mastodon 4.7.3Digital Curator at the British Library. #Digitisation #Data-driven research #Collections as Data tootfinder
The British Library has published a report on the cyber attack that took place in October. The report shares lessons learnt and should help other organisations prevent this happening to them. https://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2024/03/learning-lessons-from-the-cyber-attack.html
The British Library is recruiting for a permanent full-time Newspapers Curator. This is an amazing opportunity to work with the National Newspaper Collection: to be custodian of collection items going back to the 18th century, and to influence how we curate the news collections of the future. See the full advertisement at https://ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=5071482BMD Job reference R00000275 Deadline 5 November. Please spread the word.
Applications are open for @britishlibrary@bird.makeup International Library Leaders Programme 2026. For more information and how to apply (deadline 5 February) see link.bl.uk/ILLP2026
PhD Placement Call 2025 @britishlibrary@bird.makeup is open. Deadline 21 February 17:00 GMT. Interested in working with @BL_DigiSchol@techhub.social and @blprintheritage@bird.makeup Take a look at https://www.bl.uk/more/research-collaboration/computational-analysis-of-early-printed-book-descriptions-project-profile.pdf/ Application details at https://www.bl.uk/more/research-collaboration/ #bldigital #printedbooks #datascience
And the IIIF Consortium is looking for a new Managing Director https://iiif.io/news/2023/12/04/managing-director/
In the opening plenary session for the IIIF Online Conference. Exciting to hear about the IIIFifying of the Internet Archive content. See https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/helper/img-8664_202009/