Open Objects

Way back in 2012 I had a week-long residency at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York.

thinking about principles for documenting where AI was used to create or enhance metadata records in library, museum and archive catalogues/collections management systems

AI has incredible promise for work in libraries, museums and archives, but it's not a panacea.

Nearly ten years ago I was in Estonia for the 'Community Involvement in Theme Museums' conference where I had the chance to meet and hear from people working in Estonian, Finnish and Lithuanian memory institutions.

I've shared these at work and thought it might be helpful to post my notes from the launch of the Museum Data Service at Bloomberg last week in public too.

Back in November 2015, Tara Andrews invited me to give a guest lecture on 'digital history' for the Introduction to Digital Humanities course at the University of Bern, where she was then a professor.

I'm giving a lecture on 'crowdsourcing at the British Library' for students on UCL's MSc Sustainable Heritage taking the course 'Crowd-Sourced and Citizen Data for Cultural Heritage' (BENV0114).

I’ve been meaning to write this post since May 2022, when I was invited to present at a SCONUL event on ‘AI for libraries’.

Reflections and selected highlights from the Fantastic Futures 2023 conference, held at the Internet Archive Canada's building in Vancouver and Simon Fraser University; full programme; videos will be coming soon.

Technology job listings for cultural heritage or the humanities aren't always easy to find.