Some #BFINationalArchive work profiled for World Digital Preservation Day #wdpd2024 - first our Netflix #digipres featuring important acronyms like IMF, IMP, SMPTE, MXF… https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/archiving-netflix-bfi-national-archive

News from the British Newspaper Archive on twitter:

'We’re delighted to announce that in partnership with the @britishlibrary, we have released over 1 million more free to view newspapers pages on The Archive, bringing our total of free to view pages to over 4 million. Find out more: https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/one-million-new-free-to-view-newspaper-pages/ ' #FreeToViewNewspapers

In March 2025, the RUNIP project @ruhr-uni-bochum.de will host the conference “Words in Numbers – Data-Driven Approaches to Texts in the Humanities and Social Sciences.” Keynote speakers include @jerielizabeth and Jo Guldi 🙌. The call for papers is now open, inviting especially early career researchers to submit proposals for short talks or posters. Check it out and join us! https://runip-projekt.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/words_in_numbers.html (English CfP is in the linked PDF at the end) #TextAsData #DigitalHumanities

@awinkler I think that would be for the institutions, as it's so open to interpretation as to what the definition is. I'm doubtful enough on my site assigning any figures (open to correction!) but it's hopefully clearly my view, not official stats.

@awinkler Thanks Alexander! It was a random idea (I have a vague sense of different institutions scale of collection size, but have never seen it depicted). An API would be great, but I'd also just take a standard stats score card for the number of 'artefacts' or records at each institution, as even finding that on a website proved hard to do for some institutions.

Some other obvious issues I need to fix on colours changing between charts, consistency of naming, treemaps not interactive, archives stats approach, cataloguing progress more clear, donut charts purpose. Apart from all that, hopefully interesting!

I think it broadly follows the top level numbers set out in the Towards a National Collection digital collections audit by Gosling K., McKenna G. and Cooper A., although as they note, the size of some collections does overwhelm the stats. https://museumdata.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Digital-Audit.pdf

The numbers are from my personal interpretation of an institutions website (where available) or annual report (where available), and the classifications likewise are my opinions, undoubtedly it will have errors so happy to update if anyone wants to get in touch.

Totally unofficially and very work in progress (don't read too much into any of the 'spurious accuracy' numbers), some notebooks attempting to visualise what a UK National Collection (of heritage artefacts) looks like in numbers (and cataloguing progress): https://atiro.github.io/national-collection-visualisation/intro.html

The Access and mediation working group of the Society of Swiss Archivists has just published a whitepaper on the benefits and opportunities of machine learning for improving access to archives.
It's available in English here: https://vsa-aas.ch/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/MachineLearning_im_Archiv_Whitepaper_2024-08-08_en.pdf

Check out @nick_performant 's blog post in the @dhtech_group about the new tool for creating digital critical editions and archives, #EditionCrafter https://dh-tech.github.io/blog/2024/08/30/edition-crafter-dh2024/

#DigitalHumanities

Anybody use 'Quiet'? Thinking of using it with my grad students, RAs etc. peer-to-peer replacement for slack, discord, etc.

https://tryquiet.org/index.html

Congrats to editors Riccardo Albertoni, David Browning, Simon J D Cox, Alejandra Gonzalez Beltran, @aperego and Peter Winstanley for the newly published @w3c #WebStandard "Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) - 3"
▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/ #timetoadopt

DCAT is an #RDF vocabulary that improves #interoperability by standardizing dataset and data service descriptions, simplifying #metadata sharing across web-based catalogs. DCAT3 preserves backward compatibility with DCAT2

🎬 https://youtu.be/lbzMShQIvwU

Exeter’s #DigitalHumanities Lab is seeking a full-time developer to
work on an exciting mix of digital resources (fixed term with the possibility of extension if funding is secured; hybrid working possible).

https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/etrec179gf.open?WVID=17183
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🔴 We are finally on Mastodon! Many members of our communities have asked us to join Mastodon as an alternative to X. We took the first step and opened an account, now it's up to you to follow us and make it grow!
Find out more about our social media presence at https://www.software.ac.uk/news/update-ssi-social-media-channels

Really exciting opportunity to join Cambridge University Libraries as a Digital #Archivist! This role is based within the Dept. of Archives and Modern MSS and will support the delivery of the #DigitalPreservation Programme for born-digital #archives. More info 👉https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47852/

Anyone in #GLAM network who works on access to collections and/or #OpenGLAM topics, please help us to boost this survey to get more responses. It is about #riskmanagement in #openaccess to digital collections. Deadline has been extended to Friday, 30th August. Here is the link!
https://forms.gle/bDLZ89hZwmPSEGuSA

We are recruiting for the position of a PhD/Junior Researcher or PostDoc/Senior Researcher with focus on knowledge graphs and large language models connected to applications in the domains of cultural heritage & digital humanities.

More info: https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/stellenanzeigen/phdjunior-researcher-oder-postdocsenior-researcher-wmx-0

Join our @fizise research team at @fiz_karlsruhe
@tabea @sashabruns @MahsaVafaie @GenAsefa @enorouzi @sourisnumerique @heikef #knowledgegraphs #llms #generativeAI #culturalHeritage #dh #joboffer #AI #ISE2024 #PhD #ISWS2024

Shaw: dissinet.cz has developed tool for narrative annotation called CASTEMO https://dissinet.cz/news/articles/castemo-structured-data-vs-contextual-complexity-of-texts
#dh2024

Announcing Zotero 7, the biggest update in Zotero’s 18-year history

https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-7/