Rob Lancefield
@roblancefield.bsky.social
Working with people + museum content | information | technology, now retired and still engaged with how people, collections, and digital technologies intersect. #MuseTech, #OpenContent, #Repatriation, #Ethnomusicology, more.
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The CDC’s Publications on Demand office is closing, but you can order free materials until Friday, August 15.
Informational, fact-based materials are available here:
wwwn.cdc.gov/pubs/
Informational, fact-based materials are available here:
wwwn.cdc.gov/pubs/
August 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The CDC’s Publications on Demand office is closing, but you can order free materials until Friday, August 15.
Informational, fact-based materials are available here:
wwwn.cdc.gov/pubs/
Informational, fact-based materials are available here:
wwwn.cdc.gov/pubs/
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Announcing the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, led by Getty and a coalition of foundations and arts organizations, to support the impacted arts community.
Impacted artists and art workers can visit cciarts.org to apply for an emergency grant starting January 20.
Impacted artists and art workers can visit cciarts.org to apply for an emergency grant starting January 20.
January 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Announcing the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, led by Getty and a coalition of foundations and arts organizations, to support the impacted arts community.
Impacted artists and art workers can visit cciarts.org to apply for an emergency grant starting January 20.
Impacted artists and art workers can visit cciarts.org to apply for an emergency grant starting January 20.
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A post on using models like SAM2 and LLaVA on 14,000 woodcut images from Plantin-Moretus Museum: thisismattmiller.com/post/woodblo...
Then making a toy that lets you mashup that output into new images: woodblockshop.glitch.me
Which are then posted at this account:
@woodblockshop.bsky.social
Then making a toy that lets you mashup that output into new images: woodblockshop.glitch.me
Which are then posted at this account:
@woodblockshop.bsky.social
WoodBlockShop
Using Segment Anything, LLaVA and other methods on a 14K image corpus
thisismattmiller.com
December 17, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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Trying to will 2015 #Museum Twitter into existence w/ some list curation. Who’d I miss?? bsky.app/profile/did:...
a group of children are holding hands in a museum .
Alt: a group of children are holding hands in a museum - scene from Ferris Bueller’s day off at art institute of chicago
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Trying to will 2015 #Museum Twitter into existence w/ some list curation. Who’d I miss?? bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Okay #musetech peeps, I created a starter pack for you all. Go ahead and hop in if I didn't get to you! go.bsky.app/V7MsiXr
November 26, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Okay #musetech peeps, I created a starter pack for you all. Go ahead and hop in if I didn't get to you! go.bsky.app/V7MsiXr
Hoping these “Ten Great Public Health Achievements — United States, 1900–1999” somehow survive the next four years of federal health leadership, even if this CDC web page may not.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...
Screenshot included here in case the page disappears. #PublicHealth
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...
Screenshot included here in case the page disappears. #PublicHealth
November 24, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Hoping these “Ten Great Public Health Achievements — United States, 1900–1999” somehow survive the next four years of federal health leadership, even if this CDC web page may not.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...
Screenshot included here in case the page disappears. #PublicHealth
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...
Screenshot included here in case the page disappears. #PublicHealth
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Here's my proper "Bluesky has the juice!" take:
Bluesky is the Ship of Theseus.
Piece by piece, they have acquired and refashioned all the essential parts of old-Twitter.
The pieces still missing are the ones that we were ultimately better off without.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Bluesky is the Ship of Theseus.
Piece by piece, they have acquired and refashioned all the essential parts of old-Twitter.
The pieces still missing are the ones that we were ultimately better off without.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Bluesky as the Ship of Theseus
Maybe, just this once, we *can* have nice things online.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Here's my proper "Bluesky has the juice!" take:
Bluesky is the Ship of Theseus.
Piece by piece, they have acquired and refashioned all the essential parts of old-Twitter.
The pieces still missing are the ones that we were ultimately better off without.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Bluesky is the Ship of Theseus.
Piece by piece, they have acquired and refashioned all the essential parts of old-Twitter.
The pieces still missing are the ones that we were ultimately better off without.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Read our collection of articles published as part of the #OLHJournal "Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery" special collection, guest-edited by Angela Dressen: olh.openlibhums.org/...
November 13, 2024 at 2:22 AM
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Wow I can't believe how old the GOP's presidential candidate is.
July 21, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Wow I can't believe how old the GOP's presidential candidate is.
“Today, Creative Commons is releasing new guidelines for open culture:
Nudging Users to Reference Institutions When Using Public Domain Materials.”
#OpenCulture #PublicDomain #MuseTech
creativecommons.org/2024/02/23/h...
Nudging Users to Reference Institutions When Using Public Domain Materials.”
#OpenCulture #PublicDomain #MuseTech
creativecommons.org/2024/02/23/h...
Where in the world is… this public domain material? Helping users refer to host institutions. - Creative Commons
CC’s new guidelines aim to encourage users to refer to host cultural heritage institutions when using public domain materials. Rooted in the Behavioural Insights Team’s EAST Model, they offer institut...
creativecommons.org
February 23, 2024 at 2:21 PM
“Today, Creative Commons is releasing new guidelines for open culture:
Nudging Users to Reference Institutions When Using Public Domain Materials.”
#OpenCulture #PublicDomain #MuseTech
creativecommons.org/2024/02/23/h...
Nudging Users to Reference Institutions When Using Public Domain Materials.”
#OpenCulture #PublicDomain #MuseTech
creativecommons.org/2024/02/23/h...
Geopolitics of Digital Heritage
Cambridge UP, free to 2/2
Natalia Grincheva & Elizabeth Stainforth on “political implications of…digital heritage aggregators across different scales of governance”: Singapore Memory Project, Trove, Europeana, Google Arts & Culture.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Cambridge UP, free to 2/2
Natalia Grincheva & Elizabeth Stainforth on “political implications of…digital heritage aggregators across different scales of governance”: Singapore Memory Project, Trove, Europeana, Google Arts & Culture.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Geopolitics of Digital Heritage
Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - Geopolitics of Digital Heritage
www.cambridge.org
January 21, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Geopolitics of Digital Heritage
Cambridge UP, free to 2/2
Natalia Grincheva & Elizabeth Stainforth on “political implications of…digital heritage aggregators across different scales of governance”: Singapore Memory Project, Trove, Europeana, Google Arts & Culture.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Cambridge UP, free to 2/2
Natalia Grincheva & Elizabeth Stainforth on “political implications of…digital heritage aggregators across different scales of governance”: Singapore Memory Project, Trove, Europeana, Google Arts & Culture.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Event: Wednesday, 25 October 4:30-6:30PM
What is a museum object according to a museum database?
Erin Canning explores how museum databases limit modes of understanding, and demonstrates how we can accommodate different ways of knowing.
What is a museum object according to a museum database?
Erin Canning explores how museum databases limit modes of understanding, and demonstrates how we can accommodate different ways of knowing.
What is a museum object according to a museum database?
Erin Canning explores how museum databases limit modes of understanding, and demonstrates how we can accommodate different ways of knowing.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 11, 2023 at 2:37 AM
Solid article in the LA Times today on the “Workplace Equity and Organizational Culture in US Art Museums” report released yesterday by Museums Moving Forward. #museums #equity
Time to give museum staffers a lift too
Time to give museum staffers a lift too
enewspaper.latimes.com
October 6, 2023 at 1:15 PM
Solid article in the LA Times today on the “Workplace Equity and Organizational Culture in US Art Museums” report released yesterday by Museums Moving Forward. #museums #equity
Giant straw creatures!
Gargantuan Straw Creatures Rise from the Fields of Japan's Annual Rice Harvest — Colossal
Every year around the rice harvest, art students repurpose leftover straw into mammoth characters for the Wara Art Festival.
www.thisiscolossal.com
October 5, 2023 at 1:27 PM
Giant straw creatures!
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Proud of the #IIIF community work that led to this, the official adoption of IIIF by @archive.org: blog.archive.org/2023/09/18/m...
Making IIIF Official at the Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
September 18, 2023 at 11:11 PM
Proud of the #IIIF community work that led to this, the official adoption of IIIF by @archive.org: blog.archive.org/2023/09/18/m...
It’s great to see a strong program go live for MCN 2023, the annual conference of MCN, the Museum Computer Network, meeting in person (first time since 2019!), November 8–10 in Philadelphia. Links to six of the sessions that caught my eye will follow in thread. #MCN2023 #MuseTech mcn2023.sched.com
MCN 2023 Schedule & Directory
Philadelphia, PA, USA - See the full schedule of events happening Nov 8 - 10, 2023 and explore the directory of Speakers & Attendees.
mcn2023.sched.com
September 8, 2023 at 12:53 AM
It’s great to see a strong program go live for MCN 2023, the annual conference of MCN, the Museum Computer Network, meeting in person (first time since 2019!), November 8–10 in Philadelphia. Links to six of the sessions that caught my eye will follow in thread. #MCN2023 #MuseTech mcn2023.sched.com
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We just enabled account sign-ups again, so any outstanding invite codes can now be used to create an account.
Thanks for your patience!
Thanks for your patience!
July 3, 2023 at 3:38 AM
We just enabled account sign-ups again, so any outstanding invite codes can now be used to create an account.
Thanks for your patience!
Thanks for your patience!
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📣 Introducing our new research service, ARCH: Archives Research Compute Hub. Now you can build, access & analyze digital collections at scale. Check out our blog post for all the details: https://blog.archive.org/2023/06/26/build-access-analyze-introducing-arch-archives-research-compute-hub/
June 26, 2023 at 4:01 PM
📣 Introducing our new research service, ARCH: Archives Research Compute Hub. Now you can build, access & analyze digital collections at scale. Check out our blog post for all the details: https://blog.archive.org/2023/06/26/build-access-analyze-introducing-arch-archives-research-compute-hub/
Hello, Bluesky world. Just got here.
June 23, 2023 at 1:28 AM
Hello, Bluesky world. Just got here.