More than a year after there was a collective agreement at #Sharp2024 that Blue Sky was the way forward, I have finally started setting up my profile. Hi everyone! What are we researching or writing about today?
#SHARP2024
Madeline Gangnes did a great presentation at #Sharp2024 on using 8 (I think) off-the-shelf online tools to create a digital annotated edition of War of the Worlds.
The earliest lithography presses in Alois Senefelder's 1818 book, Vollstandiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerei, is a huge equipment, and Reading University has an almost exact replica of it!
One of the workshops during #SHARP2024
Question: who created this feed? Perhaps they can add #SHARP and #SHARP2024 (thia one os mustard after the meal but we could add hashtags of bookish conferences/events)
Final #sharp2024 moments, with @wynkenhimself.bsky.social. She is matchless, but we are 2 English majors from Bryn Mawr, wearers of green glasses, Gen Xers, & book history editors in America.
Thank you @bibliowingate.bsky.social for the photo!
... and we have a winner. This book won the 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize, as has been announced yesterday at #SHARP2024. Congratulations, Prof. Sebouh David Aslanian. #bookhistory
Ahh the old forgotten tag problem: #SHARP2024
Final #SHARP2024 session I'm attending has 4, not 3 presenters - leaving little time for discussion. Speaker 4 also has no slides and assumes everybody is familiar with 18th century British literature...
Shoutout to @juliepark.bsky.social for being the first speaker I hear on #SHARP2024 to mention bibliographical formats. It's been a great conference, but light on analytical bibliography.
It's the final day of #SHARP2024 and after an exhausting (and inspiring!) programme I'm now officially too tired to spell eihtgeen -- which is an issue when you've decided to follow the panel on eghhitneeth-century book cultures.
At #sharp2024 and hearing Ellen Forget talk about OCR processes for Braille books. Many complications in training a model for this task.
Happy last day of #SHARP2024!
Hey #SHARP2024 @bibliowingate.bsky.social and I are headed out to the Queen's Head after dinner if you get bored. Should be in a while.
For those sticking around #SHARP2024 tomorrow, I'll be presenting at 9am. My paper is about my project training an OCR model to read embossed braille. There are lots of fun complications involved in this project that I'm excited to share with you!
I was feeling pretty burned out in May and June, but after seeing so much cool new work at #SHARP2024 I'm excited to get down to business with my current research project when I get home. Y'all are so inspiring!
I love that #SHARP2024 gave one of its two conference keynotes to a graduate student researcher—for one, it gets fresher perspectives wider attention at the event & hopefully provokes new ideas for all but two, it usefully disrupts the typical conference hierarchies—more conferences should do this
Great thanks to @bibliowingate.bsky.social for the #SHARP2024 talk summaries!
#sharp2024 attendees looking for dinner options, local food blogger ediblereading.com offers a good guide
#SHARP2024, we’re at the second keynote with Swara Shukla, Serialised Reading and Digital Marginalia in the Wattpad Book Publishing Ecosystem. I’m gonna attempt phone based live sleeting bc I didn’t bring my laptop!
It is true that the #SHARP2024 volunteers are all wearing red shirts, but I know enough Star Trek that calling them the "red shirt team" makes me nervous
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing (SHARP) 2025 conference will be: Rochester, NY, US
2025 July 7-11
#SHARP2024
I made my first Braille text with Ellen's guidance! It was a lot of fun, thanks so much! @ellenforget.bsky.social #SHARP2024
Whoever picked all the 9am papers for #SHARP2024 did an excellent job because I just keep waking up for them.
Hey #SHARP2024 folks. I brought my braille slates with me and haven't had much chance to use them. If you want a little card with your name or anything else embossed on it, or just want to know what braille feels like, come find me Thursday or Friday! Happy to braille for you.
For those of you who enjoyed the 'Thinking sideways' roundtable #Sharp2024: the publisher is giving 20% discount on The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition (outside North America), using code 'SHARP20' www.eurospanbookstore.com/book/detail/... (from Twitter: x.com/wlupress/sta...)
Have just discovered a library relevant conference with lots of content on BlueSky going on all this week, & I didn’t know about it! (though have heard of it in the past). I’ve added #SHARP2024 Global Book Cultures to the list. Please keep telling me of conferences and hashtags library & info people
Yes! This is what I’ve been talking about (in my latest blog post, and commenting during a conference) the concern about the way Large Language Models hoover up content potentially leading to a backlash against open access publication #SHARP2024
Hope you don’t mind me adding a hashtag for findability - it looks like lots of people are using #SHARP2024
My mind is a little broken by the reality of llama.ttf, which @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social discussed in his position paper for our #SHARP2024 roundtable "AI in the Communications Circuit." As described at fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/ "llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model" 🤯