / source for sea monsters and imagined marine life in early modern period? Niche request. Cheers!
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Join us for the 2025 Universal Viewer (UV) Annual Conference held online Tues 18 November 2025 14:00-18:00 UTC/GMT. Find out more and book your place: https://uvcon.io
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 [1/2]
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 [1/2]
UVCON
UVCON
uvcon.io
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Join us for the 2025 Universal Viewer (UV) Annual Conference held online Tues 18 November 2025 14:00-18:00 UTC/GMT. Find out more and book your place: https://uvcon.io
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 [1/2]
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 [1/2]
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Anyway, one alternative is to build better ways of doing things, and to really empower folks working in tech to feel confident about making alternatives. I hope the Society for Hopeful Technologists can be a part of that. Still a handful of places last at our 3rd open house event luma.com/isqs8n9x
Hopeful Tech: Community Event - Open House 3 · Luma
Our first open house to help shape the UK's Society for Hopeful Technologists. Come along and discuss the draft charter, develop the theory of change and help…
luma.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Anyway, one alternative is to build better ways of doing things, and to really empower folks working in tech to feel confident about making alternatives. I hope the Society for Hopeful Technologists can be a part of that. Still a handful of places last at our 3rd open house event luma.com/isqs8n9x
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Huge thanks to all our @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues who've been working so hard on this for so long!
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Huge thanks to all our @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues who've been working so hard on this for so long!
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(3) Enriching digital heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data, convened by Gethin Rees, Elton Barker, Sarah Middle, Anna-Maria Sichani, Mia Ridge. Working on the Cultural Heritage AI Cookbook. Sign up at forms.gle/DErqFUuY2Vn7...
Enriching digital heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data, Linked Pasts 2025
Combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with Linked Open Data (LOD) offers great potential to make cultural heritage metadata FAIR. The proposed activity will bring together specialists from cultural h...
forms.gle
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
(3) Enriching digital heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data, convened by Gethin Rees, Elton Barker, Sarah Middle, Anna-Maria Sichani, Mia Ridge. Working on the Cultural Heritage AI Cookbook. Sign up at forms.gle/DErqFUuY2Vn7...
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To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of launching the ONS website in 2026 (the highlight of my career) I'm going to have one last swing at a Gov big data initiative (but not 'Big Data!') and will return to the Civil Service as Head of Products & Services for the National Data Library in January!
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of launching the ONS website in 2026 (the highlight of my career) I'm going to have one last swing at a Gov big data initiative (but not 'Big Data!') and will return to the Civil Service as Head of Products & Services for the National Data Library in January!
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If you missed yesterday's wonderful Deswarte Prize seminar - ' (Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhymes of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries with and without AI' - it is now on the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar youtube channel youtu.be/iwT7PRy-eQs?...
Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils: (Fe)male Voices on Stage
YouTube video by IHR Digital History Seminar
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
If you missed yesterday's wonderful Deswarte Prize seminar - ' (Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhymes of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries with and without AI' - it is now on the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar youtube channel youtu.be/iwT7PRy-eQs?...
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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
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Want to know how to start a #DH association? Probably not - but lots about building sustainable orgs that support researchers, practitioners & students.
Thanks @jfwinters.bsky.social for guiding the process & @jtonra.bsky.social for working on the implementation section w/ me! @ukiedh.bsky.social
Thanks @jfwinters.bsky.social for guiding the process & @jtonra.bsky.social for working on the implementation section w/ me! @ukiedh.bsky.social
Enhancing research and teaching capacity through collaboration: building a UK–Ireland Digital Humanities Association
Abstract. This article discusses the development of a Digital Humanities (DH) Association for the UK and Ireland. It explores processes for evidence gather
academic.oup.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Want to know how to start a #DH association? Probably not - but lots about building sustainable orgs that support researchers, practitioners & students.
Thanks @jfwinters.bsky.social for guiding the process & @jtonra.bsky.social for working on the implementation section w/ me! @ukiedh.bsky.social
Thanks @jfwinters.bsky.social for guiding the process & @jtonra.bsky.social for working on the implementation section w/ me! @ukiedh.bsky.social
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The Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives team has released Viewfinder: A toolkit for values-driven AI in libraries and archives that was created by librarians and tech ethicists at four universities.
Print-at-home PDF: osf.io/yue9s
Interactive website: www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-...
Print-at-home PDF: osf.io/yue9s
Interactive website: www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-...
Responsible AI - MSU Library | Montana State University
www.lib.montana.edu
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives team has released Viewfinder: A toolkit for values-driven AI in libraries and archives that was created by librarians and tech ethicists at four universities.
Print-at-home PDF: osf.io/yue9s
Interactive website: www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-...
Print-at-home PDF: osf.io/yue9s
Interactive website: www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-...
I was part of an OCLC RLP working group on 'artificial intelligence to support metadata workflows'.
Four posts summarise this work, looking at primary cataloguing, archives and special collections, institutional repositories, and overall pros and cons hangingtogether.org/tag/aiandmet...
Four posts summarise this work, looking at primary cataloguing, archives and special collections, institutional repositories, and overall pros and cons hangingtogether.org/tag/aiandmet...
AIandMetadataWorkflows Archives - Hanging Together
Hanging Together
hangingtogether.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I was part of an OCLC RLP working group on 'artificial intelligence to support metadata workflows'.
Four posts summarise this work, looking at primary cataloguing, archives and special collections, institutional repositories, and overall pros and cons hangingtogether.org/tag/aiandmet...
Four posts summarise this work, looking at primary cataloguing, archives and special collections, institutional repositories, and overall pros and cons hangingtogether.org/tag/aiandmet...
#MuseTech folk, there's a proposal for 'exhibitions' on wikidata that could probably use your input, especially if you've ever worked on a 'what's on' site and know the complexities of exhibition data! Overview page: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...
Wikidata:Requests for comment/Exhibition models - Wikidata
Update: this discussion has been moved to the next stage, schema proposals, as of November 6, 2025! You can participate in the discussion here: Wikidata:Schema proposals/exhibition concept (parent)…
www.wikidata.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
#MuseTech folk, there's a proposal for 'exhibitions' on wikidata that could probably use your input, especially if you've ever worked on a 'what's on' site and know the complexities of exhibition data! Overview page: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...