Richard Palmer
@rd-palmer.bsky.social
Tech Lead in Digital Media at the V&A, but not speaking for them. Waiting for the return of Usenet but until then testing out all the social media platforms to find the least worst.
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We built #MachinaEmblematica as an outreach/engagement tool rather than for research. But as someone with zero knowledge of 16C emblem books (or Latin!) I find it an amazing way to poke around & discover odd new things—far richer than randomly browsing #IIIF images alone.
machina.rainersimon.io
machina.rainersimon.io
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We built #MachinaEmblematica as an outreach/engagement tool rather than for research. But as someone with zero knowledge of 16C emblem books (or Latin!) I find it an amazing way to poke around & discover odd new things—far richer than randomly browsing #IIIF images alone.
machina.rainersimon.io
machina.rainersimon.io
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The 4th edition of ACMI’s Future of Arts Culture & Technology symposium now has Early Bird tix on sale. Feb 11-13 with first round of speakers announced. Expect some new provocations … www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...
Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium | 11 - 13 Feb 2026
A two-day symposium exploring the future of arts, culture, and technology in Australia – and the mindsets, capabilities and skills we need to get there.
www.acmi.net.au
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The 4th edition of ACMI’s Future of Arts Culture & Technology symposium now has Early Bird tix on sale. Feb 11-13 with first round of speakers announced. Expect some new provocations … www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...
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📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
anthology.ach.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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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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"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)
The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.
www.heise.de
October 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
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Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Please share with any musicians you know!
Please share with any musicians you know!
Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores
Help us to collect digital scores from composers and independent publishers.
www.bl.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Please share with any musicians you know!
Please share with any musicians you know!
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A great job has opened up at the California Digital Library at the University of California-- the Technical Team Manager for Discovery and Delivery! #Jobs #libraries #TechManagers cdlib.org/about/job-op...
Job Opportunities
Job Opportunities
cdlib.org
October 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A great job has opened up at the California Digital Library at the University of California-- the Technical Team Manager for Discovery and Delivery! #Jobs #libraries #TechManagers cdlib.org/about/job-op...
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Museum cyberattacks “are no longer a question of if, but when.”Amy Adams and George Wilson on the National Museum of the Royal Navy attack www.museumnext.com/article/less...
Lessons from a Cyberattack: The National Museum of the Royal Navy’s Journey Through Crisis and Recovery
On 9 December 2024, the National Museum of the Royal Navy faced an event that every museum hopes never to experience: a ransomware cyberattack. Overnight,...
www.museumnext.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Museum cyberattacks “are no longer a question of if, but when.”Amy Adams and George Wilson on the National Museum of the Royal Navy attack www.museumnext.com/article/less...
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The next #IIIF Community Call is on 'AI Bot Management', Weds October 8 at 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC. Call links etc at iiif.io/community
What are you doing about bots swarming your GLAM website or IIIF collections? Pros and cons of different approaches? What does this mean for open content? #MuseTech
What are you doing about bots swarming your GLAM website or IIIF collections? Pros and cons of different approaches? What does this mean for open content? #MuseTech
IIIF Community
IIIF is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. It’s also an international community developing and implementing the IIIF APIs. IIIF is backed…
iiif.io
September 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The next #IIIF Community Call is on 'AI Bot Management', Weds October 8 at 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC. Call links etc at iiif.io/community
What are you doing about bots swarming your GLAM website or IIIF collections? Pros and cons of different approaches? What does this mean for open content? #MuseTech
What are you doing about bots swarming your GLAM website or IIIF collections? Pros and cons of different approaches? What does this mean for open content? #MuseTech
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FYI: We are hiring a 3-year research postdoc at @camdighum.bsky.social to study AI and the future of creativity. Application deadline Sep 21; more info below. Please circulate / apply! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...
Now Hiring: Research Associate (Fixed Term) - CDH
Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher in Digital Humanities. The post will run for three years from Spring 2026. The successful candidate will work with Profess...
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk
September 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
FYI: We are hiring a 3-year research postdoc at @camdighum.bsky.social to study AI and the future of creativity. Application deadline Sep 21; more info below. Please circulate / apply! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...
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We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky
manuscripta.se – A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden — manuscripta.se A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden
manuscripta.se
September 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky
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Have you checked out Sak Supple's blplaybills.org lately? He's been experimenting with semantic search, and improving OCR for British Library playbills.
A big boon for #TheaterHistory / #TheatreHistory!
Please let him or us know if you have feedback or ideas
A big boon for #TheaterHistory / #TheatreHistory!
Please let him or us know if you have feedback or ideas
British Library theatrical playbills 1600-1902
blplaybills.org
September 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Have you checked out Sak Supple's blplaybills.org lately? He's been experimenting with semantic search, and improving OCR for British Library playbills.
A big boon for #TheaterHistory / #TheatreHistory!
Please let him or us know if you have feedback or ideas
A big boon for #TheaterHistory / #TheatreHistory!
Please let him or us know if you have feedback or ideas
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So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!
Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!
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"the new AHRC funded Community Hub, which will support inclusive, community-led research across the UK GLAM and heritage sectors ... The ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub will offer three grant schemes - Seed Corn Grants, Skills Bursaries, and Project Grants"
tinyurl.com/tnacommunity...
tinyurl.com/tnacommunity...
Spaces, Places and Belonging: Community Hub Launch Webinar
Learn about the new AHRC funded Community Hub, which will support inclusive, community led research across the UK GLAM and heritage sectors.
tinyurl.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"the new AHRC funded Community Hub, which will support inclusive, community-led research across the UK GLAM and heritage sectors ... The ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub will offer three grant schemes - Seed Corn Grants, Skills Bursaries, and Project Grants"
tinyurl.com/tnacommunity...
tinyurl.com/tnacommunity...
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👀 Fantastic - and rare - opportunity in research data management and leadership 👇
Job – Chief Data Officer at @rds-scotland.bsky.social in Edinburgh www.researchdata.scot/jobs/chief-d...
The Chief Data Officer is responsible for "establishing and overseeing the range of programmes that source the portfolio of datasets available for use in research."
#researchdata #datasharing
The Chief Data Officer is responsible for "establishing and overseeing the range of programmes that source the portfolio of datasets available for use in research."
#researchdata #datasharing
August 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
👀 Fantastic - and rare - opportunity in research data management and leadership 👇
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Reminder: Annotorious brings Photoshop-like selection tools to your browser!
• Intelligent Scissors
• Magnetic Cursor
• WebGPU-powered SegmentAnything
I just wrote proper docs! Usage guides, examples, full API:
github.com/annotorious/...
github.com/annotorious/...
#OpenSeadragon #IIIF
• Intelligent Scissors
• Magnetic Cursor
• WebGPU-powered SegmentAnything
I just wrote proper docs! Usage guides, examples, full API:
github.com/annotorious/...
github.com/annotorious/...
#OpenSeadragon #IIIF
August 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Reminder: Annotorious brings Photoshop-like selection tools to your browser!
• Intelligent Scissors
• Magnetic Cursor
• WebGPU-powered SegmentAnything
I just wrote proper docs! Usage guides, examples, full API:
github.com/annotorious/...
github.com/annotorious/...
#OpenSeadragon #IIIF
• Intelligent Scissors
• Magnetic Cursor
• WebGPU-powered SegmentAnything
I just wrote proper docs! Usage guides, examples, full API:
github.com/annotorious/...
github.com/annotorious/...
#OpenSeadragon #IIIF
What strange hold do the manufacturers of storage lockers needing a one euro coin (returnable) have over museums? It seems such a waste of time for staff and visitors to deal with. Maybe there are stockpiles of such lockers we need to exhaust before they just provide ones using a key or number.
August 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
What strange hold do the manufacturers of storage lockers needing a one euro coin (returnable) have over museums? It seems such a waste of time for staff and visitors to deal with. Maybe there are stockpiles of such lockers we need to exhaust before they just provide ones using a key or number.
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Many VLM-based OCR models have been released recently. Are they useful for libraries and archives?
I made a quick Space to compare VLM OCR with "traditional" OCR using 11k Scottish exam papers from @natlibscot.bsky.social
huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/ocr-time-capsule
I made a quick Space to compare VLM OCR with "traditional" OCR using 11k Scottish exam papers from @natlibscot.bsky.social
huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/ocr-time-capsule
August 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Many VLM-based OCR models have been released recently. Are they useful for libraries and archives?
I made a quick Space to compare VLM OCR with "traditional" OCR using 11k Scottish exam papers from @natlibscot.bsky.social
huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/ocr-time-capsule
I made a quick Space to compare VLM OCR with "traditional" OCR using 11k Scottish exam papers from @natlibscot.bsky.social
huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/ocr-time-capsule
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👀 What a great role!
One for US heritage data/digital/design colleagues.
One for US heritage data/digital/design colleagues.
The Smithsonian is hiring trustcareers.si.edu/postings/6f3...
“The Assistant Director for Informatics and Data Science will be at the forefront of transforming how NMNH leverages data and digital tools to advance its mission.”
This position is not federally funded, closes August 7th.
“The Assistant Director for Informatics and Data Science will be at the forefront of transforming how NMNH leverages data and digital tools to advance its mission.”
This position is not federally funded, closes August 7th.
Supervisory Data Scientist (Assistant Director for Informatics and Data Science), IS-1560-15
Job Opening: Supervisory Data Scientist (Assistant Director for Informatics and Data Science), IS-1560-15 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
trustcareers.si.edu
July 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
👀 What a great role!
One for US heritage data/digital/design colleagues.
One for US heritage data/digital/design colleagues.
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Oh no. Tom Lehrer gone. At his great age, it’s not a tragedy, I know, but it just does feel bad not having his genius in the world.
July 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Oh no. Tom Lehrer gone. At his great age, it’s not a tragedy, I know, but it just does feel bad not having his genius in the world.
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OK, I'm assuming you're all aware now of @londonmuseum.bsky.social's #AI conversational search #chatbot, Clio: www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/introdu... ...
Introducing our conversational search agent
www.londonmuseum.org.uk
July 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
OK, I'm assuming you're all aware now of @londonmuseum.bsky.social's #AI conversational search #chatbot, Clio: www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/introdu... ...
I enjoyed every part of @hugorifkind.bsky.social's book Rabbits except for the very specific claim as to how all English people pronounce Naomi.
July 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I enjoyed every part of @hugorifkind.bsky.social's book Rabbits except for the very specific claim as to how all English people pronounce Naomi.
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The new Path tool is now available for testing on liiive.now! Smooth curves and precise control for annotating complex shapes. 🚀
July 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The new Path tool is now available for testing on liiive.now! Smooth curves and precise control for annotating complex shapes. 🚀
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😍 Great idea to reinvigorate thinking around these objects.
Open to all: "We invite thinkers, mathematicians, creators, researchers, and enthusiasts from all walks of life to submit their interpretations, hypotheses, or creative responses to one of archaeology’s most intriguing enigmas."
📷 NMS
Open to all: "We invite thinkers, mathematicians, creators, researchers, and enthusiasts from all walks of life to submit their interpretations, hypotheses, or creative responses to one of archaeology’s most intriguing enigmas."
📷 NMS
July 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
😍 Great idea to reinvigorate thinking around these objects.
Open to all: "We invite thinkers, mathematicians, creators, researchers, and enthusiasts from all walks of life to submit their interpretations, hypotheses, or creative responses to one of archaeology’s most intriguing enigmas."
📷 NMS
Open to all: "We invite thinkers, mathematicians, creators, researchers, and enthusiasts from all walks of life to submit their interpretations, hypotheses, or creative responses to one of archaeology’s most intriguing enigmas."
📷 NMS