Sign in

Karen Colbron

@kcols.bsky.social
443 followers 167 following 12 posts

Subject Matter Expert Digital Collections focusing on access and use of digital content in learning, teaching and research.

PostsRepliesMedia
Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Discover how @jisc.bsky.social is driving down the costs of digital archival collections in the UK. digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/06/2...
digitisation.jiscinvolve.org
Celebrating the power of collective participation to drive prices down - Digital collections
Amid increasingly tighter budgets across the UK educational sector, the digital archival group purchasing scheme offers a model that collectively benefits participating higher education institutions w...
020
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Jisc @jisc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We're pleased to announce the first keynote speaker for #DCDC25 is Professor Katy Shaw, director of the AHRC Creative Communities programme. Find out more about her session and book your ticket here ➡️ ji.sc/3Epaje6
056
Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Registration for DCDC25 is now live! The National Archives, @britishlibrary.bsky.social and @jisc.bsky.social invite you to ‘Choose your own future’: explore challenges, celebrate achievements & work as a common to find sustainable solutions. See you in Durham in July. dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/
dcdcconference.co.uk
DCDC25 - DCDC25
A collective call to action, DCDC25 invites you to come together, no matter where you are in the world or the stage of your career, to Choose Your Own Future: to celebrate what is already being achiev...
023
Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Updated @jisc.bsky.social records retention management guide provides advice and guidance to UK further and higher education. www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/awa...
jisc.ac.uk
Award-nominated guide update aims to help FE and HE organisations with records management - Jisc
013
Reposted by Karen Colbron
h-j-dobson.bsky.social @h-j-dobson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/jis...
jisc.ac.uk
Jisc to take responsibility for HE sector copyright negotiations - Jisc
Universities UK (UUK) entrusts Jisc with oversight of the Copyright Negotiating and Advisory Committee (CNAC) to further enhance its sector-wide licensing activities.
011
Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Discover how the @jisc.bsky.social group purchasing scheme saves HE institutions money on buying digital archival collections: www.jisc.ac.uk/digital-arch...
jisc.ac.uk
Digital archival collections group purchasing scheme - Jisc
Collectively lowering the cost of acquiring digital archival collections.
034
Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing
Digital preservation is not keeping up with the growth of scholarly knowledge. Recognizing its causes is the first step to securing records everywhere for future generations.
021
Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...
blogs.loc.gov
Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci | The Signal
Catalog records are key to storing and finding digital library materials. As the volume of digital materials continues to grow rapidly, the Library of Congress is exploring whether AI can help catalog...
041
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 25/11/2024
📚 📜
0154
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
New Royal Historical Society report on ‘The value of history in UK higher education and society’. It ‘highlights a growing divergence between the popularity of history—as a subject of study and public interest—and the security of historians within UK higher education’ #skystorians
files.royalhistsoc.org
06741
Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Fabulous final keynote from Erik Boekesteijn #openengaged at the British Library
030
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Neil Grindley @neilgrindley.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
We're at the Jisc All Staff conference. 700 people in one room. #jisc. Talking about AI. Surprise surprise.
163
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Peter Findlay @ Artefact Books @pfin25.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
You should still be able to register for the Open Athens session tomorrow. One of the many Jisc cyber security services we provide to universities, colleges, and schools in the UK. www.jisc.ac.uk/cyber-security
jisc.ac.uk
Cyber security - Jisc
Building solid cyber practice and culture together
002
Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Only 10 days left to apply to the DCDC2025 conference call for papers: dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/call-...
dcdcconference.co.uk
Call for papers - DCDC25
Call for papers Choose Your Own Future: Resilient Communities and Sustainable Solutions As a community, the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities conference has addressed change in a myriad...
015
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
History Day is back and celebrating its 10th year! Join us on 5 Nov 11:00 - 16:00 at Senate House to explore the library, museum, archive and special collections from around the UK. Sign up for #HistDay24 is now open … see you there! Discover more at: buff.ly/3zyvHLE
Poster showing details of History Day 2024 which will take place on 5th November 2024 11.00-16.00Poster showing the details of History Day 2024 which will take place on the 5th November 2024.
011
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
For anyone interested in #digipres and related matters I blogged here about iPres 2024 conference with a few take aways here: anoldhanddigital.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/i...
anoldhanddigital.wordpress.com
iPres 2024
Ghent - which I experienced virtually! Well it’s been a while since I was at iPres but this year I was really pleased to be back immersed in all that digipres goodness virtually joining in with many a...
045
Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
www.wired.com/story/intern...
wired.com
The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself
The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.
000
Reposted by Karen Colbron
British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
An important (and overdue) Govt comissioned report now available: The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal www.gov.uk/government/p... Guardian report on the background to its delayed publication: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... #History 🗃️
gov.uk
The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal: independent research report (accessible)
01624
Reposted by Karen Colbron
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Join us next Wed 25/9 at 17:30 either at the IHR Wolfson Room or online via Zoom as @brycchancarey.bsky.social of Northumbria University will kick off our Autumn seminar program with a paper on eighteenth century clerical naturalism. #c18th #britishhistory www.history.ac.uk/events/ratio...
history.ac.uk
The ‘rational study of God’s works’: Eighteenth-century clerical naturalists and the origins of the modern life sciences
02217
Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
pro.europeana.eu/event/theory...
pro.europeana.eu
Theory, change and growth: the story of the Impact Playbook | Europeana PRO
This webinar, organised by the Europeana Impact Community, looked at the history and future of the Europeana Impact Playbook. Read our summary of the event…
020
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 30/08/2024
"Academic publisher Wiley has revealed it is set to make $44 million (£33 million) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships that it is not giving authors the opportunity to opt-out from." AI in publishing going great then www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...
thebookseller.com
Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors
The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).
9212170
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
And here it is: the UKRI CEO role now readvertised. Very important for R&D, and hence for UK prosperity so let's hope for a really good field of candidates www.saxbam.com/appointment/...
saxbam.com
UK Research and Innovation - Saxton Bampfylde - Global Executive Search & Leadership Consulting
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is at the forefront of driving the nation's research and innovation agenda, playing a pivotal role in the Government's
12835
Reposted by Karen Colbron
William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
Chunk of today preparing the launch of the forthcoming toolkit on #digitalpreservation and community-generated digital content. Launch due 7th November aka World Digital Preservation Day. Will interest folks at #ara2024
095
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Agreed. I wrote this in January to try to get some attention on the issue. It’s going to cost the BL a great deal more than £400k … www.standard.co.uk/comment/brit...
standard.co.uk
The British Library hack is a national outrage – the Government must pay to save it
It is a national outrage that the British Library has been unable to fulfil its function over the past three months following a savage cyberattack – and that its functioning is likely to be severely l...
59151
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!
royalhistsoc.org
Society’s journal ‘Transactions’ now fully Open Access | RHS
3180104
Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Revisiting impact assessment in cultural heritage: open.substack.com/pub/cultural...
open.substack.com
Impact Assessment as a call to action and a better strategy
Guest post from Professor Simon Tanner
020
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Peter Findlay @ Artefact Books @pfin25.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Free to copy a d use MIT AI Risc Repository airisk.mit.edu
airisk.mit.edu
AI Risk Repository
A comprehensive living database of over 700 AI risks categorized by their cause and risk domain.
112
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
📢🌟NEW RESOURCE! 🌟📢 Our digital handbook Getting Started with Open Research provides guidance for TUoS researchers at any level & in any subject area who are interested in learning more about open practices: doi.org/10.15131/she...
doi.org
Getting Started with Open Research - a Digital Handbook from the University of Sheffield Library
This handbook, created by the University of Sheffield Library, aims to provide a practical introduction for any researcher, at any career stage and in any discipline, who is interested in getting star...
062
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Sarah Ames @semames.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
The National Library of Scotland's AI Statement, which sets out our approach to AI and the principles which underpin this, is now available on our Data Foundry: data.nls.uk/projects/ai-...
data.nls.uk
National Library of Scotland AI Statement – Data Foundry
2108
Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Resilient communities and sustainable solutions. The call for papers for the DCDC25 conference is now open with a deadline of 14 October.
020
Reposted by Karen Colbron
Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
A massive welcome to the influx of library people to Bluesky 🎉 - here's a brief thread of useful things to know. 1) Using the 📚 emoji automatically gets your post into the skybrarians feed, which means more relevant people will see it. You can 'pin to home' that feed (looks like this on desktop)
Screenshot of the Skybrarians feed. The key part is the 'always there' list of feeds down the right hand side, which includes 'Skybrarians' which I've highlighted, alongside other options like 'following', 'discover' and 'popular with friends'
23117