rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Applications are open for @britishlibrary.bsky.social International Library Leaders Programme 2026. For more information and how to apply (deadline 5 February) see link.bl.uk/ILLP2026link.bl.ukInternational Library Leaders ProgrammeInternational Library Leaders Programme 010
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.social{ "jason": "clark" } @jasonclark.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)." Slides: docs.google.com/presentation... Code: github.com/jasonclark/a...docs.google.comsmall-language-models-trust-clark-ff2025-sharedReasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) to Create Trustworthy GenAI Jason A. Clark @jasonclark Montana State University Fantastic Futures 2025 0187
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialmia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 04/12/2025comparia.beta.gouv.fr is so awesome for AI literacy - it makes it so easy to get a sense of different models, rate their responses on accuracy etc, then see what the models were and how they compare, plus the carbon footprint of your queries (as on the screenshot) #FF2025 12914
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialKatie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Encouragingly similar to Mike Keller’s closing reflections encouraging deep reading, deep thinking, and deep respect in libraries, archives, and museums even as they engage critically with AI #ff2025 0185
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialMelissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Loads of great talks at #ff2025 - this was fab 👇 0135
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialOpenUK @openuk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Recognising the Power of Community Collaboration, the @universalviewer.io project (universalviewer.io) is shortlisted in the 6th Annual OpenUK Awards Community category sponsored by @Arm, taking place on 4th December at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. #openukawards 057
rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · 23/09/2025This is promising to be a great conference, check the programme and register quick. We are looking forward to welcoming you all to #FF2025 in December! 011
rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Great to see this tribute with @britishlibrary.bsky.social contributions from @adi-keinan.bsky.social, Harry Lloyd and myself. 022
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialWilliam J.B. Mattingly @wjbmattingly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025I have been working to update the European Art Dataset on Biglam's HF page. I'm happy to announce that it is fully updated along with 5 Yolov11 models. This dataset has ~15,000 images annotated for object detection. #MachineLearning #DigitalHumanities 4142
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialUniversal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 15/05/2025We’re halfway through our latest community sprint! Our community team have been hard at work – check out our community board to see what they’ve been building, including a new tool to add and view custom configs github.com/orgs/Univers...github.comDEV EX Community Sprint May-July 2025 • UniversalViewerA set of three community sprints to improve visibility of config options, improve documentation around analytics, update tools and dependencies and much more! 135
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialSusan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Bibliography seminar klaxon! blogs.bl.uk/european/202...blogs.bl.ukSeminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign LanguagesThe annual Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages will take place on Monday 9 June 2025 in the Foyle Room at the British Library in London. The programme is as follows: 11.00 Registration and coffee 11.30 Alyssa Steiner (London): Caught in the middle? Block books at the British... 022
rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Our colleague Valentina Vavassori is gathering information about cultural heritage institutions' experience with Automatic Text Recognition and how we can continue to collaborate on advancing ATR use for making collections more accessible and usable. Read more at blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...blogs.bl.ukHelp us explore Automatic Text Recognition in cultural heritage institutions!This post is by Dr Valentina Vavassori, Digital Curator for Automatic Text Recognition. At the British Library, one of our core values is to 046
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialRLUK Research Libraries UK @rluk.ac.uk · 19/03/2025A warm welcome to #RLUK25 delegates by RLUK Chair @masudk.com before we hear from our opening keynotes christophersmith.bsky.social and Lucy Everest @liverpooluni.bsky.social 0123
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialmia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Excited to announce the themes for AI4LAM's Fantastic Futures 2025 conference, with @nfitzger.glammr.us.ap.brid.gy and Rossitza for @bldigischol.bsky.social : blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... #AI4LAM #FF2025 #AI #GLAMblogs.bl.uk 1105
rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Including an exciting opportunity to work with @bldigischol.bsky.social and Printed Heritage Collections on www.bl.uk/more/researc... #bldigital #DH #datascience #printedbooksbl.uk 048
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialClaire Knowles @cgknowles.bsky.social · 14/02/2025We are delighted to be hosting the #IIIF conference in Leeds 2-6 June. Find out more about IIIF and why it is an important standard for images, audio, video and soon 3D in our latest DLIP project blog post. leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/i...leedsunilibrary.wordpress.comIIIF Conference, Leeds, 2nd to 5th June 2025 – Registration OpenRichard Parker writes… Colleagues have an exciting opportunity to learn about revolutionary new technological advancements transforming the digital accessibility of globally significant cultu… 12011
rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · 13/02/2025#PhDPlacement @britishlibrary.bsky.social claxon! www.bl.uk/more/researc... You will work with staff from @bldigischol.bsky.social and Printed Heritage Collections. Applications close 21st February 17.00 GMT! Further details at www.bl.uk/more/researc... #collectionsasdata #incunabula #datasciencebl.uk 025
rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · 12/02/2025@semames.bsky.social the video is out! 010
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialmia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Video from our 'Libraries and AI' panel is now online! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsRk... Thanks @britishlibrary.bsky.social @cawston.bsky.social @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social @tomchatfield.bsky.social @timandraharkness.bsky.social, Maja Maricevic and Svein Arne #AIDebatesyoutube.comLibraries & AI - Opportunities or Threat?YouTube video by British Library 02210
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialRichard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Powering the world with clean energy is common sense. It will secure the future for our grandchildren. The clean energy transformation is - and remains - unstoppable www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/t...globalcitizen.orgTrump Withdraws from Paris Agreement (Again): What This Moment Means for Climate ActionTrump has pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement (again) — but here’s how the US can still fight the climate crisis. 1665293964985
rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Curious about the area with the 'haystacks' which happens to be in my neighbourhood. 000
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialBritish Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 27/11/2024The acquisitions have been made possible with funding from National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), British Library Collections Trust (BLCT) and Friends of the National Libraries (FNL). 0282
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialBritish Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Join our free webinar on 13 February to explore how libraries can embrace digital transformation sustainably. Learn strategies to reduce tech's environmental impact, see real-world examples, and discover innovative, climate-conscious digital practices: bit.ly/BLClimateWeb... 09434
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialBritish Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 18/11/2024'Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring a library' — Walter Savage Landor 10677120
rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Join the next in the British Library series of Positive Climate Action webinars on 13 February, with speakers from www.arkhenum.com, Jadavpur University and School of Advanced Studies, University of London. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/libraries-... #GreenLibrarieseventbrite.co.ukLibraries and positive climate action: is digital a problem or a solution?This webinar will ask how libraries can embrace the positive of digital technologies while minimising our impact on the planet. 022
rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · 22/01/2025@theodorad.bsky.social Great to see you here Tedi. Here is a suggestion of a list to follow bsky.app/profile/did:... 010
rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · 18/12/2024What a wonderful Christmas present! Thank you @miaout.bsky.social for your lead on this and the volume editors @gworthey.bsky.social and Isabel Galina 120
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialmia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Sharing excellent work by fabulous @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues is 😍 In this thread, that's a Metadata Analyst, a Curator of Modern Archives & Manuscripts and a Research Software Engineer - all part of the modern library! bsky.app/profile/bldi... 0219
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialMasud Khokhar @masudk.com · 22/11/2024We are delighted to host the 2025 #IIIF conference at @universityofleeds.bsky.social - call for proposals is now open. Join us in June for a wonderful conference and a rich experience of Leeds. 01612
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialDigital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Why do we share collections as #OpenGLAM ? Digital Curator Mia Ridge gives her perspective blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/202… 0138
rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Thank you @scottjenson.bsky.social for your pro bono work on #UniversalViewer. Like the suggested new look in the video, how we present the digital object does not have to mirror the way we use the analogue object. #UX 063
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialDigital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 22/11/2024'Crowdsourcing at the British Library' blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/202… - an overview, based on content retrieved from the Internet Archive 0107
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialmia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Now published, #TaNC report 'Unlocking the Potential of Digital Collections. A call to action' zenodo.org/records/1383... #MuseTech #DHzenodo.orgUnlocking the Potential of Digital Collections. A call to actionThis document presents the policy recommendations of Towards a National Collection (TaNC), a five-year, £18.9 million investment in the UK’s world-renowned museums, archives, libraries and galleries, ... 03421
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialMax Kaiser @maxkaiser.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Looking forward to the next #IIIF Annual Conference in Leeds, June 2-5, 2025. Call for Proposals now open. 041
rossiatanassova.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social · 15/11/2024My first post here! Promoting a forthcoming online event organised by Alyssa Steiner to celebrate 45 years of the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue. cerlblog.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/t... #bibliographic #data #incunabula #digitalhumanities #earlyprintingcerlblog.wordpress.comThe Incunabula Short Title Catalogue at 45: ISTC Day on 15 January 2025By Alyssa Steiner, British Library The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) is turning 45 in 2025. To mark the occasion, the Printed Heritage Collections team at the British Library is hosting a… 030
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialSusan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I promise my feed isn't usually so heavy on promotion of my blog posts, but here's my latest one about 19th-century London German newspaper wars (ok, not quite that dramatic, but an interesting little story I hope). blogs.bl.uk/european/202...blogs.bl.ukMarx versus Kinkel – a tale of two newspapersOn 15 November we are hosting a conference on European Political exiles and émigrés in Britain. This is one of a series of blog posts on the same topic. Conference details can be found here. Attendanc... 053
Reposted by @rossiatanassova.bsky.socialDigital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Collection Metadata colleagues, and thanks for all your hard work! 0101