Paige Roberts

I very much appreciate research at scale on the representativeness of and biases in digitized archival collections.

Some examples below.
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Read this whole thread.
It is worth it!

Screen shot of website announcing talk.

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GAERHF talk happening November 25th at 5PM in London. "Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure" www.history.ac.uk/digital-huma... . It will be on Zoom as well. Link will be sent after registration (I think).

Come work here at Illinois! We have two Diversity Residency Visiting positions open. I'm chairing one of the two searches:

www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs

Learning from Firefox: Building Better AI for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage People Like AI. What Do We Do That?

I'm at @clirnews.bsky.social DLF Forum today grappling with the AI paradox: we hate Big AI's extractive practices but people are using these tools anyway. @anildash.com's piece on Mozilla offers a way forward: Don't just protest, build better alternatives.

foundhistory.org/learning-fro...

In July I went to Zhuhai, Yung's hometown, for gathering of descendants of the Chinese Education Mission. The city of Zhuhai has built a wonderful museum with fantastic exhibits about Yung and the CEM, which they have kindly shared with us to display here. Saw a new play about him performed there!

The Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives team has released Viewfinder: A toolkit for values-driven AI in libraries and archives that was created by librarians and tech ethicists at four universities.

Print-at-home PDF: osf.io/yue9s
Interactive website: www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-...

Cover Reveal for The Infinite Loop!

Cover for The Infinite Loop: Archives and Time Travel in the Popular Imagination by Lynne M. Thomas and Katy Rawdon. The title and author text are black text on a white background. Above and below the title block is a pattern of bright pink concentric circles.…

Sunderland Collection Map Symposium at RGS - 30 October The Sunderland Collection Symposium at the Royal Geographical Society, 30 October 2025

Missed the Challenging Maps and Exploration Symposium? Don’t worry, the videos of the panels are now live!

Enjoy all the discussions of #maps, #empire, Indigeneity, archives, and contemporary exploration. #skystorians 🗃️

ACLS Digital Justice Seed & Development Grants. (Due to ofa.acls.org by 9:00 PM EST on 11/20/25)

The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program supports projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice in digital scholarly practice, contribute to understanding of racial & social justice issues.

COP websites emit 10 times more carbon than average webpages - Energy Live News COP conference websites emit more carbon per page view than typical webpages

We are featured in over 50 news outlets today: PhD student David Mahoney's research using web archives, @archive.org, to measure historic website emissions, offering a new method and open-source code for analysing & highlighting online environmental impact. www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/11/c...

Hey this is today. 😊

YouTube video by CNI: Coalition for Networked Information Bringing AI into Focus with Viewfinder: A New Toolkit for Values-driven AI in Libraries & Archives

Learn more about the background and process in this CNI briefing from @jasonclark.bsky.social and @doralyn.bsky.social youtu.be/-N0u7OMebtw?...

Harvard Library has a beta Collections Explorer for Special Collections

collex.lib.harvard.edu

AI-based hybrid search with natural language interaction

#SpecialCollections

cc @dhandlib.bsky.social

Arctic Pasts and Presents (Presence) Contemporary Circumpolar Indigenous artists express visual sovereignty through traditional and innovative materials, reclaiming identity, resisting colonialism, and connecting generations across time.

"Arctic Pasts and Presents (Presence)" by Tess McCoy is the fifth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/a...

#envhist #envhum #arthistory #indigenous #arctic

RBMS 2026 CFP Collaboration

The Rare Books and Manuscripts #SpecialCollections Conference CFP is live! web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
Want to put together a panel? There is a planning for for that!
#RBMS26
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters

Image of signatures and coordinates on various sheets of parchment.

Join us on Nov. 14 for our upcoming seminar, "Analyzing Networks Through Pension Claims: African American Women's Community Making at the Turn of the Twentieth Century." Author Halima Haruna with comments by @alkleintop.bsky.social Register here: www.masshist.org/eve...

Launching our new Digital Preservation Policy On World Digital Preservation Day 2025, we’re pleased to announce the release of our new Digital Preservation Policy.

new British Library digital preservation policy
www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

"The policy is built around 4 interdependent principles that shape the BL approach to digital preservation: pragmatism, consistency, risk awareness, and sustainability."

via Maureen Pennock

#DigiPres #iPres25 #wdpd25

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

Prize for Projects in Map History 2026 The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) is pleased to invite nominations and self-nominations for its Prize for Projects in Map History.   The ISHMap Prize in for Pr…

📣📣 PRIZE 📣📣

The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) is pleased to invite nominations and self-nominations for its Prize for Projects in Map History.

Details: ishmap.com/prize-for-pr...

@kparkerhistorian.bsky.social

This situation really stinks. I experienced that in 2009-2012. Just awful. I wish I could help, Daniel.

Info graphic reading: Call for Participants, tinyurl.com/enablar-blog. Jisc and Programming Historian logos are displayed alongside the wordmark for the ENABLAR project, which reads ENABLAR, ENABling Library and Archive participation in digital Research co-learning communities.

✨📢 ENABLAR is a new initiative from @jisc.bsky.social + @proghist.bsky.social, bringing library and archive practitioners into dialogue with digital humanities researchers.

We’re gathering a cohort to join our online programme of webinars, workshops, and writing sprints.

tinyurl.com/enablar-blog

CfP: Citizen Practices in Producing and Preserving the Past Call for papers for an international conference hosted by the C²DH on 11 and 12 May 2026.

All but "amateurs". Join us in May 2026 for a conference on citizen history and people's commitment to preserve the past.
The call is open until December 20
Collaboration between @c2dh.uni.lu at @uni.lu and @uqam.ca |
#citizenscience #publichistory #preservation #heritage
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

DARIAH (digital research infrastructure for art and humanities scholars in the EU) has a new journal, Transformations

Vol 1: workflows
transformations.episciences.org/volumes/965

@dariaheu.bsky.social #DH #DigitalHumanities

Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive (in person) Explore histories of pollution, contamination, and environmental damage in the archive at this one-day symposium at The National Archives.

Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive is now open for registration! 🏭🌊

In person symposium at The National Archives on 4th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...

Afternoon of online talks on 5th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...

#envhum #envhist

I built AcadiMeet to handle the specific chaos of university life. It does everything you expect from a scheduling app but it's built to handle fixed teaching schedules, faculty autonomy, and the rhythms of the semester.

If you're tired of Doodle, give it a try: acadimeet.org

#HigherEd #EdTech

JOB: Cartographic Cataloging Librarian
at Osher Map Library, Portland, Maine

fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

$53,000 salary

cc @archivesgig.bsky.social #maps

Illustration of a man on a horse in a desert watching the sunset

Good morning everyone! I'm up bright and early at 2am ready to start another day attending (virtually) #LivingData2025. I'm presenting today on "Integrating research expedition data from the Biodiversity Heritage Library into the Wikiverse". Presentation & docs commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...

Excerpt from Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776).

"In America the Law is King." It's only Common Sense.