Mia Ridge is the British Library’s Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections. Part of the Digital Research team, she enables innovative research based on the British Library’s digital collections, offering guidance and training on computational research, AI / machine learning and crowdsourcing for historical collections. Mia has delivered dozens of international keynotes on open collections, online participation and AI in museums, libraries and archives.
From 2018 – 23, Mia was a Co-Investigator on the Living with Machines digital humanities / data science / AI project, leading the exhibition; and public engagement with digital scholarship and heritage collections through crowdsourcing.