Mike Jones
@mikejonesphd.bsky.social
Archivist, public historian, freelance consultant, museum researcher, reader, film fan, occasional musician/DJ, dad, queer, goth, Naarm resident, and maker of lists. https://mikejonesonline.com
Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
On my way to the airport, bound for Sydney and the Australian Society of Archivists conference.
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
On my way to the airport, bound for Sydney and the Australian Society of Archivists conference.
One day I would like to see an honest report on someone dying.
"They were a bit of a jerk. They probably didn't deserve to die, but they did tend to rub people up the wrong way."
"They were a bit of a jerk. They probably didn't deserve to die, but they did tend to rub people up the wrong way."
October 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
One day I would like to see an honest report on someone dying.
"They were a bit of a jerk. They probably didn't deserve to die, but they did tend to rub people up the wrong way."
"They were a bit of a jerk. They probably didn't deserve to die, but they did tend to rub people up the wrong way."
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My new website is live! It's a work in progress, with lots I still want to do, but after many years my last site became completely non-functional so this is the first step: mikejonesonline.com #archives #history #historian #consultant #GLAM #academia #website
Home - Dr Mike Jones
professional historian and archivist Connect with the past I am an accredited professional historian and archivist with eighteen years experience working on public history, archives, collections, and ...
mikejonesonline.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
My new website is live! It's a work in progress, with lots I still want to do, but after many years my last site became completely non-functional so this is the first step: mikejonesonline.com #archives #history #historian #consultant #GLAM #academia #website
This from the Conversation today. I have a different view to the author on what constitutes 'compelling'.
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This from the Conversation today. I have a different view to the author on what constitutes 'compelling'.
I have all my old CDs ripped and sometimes put the lot on shuffle to see what comes up. Tonight: Skinny Puppy.
October 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I have all my old CDs ripped and sometimes put the lot on shuffle to see what comes up. Tonight: Skinny Puppy.
My new website is live! It's a work in progress, with lots I still want to do, but after many years my last site became completely non-functional so this is the first step: mikejonesonline.com #archives #history #historian #consultant #GLAM #academia #website
Home - Dr Mike Jones
professional historian and archivist Connect with the past I am an accredited professional historian and archivist with eighteen years experience working on public history, archives, collections, and ...
mikejonesonline.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
My new website is live! It's a work in progress, with lots I still want to do, but after many years my last site became completely non-functional so this is the first step: mikejonesonline.com #archives #history #historian #consultant #GLAM #academia #website
A description from 1901 of the Federation ceremony in Sydney, noting that the pavilion had seating for "some of the most prominent people in the public life of Australia, with their wives and friends." 🙄
October 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A description from 1901 of the Federation ceremony in Sydney, noting that the pavilion had seating for "some of the most prominent people in the public life of Australia, with their wives and friends." 🙄
If Scrivener had Zotero integration I would absolutely use it as my primary tool for writing. Without it, everything just gets too fiddly and I end up back in Word.
October 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If Scrivener had Zotero integration I would absolutely use it as my primary tool for writing. Without it, everything just gets too fiddly and I end up back in Word.
The Trump ballroom. Complete with extra high windows to ensure a good view when the people start building a guillotine outside.
Oh look, there are renderings. The Versailles jokes make themselves. Also, this architecture firm should be laughed out of existence.
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The Trump ballroom. Complete with extra high windows to ensure a good view when the people start building a guillotine outside.
AMaGA's ASSEMBLY initiative invites you to complete a short survey exploring collaborative research in the Australian museum and gallery sector. It takes around 5–10 minutes and will help us build a clearer picture of what's happening across the sector: anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
AMaGA's ASSEMBLY initiative invites you to complete a short survey exploring collaborative research in the Australian museum and gallery sector. It takes around 5–10 minutes and will help us build a clearer picture of what's happening across the sector: anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
This looks like a job for @drrwel.bsky.social
Oh look, there are renderings. The Versailles jokes make themselves. Also, this architecture firm should be laughed out of existence.
October 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This looks like a job for @drrwel.bsky.social
Hugging Face’s new overview of OCR models and when to fine tune etc huggingface.co/blog/ocr-ope...
Supercharge your OCR Pipelines with Open Models
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
October 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
At the 'looking up historical weather data so I know what the day was like' stage of writing.
October 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
At the 'looking up historical weather data so I know what the day was like' stage of writing.
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This is an absolutely amazing piece of work - the ABC spent five years (!) working on this interactive feature that brings together First Nations oral histories spanning 65,000 years
www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...
www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...
Australia is seen as a young country — but do you really know its ancient story?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' story goes way, way back… take an awe-inspiring journey into Deep Time.
www.abc.net.au
October 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is an absolutely amazing piece of work - the ABC spent five years (!) working on this interactive feature that brings together First Nations oral histories spanning 65,000 years
www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...
www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...
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lmao at the idea of having any gaps in my bookshelves
FOOLS I HAVE NO SPACE FOR YOUR WHIMSY
FOOLS I HAVE NO SPACE FOR YOUR WHIMSY
October 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
lmao at the idea of having any gaps in my bookshelves
FOOLS I HAVE NO SPACE FOR YOUR WHIMSY
FOOLS I HAVE NO SPACE FOR YOUR WHIMSY
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OMG, a JOB! UNSW Canberra is looking for Level B and Level C positions in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences! Check out the job ad here: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
October 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
OMG, a JOB! UNSW Canberra is looking for Level B and Level C positions in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences! Check out the job ad here: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
History brains trust: does anyone know if flight logs exist for Mascot Airport in the 1930s, and if so where they are? I know that a plane landed there at 7:52pm on Tuesday, 7 November 1933 and I want to see if I can confirm the name of the pilot.
October 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
History brains trust: does anyone know if flight logs exist for Mascot Airport in the 1930s, and if so where they are? I know that a plane landed there at 7:52pm on Tuesday, 7 November 1933 and I want to see if I can confirm the name of the pilot.
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If you want to know more about our use of handwritten text recognition software (Transkribus) on the wills project, tune in on Zoom next week 👇
All welcome (not just postdocs!).
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities #HTR #CitizenScience
All welcome (not just postdocs!).
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities #HTR #CitizenScience
Project Research Fellows Harry Smith and Emily Vine are looking forward to speaking as part of the Warwick History 'Post-Doc' Club series, next Wed 22 October @ 17.00.
They'll be discussing 'Digitization & Citizen Science'📜💻
Follow this link for Zoom details:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
They'll be discussing 'Digitization & Citizen Science'📜💻
Follow this link for Zoom details:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
October 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
If you want to know more about our use of handwritten text recognition software (Transkribus) on the wills project, tune in on Zoom next week 👇
All welcome (not just postdocs!).
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities #HTR #CitizenScience
All welcome (not just postdocs!).
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities #HTR #CitizenScience
Reading a news report from 1932 on the secretary of the British Museum lamenting the loss of a "great body of social history of the most curious kind." His suggestion? Concealing microphones and talkie cameras in the bars of country pubs and other places to capture the life of the people.
a woman is sitting at a desk with her eyes closed and the words `` that 's creepy '' written on the screen .
Alt: A gif of a woman sitting at a desk turning to a person standing beside her and saying "That's creepy."
media.tenor.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Reading a news report from 1932 on the secretary of the British Museum lamenting the loss of a "great body of social history of the most curious kind." His suggestion? Concealing microphones and talkie cameras in the bars of country pubs and other places to capture the life of the people.
Reposted by Mike Jones
A must listen episode about linking Pacific Islander culture and stories and GenAI:
AI ethicist Dr Karaitiana Taiuru poses a powerful question: "What do we do when our stories aren't our stories anymore?"
Please share.
#AI #colonisation #intellectualproperty #theft #digitalhumanities
AI ethicist Dr Karaitiana Taiuru poses a powerful question: "What do we do when our stories aren't our stories anymore?"
Please share.
#AI #colonisation #intellectualproperty #theft #digitalhumanities
Is artificial intelligence the new colonialism? Pacific communities confront a digital future - ABC Pacific
Artificial intelligence is everywhere, shaping our lives faster than we can keep up.
It's generating stories, images and videos that blur the boundaries between truth and fiction. But for Pacific com...
www.abc.net.au
October 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
A must listen episode about linking Pacific Islander culture and stories and GenAI:
AI ethicist Dr Karaitiana Taiuru poses a powerful question: "What do we do when our stories aren't our stories anymore?"
Please share.
#AI #colonisation #intellectualproperty #theft #digitalhumanities
AI ethicist Dr Karaitiana Taiuru poses a powerful question: "What do we do when our stories aren't our stories anymore?"
Please share.
#AI #colonisation #intellectualproperty #theft #digitalhumanities
Looking at archival documents from the Photographic and Cinema Branch in the 1930s. This summing up a candidate for a job: "he is a young man of good appearance and address; while definitely an artistic type he is well balanced and capable, with some force of character."
October 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Looking at archival documents from the Photographic and Cinema Branch in the 1930s. This summing up a candidate for a job: "he is a young man of good appearance and address; while definitely an artistic type he is well balanced and capable, with some force of character."
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This just happened again and it really drives home the extent to which scholarly orgs could build great bridges with museums/historical sites by figuring out how to help them get access to scholarly materials. Those places might, in turn, help support those orgs with people and money.
Working at a museum without access to a university library means spending 6 years thinking about/reading Mark Twain & his reception and then every time I think I had an original thought it turns out @mattseybold.bsky.social tweeted it out in the form of a peer-reviewed article a decade ago.
October 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This just happened again and it really drives home the extent to which scholarly orgs could build great bridges with museums/historical sites by figuring out how to help them get access to scholarly materials. Those places might, in turn, help support those orgs with people and money.