'what can you learn about 270,000 records in a week?'
Way back in 2012 I had a week-long residency at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York. It's interesting reading the post I wrote for the Cooper Hewitt Lab blog again and thinking...
View ArticleDocumenting AI-created/enhanced records in catalogues/metadata/displays?
thinking about principles for documenting where AI was used to create or enhance metadata records in library, museum and archive catalogues/collections management systems
View ArticleAI and Machine Learning in Libraries: Promising, But Not Ready Yet
AI has incredible promise for work in libraries, museums and archives, but it's not a panacea.
View ArticleCultures of collective work and crowdsourcing?
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...
View ArticleNotes from the Museum Data Service launch
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. The MDS aggregates museum (and museum-like)...
View Article57 Varieties of Digital History? Towards the future of looking at the past
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....
View ArticleLinks for a talk on crowdsourcing at UCL
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). As...
View ArticleThree prompts for ‘AI in libraries’ from SCONUL in May 2022
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’. It’s hard to write anything about AI that doesn’t feel outdated before you...
View ArticleFantastic Futures 2023 – AI4LAM in Vancouver
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...
View ArticleFinding Digital Heritage / GLAM tech / Digital Humanities jobs / staff
Technology job listings for cultural heritage or the humanities aren't always easy to find. I've recently been helping recruit into various tech roles at the British Library while also answering...
View ArticleToddlers to teenagers: AI and libraries in 2023
A copy of my April 2023 position paper for the Collections as Data: State of the field and future directions summit held at the Internet Archive in Vancouver in April 2023. The full set of statements...
View ArticleIs 'clicks to curiosity triggered' a good metric for GLAM collections online?
The National Archives UK have a 'new way to explore the nation’s archives' and it's lovely: https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/ It features highlights from their collections...
View Article'Resonating with different frequencies'– notes for a talk on the Le Show archive
I met dr. rosa a. eberly, associate professor of rhetoric at Pennsylvania State University when she took my and Thomas Padilla's 'Collections as Data' course at the HILT summer school in 2018. When she...
View ArticleLive-blog from MCG's Museums+Tech 2022
The Museums Computer Group's annual conference has been an annual highlight for some years now, and in 2022 I donned my mask and went to their in-person event. And only a few months later I'm posting...
View ArticleNational approaches to crowdsourcing / citizen science?
This is a 'work in progress' post that I hope to add to as I gather information about national portals for crowdsourcing / citizen science / citizen history and other forms of voluntary digital /...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing as connection: a constant star over a sea of change / Établir...
As I'm speaking today at an event that's mostly in French, I'm sharing my slides outline so it can be viewed at leisure, or copy-and-pasted into a translation tool like Google Translate. Colloque de...
View ArticleExperimenting with Mastodon
I'd signed up to mastodon.cloud during an earlier twitter kerfuffle in 2017, then with ausglam.space in January last year, and glammr.us on a whim. [Edit to add, I've taken the plunge and migrated to...
View ArticleMy IFPH panel notes, 'shared authority as work in progress'
I'm in Berlin for the International Council for Public History 20202 #IFPH2022 conference, where I'm on a panel on 'Revisiting A Shared Authority in the Age of Digital Public History'. It's part of a...
View ArticleTalk notes for #AIUK on the British Library and crowdsourcing
I had a strict five minute slot for my talk in the panel on 'Reimagining the past with AI' at Turing's AI UK event today, so wrote out my notes and thought I might as well share them… The panel blurb...
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Introducing… The Collective Wisdom Handbook
I'm delighted to share my latest publication, a collaboration with 15 co-authors written in March and April 2021. It's the major output of my Collective Wisdom project, an AHRC-funded project I lead...
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