Digital Scholarship @ British Library

New webpage on the British Library website lists all current 'Opportunities for researchers' https://www.bl.uk/services/research-collaboration/opportunities-for-researchers #fellowships #PhDs #CDP

What does it really cost to make knowledge open? 🔓 From people & technology to funding & the environment, explore the challenges of making knowledge accessible & sustainable at our annual Open and Engaged Conference for #OAWeek 📅 20 October | Online 🔗 link.bl.uk/7nl #OpenAccessWeek #OpenEngaged

Interesting discussion going on at the British Library's Open and Engaged event for 2026: first session, on building cultural heritage infrastructures that can withstand the onslaught of those training AI models. #OpenEngaged Programme at openscholarship.gitbook.io/open-and-eng...

Check out the Stuart Hall Archive Project! Amazing resource that includes not only digitisation, but tools and teaching resources too! You can access the archive here: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk And this news article is a great intro read! www.theguardian.com/society/2026....

5400 articles published between 1835 and 1920 from over British 20 newspaper titles with metadata, crowdsourced labels (annotations) and fresh OCR doi.org/10.23636/xrk... Described at livingwithmachines.ac.uk/the-how-did-...

My latest blog post about Cree geographic knowledge in 17th-century cartography is now live with the British Library’s blog, focusing on some research that I completed this summer at the library as a 2026 Eccles Fellow. www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

And an example of its potential - similarity search in action zldyu46n7tab6m3loyi66triau0dckhk.lambda-url.us-west-2.on.aws/record/metmu...

ICYMI, ace work from @thisisaaronland.bsky.social on shared vector embeddings for images as 'an exercise in practicing agency in our work [,] in producing tangible and reusable artifacts which have a longer shelf life' www.aaronland.info/weblog/2026/...

We’re delighted to announce Dr Paul Bate as the British Library’s new Chief Executive Joining us from the UK Space Agency, Paul brings experience supporting world-class research communities. We look forward to welcoming his expertise at the Library. Read the full announcement here link.bl.uk/fc6

🎉 We're excited to welcome 6 new Community Interest Groups to the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association! From #webarchives, #pedagogy, and #openknowledge, our CIG network now includes 10 active groups. 🔗 digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/09/21/2... #DH #DigitalHumanities

The Humanities and Data Science (HaDS, or H&DS), formerly known as Turing's Humanities and Data Science group, is delighted to be among the new UK-IE DH groups! Find out more, join, at our work in progress site: had-uk.github.io

#GreenLibraries Week 2026 is one month away! Look at this incredibly rich programme coordinated by Head of Sustainability, Catherine Ross @britishlibrary.bsky.social lnkd.in/eqSjUiF4 I'm contributing to a session on setting up a staff sustainability network: lnkd.in/efEMPV83 -- free registration!

Seal impressions can reveal ownership, reading practices, and the journeys of manuscripts across collections. A new DFG-funded project is creating a database of seals from manuscripts in the Islamic world. It will link images and descriptions and develop tools for automated recognition

Have you explored Sak Supple's BL Playbills site lately? Check out the visualisations! https://blplaybills.org/

LIBER's Digital Scholarship and Digital Cultural Heritage working group presents an 'AI Pulse' seminar on 'critical AI literacy' on Oct 23: libereurope.eu/event/liber-... Online and recorded for later viewing #AI4LAM

I love that this includes 'What is Benchmarking and Why Should You Care?' RISE-UNIBAS/humanities_data_benchmark: LLM Benchmark Suite for Humanities Data github.com/RISE-UNIBAS/... #AI4LAM

It's been gratifying to see the response to this project since we officially put it out into the world last week: www.bpl.org/news/boston-... #AI4LAM

A New AI Ethics Framework for Zooniverse This post was written by Hillary Burgess and Sam Blickhan. In June 2025, we announced an initiative to develop a set of recommendations for running AI/ML-engaged projects on the Zooniverse platform. After a year of collaboration and discussion with…

Institutional Books is expanding. The Institutional Data Initiative @institutional.org at @harvardlawadmin.bsky.social Library has added paragraph-level text analysis and 22M extracted images to our work on ∼1M books, opening new possibilities for research, experimentation, and discovery. 🧵

Young people want to connect in person, but often have nowhere to go. A new report from @ippr.org highlights the need for free, welcoming “third spaces”. Libraries can be part of the answer — giving young people somewhere to meet and take part in local life. www.ippr.org/articles/the...

Interested in helping @adho-org.bsky.social's work after the success of #DH2026? Now you can! Join the Awards Committee or be the 2026-2027 ADHO Communications Fellow - apply by September 18 adho.org/2026/08/26/c... adho.org/2026/08/13/c... #DigitalHumanities #DH

📢 We are delighted to share highlights from ADHO’s DH2026 conference and the latest updates in our special-issue newsletter. 🔹 Read this issue: listmonk.adho.org/campaign/6cc... 🔹 Please consider subscribing to our newsletter to receive the latest news. 🔗 Link to subscribe: adho.org/newsletter/

The #DH2026 Book of Abstracts is out — final version, now on Zenodo. PDF + machine-readable XML, CC BY 4.0. This is the version of record; no further revisions will be issued. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

@britishlibrary.bsky.social were grateful to receive a large allocation of studentships as part of the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Award scheme. We have 4 exciting new studentships starting in Oct 2027 - 3 are now open for prospective HEI supervisor proposals! www.bl.uk/services/res...

The Swedish National Archives have launched a Model Content Protocol Server and asking for feedback on this beta service riksarkivet.se/en/resources... #MCP #AI

The Swedish National Archives have launched a Model Content Protocol Server and asking for feedback on this beta service riksarkivet.se/en/resources... #MCP #AI

📢 ADHO invites applicants to join the ADHO Awards Committee. 🔗 Read more: adho.org/2026/08/13/c... 🔗 To apply, please fill out this form: nextcloud.adho.org/apps/forms/s... ⏰️ Application deadline: 18 September 2026.

I’ve got some events coming up, which regular readers may enjoy. First up, I’ve got a webinar on #localhistory and getting started next week. Details here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...

📢The deadline for queries about this OPEN CALL📸 is Fri, 4 Sep & the deadline for applications is ✨Wed, 16 Sep✨. UCD Library seeks photographers and lens-based artists for a commission capturing the National Folklore Collection's move to its new home. Full details at www.ucd.ie/irishfolklor...

All are welcome to join DRI's online coffee morning on 30th Sept at 11am with Padraic Stack, Digital Librarian & Web Archivist at the @nlireland.bsky.social discussing “Collecting the Online Record Together” and NLI's collaborative approaches to web archiving. Register here: dri.ie/events/dri-c...

In 2020, Dolly joined us for a very special live-streamed conversation about her life, music and love of books. We’re remembering her today by sharing that story. youtube.com/watch?v=HZ8zMyXgCwU

Remembering this awesome event with Dolly Parton at the British Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ8zMyXgCwU

Reaffirming the British Library's commitment to making metadata as open as possible: Sharing British Library open metadata with our communities: https://www.bl.uk/about/governance/policies/sharing-british-library-open-metadata-with-our-communities

#DH2027 is coming to Galway! ⛵️ Join us 28 June–3 July 2027 at the University of Galway for ADHO’s 37th annual conference, on the theme #Creativity. Our website is now live: dh2027.adho.org Watch this space: the CfP is coming soon. #DH2027 @adho-org.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

Reaffirming the British Library's commitment to making metadata as open as possible: Sharing British Library open metadata with our communities: https://www.bl.uk/about/governance/policies/sharing-british-library-open-metadata-with-our-communities

#DH2026 now has a video archive page: highlights, keynotes, ceremonies, and both celebration performances — including the Opening Performance, newly uploaded. dh2026.adho.org/video-archive/

Report: DH2026 Video Archive

'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: call for participation now open for our annual gathering of historians and archivists, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27's theme is connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy, value and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

Is your venue on the Cool Off in Culture map yet? We’re mapping cultural venues across the UK – from museums and galleries to libraries and cinemas – where people can cool down during heatwaves. Your cultural venue can be a vital community hub in the heat. Join today >> tinyurl.com/7nxw4nx4

News | National Library of Wales launches Culture and Climate Cymru resource New website and networking platform to help Wales’s culture sector respond to the climate crisis

Exciting news - the British Newspaper Archive's new platform is here Explore millions of digitised pages of newspapers and other publications from our British and Irish collections, dating as far back as the 1700s We can't wait to get exploring 🗞 link.bl.uk/7ci

Library and archive professionals – don't miss the EPICo Conference 2026 hosted here at the Library this autumn We’ll be exploring collaborative approaches to the management and preservation of physical library collections From 30 Sept – 2 Oct Find out more and book your place link.bl.uk/epico

We’re pleased to announce the grantees of the most recent round of the @esmeefairbairn.bsky.social Communities and Collections Fund 🙌 The fund supports projects using museum collections to improve inclusion and equitable working with community partners. Scroll to meet the awardees 🧵 1/3

📋 The #DH2026 FAQ is now live! Badge pick-up, getting to Daejeon, Whova, and presentation guidelines — everything you need before you arrive. Onsite presenters: please read the presentation section carefully. dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-faq

🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 With #DH2026 in #Daejeon starting next week, please join me in applauding the local organizers for publishing the complete "Book of (extended) Abstracts" ahead of schedule! In PDF with no less than 1013 pages, and also in glorious XML versions! […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

⏰ #DH2026 — Registration Deadlines Complete BOTH registration and payment by: - In-Person — 23:00 AoE, 6 July 2026 - Virtual — 23:00 AoE, 17 July 2026 All registration & payment must be completed in advance. Register now: dh2026.adho.org/conference-r... 📍 Daejeon, Korea · 27–31 July 2026