A lovely send-off for @liamgh@mastodonapp.uk today. We should all bring so much positive energy into the world! He packed a lot into 51 years
Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library
I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder.
Also posting from @libcrowds@glammr.us @LivingWithMachines@zirk.us @BL_DigiSchol@techhub.social
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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4d ago
Ooh hello new AI4LAM newsletter https://mailchi.mp/a3880347fa9b/exciting-ai4lam-news-you-need-to-know and website! https://ai4lam.org/
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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4d ago
I read, When AI is Fluent in Data but Illiterate in Context:
'We are building evidence infrastructure at speed, and we are not asking, systematically enough, what the tools assume when they read human realities they were never designed to understand.'
https://reamby.substack.com/p/when-ai-is-fluent-in-data-but-illiterate
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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5d ago
Seeing members of the Iranian women's football team get asylum in Australia reminds me of this in the UK: Lift the Ban: Why People Seeking Asylum Should Have the Right to Work - Refugee Action https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/lift-the-ban-why-people-seeking-asylum-should-have-the-right-to-work/
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mar 06, 2026
London doctor carries out first UK remote robotic surgery: A surgeon in London says he has performed the UK's first long‑distance robotic operation on a patient located 1,500 miles (2,400km) away in Gibraltar.
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mar 06, 2026
Link to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee report on 'AI, copyright and the creative industries' published today: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ldselect/ldcomm/267/26702.htm
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Feb 14, 2026
'Automate tasks, not jobs' - a great headline from a report on 'the AI opportunity for Scotland’s public services' https://stormid.com/research/
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Feb 13, 2026
On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. In this respect, the attack doesn’t just represent an isolated failure – it’s a warning to the whole sector.' https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberattack-that-exposed-the-fragility-of-digital-heritage/
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Dec 04, 2025
https://comparia.beta.gouv.fr/ is so awesome for AI literacy - it makes it so easy to get a sense of different models, rate their responses on accuracy etc, then see what the models were and how they compare, plus the carbon footprint of your queries (as on the screenshot) #FF2025
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Nov 18, 2025
Last hour or so to sign up to today's UVCON! Catch up with recent work and what's coming next https://hcommons.social/deck/@universalviewer@glammr.us/115542995946017876
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Oct 07, 2025
In which Sak Supple shares his experiments with using LLMs to transcribe 18th and 19th century playbills from the British Library - manicules, long 's' and all! 'blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs' https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/blplaybills-org-better-search-results-using-llms
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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May 26, 2025
We've added our reviewing criteria to our Frequently Asked Questions on the #AI4LAM #FF2025 Fantastic Futures 2025 conference page https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/fantastic-futures-2025 - and don't forget that proposals are due by June 1!
Keep your questions coming so we can keep answering them!
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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May 21, 2025
Crowdsourcing and AI are part of dealing with backlogs at Museums Association event 'The Future of Museums: Collections Management' https://www.museumsassociation.org/events/the-future-of-museums-collections-management/# Manchester, July 2
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mar 13, 2025
Erin from our @BL_DigiSchol@techhub.social 's Universal Viewer team shared an update on work to make the Universal Viewer more inclusive and user friendly, improve visibility of IIIF collections, and provide image manipulation https://youtu.be/m3-cmfPfoK4?feature=shared&t=101 #IIIF #UniversalViewer #UniversalPlayer
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mar 13, 2025
Excited to announce the themes for @AI4LAM@glammr.us 's Fantastic Futures 2025 conference, with @nfitzger@glammr.us and @ratanass@glammr.us for @BL_DigiSchol@techhub.social : https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2025/03/fantastic-futures-2025-ff2025-call-for-proposals-.html
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mar 12, 2025
This is so cool! The Civil War Photo Sleuth project used AI / ML and crowdsourcing to help identify people in US Civil War-era photos, and now it's a foundation.
Congratulations @drkuluth@hci.social @vikrammohanty@hci.social https://photosleuth.org/2025/03/09/an-interview-with-civil-war-photo-sleuth-founder-kurt-luther-about-its-origins-and-future/
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mar 11, 2025
A PDF version of The Collective Wisdom Handbook: Perspectives on Crowdsourcing in Cultural Heritage is available from the British Library’s Research Repository: https://doi.org/10.23636/jm0p-yt17
The 'open peer review' version is also still online! https://britishlibrary.pubpub.org/
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@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mia
@mia@hcommons.social
Digital Curator, British Library I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history / AI ethics. She/they. Melbourne, London, bits inbetween. Was @mia_out on twitter. Posts searchable with tootfinder. Also posting from @ libcrowds @ LivingWithMachines @ BL_DigiSchol
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Mar 03, 2025
In the nearly 4 years since we shared it, how have you used the Collective Wisdom Handbook?
https://britishlibrary.pubpub.org/
We'd love to know! https://collectivewisdomproject.org.uk/how-have-you-used-the-collective-wisdom-handbook/
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