Oprah Dee Oprah Dahl life goes on, brah la-la how the life goes on. Happy #GlobalBeatlesDay 🎸

“Lonnie G. Bunch, the secretary, has the support of the Board of Regents in his authority and management of the Smithsonian.” The message was clear: Trump does not control the nation’s museums.

In an act of resistance against Trump, the Smithsonian pushed back after the president claimed he had fired Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery. “All personnel decisions are made by and subject to the direction of the secretary, with oversight by the board,” the institution stated.

And, As our company grows, openness becomes more important. (Not less) #opensource #digipres #archives

We can still be successful without restricting the value of our work to only those who pay us. #opensource #digipres #archives

Openness gives sovereign control to anyone who wants to manage collections or focus on the right to anonymity inherent in a truly open model. #opensource #digipres #archives

We favour collaboration over individual effort. Open source software allows people to collaborate in a way that is more difficult with proprietary code. This is vital for the cultural memory sector to govern its own domain. #opensource #digipres #archives

Working in the open allows us to accept and include community contributions. We strive to participate in a community ecosystem. #opensource #digipres #archives

Towards a Manifesto for May Day - OSS is open to scrutiny. Anyone can evaluate, audit, use, improve, adapt, and share our code. This improves trust, reliability and transparency, between software developers and organisations, and between organisations and their users. #opensource #digipres #archives

Happy May Day! May is also Maintainer Month, highlighting the work of those who care for open source projects. Being open isn’t the only way to contribute to a practice of care but we think it is the best way. Today we are going to post some of our reasons why. #open #opensource #digipres #archives

If you would like to read the full blog post about our views on openness and open source software, it has been posted on our website. Happy May 1st! www.artefactual.com/post/open-by... #opensource #digipres #archives #labourday #mayday

Based on your feedback we have brought back more formal roadmaps for both AtoM and Archivematica. Please take a look and contact our Community team if you have questions www.artefactual.com/post/roadmap...

For immediate release: www.artefactual.com/post/april-1...

We started in the darkness of January and end in the wonderful lightness of March! It's Monday night and it's 5pm so it's time for the final episode of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?' The clocks have changed, spring has arrived and it is THIS LIGHT! 💡❤️🌞

We've heard a rumour lately - that AtoM is no longer going to be updated or maintained. Not sure where this started but we want to set the record straight: for the foreseeable future Artefactual will continue to maintain, update, and support Access to Memory. www.artefactual.com/post/atom-st...

We've been quiet today just so we can sneak up on you now at 5pm with the PENULTIMATE episode of the 2025 series of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week? It's not the nicest afternoon here and it's a bit cold and it's a bit windy but it is still THIS LIGHT! 💡❤️🌞

Today is the first day of spring and it's good to have the sun on our balls again. 🌞

It me!

It's like there's magic in the air around us. A few weeks ago we were in darkness and now it's Monday AND it's 5pm AND it's time for WEEK ELEVEN of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?' *clears throat* AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY THIS LIGHT! 💡❤️😀🌞

“There was a real deep philosophy behind the work that [18F was] doing, a real deep sense of intentionality, and a real deep commitment to delivering the best possible outcome for the American taxpayer.” (Side note: Our commitment still stands. 🇺🇸)

It's March and it's Monday and it's 5pm so whether you believe us or not it is literally time for WEEK TEN of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?' AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY THIS LIGHT 💡❤️

A federal judge signaled that he will require Elon Musk’s team to begin preserving any documents that could potentially be subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. This move is part of an effort to overturn a

Roses are red, a glance is a look. We've made you a heart, from a reference book. ❤️ Happy #ValentinesDay to all our followers but especially YOU because you're our favourite. 💕 #LoveLibraries

We are putting together our calendar of meetings and conferences to attend for 2025. First up: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory at the University of London. Who else is going? #archives #digipres www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ins...

Anyway the most important thing is that it's Monday night and it's February AND it's 5pm so it must be time for EPISODE FIVE of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?' No we can't believe it either. It's not even dark yet. IT IS LITERALLY THIS LIGHT. 💡

It's Monday night and it's 5pm so it is absolutely the time we've all been waiting for (since this time last week) when we find out 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?' It's already EPISODE FOUR and it is already, unbelievably, undeniably THIS LIGHT. 💡

we're serious btw

We don't have an elf on the shelf but we do have a

My first post was back in 2009 - can you find it?

Who remembers the Bag Bags? We checked our backlog and found 15 of them. Come by our #iPres2024 table to pick one up! www.artefactual.com/post/let-s-g...

Open source and open access being talked about in today’s #iPres2024 plenary about the Atlas of Lost Finds. “We don’t really understand why it is so hard” to make things open. “Open protects heritage.” Preeeeeeach!

Birmingham! #ara2024. Not sure if Ozzy here is very demure or very mindful but maybe that’s not what we need for talking climate change and archives!

Our Chief Archivist has landed! Consider following Kelly if you are going to be at the @araukie.bsky.social conference next week. You can sign up for a 1:1 demo or conversation with her too, about any of Artefactual's services in the UK. www.artefactual.com/ara-landing-...

Hello Scotland! It’s good to be back

Yesterday I gave a presentation at the DLM Forum in Salamanca about open source software, archival principles, and the evolution of software at Artefactual - slides at bit.ly/471pMtM #DLM_Forum

Here we are at #DLM_Forum - come by and say hi, there are stickers and we have a few decks of our acronym card game too!

Looking forward to the #DLM_Forum in Salamanca next week!