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Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Aug 9

It's incredible to see such quick decline of what was meant to be a sturdy system and institution.
Students should ask what will be the staff-student ratio in their courses.
#Lancaster

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Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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Towards a National Collection (TaNC) @nationalcollection.bsky.social · Jul 16

TaNC seeks a Senior Researcher for the National Research Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage (N-RICH) Prototype project. Join us to shape the future of digital cultural heritage! Secondment applications welcome: shorturl.at/rgutY

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Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨 Job Claxon 🚨

Towards a National Collection - N-RICH Prototype project is looking for a Senior Technology Avisor.

📅 Deadline 11 August

#ahrc #ukri #TaNC #DigitalInfrastructure #DigitalHumanities #Job #UKJobs #GLAM

Towards a National Collection (TaNC) @nationalcollection.bsky.social · Jul 9

TaNC is tendering for a Senior Technology Advisor to oversee technical specifications and architecture for N-RICH Prototype project (N-RICH: shorturl.at/B0ort). For more details, register first on the free Public Contracts Scotland portal and then follow this link: shorturl.at/kHfx1

Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨 Job Claxon 🚨

Towards a National Collection - N-RICH Prototype project is looking for a Senior Technical Product Advisor.

📅 Deadline 11 August

#ahrc #ukri #TaNC #DigitalInfrastructure #DigitalHumanities #Job #UKJobs #GLAM

Towards a National Collection (TaNC) @nationalcollection.bsky.social · Jul 9

TaNC is tendering for a Senior Technical Product Advisor to help define the product vision for a national research infrastructure for cultural heritage (N-RICH) Prototype. For details, register first on the free Public Contracts Scotland portal & then use this link: shorturl.at/GRgDj

Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Jul 3

Looking forward to collaborating with AHRC and the GLAM sector to bring this groundbreaking project to life!

#NRICH #DigitalInfrastructure #CulturalHeritage #TaNC

Towards a National Collection (TaNC) @nationalcollection.bsky.social · Jul 3

We are delighted to announce the N-RICH Prototype, a 2-year AHRC/UKRI investment in the UK's cultural heritage collections, aiming to enhance & enable research, innovation & growth. Learn more: shorturl.at/B0ort @christophersmith.bsky.social‬

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IIIF Consortium @iiif.bsky.social · May 16

It's the LAST DAY to register for the 2025 #IIIF Annual Conference & Showcase

Join us June 2 for a free Showcase of IIIF implementations and demos, and June 3-5 for presentations, lightning talks, workshops, and networking session.

Registration: www.conftool.org/iiif2025

IIIF Annual Conference 2025. June 205, 2025, Leeds, UK. Photos of Leeds in daylight and at dusk.

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Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · May 14

Today we are working from Dundee.

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Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Apr 29

We are plowing through our consultation phase in London for this week.
Going through secret passages and ebbing the sun.

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Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 26

Patricia Diaz is pushing for novel regulations for the remuneration of authors, producers and artists in digital platforms.
Mandatory remuneration should be on top of new regulations so they don't get trumped by them.

#TaNC #TowardsANationalCollection #Copyright

Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 26

Patricia Diaz showcases that many of the copyright & IP discussions have been happening for over 30 years, and these cascade to digital practices. Many of these risks can cause projects to fail before they even start, especially for AI.

#TowardsANationalColleciton #ContextosDelSur #DatySoc #AI

Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 26

Patricia Diaz presented a map of diverse licensing and regulations for datasets:
flexibilidades.datysoc.org/mapa

#ContextosDelSur #TowardsANationalCollection #GLAM #Copyright #Libraries

Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 26

Patricia Diaz, explains the complexity of legality and licensing of specific media types in digital collections across the diverse countries in Latin America. They break down individual copyright laws, and help evaluate the monetary investments of evaluation and digitisation behind repos.

Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 26

International GLAMLabs shares a checklist to identify how to generate #CollectionsAsData.

Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 26

Gustavo candela indcates that for Collections as Data, FAIR and CARE principles are at the core of its principles and it applies for a wide range of multimodal items in digital collecitons.
#TowardsANationalColleciton #GLAMLabs #CollectionsAsData

Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 26

Gustavo Candela, is now sharing with us the diverse ways of interacting with GLAMLabs either online or physically. It showed us the role of thes labs in deployment of the diverse workflows for the sector.
#TowardsANationalColleciton #ContextosDelSur #GLAMLabs

Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 26

Alberto Pacheco from Mexicana Repositorio showcased how their approaches have enabled the production of 11 repositories from diverse institutions, totalling almost 300,000 new records.
#ContextosDelSur #TaNC #TowardsANationalCollection #Mexico #DigitalCollections

Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 26

Alberto Pacheco from the Mexican Secretary of Culture, shares with us that all catalogues and data from government digital collections are by default Open Data.
We will share this webinar in english later in the TaNC Youtube Channel.
#Mexico #DigitalCollections

Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 24

Groups, people's, nations, civilisations... but many of those are not 'tribes'.
We moved away from that term since the 1970s.

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Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 21

Todavía están a tiempo de registrarse pasta el próximo miércoles.
Patrimonio cultural, GLAMLabs y derechos de autor.

#glam #collections #digitisation #digitalizacion #cultura #patrimonio #colecciones #creativeCommons

Towards a National Collection (TaNC) @nationalcollection.bsky.social · Mar 20

📣Free, online event in Spanish, 26 Mar 25, 15:00 – 16:30 GMT
Don't miss our Contextos del Sur webinar, examining digital cultural heritage infrastructure in Latin America, including collection management strategies, computational access methodologies, and more: tinyurl.com/49pd3c66

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Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 17

Los invitamos a un webinar para conversar sobre infraestructuras de patrimonio cultural y soberania digita.

*Contextos del Sur* un Webinar de Towards a National Collection.

Miercoles 26 de Marzo, 3:00PM UK, 9:00 AM Mx

Registrate aqui:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/towards-a-...

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Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 14

By deconstructing these infrastructures, we reveal the challenges, power dynamics, and opportunities that influence digital collections—helping us rethink how we build more inclusive, sustainable, and accessible heritage systems.

📖 Read: rdcu.be/edzsR
🎙️ Podcast summary: lnkd.in/efv5GzcY

Online cultural heritage as a social machine: a socio-technical approach to digital infrastructure and ecosystems

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Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 14

🚀 Online Cultural Heritage as a Social Machine

How do digital infrastructures shape cultural heritage? Our latest article explores how online cultural heritage functions as a dynamic ecosystem, shaped by technology, institutions, and human decisions.

#DigitalHeritage #SocialMachines

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Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 7

Did some experiments using #Arduino potentiometer through #Socket.io to manipulate #Sketchfab models on the Web.

#NodeJS

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Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 2

My non-Historic house.

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Ex Nihilo Consulting @exnihiloconsulting.bsky.social · Feb 28

On the final leg of our tour of the UK nations, and in less than 2 weeks we'll be concluding our promotional adventures to spread the word about #TowardsDigitalCollections in #Stirling Scotland. Please join us for a free event on Thursday 13th March. Find out more bit.ly/TDC_Stirling
#MuseumEd #GLAM

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