Blow me down with a shooting star! 💫 ✨ 🌟 🤩 A rare manuscript copy of 天元玉曆祥異賦 (The Tianyuan Jade Calendar in Verse Prose on the Auspicious and Unusual Signs). 10 vols with oodles of stunning hand coloured illustrations on this work of Chinese #astrology to explore! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FH-0...

@andersnoren.bsky.social came across your beautiful site today! Is it a custom theme?

It is unbelievable - the things we can learn if we look out of our own boxes. Currently learning about front end publishing from wedding-websites 🥲🫶🏽 #digitalpublishing #digitalculture

Emily Dickinson’s Handwritten Coconut Cake Recipe Hints at How Baking Figured Into Her Creative Process

So happy to see this essay come alive as part of our #OpenKnowledge editorial series supported by & in collab with @wikimediauk.bsky.social ! Thank you @camdiglib.bsky.social for sharing your collections!

This year the annual conference of #kulturBDigital takes place Oct 8 in #Berlin - folks from theatre / museums / libraries are welcome to join www.kultur-b-digital.de/kulturbdigit... - am also excited to host a workshop here that will probably contribute to a “Culture #Storytelling Stack”. 🙌🏽

In 2019, for some strange reason, I made an excel sheet of all the colleagues across #museums in EU, UK, South Asia while working on two popular #socialmedia “hashtag campaigns”. So glad to have rediscovered it today - nothing like the good old #spreadsheet.

The day has finally come to share something I’ve been working on for 2 years with the team at DicksonPoonSchool of Law @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social I’m slowly going to come out of my social media slumber - but meanwhile, here’s the link theheritagelab.in/womens-work-worth-exhibition-main

Am sort of excited for the #InternationalMuseumDay theme this time. Even though I was skeptical about another deliberation on “future of museums” … it is the second part that has me motivated — “in rapidly changing communities”.

After attending a very interesting lecture, I had the opportunity to have a little coffee-chat with the speaker..the conversation flowed into open knowledge territory (his upcoming book will be OA) & then he said “Wikipedia! Who writes those pages - we can’t trust it right?”. Owwch.

One of the things that has pained me in the past has been #newsletters - creating, growing + reading the ones I subscribe to. So this month of March, I immersed myself into learning from the best, being inspired & taking my “irritation” (about museum newsletters) to “optimism”. 🌻

Nothing like the comfort of working with old partners! The team at WikiUK and I have been reaching out to GLAMs for our fellowship project ! I heard from an old partner institution (protocol wise, have to wait to share) who said “yes” hours into the email outreach 🥹🥹🥰

Today. The UK 🇬🇧

That “why are you working when you can play with me” look.

We’re teaming up with @wikimediauk.bsky.social ( it’s now Insta-official too 🥲) to bring fresh perspectives, & uncover untold stories related to South Asian collections housed in UK-based #GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums). More here ⬇️ www.theheritagelab.in/open-knowled...

I sign my personal emails off with a signature that says “Always looking forward to working with good people and brave institutions” — it is difficult but possible to find these. 🥲 Super excited to announce a new collab with “good people” of a “brave” institution- an official statement tomorrow !

Repurposing tech can be interesting! Our #mememaker is popular with readers & so I wondered if we can use it for our critical thinking challenges! Lets see how it goes. For now, testing it with a #culturalxcollabs experiment inspired by our Insta-community! www.theheritagelab.in/world-war-ii...

The Internet Archive hosts the Ideas Worth Saving Evening Extravaganza! 🎬 #StarWars & #Tolkien panels & film clips. Come in costume & win a prize! 📅 Jan 31–Feb 1, 6 pm–9 pm 📍 300 Funston Ave., SF 🎟️ $20 at the door Details ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/event/ideas-worth-saving-evening-extravaganza/

#GLAM friends : Do you know any #museums who have a diverse digital audience acquisition & retention strategy(i.e beyond social media)? If your museum is doing that / thinking of it, am looking to talk to you! #museumsandtheweb #digitalculture #audienceengagement #museumoutreach #GLAM

Sounds good to me 👍

A very random image — 1. Because no workshop is ever complete without post-its. 2. Because such photos are always a great way to share the “stuff you can’t share yet”. Currently trying to answer to the big question of how cultural institutions can respond to the dynamic changes in digital work.

Finally — friends from X are here & Bluesky ain’t so lonely anymore 🎉😀

How to let museum guests find info with minimal fuss? 🤔 At SMK, we built a tiny cookie-free web app which shows the user the artwork label in his/her browser language (if it isn't Danish you get English). QR code-based, no cookies, almost no interface. Seems promising. #musetech

A cartoon about libraries for the Guardian.

Absolutely looking forward to this! ❤️ #DigAMus

This fascinating project from @nytimes.com is reminding lots of folks of "What's on the Menu" from NYPL Labs — unfortunately the data is no longer available from the project itself, but I've uploaded to @archive.org the most recent version of the data I could find: archive.org/details/nypl...

Curious: What are some websites that you like to visit everyday? News websites are an example, what else? (Not apps, but websites).

Wir müssen uns hier erstmal eingrooven und werden so langsam wach, denn die Zeit der Einreichung ist gar nicht mehr so fern. Also, bleibt gerne hier bei uns. Wir bereiten uns schon auf die nächste Runde vor. #DigAMusAward

A #Christmas lunch / dinner by one of my favourite artists, 👨🏻‍🎨 Mario Miranda (Goa, India). 🎄

Haven’t checked out of 2023 yet, but I am definitely looking forward to hosting a workshop with NEMO on how #museums can use simple #storytelling strategies to grow an audience and connect with their community in the #digital landscape👇 📆 1 February from 11:00-12:00 CET t.co/cNL5fsryrw

Since morning, I’ve been reviewing the submissions to this call for stories about museums — to read about museums from Ladakh, Manipur & lesser known collections in the words of their curators - has been such a wonderful experience.. 😊😊😇 can’t wait to share the stories!

One of the best exhibitions I visited in recent times is #BerlinGlobal — among the many reasons, I love when exhibitions address relevant, present day topics. Thought provoking and fun - definitely going back to see this !

Morning excitement today came from sharing the #NEOCollections toolbox at the Institute for MuseumResearch. Sharing it again here for your feedback to make v2 better! Can you imagine using the toolbox as part of your workflow? #Museums #digital neocollections.pubpub.org/contents

Diwali meets St. Martin’s : at the end, all cultures remind us about the spirit of generosity! #GermanyIndia

Need a quick, readable intro to the issues and challenges around #MultilingualDH? Check out Ch. 19, "Language Is Not a Default Setting: Countering DH’s English Problem" by me and @diyclassics.bsky.social, now available online!

Hello BlueSky 👋🏼 here I am, chasing rainbows 🌈 — trying to find the “perfect social media space” 🥲