Megan Kasten

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project:

'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies

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Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

Seminar program with a list of speakers and some sample illustrations of their 3d documentation work.

A good seminar today at the Museum of Cultural History on documenting, mapping and analysing inscriptions. With inspiring guest speakers Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt, Jonathan Westin, @ndefaoite.bsky.social and @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social.

A Roman Board Game Found in Ancient Coriovallum Rewrites the History of Strategy Games A grayish limestone slab, measuring 21 by 14.5 centimeters, found in the subsoil of the Dutch city of Heerlen and kept for decades in the storage rooms of the local museum, has revealed a playful…

📰 The identification of a unique board game from the Roman Netherlands has big implications for our understanding of ancient games

🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @labrujulaverde.bsky.social

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Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence The Lecture will explore the implications for Gaelic arising from the rapid development of AI

Thèid an 20mh Òraid Bhliadhnail mar Chuimhneachan air Aonghas MacMhathain a lìbhrigeadh 2/12/25 leis an Oll Uilleam Lamb air 'Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence'
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Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence The Lecture will explore the implications for Gaelic arising from the rapid development of AI

The 20th Annual Angus Matheson Memorial Lecture will be given on 2/12/25 by Prof. William Lamb on 'Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence'
Details and registration:
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Looking forward to receiving my physical copy soon! The digital version has already been a delight. Well done Heather, Brian, and all of the artists and researchers who have helped make it such an engaging and beautiful book!

You simply don't get a sense of the hidden architecture lurking beneath Edinburgh's South Bridge from street level until you look at the cross-sectional view.

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Colour photo of Judith on a boat setting off to explore places featuring in The Saga of the Earls of Orkney.

Colour photo of the cover of the new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney.

'University academic translates Norse saga to uncover Viking history of northern Scotland'! Find out more: www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/norse-s...

Yesterday was the big day:
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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Wonderful visit to the National Museum of Ireland with @liber-ray.bsky.social. Glad to see some ogham in the 'Words on the Wave' exhibition, including the Moynagh Lough ogham recently discussed by the #OG_H_AM team @davidstifter.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social

screenshot showing a map of ogham locations (more to add) with search filters and an index of ogham inscriptions below

Happy International Day of Ogham! Although the OG(H)AM project has sadly now finished, work on ogham continues. Here is a sneak preview of our digital corpus, still under development, but due to be launched in September! #InternationalDayOfOgham
#OG_H_AM

Friends & colleagues, the amazing OG(H)AM project, a collaboration between Dept. of Celtic & Gaelic @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Dept. of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social is slowly coming to an end.
With a smile & a tear, I present the final instalment...

ARCHAEOLOGIST I - NG Recruitment CLOSING: June 25, 2025

Exciting job opportunity with Nunatsiavut, as an archaeologist based in Nain, Lab! The position closes on Wed, so hurry over to the careers page below if interested. Please Share!
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This Sunday, 8 June, RTÉ One will be broadcasting episode 1 of a four-part documentary series entitled ‘From that small island. The story of the Irish’, concerned with the history of the Irish people, on this island and abroad, from prehistory to today. The time is 18.30.
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What a fantastic few days of digital epigraphy #EpiDoc @tcddublin.bsky.social & @maynoothuniversity.ie ! Huge thanks to to all our participants, trainers @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social & collaborator Christine Morris @tcdclassics.bsky.social ...

Trisha and Gabby discussing how to encode editorial corrections in the Epidoc file on the screen

This afternoon, @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social and @palaeofuturist.bsky.social discuss how to fix all of life's mistakes with Epidoc (at least how to encode editorial correction of mistakes(?) in inscriptions) #mistake-or-decision @ndefaoite.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Trisha stands at the front of a classroom with an encoded Epidoc file, which is projected onto a screen.

It's the final morning of our Digital Epigraphy workshop, and @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social is leading us through how to encode placenames, people and organisations using Epidoc standards. @ndefaoite.bsky.social @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Cartoon with an ogham stone in the foreground with “ogma ⁊ sons ogham carvers our work is cutting edge” on the front and ogham on the right edge. A roundhouse is in the background with three stones piled in front and a small fire visible inside. A fence is behind the roundhouse with a small bird perched on one post and two other birds flying in the distance.

Ogma’s ogham workshop, cutting edge since c. 700

⏰️ Final keynote of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social
🗣 Pádraic Moran @padraicmoran.bsky.social (University of Galway @uniofgalway.bsky.social)
📜 Designing Sustainable Digital Editions
💻 Slides: pmoran.ie/maynooth2025.pdf

@palaeofuturist.bsky.social guiding Digital Epigraphy Workshop participants through encoding the object description of the Donaghmore ogham stone in #EpiDoc #XML format. @researchireland.ie @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social

Day 2 of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop in @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social.
The facilitators @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social and the crowd of students.
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After a morning spent encoding the metadata of inscribed objects, the afternoon session of the Digital Epigraphy workshop is dedicated to encoding the inscription. @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

@palaeofuturist.bsky.social introducing the Digital Epigraphy Workshop participants @maynoothuniversity.ie to #EpiDoc.
@ndefaoite.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @davidstifter.bsky.social @researchireland.ie @teiconsortium.bsky.social #epigraphy #digitalhumanities

📢 An exciting workshop happening next week #medievalsky @teiconsortium.bsky.social‼️
📷💻Digital Epigraphy Workshop: Hands-on training in #Photogrammetry #RTI and #EpiDoc
📅 May 26-28, 2025
🏫 @tcddublin.bsky.social & @maynoothuniversity.ie
📲Programme: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-materia...

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Day 2 of the Digital Epigraphy workshop @maynoothuniversity.ie starts with a warm welcome from @davidstifter.bsky.social of the #OG_H_AM project. Yesterday, we focused on #Photogrammetry and #RTI with @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social. Today, we're learning #EpiDoc with @palaeofuturist.bsky.social.

Great session with @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social at the Digital Epigraphy workshop @tcddublin.bsky.social participants have successfully exported #RTI images using Relight and have created interactable files that can be manipulated in #RTI Viewer. @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social

Time to learn #RTI, an imaging technique that creates an interactable file in which you can change the lighting position to create a different angle of raking light to emphasise features of an inscribed object. @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social