This is such a well written and fascinating article on difficult museum collections, how we work with them, and how audience ideas might differ from curatorial ones https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/30/a-medical-history-museum-contends-with-its-collection-of-human-remains

I find this a weird take, just because you can do long division quickly on a calculator doesn't mean doing it manually no longer demonstrates numeracy. Also don't agree with the implication that LLMs are somehow the language equivalents of calculators... https://theconversation.com/mit-researchers-say-using-chatgpt-can-rot-your-brain-the-truth-is-a-little-more-complicated-259450

@wragge @elliottbledsoe YES - this is deeply frustrating. GLAMs in particular should be aware of the fact that SM is a terrible archive, but also I guess representative of the capture of this space by marketing teams...

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Ep 45: Billionaires, Influencers, and Ed Tech, in which DAIR researcher Adrienne Williams joins me and @alex for a look into what the shiny “AI” ed tech actually looks like in the classrooms subjected to it.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/16174384-episode-45-billionaires-influencers-and-ed-tech-feat-adrienne-williams-november-18-2024

Thx to Christie Taylor for production!

@wragge Thanks so much for this overview. The last one is possibly the route I might have to take -will check how the Internet Archive is tracking too.

Does anyone know if any Australian collections of art (galleries etc) are using IIIF as a standard that can be easily accessed (i.e. for students)? ping @wragge

@hello This looks great - I have been impressed at the visibility some of my uploads have had, really useful for older publications that are hard to access otherwise.

New chapter out on the Arcadian Academy and their poetry games - in a book that shows the long history in Europe of nature as a setting for intellectual activity and creativity https://brill.com/edcollchap/book/9789004517547/BP000024.xml

@Infoventurer @m I am not there but having a peruse of your comments!

@wragge Maybe - I will have to investigate it. I had always found Omeka a bit clunky for larger sets of images (i.e. lots of time required to upload and enter data) but if you can export from Tropy that might be a good option.

@wragge A way to use scholar-generated image collections (i.e. photos taken by researchers) and integrate into web-based tools/systems (like IIIF viewers) like you would for open access institutional collections

@mpesce Baffling that supposedly middleground news media still highlights his babbling and frames it as 'being applauded'

Petition against the cuts to Humanities at Aus Catholic University https://chng.it/Rn8pCkQVDW

@KathyReid And the obvious problem that what is approvable always changes as previous approved developments show their flaws, and it is only partially based on a set of specific rules, developments are always site specific so what works in one street won't work in another.

Has anyone come across some good critical evaluations of DALL-E, how it works (or what we don't know about how it works) as well as how it is engaging (or not) with traditional modes of looking at/using images? #ai #machinevision #dalle

@KathyReid Lol we have Linux on a lab machine and my entire use of it is googling 'how to X on Linux' 😂

Hey librarians! We're running our ALIA Professional Development Family History course again, starting 26 September!

FAMILY HISTORY FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS

Help others find their historical roots by understanding the needs of family historians and how your collection could be their starting point. This award-winning course is delivered in collaboration with the University of Tasmania as a self-paced format in two-weekly modules over six weeks.

26 September - 3 November
Register your place: https://buff.ly/45jzCGw

#libraries #FamilyHistory #genealogy #GLAM

@mandon Also ... 'Can't be described'? What have I been doing all these years?!?

@wragge Yeah, I sometimes just use digital methods but that seems too broad

@wragge I quite like computational methods, but could be too techy in some cases I guess...