@rupertshepherd.info
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Map of the Lighthouses of the World. Each lighthouse sweeps out its actual arc and the reach of the beams is true to scale. Very cool. [kottke.org]
Map of the Lighthouses of the World
From mapped.earth, a map of every lighthouse on the planet, along with other charted lights like lighted buoys and such. The screenshots above are static but the lights on the real map move: each lighthouse sweeps out it
kottke.org
October 1, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Map of the Lighthouses of the World. Each lighthouse sweeps out its actual arc and the reach of the beams is true to scale. Very cool. [kottke.org]
Ever wanted to construct a graph of the National Gallery's collection information? Now you can: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/documentatio... #MuseumDocumentation #MuseumComputing #HumanitiesComputing
Graph data | Collection data | National Gallery, London
How to retrieve graph data from the Gallery's Elasticsearch API
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
September 24, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Ever wanted to construct a graph of the National Gallery's collection information? Now you can: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/documentatio... #MuseumDocumentation #MuseumComputing #HumanitiesComputing
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News | Export bar placed on £4.6m Renaissance sculpture
Move follows another export bar placed on £71m Rembrandt portrait
Move follows another export bar placed on £71m Rembrandt portrait
Export bar placed on £4.6m Renaissance sculpture - Museums Association
Move follows another export bar placed on £71m Rembrandt portrait
www.museumsassociation.org
September 22, 2026 at 3:31 PM
News | Export bar placed on £4.6m Renaissance sculpture
Move follows another export bar placed on £71m Rembrandt portrait
Move follows another export bar placed on £71m Rembrandt portrait
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Searching for a middle ground between open access and walled gardens for cultural heritage collections: CC Signals
Open Heritage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Creative Commons
Creative Commons shares how the rise of generative artificial intelligence has affected cultural heritage institutions and open sharing.
creativecommons.org
August 20, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Searching for a middle ground between open access and walled gardens for cultural heritage collections: CC Signals
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So, we found a live bat in our galleries.
🦇 a thread🦇
🦇 a thread🦇
August 19, 2026 at 11:01 AM
So, we found a live bat in our galleries.
🦇 a thread🦇
🦇 a thread🦇
This ⬇️
"Funders increasingly talk about resilience and sustainability. Achieving robust inventory documentation is one of the clearest examples of both." 1/2
#MuseumDocumentation @collectionstrust.bsky.social
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
"Funders increasingly talk about resilience and sustainability. Achieving robust inventory documentation is one of the clearest examples of both." 1/2
#MuseumDocumentation @collectionstrust.bsky.social
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
Getting to grips with our collections - Museums Association
Museums must commit to 100% inventory-level documentation ahead of their next NPO applications, says Laura Pye
www.museumsassociation.org
August 14, 2026 at 8:19 PM
This ⬇️
"Funders increasingly talk about resilience and sustainability. Achieving robust inventory documentation is one of the clearest examples of both." 1/2
#MuseumDocumentation @collectionstrust.bsky.social
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
"Funders increasingly talk about resilience and sustainability. Achieving robust inventory documentation is one of the clearest examples of both." 1/2
#MuseumDocumentation @collectionstrust.bsky.social
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
And it's the #MuseumDocumentation that lets you tell those stories. Without it, you just have a pile of ... things.
you can tell stories about objects, you can tell stories with objects, but the objects don't tell the stories, people do. people tell stories.
August 2, 2026 at 9:27 AM
And it's the #MuseumDocumentation that lets you tell those stories. Without it, you just have a pile of ... things.
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you know what? objects don't 'tell stories'. everyone goes around saying 'objects tell stories' but it's not true. objects are just objects.
August 2, 2026 at 9:08 AM
you know what? objects don't 'tell stories'. everyone goes around saying 'objects tell stories' but it's not true. objects are just objects.
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I really want to open this one to the GLAMsky peanut gallery because yes for me it was probably the live mortar shell but also possibly the woman’s purse full of human teeth
What was the last thing that turned up in an uncatalogued box that made you wish you could say "Nope", put the lid back on, and walk away like it never happened?
July 23, 2026 at 7:47 AM
I really want to open this one to the GLAMsky peanut gallery because yes for me it was probably the live mortar shell but also possibly the woman’s purse full of human teeth
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The Royal Geographical Society is hosting an all-day fundraiser to support the digitisation and conservation of its Discovery collection – check it out if you can get to London on 6 August! www.rgs.org/about-us/sup...
Support our Discovery 125 Anniversary fundraiser | Donate
Enable the conservation and digitisation of photographs, maps, and archives, safeguarding them for the future and making them accessible worldwide.
www.rgs.org
July 6, 2026 at 8:50 PM
The Royal Geographical Society is hosting an all-day fundraiser to support the digitisation and conservation of its Discovery collection – check it out if you can get to London on 6 August! www.rgs.org/about-us/sup...
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“Enshittification” has made it into the Oxford English Dictionary. Coined by @doctorow.pluralistic.net, it is defined as “the process by which an online platform degrades over time, typically resulting from business decisions prioritizing profit”. It is one of 900 new entries this quarter.
July 2, 2026 at 9:03 AM
“Enshittification” has made it into the Oxford English Dictionary. Coined by @doctorow.pluralistic.net, it is defined as “the process by which an online platform degrades over time, typically resulting from business decisions prioritizing profit”. It is one of 900 new entries this quarter.
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Come LLMs to roost in Slough
and boil up all the humans now
with endless slop us all endow.
Hyperscale it, Death!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
and boil up all the humans now
with endless slop us all endow.
Hyperscale it, Death!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Slough is like an experiment’: Europe’s largest datacentre hub leaves town sweltering
Emerging research suggests datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9C
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Come LLMs to roost in Slough
and boil up all the humans now
with endless slop us all endow.
Hyperscale it, Death!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
and boil up all the humans now
with endless slop us all endow.
Hyperscale it, Death!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How can cultural heritage lead the way with Public AI?
1. Provide high-quality data and the knowledge needed to keep it traceable, interpretable and reliable.
2. Manage data access and reuse in fair and reciprocal ways.
www.dataspace-culturalheritage.eu/news/making-...
1/2
1. Provide high-quality data and the knowledge needed to keep it traceable, interpretable and reliable.
2. Manage data access and reuse in fair and reciprocal ways.
www.dataspace-culturalheritage.eu/news/making-...
1/2
Making Public AI reality: How cultural heritage can lead the way
After months of collaborative development and iteration with the data space community and the Europeana Initiative, we are excited to share the newly published paper, ‘The case for Public AI: making i...
www.dataspace-culturalheritage.eu
June 23, 2026 at 8:38 AM
How can cultural heritage lead the way with Public AI?
1. Provide high-quality data and the knowledge needed to keep it traceable, interpretable and reliable.
2. Manage data access and reuse in fair and reciprocal ways.
www.dataspace-culturalheritage.eu/news/making-...
1/2
1. Provide high-quality data and the knowledge needed to keep it traceable, interpretable and reliable.
2. Manage data access and reuse in fair and reciprocal ways.
www.dataspace-culturalheritage.eu/news/making-...
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📢 We are delighted to announce a new exhibition for 2027 📢
Renaissance Worlds: Art and the Senses will open in June 2027.
Uncover a time shaped by global exchange and alive with colour, texture, music, spices, entertainment and fragrance.
Renaissance Worlds: Art and the Senses will open in June 2027.
Uncover a time shaped by global exchange and alive with colour, texture, music, spices, entertainment and fragrance.
June 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM
📢 We are delighted to announce a new exhibition for 2027 📢
Renaissance Worlds: Art and the Senses will open in June 2027.
Uncover a time shaped by global exchange and alive with colour, texture, music, spices, entertainment and fragrance.
Renaissance Worlds: Art and the Senses will open in June 2027.
Uncover a time shaped by global exchange and alive with colour, texture, music, spices, entertainment and fragrance.
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How it started vs how it's going: Creating a crosswalk between MARC 21 and #LinkedArt JSON-LD / CIDOC CRM, with an intermediate semi-automated linking (and human vetting) of entity terms to LCSH, LC name authority files, Geonames, Getty AAT URIs.
June 18, 2026 at 4:54 PM
How it started vs how it's going: Creating a crosswalk between MARC 21 and #LinkedArt JSON-LD / CIDOC CRM, with an intermediate semi-automated linking (and human vetting) of entity terms to LCSH, LC name authority files, Geonames, Getty AAT URIs.
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Thanks for taking part in this week's #OnlineArtExchange 🖼️
Next week's theme is ‘Machines’ for 'Tick Tock Marvels, The Playful World of Automata' at Tullie Carlisle
'The Discovery' by H. W. R. Allan 📷 NHS Lothian Charity – Tonic Collection
Next week's theme is ‘Machines’ for 'Tick Tock Marvels, The Playful World of Automata' at Tullie Carlisle
'The Discovery' by H. W. R. Allan 📷 NHS Lothian Charity – Tonic Collection
June 18, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Thanks for taking part in this week's #OnlineArtExchange 🖼️
Next week's theme is ‘Machines’ for 'Tick Tock Marvels, The Playful World of Automata' at Tullie Carlisle
'The Discovery' by H. W. R. Allan 📷 NHS Lothian Charity – Tonic Collection
Next week's theme is ‘Machines’ for 'Tick Tock Marvels, The Playful World of Automata' at Tullie Carlisle
'The Discovery' by H. W. R. Allan 📷 NHS Lothian Charity – Tonic Collection
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What's this in my inbox? Could it be the first newsletter from the Museum Data Service? Hoorah! If you're not yet subscribed, you can check it out online: campaign.emailblaster.cloud/MTAxNTM/114....
Too long to read? The short version: the MDS is thriving - join us! museumdata.uk
Too long to read? The short version: the MDS is thriving - join us! museumdata.uk
Welcome to the first newsletter from the Museum Data Service!
view in browser
campaign.emailblaster.cloud
June 15, 2026 at 4:42 PM
What's this in my inbox? Could it be the first newsletter from the Museum Data Service? Hoorah! If you're not yet subscribed, you can check it out online: campaign.emailblaster.cloud/MTAxNTM/114....
Too long to read? The short version: the MDS is thriving - join us! museumdata.uk
Too long to read? The short version: the MDS is thriving - join us! museumdata.uk
What @numiko.bsky.social said ⬇️ - I teally enjoyed taking part: it's always fun to talk about how to find and engage with the object you don't know you're looking for (and yes, "fun" was one aspect that we discussed)
#MuseumDocumentation
#MuseumDocumentation
Fifteen digital collections specialists. One innovation space. A demo of 'Collection Dreaming' 🏛️💭
Yesterday we ran our roundtable on innovation in collection interfaces. Immersion, engagement, sustainability – we went there.
Turns out you can't beat putting brilliant people in a room together.
Yesterday we ran our roundtable on innovation in collection interfaces. Immersion, engagement, sustainability – we went there.
Turns out you can't beat putting brilliant people in a room together.
June 12, 2026 at 7:15 PM
What @numiko.bsky.social said ⬇️ - I teally enjoyed taking part: it's always fun to talk about how to find and engage with the object you don't know you're looking for (and yes, "fun" was one aspect that we discussed)
#MuseumDocumentation
#MuseumDocumentation
An interesting summary of the (comparatively minor) practical difficulties encountered when working with a few major open access #MuseumDocumentation data endpoints: www.navigating.art/articles-fro...
Almost frictionless: open access museum collections in practice in 2026 — Navigating.art
The past decade has changed what it means to have access to a museum collection. Major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Rijksmuseum, have r...
www.navigating.art
June 2, 2026 at 8:20 PM
An interesting summary of the (comparatively minor) practical difficulties encountered when working with a few major open access #MuseumDocumentation data endpoints: www.navigating.art/articles-fro...
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broke: mm/dd
woke: dd/mm
bespoke: yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss
woke: dd/mm
bespoke: yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss
June 2, 2026 at 6:32 AM
broke: mm/dd
woke: dd/mm
bespoke: yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss
woke: dd/mm
bespoke: yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss
Blackwood also devised a classification system for anthropological artefacts that lies at the root of #MuseumDocumentation systems in several museums
On Friday 29 May the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme unveiled a new plaque commemorating Beatrice Blackwood, a pioneering anthropologist & curator at Pitt Rivers Museum, who worked in the Museum from the late 1930s until a few days before her death in 1975.
www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/blac...
www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/blac...
June 1, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Blackwood also devised a classification system for anthropological artefacts that lies at the root of #MuseumDocumentation systems in several museums