"Roger Cox, Book Doctor" - a short film from #BritishLibrary posted on #TheKidsShouldSeeThis

I WANT TO SEE MORE! I want to see the before and the after and the techniques and the finished book.

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/roger-cox-british-library-book-conservator

This is a fantastic publication for anyone working, or interested to work with historical newspaper data. Created by former colleague Yann Ryan, "this book is a guide to accessing and analysing newspaper data, mostly using the programming language R." :blobcatbook:

https://yann-ryan.github.io/newspapers/

@BL_DigiSchol #BritishLibrary @LivingWithMachines
CC @cneud

"As a global movement, Wikimedia is able to connect the British Library with communities of origin, who can use the digitized manuscripts to revitalize their language online."

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/08/28/the-british-library-loves-manuscripts-on-wikisource/

#Wikisource #BritishLibrary #digitization

The British Library, for people that recognise such institutions, have acquired the remaining KLF original tapes. https://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2023/august/british-library-klf-acquisition

Let me just say: that is the least fucking KLF thing ever.

#KLF #BritishLibrary

The #BritishLibrary published a video for its 50th anniversary. Quite nice, but for me it looks a little bit like the latest pitch video of a hip tech #startup
https://youtu.be/5iaQdfmk8B0?si=3jlio6m72PXKTFLa

UK Watchdog, a neutral investigative group, collaborated with Richardson Reports to publish an extensive year-long study that reveals concerning events at the #BritishLibrary
, the #LSE, and the University of London. This pertains to the unaccounted doctoral thesis of the President of the Republic of China, #TsaiIngWen.

✍ #ChatGPT Plus
🔗 https://s.mur.tw/rGJk

At some point, John Lennon wrote the lyrics to Hard Days Night on a card meant for his son's first birthday. One thing leads to another, and now it's in the British Library. Not sure how his son feels about it.

#thebeatles
#johnlennon
#britishlibrary

Bats! #BritishLibrary #Animals #Art, #Science, #Sound

Check out this UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Launch Event Report from the #BritishLibrary, featuring Helena Byrne, Frankie Perry and Stella Wisdom: https://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2023/07/uk-ireland-digital-humanities-association-launch-event-report-from-the-british-library.html @BL_DigiSchol

"since 2015, 50,000 maps have been found and tagged by humans, and machines working alongside each other... They’ve all been georeferenced and are now being added back into the British Library catalogue as individual collection items"

A post by Nora McGregor, Digital Curator, Digital Scholarship Dept of the British Library talking about our ten year relationship with them.

https://www.flickr.org/british-library-flickr-commons-the-many-hands-and-some-machines-making-light-work/

Image credit: British Library, on Flickr Commons https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/50265954676/
#maps #britishlibrary

"Share Family: British National Bibliography (Beta) service is live" https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/07/share-family-british-national-bibliography.html
#BritishLibrary #BritishNationalBibliography #BNB #metadata #linkedopendata

Camden rewrote his Annals to present a version of Elizabeth I’s reign more favourable to her successor, eg in its claim that she had named James VI of Scotland as her successor on her deathbed. Analysis of the manuscript drafts shows that the deathbed scene was a fabricated addition. “He presumably included it to appease James, so that his succession looked more predetermined than it had actually been. Elizabeth was too ill to speak in her final hours". #BritishLibrary

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/14/heart-stopping-censored-pages-of-history-of-elizabeth-i-reappear-after-400-years

MIX 2023 Storytelling in Immersive Media conference at the #BritishLibrary - this Friday 7 July! https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/07/mix-2023-storytelling-in-immersive-media.html

Today marks 75 years since HMT Empire Windrush arrived in Britain. 3-Fold Games are making the world's first video game based on lives of the Windrush generation. Play a demo of Windrush Tales in #BritishLibrary Digital Storytelling exhibition https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/06/explore-windrush-tales-in-our-digital-storytelling-exhibition.html #Windrush75 @BL_DigiSchol

Do you know #OliverBurkeman ?
He has a fortnightly email called '#TheImperfectionist', which I have just signed up to, irresistibly drawn in by the following:

'The answer to the problem of the never-diminishing book pile is to increase your mental reading pile. Think of all the books in the #BritishLibrary. Zoom out to all the other books you'll never read. It's so obviously futile to worry about them. The path through the problem is to realise that it's a lot worse than you think.'

CT 2/6/23

Who do I have to sleep with to get on one of these free tours of the British Library Reading Room? Every month when the bookings open they seem to be gone in milliseconds. #BritishLibrary #London

Upcoming appearances:

* Red Team Blues with #MarthaLaneFox at the #BritishLibrary, Jun 5 (#London):
https://www.bl.uk/events/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-techno-thriller

* #Rightscon, "#Interoperability: from buzzword to a map of solutions," Jun 6 (#CostaRica):
https://www.rightscon.org/program/

* Re:publica keynote, Jun 7 (#Berlin)
https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-keynote-von-cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin-kreative-arbeitsmaerkte-und-monopole

* Otherland event for Red Team Blues, Jun 8 (#Berlin)
https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow-autorenabend.html

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Tonight (June 5) at 7:15PM, I'm at the #BritishLibrary with my book *Red Team Blues* for an event hosted by Martha Lane Fox:

https://www.bl.uk/events/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-techno-thriller

Tomorrow, June 6, I'm doing a remote panel on #interoperability for #Rightscon:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/eff-rightscon-2023

On Wednesday, June 7, I'm keynoting #Republica in #Berlin:

https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-keynote-von-cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin-kreative-arbeitsmaerkte-und-monopole

On Thursday, June 8, I'm at Berlin's #Otherlands books:

https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow-autorenabend.html

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Cymera23 Festival, Jun 3 (#Edinburgh)
https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-events/2023/4/4/connection-interrupted-with-nina-allan-cory-doctorow-and-ian-mcdonald

* Red Team Blues with #MarthaLaneFox at the #BritishLibrary, Jun 5 (#London):
https://www.bl.uk/events/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-techno-thriller

* #Rightscon, "#Interoperability: from buzzword to a map of solutions," Jun 6 (#CostaRica):
https://www.rightscon.org/program/

* Re:publica keynote, Jun 7 (#Berlin)
https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-keynote-von-cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin-kreative-arbeitsmaerkte-und-monopole

* Otherland event for Red Team Blues, Jun 8 (#Berlin)
https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow-autorenabend.html

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Today (Jun 3) at 1:30PM, I'm in #Edinburgh for the #CymeraFestival on a panel with Nina Allen and Ian McDonald:

https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-events/2023/4/4/connection-interrupted-with-nina-allan-cory-doctorow-and-ian-mcdonald

Monday, June 5 at 7:15PM, I'm at the #BritishLibrary with my book *Red Team Blues* for an event hosted by Martha Lane Fox:

https://www.bl.uk/events/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-techno-thriller

On Tuesday, June 6, I'm doing a remote panel on #interoperability for #Rightscon:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/eff-rightscon-2023

On Wednesday, June 7, I'm keynoting #Republica in #Berlin:

https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-keynote-von-cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin-kreative-arbeitsmaerkte-und-monopole

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