For this hack day project, I was inspired by the Heritage Connector’s ability to make new and interesting links between museum objects. This also brought to mind social media (and more specifically, Twitter), which has great potential to connect people, but in practice can often be an alienating experience. You…

Can a machine convert black and white photos into colour? — Introduction During my previous life at the British Library, I worked on the BL/QFP and helped to oversee an end-to-end digitisation project that made primarily British colonial records from the Persian Gulf available online, on the Qatar Digital Library (QDL). It was while I worked here that some of my colleagues…