@TobyBurrows

Digital humanities, medieval manuscripts https://xitter.cf/t.co/kcZunGRoVT @OxfordHistory @up_johd @HuNIVL @UwaHumanities FRHistS https://xitter.cf/t.co/66g7xqoNch…

 Oxford, England
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Joined November 2011
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New HuNI (Humanities Networked Infrastructure) blogpost up: medium.com/@huni.humanities/… "At a time when many expect infrastructure (including research infrastructure) to be controlled and centrally managed ... a humanities platform like HuNI embodies different ideals."

Rewilding humanities data

Dr Mike Jones, University of Tasmania

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Great to celebrate with some of our authors @IMC_Leeds!
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{New Book} The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and its Consequences, ca. 1890–1945 Edited by Laura Cleaver, Danielle Magnusson, Hannah Morcos and Angéline Rais #openaccess arc-humanities.org/978180270…
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Our latest book (the proceedings from the 2022 conference) is available as an Open Access publication: library.oapen.org/handle/20.….… Huge thanks to everyone who made this possible 🎉
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{New Book} The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and its Consequences, ca. 1890–1945 Edited by Laura Cleaver, Danielle Magnusson, Hannah Morcos and Angéline Rais #openaccess arc-humanities.org/978180270…
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New @HuNIVL blog post by Stephen Loo & Lisa Ritchie: "What do the last Tasmanian Tiger and a “Psychopathic Hospital” have in common?" medium.com/@huni.humanities/…

What do the last Tasmanian Tiger and a “Psychopathic Hospital” have in common?

Steve Loo and Lisa Ritchie, University of New South Wales

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A delight last night to be at the launch of *The Economics of the Manuscript and Rare Book Trade, ca. 1890–1939*. It’s print and also open access from @ArcHumanities: library.oapen.org/handle/20.… Many congrats to @LauraJCleaver, Federico Botana, et al. @cultivate_mss @IES_London
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“Using HuNI in biographical research: graphing David McComb and The Triffids” by HuNI: Humanities Networked Infrastructure medium.com/@huni.humanities/…
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My new blog post: "Using HuNI in biographical research: graphing David McComb and The Triffids" @HuNIVL HuNI: Humanities Networked Infrastructure link.medium.com/ReBpXbQ2JHb

Using HuNI in biographical research: graphing David McComb and The Triffids

Toby Burrows

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Arianna Ciula@ariciula15 Dec 2023
It took a long time but very happy to see this out finally - thanks to @VolkswagenSt @OpenBookPublish and all those we met on this journey - fellow co-authors Øyvind Eide @UniCologne @cristina_marras @patrick_sahle
Open Book Publishers@OpenBookPublish15 Dec 2023
📢 New Book Alert! 🌐 'Modelling Between #Digital and #Humanities: Thinking in Practice' is now available! 🖥️Explore the intersection of digital tech & humanities through the power of modelling in #DH. Also available as hardback, paperback, & ePub. 🔗 doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0369
Cover of 'Modelling Between Digital and Humanities' on a 3D image of a tablet, a phone, and a book.

ALT Cover of 'Modelling Between Digital and Humanities' on a 3D image of a tablet, a phone, and a book.

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Always nice to finally hold a newly published book in your hands!
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British Library advises that reader and customer data is now being sold on the dark web: bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment…

British Library hack: Customer data offered for sale on dark web

The library urges users to change their passwords after earlier saying only employee data was leaked.

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It never rains it pours! Another long awaited publication for me and @TobyBurrows has just landed. This one looks at #serendipity in information management. Please enjoy: link.springer.com/chapter/10…

Serendipity and Knowledge Organisation

Toby Burrows and Deb Verhoeven return to Walpole’sWalpole original story of the Three Princes of SerendipThe Three Princes of Serendip to remind us that aside from sagacitySagacity, it is the various...

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Excited to announce that the new DS Catalog is up and running at search.digital-scriptorium.o…. Data entry from existing member institutions has started and will be continuing through the rest of year. Check it out and let us know what you think!
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The @HuNIVL is employing a Technical Officer (based in Sydney). Consider applying and please retweet far and wide: external-careers.jobs.unsw.e…
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Richard Poynder@RickyPo9 Nov 2022
Clarivate axes plan for global library catalogue under court deal [Achieving greater openness is complicated] timeshighereducation.com/new… via @timeshighered

Clarivate axes plan for global library catalogue under court deal

Analytics giant denies accusations it stole data but ends development of MetaDoor platform in settlement with WorldCat

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Recently published: "A Tale of Two Collectors: Using nodegoat to Map the Connections Between the Manuscript Collections of Thomas Phillipps and Alfred Chester Beatty" in New Technologies for Renaissance Studies III (2022) @nodegoat press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…

New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III

These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, and collection. Further, they reflect on the limita...

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HIMANIS@Himanis624 Oct 2022
Come and have a look at 20000+ #medieval #miniatures from #BooksOfHours extracted by @_Teklia_ on digitized manuscripts available through @iiif_io (heurist.huma-num.fr/heurist/…). Also a database with 8000+ shelfmarks!
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SocHistColl@SocHistColl24 Oct 2022
The Society for the History of Collecting: Collections and Impermanence: Transfer, Exchange and Disposal (10 and 17 November 2022) societyhistorycollecting.org…

The Society for the History of Collecting: Collections and Impermanence: Transfer, Exchange and...

The Society for the History of Collecting are pleased to invite you to its PhD and Early Career Researcher Workshop *(open to all) Collections and Impermanence: Transfer, Exchange and Disposal onli…

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This is happening tomorrow! You still have time to register for the webinar "Data Notes on Open Research Europe (ORE)" @LIBEReurope @OpenResearch_EU With @MEKTerkko from @LIBEReurope, Sam Hall from @F1000Research and our editor-in-chief @BarbaraMcGilli 👉bit.ly/3CWEm9r
Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)@up_johd14 Oct 2022
#johdnews @BarbaraMcGilli will present her experience of leading #JOHD at the webinar "Data Notes on Open Research Europe (ORE)" organised by @LIBEReurope and @OpenResearch_EU 🗓️25 October ⏰14:00 CEST ⚠️Registration👉 bit.ly/3CWEm9r #openknowledge #openhumanitiesdata
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