It's incredible to see such quick decline of what was meant to be a sturdy system and institution. Students should ask what will be the staff-student ratio in their courses. #Lancaster chng.it/fsXkgD5fQz

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TaNC seeks a Senior Researcher for the National Research Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage (N-RICH) Prototype project. Join us to shape the future of digital cultural heritage! Secondment applications welcome: shorturl.at/rgutY

🚨 Job Claxon 🚨 Towards a National Collection - N-RICH Prototype project is looking for a Senior Technology Avisor. 📅 Deadline 11 August #ahrc #ukri #TaNC #DigitalInfrastructure #DigitalHumanities #Job #UKJobs #GLAM

Towards a National Collection (TaNC)@nationalcollection.bsky.social · last yr.

TaNC is tendering for a Senior Technology Advisor to oversee technical specifications and architecture for N-RICH Prototype project (N-RICH: shorturl.at/B0ort). For more details, register first on the free Public Contracts Scotland portal and then follow this link: shorturl.at/kHfx1

🚨 Job Claxon 🚨 Towards a National Collection - N-RICH Prototype project is looking for a Senior Technical Product Advisor. 📅 Deadline 11 August #ahrc #ukri #TaNC #DigitalInfrastructure #DigitalHumanities #Job #UKJobs #GLAM

Towards a National Collection (TaNC)@nationalcollection.bsky.social · last yr.

TaNC is tendering for a Senior Technical Product Advisor to help define the product vision for a national research infrastructure for cultural heritage (N-RICH) Prototype. For details, register first on the free Public Contracts Scotland portal & then use this link: shorturl.at/GRgDj

Looking forward to collaborating with AHRC and the GLAM sector to bring this groundbreaking project to life! #NRICH #DigitalInfrastructure #CulturalHeritage #TaNC

Towards a National Collection (TaNC)@nationalcollection.bsky.social · last yr.

We are delighted to announce the N-RICH Prototype, a 2-year AHRC/UKRI investment in the UK's cultural heritage collections, aiming to enhance & enable research, innovation & growth. Learn more: shorturl.at/B0ort @christophersmith.bsky.social‬

It's the LAST DAY to register for the 2025 #IIIF Annual Conference & Showcase Join us June 2 for a free Showcase of IIIF implementations and demos, and June 3-5 for presentations, lightning talks, workshops, and networking session. Registration: www.conftool.org/iiif2025

Today we are working from Dundee.

We are plowing through our consultation phase in London for this week. Going through secret passages and ebbing the sun.

Patricia Diaz is pushing for novel regulations for the remuneration of authors, producers and artists in digital platforms. Mandatory remuneration should be on top of new regulations so they don't get trumped by them. #TaNC #TowardsANationalCollection #Copyright

Patricia Diaz showcases that many of the copyright & IP discussions have been happening for over 30 years, and these cascade to digital practices. Many of these risks can cause projects to fail before they even start, especially for AI. #TowardsANationalColleciton #ContextosDelSur #DatySoc #AI

Patricia Diaz presented a map of diverse licensing and regulations for datasets: flexibilidades.datysoc.org/mapa #ContextosDelSur #TowardsANationalCollection #GLAM #Copyright #Libraries

Patricia Diaz, explains the complexity of legality and licensing of specific media types in digital collections across the diverse countries in Latin America. They break down individual copyright laws, and help evaluate the monetary investments of evaluation and digitisation behind repos.

International GLAMLabs shares a checklist to identify how to generate #CollectionsAsData.

Gustavo candela indcates that for Collections as Data, FAIR and CARE principles are at the core of its principles and it applies for a wide range of multimodal items in digital collecitons. #TowardsANationalColleciton #GLAMLabs #CollectionsAsData

Gustavo Candela, is now sharing with us the diverse ways of interacting with GLAMLabs either online or physically. It showed us the role of thes labs in deployment of the diverse workflows for the sector. #TowardsANationalColleciton #ContextosDelSur #GLAMLabs

Alberto Pacheco from Mexicana Repositorio showcased how their approaches have enabled the production of 11 repositories from diverse institutions, totalling almost 300,000 new records. #ContextosDelSur #TaNC #TowardsANationalCollection #Mexico #DigitalCollections

Alberto Pacheco from the Mexican Secretary of Culture, shares with us that all catalogues and data from government digital collections are by default Open Data. We will share this webinar in english later in the TaNC Youtube Channel. #Mexico #DigitalCollections

Todavía están a tiempo de registrarse pasta el próximo miércoles. Patrimonio cultural, GLAMLabs y derechos de autor. #glam #collections #digitisation #digitalizacion #cultura #patrimonio #colecciones #creativeCommons

Towards a National Collection (TaNC)@nationalcollection.bsky.social · last yr.

📣Free, online event in Spanish, 26 Mar 25, 15:00 – 16:30 GMT Don't miss our Contextos del Sur webinar, examining digital cultural heritage infrastructure in Latin America, including collection management strategies, computational access methodologies, and more: tinyurl.com/49pd3c66

Los invitamos a un webinar para conversar sobre infraestructuras de patrimonio cultural y soberania digita. *Contextos del Sur* un Webinar de Towards a National Collection. Miercoles 26 de Marzo, 3:00PM UK, 9:00 AM Mx Registrate aqui: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/towards-a-...

🚀 Online Cultural Heritage as a Social Machine How do digital infrastructures shape cultural heritage? Our latest article explores how online cultural heritage functions as a dynamic ecosystem, shaped by technology, institutions, and human decisions. #DigitalHeritage #SocialMachines

Did some experiments using #Arduino potentiometer through #Socket.io to manipulate #Sketchfab models on the Web. #NodeJS

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On the final leg of our tour of the UK nations, and in less than 2 weeks we'll be concluding our promotional adventures to spread the word about #TowardsDigitalCollections in #Stirling Scotland. Please join us for a free event on Thursday 13th March. Find out more bit.ly/TDC_Stirling #MuseumEd #GLAM

Judith Enriquez showcased how language and naming within a beyond-human approach can enable improved knowledge sharing! #BIAZA

We just begun the BIAZA Online Symposium. @nicolakoyama.bsky.social Nicola Koyama, opening the space with an introduction of Knowledge Production and systemic structures in the Humanities, and the Sciences. @ljmuimpact.bsky.social

NEXT PROJECT: Visitor/ User experience for guide dogs! Tangible interfaces will be key for this! #AnimalUserInterfaces ‐----------------- Art is for all people! #DidYouDidThat the #Munal inclusion program offers guided tours and workshops that seek to bring art closer to people with disabilities.

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Next Friday, 28 February, we will be hosting a half-day symposium, 'Towards decolonial approaches in zoo interpretation'. This is part of a project led by Nicola Koyama in collaboration with Judith Enriquez and Lucrezia Maciocco from LJMU, and BIAZA. More info here: biaza.org.uk/events/detai...

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The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) is the professional body representing the best zoos and aquariums in the UK and Ireland.

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