#jobklaxon
Lecturer in #digitalhumanities at @ucc.ie
Salary: €42,102 - €72,452 (Scale B) / €44,169 - €68,942 (Scale A).
Applications must be submitted online via the University College Cork vacancy portal (ore.ucc.ie).
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@digitalmedievalist.bsky.social community!
📢 REMINDER: We're hiring a #DigitalHumanities Scientist to join our interdisciplinary DH Lab in Rome!
🔎 Focus: Digital art history, AI & machine learning, cultural heritage data, collaborative research
⏳ April 30, 2026
🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/opportuni...
Congratulations on all the inspiring projects from Smithsonian, advance congratulations on your future projects, and in-between those two, best wishes on the retirement!
Apply to join my team by 3/16!
Be the Library of Virginia's born-digital collections coordinator, leading planning and management of electronic gov/manuscript records. We're looking for a techie archivist type who can help improve access to our born-digital wonders.
$78k-$88k in Richmond VA.
We have released OpenSeadragon 6! This new version brings a powerful new data pipeline and two new tile sources, along with many additional improvements. Congrats to all of the contributors who made it possible! 🎉 github.com/openseadrago...
In September, a box of old film reels was donated to the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. One of them was a nearly 130-year-old, long-lost film by iconic French filmmaker George Méliès. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. 🧵
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...
It's been a long time in the making, but here's the new Library Data Lab at Southampton, giving dataset and API access to digitised collections.
Currently in beta: all comments welcome.
Intro from my colleague Matt: southampton.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
Service datalab.library.soton.ac.uk
The British Library acquired the Percy Hours, a rare late-13th-century book of hours from York, in March 2019. This acquisition reunited it with the Percy Psalter (acquired by the library in 1990), forming a complete single-volume psalter-hours, which had been separated for roughly 200 years. It is one of the few surviving 13th-century English devotional books for the laity and likely the only one from York. The manuscript includes a calendar, the Hours of the Virgin, and the Office for the Dead, highlighting early developments in private prayer books.
In 2019 the British Library acquired the Percy Hours, a late 13th-century Book of Hours produced in York, reuniting it with the Percy Psalter, purchased in 1990. The two manuscripts were originally a single psalter-hours volume. The Percy Psalter-Hours is one of the very few
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A major sculpture exhibition in Leeds where blind and partially blind practitioners are central to the curatorial process and make up the majority of participating artists.
Includes 10,000 digestive biscuit casts embossed with Braille
henry-moore.org/whats-on/bey...
A horizontal dot-and-line chart titled "AI completions of historical poems bias emotion toward positivity and away from arousal." The x-axis shows percentage difference, ranging from -10 (more present in original poem) to +11 (more present in AI completion). Sixteen emotional categories are listed vertically, each with a source framework, an example poem excerpt, and an AI completion excerpt. Positive, low-arousal emotions such as Pleasant-Subduing-Relaxation (+11.0%), Positive Low Arousal (+10.2%), Joy (+5.3%), and Calmness (+5.3%) are shifted substantially to the right, indicating they appear more frequently in AI completions than in the original poems. Mid-range emotions like Aesthetic Appreciation (+3.8%) and Anxiety (-1.3%) cluster near zero. High-arousal and negative emotions are shifted to the left, appearing more in the original poems: Sadness (-4.6%), Pleasant-Arousing-Strain (-3.9%), Negative High Arousal (-11.1%), and Unpleasant-Arousing-Strain (-11.8%) show the largest negative differences. Data points are color-coded from green (positive shift) to red (negative shift).
AI completions of historical poems bias emotion toward positivity and away from arousal.
LLMs prompted with an emotion taxonomy and a poem, for 3 taxonomies x 3K human poems [Chadwyck-Healey sampled for poet DOB 1600-2000] + 3K AI poems [9 LLMs completing first 5 lines of human poem].
A close-up picture of Sophie Koonin from Monzo with a large screen behind her, projecting a Monzo card in hot coral pink. To her right is a large round white circle with the words "Hey!" inside of it, known as the logo to Hey! Presents. Over the top is text reading "Join us for one last time" with a link to heypresents.com/ten underneath it.
Join us for one last time at All Day Hey! 2026, a curated conference for curious developers, designers, and technology leaders.
With speakers from Google, Firefox, Deno, Webflow and Tetra Logical, you'll find plenty of practical takeaways for you and your team.
Attention fellow museum nerds; I built a GPT to help construct usable queries for @artinstitutechi.bsky.social's public API. It saves me a bunch of time, and I hope others find it useful as well. chatgpt.com/g/g-695edcd0...
We are pleased to announce the official release of Distributed Text Services (DTS) v1.0 — a stable specification, ready for broad adoption.
This release is the result of years of collaborative development, and community feedback.
The specification are available at: dtsapi.org/specificatio...
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released a draft of the WIPO Toolkit on Access to Copyrighted Works in the Collections of Cultural Heritage Institutions: Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Stakeholders invited to comment on draft by March 22, 2026.
The Melsonby Hoard is thought to be the largest collection of Iron Age metalwork ever discovered in the UK. It was found in December 2021 by amateur metal detectorist Peter Heads in a field near the village of Melsonby, North Yorkshire. The hoard consists of over 800–900 artefacts dating back approximately 2,000 years (late 1st century BC to mid-1st century AD). Image: Gareth Buddo/York Museums Trust
🧵 (4 posts) More than 800 Iron Age objects discovered at Melsonby in North Yorkshire are to go on public display for the first time in a major new exhibition. Chariots, Treasure and Power: Secrets of the Melsonby Hoard will run at the Yorkshire Museum from 15 May 2026 to summer 2027, offering 1/4
Cambridge Digital Library is home to 130 collections containing 1.5 million images of 160,000 items (6593 of which have transcription), that originate from at least 2000 places around the globe...
👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮
Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!
“Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤
A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.
It's time for Interop 2026! This is a cross-browser effort where we agree on a set of focus areas to improve compatibility.
Here's how things went in 2025, and what we're taking on for 2026: hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/laun...
'AI tools developed at the University of Oxford for analysing ... text collections. They enable the identification of keywords, topics, and categories of terms' - particularly in crowdsourced / community archives github.com/Digital-Scho...
In the MORPHSS report **Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM**, we explore the narrow focus of existing frameworks of open research & propose more inclusive ways of accommodating the diversity of open practice across all disciplines.
📣 Public talk: Appropriated Intelligence — Making AI Training Fair
Ed Newton-Rex (Fairly Trained) on unlicensed AI training, creators’ rights, and what fairness could look like.
Chaired by @markgotham.bsky.social
📅 11 Feb, 17:30
📍 KCL Embankment Room
Register www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...
The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.
Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation.
Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements
The #LOCKSS Program is surveying memory institutions to assess #DigitalPreservation practices, capacity, & needs. Results will help identify gaps and opportunities for community-owned preservation infrastructure. Anyone working with born-digital or digitized collections is encouraged to participate.
IIIF Community Call: IIIF Illustration Detector, Wednesday, February 11 (9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UTC
Join us Feburary 11 for a demo of @danielvanstrien.bsky.social's IIIF Illustration Detector.
Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community
New paper! Ethnic minorities in online museum collections: skews and bias in digital material culture. With Inna Kizhner , Daniil Skorinkin, Yael Netzer, and Moshe Lavee. Analysis of how Jewish and Armenian ethnic minorities are represented by digital online collections of major historical museums.
liiive splash page image
Screenshot of the annotation interface, with toolbars (top-left, top-right, bottom-left), live user cursors and a medieval manuscript image with three annotations.
I can finally share the happy news 🚀 liiive.now — my tool for real-time collaborative annotation of #IIIF images — is going open source!
First code is available here: github.com/rsimon/liiive
Self-hosted setup coming by end of February.
#OpenSource #DigitalHumanities
ICYMI we announced KC Champions this morning! 📣
If you'd like to support your favorite non-profit, academy-owned project that is free to everyone and doesn't steal user data or profit from sketchy policies, you can learn more here: about.hcommons.org/kc-champions/
A little stop motion video I made of an almanac in the University of Rochester collection to try and give viewers an idea of how it functions 😊
(Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)
