Interested in learning more about Joseph Corfe? This upcoming talk at Salisbury Cathedral may be of interest.
John Dover will discuss the life of Joseph Corfe, the Corfe Family Music Collection, and Georgian Salisbury, with musical interludes throughout.
📍 Salisbury Cathedral
📅 2 May, 2 pm
Another new post is live on Inside Digital Scholarship!
My colleague Katie decribes how we digitised an 1819 music score by Joseph Corfe for Salisbury Cathedral, and our visit to the Salisbury Cathedral Library:
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The score is now available on Internet Archive 👇
Exactly 30 years ago, on 17 April 1996, the National Oceanography Centre Southampton was officially opened! 🥳
To mark the anniversary, I’ve written a post for Inside Digital Scholarship exploring its history through our digital collections:
🔗 tinyurl.com/2ee75eda
#OnThisDay #NOCS
Ah nice, enjoy! Would love to hear what you think 😊
People who want to make the web accessible need to understand the many different ways that people with disabilities use the web. This W3C resource offers a good introduction to how disabled people navigate the web, and barriers they commonly encounter.
www.w3.org/WAI/people-u...
Exciting news! Looking forward to the next series!
Love this - #accessibility as a driver of innovation in cultural heritage
Fantastic resource!
Have you seen @unisouthampton.bsky.social's art collection on @artukdotorg.bsky.social? As part of the UoS Digital Scholarship team, I got to digitise works from the collection for online access. Such a fun project & an amazing chance to work closely with the artworks.
#ArtUK #DigitalScholarshipUoS
It's been a long time in the making, but here's the new Library Data Lab at Southampton, giving dataset and API access to digitised collections.
Currently in beta: all comments welcome.
Intro from my colleague Matt: southampton.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
Service datalab.library.soton.ac.uk
@hannahbooth.bsky.social No thank you, I really enjoyed reading! Happy I came across your substack :)
Looking back at #IKUWA8, I’ve written a recap of the conference and the Ocean Decade Heritage Network (@unoceandecade.bsky.social)'s contributions, reflecting on key discussions and where we are midway through the Ocean Decade.
#OceanHeritage
I recently used Python and GEBCO data to make a Spilhaus projection map for a brochure for @decadeheritage.bsky.social using Ricardo Lemos' Spilhaus repo (GPL-3.0) - check it out and make a Spilhaus map yourself 🙂
github.com/rtlemos/spil...
If you want to dive deeper into the Spilhaus projection, the paper by Chen et al. (2023) is a great read:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Beautiful post on mapping the ocean and how the ocean-centered Spilhaus projection gives us a new perspective on the world
Today the #BBNJ Agreement enters into force, a major milestone for the high seas. While focused on biodiversity, it offers opportunities to recognise and safeguard ocean heritage beyond national boundaries. More on this from the Ocean Decade Heritage Network soon.
#HighSeasTreaty #OceanHeritage
Check out James MacDonell's Cabinet of Curiosities, a digital experience around objects found in Hartley Library. I worked on the 2D digitisation for this project, and honestly every object was a surprise - which is exactly what makes working in DS so enjoyable! #InsideDigitalScholarship
Rocky desert in the Australian outback with sparse vegetation, copper coloured earth and a mountain range in the distance.
Map showing migration routes of settlers 60,000 years ago from what is now South East Asia (Sunda) to modern Australia (Sahul). The green landmass labeled "SUNDA" is on the left, and "SAHUL" on the right. Blue and orange arrows move from Sunda to Sahul and various Islands.
Aboriginal Australians and New Guineans descend from settlers who migrated south, 60,000 years ago, to the ancient supercontinent of Sahul.
Our maritime archaeologists with @huddersfielduni.bsky.social used DNA techniques to reach their findings.
Read more 👉 www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
Feeling inspired after listening to talks from around the world at @britishlibrary.bsky.social and UK @datacite.org's webinar on the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data and Data Sovereignty today.
Check out the #CARE Principles 👇
New #DigitalScholarship blog post out by @peterwebster.bsky.social on a project I'm involved in, digitising the writings of James Parkes 📖✨
library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...
Fantastic new #ACROSS paper out: genomic evidence supports the "long chronology" for the peopling of Sahul 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"There is no big conspiracy against women in maritime archaeology" - senior male maritime archaeologist
Fab talk on bleak statistics by Julie Satchell, who examines gender-based challenges in maritime archaeology.
#IKUWA8
Jon Henderson on stage at IKUWA8 in front of a big screen showing waves and the title of the talk: "Is Marine Archaeology even a thing? Ocean Heritage and the Sustainable Development Agenda"
Jon Henderson kicks off #IKUWA8 with the a thought-provoking keynote: "Is Marine Archaeology even a thing?" on the (in)visibility of #UCH and the importance of getting it onto the global agenda.
I am not a papyrologist but this affects so much of archaeology.
The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out.
In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.
Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.
In Soton? Go see Connection, the summer exhibition in Hartley Library, Level 4. Not in Soton? You can still explore last year’s virtual gallery – and we’ll be creating one for this year’s exhibition too. Keep an eye out!
Great piece on gallery spaces by my colleague Katie in #DigitalScholarship! Digital galleries provide meaningful ways to increase #accessibility and complement physical exhibitions.
NL like to think of it as an open and "tolerant" country, but there is a lot of racism. It's only recently that we've started questioning our colonial past instead of celebrating it as our "golden age". I'm glad you found mention of slavery, but sadly not surprised there isn't more.
We need this in archaeology too. Early human migrations are always shown on eurocentric maps as static arrows - oversimplified & biased.
