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#MuseTech folk, there's a proposal for 'exhibitions' on wikidata that could probably use your input, especially if you've ever worked on a 'what's on' site and know the complexities of exhibition data! Overview page: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...
Wikidata:Requests for comment/Exhibition models - Wikidata
Update: this discussion has been moved to the next stage, schema proposals, as of November 6, 2025! You can participate in the discussion here: Wikidata:Schema proposals/exhibition concept (parent)…
www.wikidata.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
#MuseTech folk, there's a proposal for 'exhibitions' on wikidata that could probably use your input, especially if you've ever worked on a 'what's on' site and know the complexities of exhibition data! Overview page: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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📣 New book series, “Court Cultures, 1000-1900”, 📚 launched by @historyboy30.bsky.social & @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social w/ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Series feat books exploring any & all aspects of global courts 👑 (all variations). CfP now open! Info & CfP: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-...
October 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
📣 New book series, “Court Cultures, 1000-1900”, 📚 launched by @historyboy30.bsky.social & @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social w/ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Series feat books exploring any & all aspects of global courts 👑 (all variations). CfP now open! Info & CfP: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-...
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skeeters, anyone who's ever met me irl will know I know nothing about fashion -- but if *you* know about fashion, what are your favourite/best digital resources etc for fashion *history*?
October 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
skeeters, anyone who's ever met me irl will know I know nothing about fashion -- but if *you* know about fashion, what are your favourite/best digital resources etc for fashion *history*?
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Some thoughts on Caravaggio's inventive representations of dress in a blog for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.
#earlymodern 🗃️🪡
reaktionbooks.co.uk/caravaggio-a...
#earlymodern 🗃️🪡
reaktionbooks.co.uk/caravaggio-a...
Caravaggio and the Language of Dress | Reaktion Books
In this blog, author Elizabeth Currie talks about the subject of her new book, Street Style, Caravaggio, and his works in relation to the language of dress.
reaktionbooks.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Some thoughts on Caravaggio's inventive representations of dress in a blog for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.
#earlymodern 🗃️🪡
reaktionbooks.co.uk/caravaggio-a...
#earlymodern 🗃️🪡
reaktionbooks.co.uk/caravaggio-a...
I can do it in three ...
"Found in store"
"Found in store"
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“The tapes wouldn’t start”
“The tapes wouldn’t start”
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.
“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.
October 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I can do it in three ...
"Found in store"
"Found in store"
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I've written about the life and just some of the achievements of my former classmate Andy West aka 魏安, Ando, and BabelStone @babelstone.co.uk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Andy West obituary
Other lives: Expert in encoding scripts for languages
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I've written about the life and just some of the achievements of my former classmate Andy West aka 魏安, Ando, and BabelStone @babelstone.co.uk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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🔥🔥🔥https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/why-did-endurance-sink/6CC2C2D56087035A94DEB50930B81980🔥🔥🔥
October 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🔥🔥🔥https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/why-did-endurance-sink/6CC2C2D56087035A94DEB50930B81980🔥🔥🔥
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"As Shuar, we don't have anything against the world knowing our world and for museums to have our souvenirs... What we ask is that museums involve us Shuar, so that it can be us who tell the stories."
The Future of the Shrunken Heads, Saturday 11 October, 2-4pm. Free, all welcome.
bit.ly/4gU52dz
The Future of the Shrunken Heads, Saturday 11 October, 2-4pm. Free, all welcome.
bit.ly/4gU52dz
October 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"As Shuar, we don't have anything against the world knowing our world and for museums to have our souvenirs... What we ask is that museums involve us Shuar, so that it can be us who tell the stories."
The Future of the Shrunken Heads, Saturday 11 October, 2-4pm. Free, all welcome.
bit.ly/4gU52dz
The Future of the Shrunken Heads, Saturday 11 October, 2-4pm. Free, all welcome.
bit.ly/4gU52dz
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Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.
October 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.
Exactly. "We are not sure why the older bison mount was never returned to DMNS, but it is likely due to the lack of formal documentation created for the arrangement and a loss of communication over time." #MuseumDocumentation
This is why museum documentation matters! Without, it's very easy to misplaced an entire buffalo for decades
🕵️♀️🦬 Mystery solved! Our missing 650-pound Museum bison has returned after 50 years. Learn about its journey back to the Museum in #Catalyst. https://dmns.mobi/47bCc43
October 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Exactly. "We are not sure why the older bison mount was never returned to DMNS, but it is likely due to the lack of formal documentation created for the arrangement and a loss of communication over time." #MuseumDocumentation
For those of you here on Bluesky, the Collections Trust conference hashtag is #CTConf2025
October 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
For those of you here on Bluesky, the Collections Trust conference hashtag is #CTConf2025
And then on Tuesday (7 October) I'll be introducing the UK Registrars Group's AGM to the Exhibition Object Data Exchange Model #MuseumDocumentation #RegistrarLife - if you haven't come across it yet, all you might want to know about #EODEM is at cidoc.mini.icom.museum/working-grou...
EODEM - ICOM DOCUMENTATION
An introduction to the Exhibition Object Data Exchange Model (EODEM), which makes it easier to share information about lent and borrowed objects between different museum collections management systems...
cidoc.mini.icom.museum
September 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
And then on Tuesday (7 October) I'll be introducing the UK Registrars Group's AGM to the Exhibition Object Data Exchange Model #MuseumDocumentation #RegistrarLife - if you haven't come across it yet, all you might want to know about #EODEM is at cidoc.mini.icom.museum/working-grou...
Excuse me while I blow my own 🎺. On Thursday morning, I'm discussing "What next for collections management?" with Aruna Bhuageerutty, @davidgelsthorpe.bsky.social & @horusofnekhen.bsky.social on for the annual Collections Trust conference #MuseumDocumentation collectionstrust.org.uk/events/confe...
Conference 2025 programme - Collections Trust
Read details of the conference programme here.
collectionstrust.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Excuse me while I blow my own 🎺. On Thursday morning, I'm discussing "What next for collections management?" with Aruna Bhuageerutty, @davidgelsthorpe.bsky.social & @horusofnekhen.bsky.social on for the annual Collections Trust conference #MuseumDocumentation collectionstrust.org.uk/events/confe...
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The University of Oxford has awarded pioneering Māori scholar, Mākereti Papakura with a degree nearly 100 years after she began her studies. Her groundbreaking research explored the customs of Te Arawa from a female perspective. She died three weeks before she was due to present her thesis.
Oxford honours Mākereti Papakura
waateanews.com
September 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The University of Oxford has awarded pioneering Māori scholar, Mākereti Papakura with a degree nearly 100 years after she began her studies. Her groundbreaking research explored the customs of Te Arawa from a female perspective. She died three weeks before she was due to present her thesis.
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Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved your life when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_So...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_So...
September 26, 2024 at 5:36 AM
Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved your life when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_So...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_So...
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An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the artist Sir Muirhead Bone was unveiled yesterday (20 September 2025) at Grayflete in Vernon Avenue off Harcourt Hill. He designed this house and lived in it from 1931 to 1953
[via @oxblueplaques.bsky.social ]
www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...
[via @oxblueplaques.bsky.social ]
www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...
September 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the artist Sir Muirhead Bone was unveiled yesterday (20 September 2025) at Grayflete in Vernon Avenue off Harcourt Hill. He designed this house and lived in it from 1931 to 1953
[via @oxblueplaques.bsky.social ]
www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...
[via @oxblueplaques.bsky.social ]
www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...
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"hallucinations represent not a temporary engineering challenge, but a mathematical reality" says study from Open AI. This seems like a pretty major problem.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"hallucinations represent not a temporary engineering challenge, but a mathematical reality" says study from Open AI. This seems like a pretty major problem.
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We're rethinking on-site digital for SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst.
The future is bring-your-own-device based, QR based and extremely data-driven.
We can't wait to get started and there's even a blogpost (!)
#musetech
The future is bring-your-own-device based, QR based and extremely data-driven.
We can't wait to get started and there's even a blogpost (!)
#musetech
Building a digital museum guide that guests may actually want
We believe that our upcoming digital service will create an inclusive, personal and altogether useful companion for the SMK guest. But on...
write.as
September 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
We're rethinking on-site digital for SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst.
The future is bring-your-own-device based, QR based and extremely data-driven.
We can't wait to get started and there's even a blogpost (!)
#musetech
The future is bring-your-own-device based, QR based and extremely data-driven.
We can't wait to get started and there's even a blogpost (!)
#musetech
And on the day of a major announcement by the National Gallery (still hanging out in The Other Place), here's Jim Bob to remind you why it's important.
"Filled it with sadness with joy and with beauty / That's just art there doing its duty"
youtu.be/KtNXEZHC0q4
"Filled it with sadness with joy and with beauty / That's just art there doing its duty"
youtu.be/KtNXEZHC0q4
Jim Bob - Art
YouTube video by HappyToast
youtu.be
September 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
And on the day of a major announcement by the National Gallery (still hanging out in The Other Place), here's Jim Bob to remind you why it's important.
"Filled it with sadness with joy and with beauty / That's just art there doing its duty"
youtu.be/KtNXEZHC0q4
"Filled it with sadness with joy and with beauty / That's just art there doing its duty"
youtu.be/KtNXEZHC0q4
@twirlynoodle.com , have you seen this? Further discussion coming up on Today programme at unspecified time
September 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
@twirlynoodle.com , have you seen this? Further discussion coming up on Today programme at unspecified time