#NationalGallery, London ... but only the #cats

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, look on my works trapped due to political despair! I beseech you to send ye mighty bank details to share ten percent of this bounty. 💰

I wanted to try making something from a material I hadn't worked with before, so I built a very tiny castle out of balsa wood. Lego figure for scale (or possibly a giant in that universe). 🏰 #miniature

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Example: Bestselling NZ book banned in the US. [Paraphrased] Don't read the book if you don't like it. Not ban it. #LIANZA2025

Generative AI - Ethical use of mātauranga. Mātauranga Māori is taonga. Highlights (mine): 1. Check with Māori rep from ethics committee 2. Don't use prompt to generate mātauranga Māori 3. Never use or generate tapu data 4. AI use must be acknowledged #GenAI #DataIsTaonga #LIANZA2025

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Need to create an AI policy for your organisation for the first time? The Arts Council England has put together an excellent resource kit to help organisations build an AI policy that matches their purpose and culture. www.artscouncil.org.uk/lets-create/...

Particularly struck by "... a museum needs to do more than just show you old things, or try to transport you to a past era. It should jar you into the realization that you exist in time, and see your present (and ideally, your future) with fresh eyes." @almostarch.bsky.social

People want good AI, not climate-wrecking, prejudice-enforcing, job-destroying AI. But tech, govt isn't listening? ACE staffer quoted by Oonagh Murphy: 'The worst thing we can do about AI is ignore it; the second is embrace it too gleefully'

something I've learned by covering online archives and libraries is that many valuable, free, online resources are maintained by extremely small teams, maybe one volunteer. Asking them to deal with scrapers that behave like DDoS attacks is unrealistic www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

Are AI Bots knocking cultural heritage offline? Our business hosts cultural heritage collection sites for hundreds of organisations and we were one of the respondents submitting feedback and stats for this study: www.glamelab.org/products/are...

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As a recreational caver, I'm always grateful for the land access many landowners give us. We're privileged to see caves rarely visited, often with amazing mineral formations. The gypsum and aragonite crystals we saw this month in a cave in Waitomo, New Zealand were particularly good.

Using big LLMs for basic queries is 'like turning on stadium floodlights to look for your keys' - this is good on the AI environmental questions.

What’s happening now? Tracking the political actions affecting cultural institutions | May 14, 2025 Over the last several months, the attacks on cultural institutions have been relentless. I’ve been tracking political actions affecting museums and other linked institutions on a public document for…

Every time the PM says his Govt is going to make pay equity “more affordable” he is just saying they want to keep underpaying the people whose work has been undervalued due to gender discrimination. #nzpol

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

A thoughtful and insightful breakdown of how legal education should respond to AI 🤖

"We are now in an AI-age." Adrian Kingston encourages us to think about our role about making AI better. Can we help reduce the bias in big-AI, and improve the quality? GLAM has a role not just in consuming AI but also informing AI. #NDF25

Adrian, Te Papa, Head of Digital Channels. Prototype using custom GPT. Also experimented with small safe collection to auto-generate descriptions. Prototype using Audience Impact Model. Internal AI 101 for staff. Draft AI policy - addresses opportunities and stick to org principles. #NDF25

The average lifespan of a web page is 100 days, and the average lifespan of a website is only 2.7 years. Online content is often at greater risk than older analogue content. #ndf25

Puke Ariki have begun creating 3D models of some collection objects using Sketchfab. These are then embedded in their online collection pages. #ndf25 collection.pukeariki.com/highlights/3...

THIS. Digitisation and #DigitalPreservation is a process, not just an event. #NDF25

Dave Patten on QR code use at the Science Museum. 500k QR code scans at the entrance (ticketing), but only 2k views of more detailed info pages. Also awareness of QR code fraud - directing visitors to wrong site, incl. fraudulent ticket sale sites. #ndf25

Science Museum built an interface in the 1990s for visitors to save content they created during their visitor. However, it pre-dated email logins, so they had to create a memorable instant login for each visitor using a combo of visit date, and randomly assigned colour and icon codes. #ndf25

Dave Patten talking about the development of The Network teleconferencing exhibit at Science Museum. Built on Apple's QuickTime teleconference software, but Apple canned it just before release, forcing the museum to run their exhibit for years on the beta development version. #ndf25

Cade Diehm describing web information outages, like the Internet Archive this year, as "the real, reaching in and giving these systems amnesia". #ndf25

Cade Diehm - there's no such thing as an inert digital object. Every layer in storing and accessing it requires maintenance by people to keep them running. Electrical systems, software, protocols, hardware, and more #ndf25

Kā Huru Manu - amazing project to create a rich, interactive atlas of Māori places in Te Waipounamu / South Island. #ndfnz kahurumanu.co.nz

For home collections, I'm advocating for children being promoted up to be one of the 10 agents of deterioration. #ndf25

Auckland Museum created a video series to help people at home to follow museum-grade care processes to look after their own precious 'KeepSakes' #ndf25 The videos are easy to follow and would be a good resource for small volunteer run collections as well. www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/car...

A good prototype raises many questions, not just answers - Ana Tiquia. #ndf25

Seeder Future project from Ana Tiquia made use of BitTorrent architecture to share and provide access to 1600 artworks from Art Gallery of WA's state collection. Opening up access to high res public domain images. #ndf25 alltomorrowsfutures.com/PROJECT-A-Se...

Kickstarting digitisation at a small organisation: Biggest challenge is getting people on board, following new processes, and accepting change. People with experience need to work side-by-side with those learning for an extended time. - Andrew Hales and Heidi Schlumpf, Digihub project.

Alexander Turnball Library - Survey in 2021 - 85% of people surveyed preferred to use online digital resources to coming in-person to access the original resources. #ndf25

Who's older - Gary Newman or Gary Oldman? #ndf25

Looking forward to speaking at New Zealand's National Digital Forum conference in Wellington next week. #ndf25

Generative AI: the ideal case - you're an expert & you can easily review the AI response, like a teacher reviewing & correcting students' essays. Unfortunately, the opposite scenario is typical. AI is a substitute teacher paraphrasing whatever is on hand. We don't know enough to spot what's false.

The Global Risk Advisory Council has voted reputation risk from misuse of AI as the #1 business risk for the next year. With great power comes great (or no) responsibility. #musetech #ai static1.squarespace.com/static/60b54...