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Resource: Digital Accessibility Framework Town Halls

Accessible Community recently released the Digital Accessibility Framework for public review. This project aims to expand our collective understanding of the requirements for accessible digital content, considering the impact of emerging technologies and engaging with broad user groups to predict their full impact. A complex project like this needs wide engagement in order to get […]

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Resource: Welcome – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides

Over the past few years, the development of excellent self-paced tutorials and training materials for undertaking digital scholarship and data science in libraries have proliferated online. For library professionals who are relatively new to this area however, it can be hard to know where to begin! Without knowing a little bit about the context of […]

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Resource: The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online | Open Culture

Ear­ly lit­er­a­ture shows us a range of dif­fer­ent atti­tudes, where ani­mals are treat­ed as equals, with char­ac­ter traits both good and bad, or as noble mes­sen­gers of a god or gods rather than live­stock, mov­ing scenery, or exploitable resources. The most lav­ish of them all, the Aberdeen Bes­tiary, which dates from around 1200, was once […]

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Resource: Digital Humanities Slack!

The Digital Humanities Slack is a set of informal, connected chat rooms for the digital humanities and related interests, with over 50 “channels” (chat rooms) devoted to specific topics such as DH teaching, coding, library work, and conferences. Come join us! Absolutely no DH background is needed, and we specifically have channels for supporting students […]

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Resource: Decoding Hidden Heritages

Navigate the shared linguistic and cultural heritage of Ireland and Scotland. The Decoding Hidden Heritages project brings together over 5,500 folktales from manuscript and printed sources. Using advanced AI text recognition techniques, much of this material has been transcribed and made searchable for the first time. Many of the tales are categorised by Aarne–Thompson (AT) […]

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Resource: Sindhi Halchal Archive: Building on the PG Sindhi Library

The Sindhi Halchal Archive is dedicated to the advertisements published in Sindhi books and magazines in India by writers and small scale publishers producing books after 1947. In the absence of state support or major infrastructure to reach wider audiences all over the country – Sindhis are scattered in different cities in India – it […]

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Resource: Special Issue on Publishing and Climate Justice

I edited a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing on Publishing and Climate Justice, which also includes an article I wrote: “Strategies for Climate Justice in the Academic Publishing Industry: From Pledges to Direct Action”.  This important collection captures urgent and critical research that starts to outline the challenges the climate emergency poses […]

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Resource: Once Upon a Dune: Coastal (Hi)Stories | Environment & Society Portal

In April 2024, during a workshop at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, specialists from different countries and backgrounds talked about dunes. In addition to the scientific topics presented, we discussed how to make our work more compelling and accessible to a wider audience. We wanted to share our plural […]