BL Digitisation

#OTD in 1717, Handel's Water Music was first performed Did you know that we have digitised many musical scores? Watch the video to find out how to search for #FullyDigitised items at home, and how to use the @universalviewer @BL_Music_Collspic.twitter.com/TuFs8ZBYLf

New Online! 12 collections of manuscripts digitised in Balochistan, Pakistan (https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP766 ) Languages include: - Arabic - Balochi - Brahui - Pashto - Persian - Urdu - Uzbekpic.twitter.com/YvLXf8mMbS

What a way to get around! Our pick for #CURATORBATTLE #TremendousTransport comes from al-Qazwīnī’s ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt (‘Wonders of creation') Newly #digitised and soon to be fully online: https://bl.uk/collection-items/al-qazwinis-wonders-of-creation … #DiscoveringSacredTextspic.twitter.com/SORfkCZHT7

Hello everyone and welcome to Group 2 of our #blworldmapworldcup Every world cup has a ‘group of death’, and this is it. Select your favourite, the top 2 go through to quarter finals on Friday Your choices are...pic.twitter.com/kVLOfrGKh6

We've just launched a new multiple choice #crowdsourcing task! This will help categorise Siberian photographs to enable more in depth analysis. To get involved, click here: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/gjevon/siberian-photographs-eap-dot-bl-dot-uk-project-eap016 … Be warned: its addictive! https://twitter.com/bl_eap/status/1255771670167670784 …pic.twitter.com/w9YMEc4qzS

Our colleague Ellis Meade has made this very fun browser #game based around the #Qatar National Libray and its collections. Be warned, it's a little addictive! https://ellismeade.itch.io/the-hidden-world-of-the-qatar-national-library …pic.twitter.com/YLl2L5iLhT

Newly #digitised just in time for some #MondayMotivaton. This 18th C scroll contains the Bhagavata Purana in Sanskrit, illustrated by Hindu gods & scenes from the life of Krishna. See Add MS 16624 in full: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_16624 … @BLAsia_Africa @BL_Digitisation #LetsGetDigitalpic.twitter.com/lRCngWFk6M

In my happy place @nlnz in Imaging Services studio capturing public orderpic.twitter.com/41NhZBxWT6

Three processional images (in fact, six prints joined in pairs) form a frieze depicting the entry of a viceroy into Naples. They do not show a particular procession, but the groups that traditionally formed one, nobility, officials, soldiers and musicians. https://www.bl.uk/picturing-places/articles/the-collection-of-cassiano-dal-pozzo-at-the-british-library …pic.twitter.com/gZpQUvU7sf

There's a new service available on Explore the British Library. The 'Available online' tab allows you to search for online content which you can see without being in the British Library's Reading Rooms. It's a beta service, and we'd love to hear what you think!pic.twitter.com/ISPDnhs719

Richard II became King of England on the 22nd June 1377 Here's an #animation I made of him reciting a line from his Shakespeare play Image taken from folio 104 of Yates Thompson 48 @BritishLibrary #Richard II #Shakespearepic.twitter.com/0X19FzAWfw

Members of the Imaging and Conservation teams from @BLQatar have collaborated on a new project to digitise watermarks. This post explains the projects inception and some of the innovative techniques they used https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/06/making-watermarks-visible-a-collaborative-project-between-conservation-and-imaging.html … @_mattlee_pic.twitter.com/yvU1qR0Dll

Newly #digitised alert! You can now see this wonderful #Japanese manuscript in full online. Or 14871 Kaikikan 瑰琦観 is an early 19th C album of paintings & poems by Nanga and Shijō school artists & poets: http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100101634493.0x000001 … The mice are cute too! #BLJapanesepic.twitter.com/13a2rmo7lE

Maps and photography: a brief history https://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2020/06/maps-and-photography-a-brief-history-part-1.html …pic.twitter.com/XasEkVw0jG

A nice such example in the @BLAsia_Africa Stein collection is the beautifully painted piece of silk that belongs to a 21-meter long Buddhist scroll in Khotanese and Sanskrit (IOL Khot S 46) that is fully digitised https://bit.ly/2AuZeXC  https://twitter.com/SilkRoadWeek/status/1266179505061683200 …pic.twitter.com/O3LRHTg6s0

The Library's IIIF viewer is the Universal Viewer, take a tour to see it's functionality, from downloading content, sharing & embedding options, clear copyright status, and of course accessing the IIIF manifest. Item explored is rare blockbook IA.27 #IIIFWeek @BLprintheritagepic.twitter.com/jIY3aAHPo0

Our @britishlibrary doors may be closed, but we still publish items online Today we bring you a unique copy of a theological text in #Hungarian from the István Nagy collection - digitisation funded by the Library of the Protestant Diocese of Tiszántúl http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100101224668.0x000001#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&xywh=-1082%2C-1%2C10328%2C6242 …pic.twitter.com/aVR3UBEhc3