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And it's the #MuseumDocumentation that lets you tell those stories. Without it, you just have a pile of ... things.
John Paul iGhetti Jr@dannybirchall.bsky.social · 4d agoyou can tell stories about objects, you can tell stories with objects, but the objects don't tell the stories, people do. people tell stories.
you know what? objects don't 'tell stories'. everyone goes around saying 'objects tell stories' but it's not true. objects are just objects.
I really want to open this one to the GLAMsky peanut gallery because yes for me it was probably the live mortar shell but also possibly the woman’s purse full of human teeth
Genny G@cobralingus.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat was the last thing that turned up in an uncatalogued box that made you wish you could say "Nope", put the lid back on, and walk away like it never happened?
The Royal Geographical Society is hosting an all-day fundraiser to support the digitisation and conservation of its Discovery collection – check it out if you can get to London on 6 August! www.rgs.org/about-us/sup...
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Enable the conservation and digitisation of photographs, maps, and archives, safeguarding them for the future and making them accessible worldwide.
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“Enshittification” has made it into the Oxford English Dictionary. Coined by @doctorow.pluralistic.net, it is defined as “the process by which an online platform degrades over time, typically resulting from business decisions prioritizing profit”. It is one of 900 new entries this quarter.
Come LLMs to roost in Slough and boil up all the humans now with endless slop us all endow. Hyperscale it, Death! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Slough is like an experiment’: Europe’s largest datacentre hub leaves town sweltering
Emerging research suggests datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9C
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How can cultural heritage lead the way with Public AI? 1. Provide high-quality data and the knowledge needed to keep it traceable, interpretable and reliable. 2. Manage data access and reuse in fair and reciprocal ways. www.dataspace-culturalheritage.eu/news/making-... 1/2
Making Public AI reality: How cultural heritage can lead the way
After months of collaborative development and iteration with the data space community and the Europeana Initiative, we are excited to share the newly published paper, ‘The case for Public AI: making i...
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📢 We are delighted to announce a new exhibition for 2027 📢 Renaissance Worlds: Art and the Senses will open in June 2027. Uncover a time shaped by global exchange and alive with colour, texture, music, spices, entertainment and fragrance.
How it started vs how it's going: Creating a crosswalk between MARC 21 and #LinkedArt JSON-LD / CIDOC CRM, with an intermediate semi-automated linking (and human vetting) of entity terms to LCSH, LC name authority files, Geonames, Getty AAT URIs.
Thanks for taking part in this week's #OnlineArtExchange 🖼️ Next week's theme is ‘Machines’ for 'Tick Tock Marvels, The Playful World of Automata' at Tullie Carlisle 'The Discovery' by H. W. R. Allan 📷 NHS Lothian Charity – Tonic Collection
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What @numiko.bsky.social said ⬇️ - I teally enjoyed taking part: it's always fun to talk about how to find and engage with the object you don't know you're looking for (and yes, "fun" was one aspect that we discussed) #MuseumDocumentation
Numiko@numiko.bsky.social · 2mo agoFifteen digital collections specialists. One innovation space. A demo of 'Collection Dreaming' 🏛️💭 Yesterday we ran our roundtable on innovation in collection interfaces. Immersion, engagement, sustainability – we went there. Turns out you can't beat putting brilliant people in a room together.
An interesting summary of the (comparatively minor) practical difficulties encountered when working with a few major open access #MuseumDocumentation data endpoints: www.navigating.art/articles-fro...
Almost frictionless: open access museum collections in practice in 2026 — Navigating.art
The past decade has changed what it means to have access to a museum collection. Major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Rijksmuseum, have r...
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Blackwood also devised a classification system for anthropological artefacts that lies at the root of #MuseumDocumentation systems in several museums
Pitt Rivers Museum@pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 2mo agoOn Friday 29 May the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme unveiled a new plaque commemorating Beatrice Blackwood, a pioneering anthropologist & curator at Pitt Rivers Museum, who worked in the Museum from the late 1930s until a few days before her death in 1975. www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/blac...
Not entirely sure what I did to "undermine the integrity of X", particularly as I last tweeted over a year ago. Somebody must have been digging very deep if they found anything that old to offend them, and then report it. (Perhaps #MuseumDocuumentation has become a subversive activity?)
You can always tell when The Stranglers have been in to return their books.
I have just written an internal note about the Pope’s Encyclical on AI and I’ve called it Doing the Vatican RAG and I am taking the rest of the day off. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news.... youtu.be/pvhYqeGp_Do?...
Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica humanitas’: AI must serve humanity not concentrate power - Vatican News
Marking the 135th anniversary of Rerum novarum, Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical, entitled ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human ...
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Why do we need services like the Museum Data Service? 'Scientists Keep Finding Major Discoveries Lurking in Museum Backrooms' www.sciencealert.com/scientists-k... #MDS
Scientists Keep Finding Major Discoveries Lurking in Museum Backrooms
Museums are among the most expansive resources humans have created.
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Or, if you are working with #MuseumDocumentation, of course you know all this already; but your colleagues who provide you with a lovingly-crafted Excel spreadsheet may not: share it with them!
Post45 Data Collective@post45data.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe P45 Data Collective Tabular Data Style Guide is now live! If you are a researcher, student, librarian, or instructor working with cultural data, this style guide is for you. data.post45.org/style-guide....
Collections policies exist for a reason. We've had lots of people trying to give us documents, even when we've been at events across the county and have no way of safely taking the documents back to the archive. Sadly we have to turn these people away, but this is for the benefit of the documents.
Ian Kikuchi@curatorian.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis story, insofar as it deals with the National Railway Museum, is utterly absurd. If you rock up to a museum event expecting to dump a load of stuff on the staff, and are then surprised to be politely refused, then you clearly have no idea what museums are for. www.cityam.com/a-state-of-t...
I'm sorry but museums aren't an extension of your loft. They have a responsibility to care for important artefacts on behalf of the public, hence having a 'policy' on what goes into collections. That is true efficiency. www.cityam.com/a-state-of-t...
A state of the nation tale: The National Rail Museum won't accept a model railway set
From museums that won't accept model railway sets to the NHS's refusal to share data, British inefficiency is costing us billions.
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If there's somethin' strange in your search results, who you gonna call? Slopbusters!👻 70% of Google searches now end without a click. If your organisation actually has the answers, how do you make sure people find them instead of AI slop? That's what we're getting into on 18th June. Link below.
Senior Curator job at the Natural History Museum London Salary in 2017: £42,400 Salary in 2026: £42,700 Crisis. What crisis.
It will soon be time for our exhibition on Sat 30 & Sun 31 May, celebrating Sir Ernest Shackleton. Please note that the talk on Sat 30 is SOLD OUT. We have a waiting list so if you have tickets but can no longer attend, let us know! The Library will be CLOSED for tours from 2-4pm on Sat 30th.
Happy Star Wars Day everybody! #StarWars as photographs from the #Orkney Archive photographic collection. ⭐️ #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay
