Beatrice Cannelli

Poster in turquoise w purple writing saying Inaugural lecture. Professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen. Picture of woman w red hair. QR code. "Whither Digital History"

Will I see you IRL or online for my inaugural lecture?

17 April, 15:15-16:00 CET.

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Stone, parchment or laser-etched glass? Scientists find new way to preserve data Hard disks and magnetic tape have a limited lifespan, but storage developed by Microsoft could last for millennia Some cultures used stone, others used parchment. Some even, for a time, used floppy disks. Now scientists have come up with a new way to keep archived data safe that, they say, could endure for millennia: laser-writing in glass. From personal photos that are kept for a lifetime to business documents, medical information, data for scientific research, national records and heritage data, there is no shortage of information that needs to be preserved for very long periods of time. Continue reading...

Stone, parchment or laser-etched glass? Scientists find new way to preserve data

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Web archive research in an age of Smart Data | British Library The web represents the largest unstructured data collection, with a huge variety of data types, creators and sources, distributed across the world. The arc

Free event at the British Library on Monday 9 Feb (18.30 GMT): ‘Web archive research in an age of Smart Data’

Old, New, Precarious Data Old, New, Precarious Data is the first event of the 2025-2026 DHRH flagship seminar series on incompleteness and loss in digital cultural heritage collections.

Join us online on 2 Dec for ‘Old, New, Precarious Data’, the 1st event of 2025-6 @dh-researchhub.bsky.social seminar series on incompleteness & loss in digital heritage collections w @beatricecannelli.bsky.social, @heatherfro.bsky.social, Leontien Talboom &Amelia Acker www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Join us online tomorrow 2 December at 4pm @dh-researchhub.bsky.social

I'm looking forward to discussing loss and precariousness in social media and other digital cultural heritage collections.

This is an free event, but you need to register at the link below. ✨

Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...

📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly

@sas-news.bsky.social

Geschichte auf Instagram und TikTok This volume is the first to provide extensive insights into history on Instagram and TikTok. In doing so, it sheds light on the contents, usage patterns, and media-specific characteristics of the plat...

My copy of Geschichte auf Instagram und TikTok (History on Instagram and TikTok) is here! ✨

Thanks to the editors Mia Berg, Andrea Lorenz and Kristin Oswald for bringing together this 900+ page collection on history on social media

📖 open access: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.

The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐

Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...

@uclasamueli.bsky.social

BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage forum This forum brings together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically.

BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum (hybrid), 6 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

📣 CfP: Sustainable #WebArchiving 📣
netpreserve.org/ga2026/cfp/

🗓️ PROPOSALS DUE OCT 15

🇧🇪 #iipcWAC26 AT KBR, ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM
20-23 APR 2026

#webarchives | #WebArchiveWednesday | #DigitalPreservation | #DigitalHumanities

Congratulations, Caio!!! 👏👏🥳

Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...

📖 Very excited about the publication of this book, out in November...

Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, edited by @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social:

uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi...

#OpenAccess @dh-researchhub.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Advocacy Survey Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

#DigitalHumanities folk in Ireland and the UK, please consider completing this UK-Ireland DH Association survey on advocacy within and for DH. Your responses will help to shape Association policy and practice in the future. Thank you!

We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!

We're recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer. Come and help us capture, preserve and provide access to almost 30 years of archived websites. Web Archiving is awesome! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

"Are you a manager in a company that uses conversational chatbots (like Copilot or ChatGPT) in daily work?"

My former colleague is doing a study on how the use of generative AI influences managers' perceptions of their subordinates. Looking for people to interview.
Please share! 🙏

If you’re a follower and you’ve ever used a web archive for historical work, I’d be really interested in hearing about your project and your approach to the archive. Please get in touch if you exist!

Tech Life - Jamming and spoofing - BBC Sounds UN agencies are worried about rising cases of satellite navigation signal interference.

One of our conference organisers @naswells.bsky.social spoke with BBC's Tech Life programme about the importance of archiving digital culture.

Listen from 7:00 to hear some teasers for this week's #BDCAM25 conference.

1 / Executive power now operates via Delete Commands in digital infrastructures. This isn't data management. It's calculated obliteration of who gets to exist in digital memory and knowledge infrastructures. Thank you @verfassungsblog.de for publishing our (@ktmac.bsky.social and my) essay!

Promo image for a conference. Grey background with some intersecting lines representing digital connections. White text reads "Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory 2-4 April 2025." School of Advanced Study University of London logo.

If you are in London in April, come see me keynote at an intimidatingly interesting conference. Here is the schedule, full of international geniuses, also I will be there.
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Zine cover, reading "Things disappear from the internet. Care about stuff on the web? *You* need to act to archive it. Anyone can do it -- this zine shows you how."

We've got a zine that we put together recently on DIY web archiving. It doesn't have to be technically difficult, and there are tools that may work better for some websites than the Internet Archive (though certainly make sure things get archived there, too!)

Skulls, skin and names: The ethics of managing heritage collections data online This discussion will highlight the ethical challenges of managing the digitised images and records of materials which, for ethical reasons, are no longer shown in galleries.

Free online seminar @dh-researchhub.bsky.social on 5 March (15.00-16.45 GMT): ‘Skulls, skin and names: the ethics of managing heritage collections data online’ www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Thank you so much! :)

Thank you so much! 😊

It doesn't have to be a current project, it can also be something you have previously worked on. Thank you again! 😊

Here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social we are running a project called 'The Algorithimic Archive', funded by the Mellon Foundation on the challenges & needs for archiving social media data. We need your help- if you use such data can you help us with this survey? forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Hi Helle! The survey targets both researchers who work only with archived web data and those who use a combination of resources, but it has to include social media data. Your input on this would be greatly appreciated! :)