mia ridge

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Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol British Library and Head of Museum Data Service. EB Secretary ‪@adho-org. Access to digital heritage via AI /machine learning, crowdsourcing, digital humanities. She, they. openobjects.org.uk, miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!

Signage on the walking trail; green foliage filtering sunlight; dark tree trunks
A photo of a banner with lots of Korean writing in a brightly lit shop. Hello Kitty has a black eye and is crying.
Slide that says 'The work done by data annotators is intellectual labor that warrants contributorship attribution and may meet criteria for authorship in some circumstances'
A program for digital humanities: five operations 01 Criticize. A diplomatics of generated documents, extending external and internal source criticism to synthetic texts. 02 Measure. Declination charts: dated public reports of the deviation between model directions and documented reference corpora. 03 Preserve. Legal deposit of the instruments: model versions, output samples, system prompts, policies. 04 Equip. Provenance that survives ingestion: passage-level identifiers persisting through pipelines. 05 Govern. A metrology of memory: commons-based institutions maintaining reference compasses.
Blue sky, green mountain in the background, the Daejeon tower and a banner saying 'DH2026 morning run'
A slide on screen in a conference room. The heading says 'what changed from the abstract, and why'. The methods didn't work but the fundamental research questions were kept
An emoji that combines 'dragon' with 'ice' to make a dragon breathing out snowflakes
Poster: Will you help us save the AI?
Slides: A Call to Action for Digital Humanists 3 Missions for Digital Humanists 1. Design Al-collaborative humanities research methodologies. 2. Build public Al research environments for humanists. 3. Establish new educational frameworks for future scholars.
Your destination for Daejeoncheongsa - 대전정사 GOVT.COMPLEX -DAELEON
A line chart showing the number of 'Museums with object records in MDS', starting from about 20 in September 2024 to over 120 in May 2026
A tan whippet with a black snout and chocolate brown ears sleeps blissfully in a nest of blankets
Screenshot with the text: KPMG gets money off its own audit by arguing Al makes accounting cheaper Financial Times UK STEPHEN FOLEY — NEW YORK 7 Feb 2026 KPMG has negotiated lower fees from its own accountant by arguing that AI will make it cheaper to do the work, according to people familiar with the matter. The Big Four firm told its auditor, Grant Thornton UK, it should pass on cost savings from the rollout of Al and threatened to find a new accountant if it did not agree to cut fees, the people said.
A slide with a meme about AI accountability and two women on stage in a seminar room
A light-skinned Black woman is just visible behind a podium on a stage. Her slides ask: How do we describe archives? Why do we describe archives? What are we trying to automate?
A white woman with a dark bob on stage with a slide 'Five ideas for Fantastic Digital Futures'
A tan whippet asleep with one eye and mouth open, photo focused on a very boopable black snoot
Jimmy Wales on stage at the British Library conference centre
A panel of two white men and five white women sitting around a long table under a bog screen
SOME EXAMPLES OF DIFFERENT NAMING STRUCTURES that don't easily fit into first and last name structures INDONESIAN NAMES Wahyudi - Single given name (no family name) VIETNAMESE NAMES MALAY MUSLIM NAMES CHINESE NAMES
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Poster encouraging people to sign up to the ADHO newsletter The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) promotes digital research and teaching across the arts and humanities, provides a community-based advisory force, and supports excellence in DH research, publication, collaboration and training.
Bursary Winners Uliana Pyadushkina Thijs Meijerink Jihyo Jeon Chaeyeon Jeong Guang Yang Théo Heugebaert Stefanie Messher Esther Shizgal DH2025 Sarah Revilla Sanchez Lise Foket Hedren Sum Enes Yilandiloglu Trudie Strauss Mathilda Smit Lim Ting-iông
Seven ‘lessons learned’ from the first waves responsible Al The 'Al' in R-Al is an elusive and rapidly moving target R-Al must expand stakeholder reach to include impacted communities Narrowly technical approaches to R-Al do not work Public trust is essential to a sustainable R-Al ecosystem Good intentions are not enough for R-Al R-Al must address questions wider than ethics and legality R-Al is not a problem to be solved but an ecosystem to be built and sustained
A skinny tan whippet flops dramatically on a fleece-covered sofa. Her head droops off the side of the sofa, and her legs are splayed as if overwhelmed by ennui
Postcard for AI4LAM at the British Library, 3-5 December 2025
An oval topped modern stained glass window with big swathes of bright colours - red, blue, purple with inset roundels of other colours
A tan whippet with a black nose stands on a grassy path. Trees with fresh spring leaves and a blue sky fill the background
A slide with a quote: "We must make sure that when we emerge from whatever present crisis we are in, the choices we made will not make us ashamed." -Lee Bollinger
A title slide in a lecture theatre saying 'Everything is awful but maybe we can change things - Digital Humanities in times of crisis'; a woman with brown hair and skin stands at the lectern for her keynote
The cast of Elektra taking applause on stage
A flyer on a Cambridge faculty library wall describing access to Electronic Legal Deposit
A 'white' beer mug with a slice of lemon sits on a table. In the background, there is an outdoor café scene with greenery, blossom and outdoor seating under a blue sky.
The Royal Albert Hall full of people for the WoW festival. A Black woman in an orange satin skirt and scarf is on centre stage and a big side screen
A fawn whippet with a black snout sitting in sunshine on a sofa covered in fleeces
A park with white and purple crocuses scattered throughout grass. White crocuses glow in sunshine in the foreground.
A 'cactus felting craft kit' with a fuzzy felt bright green cactus with a pink flower, in a brown felt pot
A screenshot of a webpage with the text: Your Top Topics Digital Humanities 90% Mia’s posts here are like candy for the brain—sweet, colorful, and you can hardly ignore the sugary buzz they give you! AI and Ethics 80% Every time Mia talks about AI, it feels like a TED talk in a coffee shop—thought-provoking while you sip your oat milk latte. Cultural Heritage 85% These posts are akin to a well-curated museum exhibit, complete with a virtual rolling ladder for hard-to-reach ideas! Writing Style A delightful cocktail of academic rigor and playful banter, making complex ideas palatable for the casual scroller.
Screenshot of a Miro board with notes on date fields and suggestions for improvement
A slide saying 'Let's make AI work for 8 billion people, not 8 billionaires' in an auditorium with a speaker at a podium