As the main tourist transport hub for rail travel in Scotland it’s a disgrace and that’s after a refurbishment that went on for years, but the hero is Tom who was the literal linchpin of the whole transport network for a few hours

But it’s the only thing working I the station, Tom is a savant of the timetables, he’s rattling off routes to shouted requests, people are forming groups, passing information around, building systems off his font of knowledge people fly from the crowd to board trains in all corners of the station

Tom it turns out is easy to find, he’s the guy standing in the middle of the platform with about 200 people in a circle around him shouting questions at him. It looks incredibly chaotic and about as un British as a UK train station could get, there’s no queue, no system, just a mob

I’m not sure why but I have to go and ask a guy called Tom, he’s wearing a hat and standing next to the bagel booth (apparently a well know landmark). I do not know where the bagel booth is but on my way I do discover the ‘new’ ticket booth was basically 20m from the old one round a corner…

Anyway I finally figure out they can maybe help me with options for my cancelled train and likely meltdown of the rail network due to a party balloon on the overhead lines. The LNER information booth can’t help, I’m not sure why but they added a new side quest to the adventure

Finally tucked round the corner is an room with a sign saying LNER office, is this just for LNER trains or does it cover the other constantly changing cavalcade of operators, and if I’m a tourist does LNER mean anything to me, would adding information to the sign be too much?

Finally arriving on platform 4 there is no sign of a ticket office, that’s because I didn’t read the sign properly, the office is ‘near’ platform 4 In this case ‘near’ means in the same building have a wander…

Following the signage for platform 4 for some reason involves going right out to the edge of the station over a concourse only to descend back to roughly where you started, carefully ignoring all the signage for the ticket office because it lies, it lies

The co-curators spoke eloquently on their navigation of the roles, responsibilities and personal cost of work that evidenced a reflective practice which seemed to anchor their approach to the process. Inspiring stuff and I hope the NT can learn and integrate that knowledge into the organisation

Effectively we’re subsidising them to re-post/contextualise our information behind a paywall.

Personally I want to see how the LLM path resolves and don’t want to hinder progress, but I feel a CC style model of if you use our work 4 free you need to publicly share the benefits 4 free feels fair?

In principle the org. wants to disseminate the information and we can’t ignore new platforms. But under current copyright laws our content can’t be used by a third party for their profit, and regardless of the contextual remix this is effectively what the LLM’s are doing.

It feels like legal enforcement is lagging behind the reality at the moment, @creativecommons.bsky.social has an overview of current enforcement creativecommons.org/2023/11/07/c... from a US standpoint. In a world where corps weren’t engaged in a knowledge land grab this would be less problematic