Crowdsourcing 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 It’s hard to write anything about AI that doesn’t feel outdated before you...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 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...
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