Richard Palmer
@rd-palmer.bsky.social
Tech Lead in Digital Media at the V&A, but not speaking for them. Waiting for the return of Usenet but until then testing out all the social media platforms to find the least worst.
Some tea chests? Or earl grey flavoured sponge cakes filled with cream? Who can tell. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O327891...
May 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Some tea chests? Or earl grey flavoured sponge cakes filled with cream? Who can tell. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O327891...
A silver dish? Or some somewhat disappointing glitter spray on a cake? collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O104077...
May 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A silver dish? Or some somewhat disappointing glitter spray on a cake? collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O104077...
Some rope from the Stein collection? Or are they cheese straws? (yes obviously, they are) collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93015/...
May 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Some rope from the Stein collection? Or are they cheese straws? (yes obviously, they are) collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93015/...
Carrying on with developing conversational search for cultural heritage, now actually making it a real (ok, still rather stilted) chat. Video below and some more implementation details at tiro.org.uk/posts/2025/0...
February 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Carrying on with developing conversational search for cultural heritage, now actually making it a real (ok, still rather stilted) chat. Video below and some more implementation details at tiro.org.uk/posts/2025/0...
John Lewis going for the Christmas tree decorations for curators market this year. Next year, web developers?
November 23, 2024 at 1:52 PM
John Lewis going for the Christmas tree decorations for curators market this year. Next year, web developers?
Totally unofficially and very work in progress (don't read too much into any of the 'spurious accuracy' numbers), some notebooks attempting to visualise what a UK National Collection (of heritage artefacts) looks like in numbers (and cataloguing progress): atiro.github.io/national-col...
September 16, 2024 at 7:34 AM
Totally unofficially and very work in progress (don't read too much into any of the 'spurious accuracy' numbers), some notebooks attempting to visualise what a UK National Collection (of heritage artefacts) looks like in numbers (and cataloguing progress): atiro.github.io/national-col...
For some reason the 'Sickett and Gosse School of Painting and Etching' sounds a bit made up. Learnt about from the great Shape of Things exhibition of still life at Pallant House Gallery in Chicester. Obligatory Meredith Frampton picture:
August 26, 2024 at 3:17 PM
For some reason the 'Sickett and Gosse School of Painting and Etching' sounds a bit made up. Learnt about from the great Shape of Things exhibition of still life at Pallant House Gallery in Chicester. Obligatory Meredith Frampton picture:
Liked this by John Piper at the Monet in York exhibition at York Art Gallery, it looks abstract but not (view from cave looking onto Lulworth)
August 17, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Liked this by John Piper at the Monet in York exhibition at York Art Gallery, it looks abstract but not (view from cave looking onto Lulworth)