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Digital Curator @BL_DigiSchol@techhub.social at British Library. Usually working on something about collections as data, UX, data science and crowdsourcing in cultural heritage/GLAMs/digital humanities; museum technology. She, they. Not often here.

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I was once on a flight that landed in Austria instead of Slovakia, but actually it was less hassle than the time the flight diverted to a 'London' airport on the opposite side to the intended London airport. Anyway, glad you made it back!

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Probably. Everything from concerns about the implications for creators, the risks of undue prominence and out of context uses of material by or about living people, through to the brief moment of actually making money by licensing access to digitised content to AI companies hungry for more 'tokens'

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A (very) short talk I just delivered at the SHARP conference in Reading about a large language model embedded inside of a font and the implications of the post-GPT textuality. llama.tff here: github.com/fuglede/llam...

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I think broadly people think it's too late to do much about it, everything public has already been scraped

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"I worry that important community-sourced collections remain difficult to discover by researchers seeking out these voices and perspectives. Without major institutional commitments to maintain their web presence and interfaces... these carefully curated and planned collections may be underused."

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Perhaps perversely, woke up with Alasdair Gray’s maxim in mind:

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Byron C Clark's avatar Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social
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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes

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Volunteer reviewers are vital to maintaining the high standards of our academic journal. We deeply thank them for their crucial role in evaluating research results, software, and data, making the Journal of Digital History a vibrant hub for data-driven scholarship.
t.ly/RFD_p

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The only thing better than someone making something great with open collections from the British Library is when they share how they did it!

Guest post from Sak Supple on how he made digitised British Library playbills searchable online blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

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Looking for a job with impact? Join the British Library as a Digital Curator, OCR/HTR and help make the Library's collections more accessible to readers and computational methods!
blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

Closes Sunday 21 July 2024. Pay close attention to questions in the application process.

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A quick post on the Living with Machines blog: 'Outreach and marketing for crowdsourcing tasks' with some examples of how we used social media and newsletters to reach potential volunteers on Zooniverse
livingwithmachines.ac.uk/outreach-and...

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And if IIIF is your thing, lots of IIIF (including annotation / crowdsourcing projects) plus OCR / HTR and AI / Machine Learning work is mentioned in Adi's 'China trip report'

blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

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Who do I know who's going to #CILIPConf24 in Birmingham July 10? Or who's generally around for a drink on the evening of July 9th?

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A quick post on the Living with Machines blog: 'Outreach and marketing for crowdsourcing tasks' with some examples of how we used social media and newsletters to reach potential volunteers on Zooniverse
livingwithmachines.ac.uk/outreach-and...

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I just let my hair grow for the whole year I lived in Amsterdam.

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Just a periodic reminder: If you are interested in a grant to do research on the impact of AI on people, society, and the arts, check out the Dangers & Opportunities of Technology program. Next deadline is Sept. 12, 2024. www.neh.gov/program/dang...

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LLMs are useless for lawyering and other tasks involving actual analysis and understanding not because the technology hasn't gotten there yet, but because that's fundamentally not what statistical word association is capable of doing. Not only can't it understand, it's not even trying to understand.

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Mask bans are evil and dystopian and I am appalled that they’re even being proposed. Wearing masks to protect your health and the health of others needs to be recognized as a right for all and an absolutely essential protection for those who would otherwise be unable to participate in society

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Looking for a job with impact? Join the British Library as a Digital Curator, OCR/HTR and help make the Library's collections more accessible to readers and computational methods!
blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

Closes Sunday 21 July 2024. Pay close attention to questions in the application process.

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And if you didn't already know that 80,000 playbills from the British Library's collection are searchable online at blplaybills.org - well, now you do!

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The only thing better than someone making something great with open collections from the British Library is when they share how they did it!

Guest post from Sak Supple on how he made digitised British Library playbills searchable online blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

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Dr Abeba Birhane 's avatar Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social
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imagine where "AI is biased/harmful/ineffective until it's proven otherwise" is the norm instead of the current hubris where excitement and faith at empty promises have become normal

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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IF you find books on Google Books that are obviously out of copyright, but not being made available via Google Books (e.g. books published in U.S. before 1929)

USE this form to open the scans to public view

support.google.com/websearch/an...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi's avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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A reminder for non-academics that if you ever can't find access to an academic's paper or article, you should feel free and encouraged to reach out to them to ask for a pre-print version. They will not think of it as an imposition; they will, in fact, be EXTREMELY gratified by your interest.

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Really ❤️ this from U.S. Digital Response - a hiring playbook for Gov digital leaders (over the pond) but an example of really important things to think about and address usdr.gitbook.io/talent-toolk...

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Citizen.Coping's avatar Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social
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"When politicians say [migrants are overwhelming local infrastructure], it is typically because they have refused to invest in that infrastructure for their own citizens long before the arrival of any migrants. [Isn't it easier to blame those] whom much of electorate are already primed to despise?"

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Tony Corsentino's avatar Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net
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An easy way to support your public library is to make use of it—even if only to visit. We keep (anonymized) statistics not only on circulation totals but on attendance & visits and even on patron-staff interactions. Big numbers please trustees and municipal/county administrators. 📚

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Massively over-thought? I originally wrote this as a presentation given in December 2015, so it's kinda interesting seeing which promising technologies delivered and what's still hard

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Elle's avatar Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social
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First of all, has a person ever looked more mischievous? I wish I knew her. Secondly, this is a miniature portrait from around 1660. It comes with overlays that allow you to change her appearance for fun. Filters from 500 years ago lol!

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Curious about Living with Machines?

Videos on our work: collaboration; digitisation; computational methods & skills; press directories & bias in digitisation; the language of mechanisation; MapReader; beyond the (rail) tracks; census data; crowdsourcing; exhibition

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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When you’ve purchased your spears at a weapons shop, but bought your shields online - 2nd half of the 14th century, James le Palmer, Omne Bonum. British Library, Royal MS 6 E VI/1, f. 208r

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It's Friday afternoon, and what could be more fun than watching a tired Digital Curator awkwardly describe their work?

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Check out this early summary of our metadata enrichment survey results! A partial preview for those attending #dh2024

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A manifesto for the liberal arts, which, at their root, prepare you for the things you can't prepare for. What does the future hold? "You don’t know. Your teacher doesn’t know. Your school doesn’t know. Your future employer doesn’t know. Nobody knows. Not really."

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This is a long-shot I know, but is anyone planning to teach with this exhibition / have you added it to any resource lists for your classes? We would love to hear about it if so!

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I've recently been thinking about how hard the media went on declaring Media Studies a "Mickey Mouse" degree back in the mid 2000s, how poor media literacy has become, and how convenient that is for media outlets with ill intent these days.

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I've been expecting it could be the last time for years now. (I eventually realised that I just give the best hug I can, but I try not to mourn before it actually happens.) It sucks, I'm sorry.

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