By popular demand, UMaine's Digital Curation graduate program is once again offering two summer courses on metadata. This is your chance to learn more about how standards for describing files can improve access to libraries, archives, laboratories, and businesses—no prereqs. https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu
There are so many iconic features in Pixelfed that not many people are aware of.
- Parental Controls (manage child accounts)
- Portfolios (curate a mini website of specific posts)
- Collections (Create groups of photos)
- Stories (ephemeral photos/videos that expire after 24h)
So broadly speaking, if you were creating a collaborative #DigitalGarden for #Research ideas then what features would you want it to have? #Research #DigitalHumanities #Ideas #Design #Collaboration #GLAM #Collections
"Ancestral remains should no longer be displayed in UK museums, say MPs"
A parliamentary group has published a report called Laying Ancestors to Rest. It condemns the sale of human remains and their display.
The report is mostly concerned with colonial crimes and wants law changes that allow national museums to repatriate remains they hold.
You can read the article here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/12/ancestral-remains-should-no-longer-be-displayed-in-uk-museums-say-mps
How do we feel about this out there?
Cleaner, customizable, and coming soon!
The @pixelfed app keeps getting better and better.
And yes, Collections and Stories are coming to the app in a big way.
Think Pinterest for Collections and Snapchat for Stories.
These aren't new features, they've been on the web for years, we're just now giving them proper official app support 
Bon, salut les gensses,
Si tu aimes les #collections de #timbres #dinkytoys #cartesPostales etc, je serais demain (dimanche 02/03/2025) à #chatillon (92 #hautsDeSeine #paris #IdF ) pour disséminer la collection de feu GrandTonton qui a passé sa vie à amasser principalement des petites voitures, #jouets et livres.
Demain, nous aurons une partie de sa collection de voitures #SOLIDO #dinkyToys etc
Heute beginnt die Konferenz "Art History Loves Wiki" am Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in München! 
Es geht u.a. um Sammlungen im #Wikiversum .
Zum Auftakt findet heute um 18:15 Uhr eine Diskussion statt:
"#Kunstgeschichte im Wikiversum" mit @_omwo @inablu , Dominik Scholl & Jaqueline Seeliger. Livestream auf der Website #ALW2025 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art_History_Loves_Wiki/Programm
It has been a while since I have been around here but now is a good time, right?
Happy new year 2025 to all you #museum people, #registrars, #collections managers out there!
Finally the new edition of Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections is out. Some other #bookish shout outs in the New Year post on #RegistrarTrek
https://world.museumsprojekte.de/new-year-new-books/
You can get MPUC2 here:
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538190654/Managing-Previously-Unmanaged-Collections-A-Practical-Guide-for-Museums-Second-Edition
or here:
https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Previously-Unmanaged-Collections-Practical-ebook/dp/B0D7R1N7KC/
"#Female-powered #collections explore life in the #US and #antisemitism, provide succor and hope with prayers and poems, and retell the stories of heroic #Jewish #women"
Connaissez-vous SorbonNum, la nouvelle bibliothèque numérique patrimoniale de Sorbonne Université ?
https://patrimoine.sorbonne-universite.fr/
#ressources #patrimoine #collections
https://www.evshift.com/313064/how-much-of-a-renault-fan-are-you-explore-all-our-collections-at-theoriginalsstore/ how much of a Renault fan are you? explore all our collections at #TheOriginalsStore. #collections #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #EV #Explore #Fan #renault #RenaultUK #theoriginalsstore
Amazing crowdsourcing project by Richard Ardagh @richardardagh documenting the phenominal Type Archive in London. Stunning, handsome, pretty, luxe, erudite…pick your adjectives! Typographers, historians, siblings-in-ink check it out, and definitely consider supporting the project so it can make it’s way into the world.
I joined a group of train enthusiasts to help a railway worker in his quest to collect train tickets from every station in the UK.
We brought some tickets to add to the wall of Elliott Badger's All Aboard to Northampton project.
I also brought along my billet ballet dancer.
Some of what I do as an entomology curator is Chrysis management.
The Crespo Foundation held their 1st exhibition by artists from their residency program in their new gallery in Frankfurt.
Got my copy of their 1st exhibition catalogue last night.
See ALTS.
#Art #Photography #Catalogue #Ballydehob #WestCork #Glenkeen #Residency #Collections
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The Foundation for Advancement in Conservation is excited to present the "Handling and Maintenance of Historic House Collections" program, which includes a free webinar series taking place in January 2025 and a free in-person workshop taking place in February 2025. Preventive conservation is the backbone of historic housekeeping and essential to the preservation of our cultural heritage.
https://learning.culturalheritage.org/products/handling-and-maintenance-of-historic-house-collections-webinars #HistoricHouses #collections #museum #webinar #Workshop
Market Lane Toilet Mini Museum in Winchester, England
This public lavatory is home to a mini museum that explores toilets through time.#sanitation #hygiene #collections #museums #bathrooms #section-Atlas
Market Lane Toilet Mini Museum
Fatima Museum of Asiri Heritage in Abha, Saudi Arabia
This unique museum showcases the largest collection of Al-Qatt Al-Asiri art, a traditional wall painting style adopted by the people in the Asir Mountains of Saudi Arabia.#paintings #collections #history&culture #museums #section-Atlas
Fatima Museum of Asiri Heritage
New episode! 
When did you last lose something in your collection? We have a chat about what loss can entail in #museums and in #conservation.
Listen here: https://thecword.show/2024/10/03/s15e02-condition-lost/
