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re last boost from @fpianz.eurosky.social - Some #MuseTech news from #DH2026 - updates to Getty Vocabularies, possibly to be licensed as CC0 rather than ODC-BY

An open map? 🗺️ Guests at @smk need help with wayfinding. We like open platforms. Wondering if @openstreetmap’s indoor mapping could be useful. Does anyone have experience to share? 🙏🤗
#openstreetmap #musetech #artmuseum

Does AI use mean less web traffic for museums?
There are many ways to approach this, but here I've mapped the ratio of web visits at smk.dk to physical museum visits. If guests get info elsewhere, this ratio should change (i.e. fewer web visits per physical visit). I'm pretty sure that must be happening but currently the effect isn't strong enough to be clearly visible. We'll follow these numbers closely 🔎
#musetech #museums #glam #smkmuseum #dkmuseum

Interesting conversation starter from @thisisaaronland on the SFO Museum blog: 'Shared cross-institutional vector embeddings – how we might get there' https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2026/04/06/shared-embeddings/ - is anyone up for kicking those tyres?

#IIIF #AI4LAM #MuseTech

Good news for anyone working on their proposals for the next Fantastic Futures conference - the deadline is extended to April 16! https://ai4lam.org/submission-instructions/

#FF2026 is in the US, but will be very hybrid so you don't need to travel there to present or attend many sessions #AI4LAM #MuseTech

How can museums use repositories to share research, given that it might look so different to 'traditional' academic outputs? https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/making-museum-research-more-visible-open-access-in-the-glam-sector/

A case study on the treasure trove that is https://iro.bl.uk/ from the Science Museum Group

#MuseTech #OpenAccess

Sharing for a friend: 'Lead the development of the digital future of British art research' - Head of Systems, Data and Technology (Fixed term 18-months) Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC) https://www.peridotpartners.co.uk/jobs/head-of-systems-data-and-technology-paul-mellon-centre/ #MuseTech #AI4LAM

Mapping the art 🗺️
At @smk, we've mapped the motifs in artworks in the museum collection to coordinates 📍
This makes the art explorable by location (the more ways to explore, the better, in our humble opinion).
See it in action @ our online collection SMK Open: https://open.smk.dk/en/map?q=*#2.16/70.25/-19.32

Footnote # 1: This replaces an earlier, less integrated setup
Footnote # 2: We've replaced Google Maps with @openstreetmap

#openglam #smkmuseum #artmuseum #musetech #openstreetmap

More open: On National Gallery of Denmark's online collection 'SMK Open' (https://open.smk.dk/en) we're swapping out Google Maps for @openstreetmap to show artwork locations. 🗺️
#openaccess #openculture #openstreetmap #musetech #dkmuseum

Quick blog post noting some thoughts on 'Documenting AI-created/enhanced records in catalogues/metadata/displays' - I'd love to know who's already doing it, and how? https://www.openobjects.org.uk/2026/02/documenting-automatic-text-transcription-tools-in-catalogues-metadata-displays/ #AI4LAM #MuseTech

Great post from Lucie and ACMI folk: Making museums legible for machines (without breaking the human experience) | by Lucie Paterson | Jan, 2026 | ACMI LABS

https://labs.acmi.net.au/making-museums-legible-for-machines-without-breaking-the-human-experience-2f1deb7b89ea

#MuseTech

Evaluating the multiplatform museum in an age of automation | by Indigo Holcombe-James | ACMI LABS (from 2024 - how are these questions shaping up in 2026?)
https://labs.acmi.net.au/evaluating-the-multiplatform-museum-in-an-age-of-automation-f28899839f78 #MuseTech

Useful indoor mapping... 🗺️ Museums love to talk about "wayfinding" but it often amounts to PDFs. I'm thinking we should maybe provide a wayfinding API and then build far more dynamic services. Any ideas or examples of this out there?... 🤗
#museum #musetech #WebDev

This will be very interesting to a very small group of people: 'For cultural institutions that provide metadata to the data space for cultural heritage, the implementation of IIIF Change Discovery provides an alternative to implementing OAI-PMH.' https://pro.europeana.eu/post/delivering-metadata-to-europeana-via-the-iiif-change-discovery-api

#MuseTech #IIIF #OAIPMH #metadata #ChangeDiscovery

I wasn't surprised to see Rob Sanderson quoted in this, because rich vs aligned semantics - specifically , wanting both at the same time - is *such* a cultural heritage data interoperability problem #MuseTech

From: @pietercolpaert
https://mastodon.social/@pietercolpaert/115864393569991212

*waves* at @ukmcg.bsky.social #MuseTech25 folk from #FF2025 - it'd be lovely to see more museum presentations at #FF2026 - and the #DH2026 call for proposals is still open https://dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ - the conference is in Korea but remote presentations are possible! #MuseTech #AI4LAM #DigitalHumanities

Sak's done it again! His updated interface to https://blplaybills.org is more mobile/tablet-friendly, and the different search options are clearer, plus his earlier OCR improvements. And checked that structured info for individual playbills!

#TheatreHistory #TheaterHistory #MuseTech

Sak has updated the interface on his site for searching British Library playbills - it's more mobile/tablet friendly, and has all kinds of search options to play with!
https://blplaybills.org/

#theaterHistory #theatrehistory #playbills #MuseTech

Last hour or so to sign up to today's UVCON! Catch up with recent work and what's coming next https://hcommons.social/deck/@universa[email protected]/115542995946017876

#UniversalViewer #IIIF #MuseTech #GLAMTech

#MuseTech folk, there's a proposal for 'exhibitions' on wikidata that could probably use your input, especially if you've ever worked on a 'what's on' site and know the complexities of exhibition data! Overview page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Exhibition_models

Fantastic welcome from SMK's Merete Sanderhoff and Jonas Heide Smith to start the Europeana Network Association Cross-Community Workshop on Culture for AI https://pro.europeana.eu/event/europeana-network-association-cross-community-workshop-on-culture-for-ai
Nice overview by SMK of their work with AI: smk.dk/ai
#AI4LAM #MuseTech

I wrote up a talk I did recently: 'AI and Machine Learning in Libraries: Promising, But Not Ready Yet' https://www.openobjects.org.uk/2025/10/ai-and-machine-learning-in-libraries-promising-but-not-ready-yet

#AI4LAM #MuseTech #GLAMTech

The next #IIIF Community Call is on 'AI Bot Management', Weds October 8 at 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC. Call links etc at https://iiif.io/community

What are you doing about bots swarming your GLAM website or IIIF collections? Pros and cons of different approaches? What does this mean for open content? #MuseTech

Nice! Osma Suominen @osma from National Library of Finland (Annif & FintoAI)'s 5 points for AI in libraries:
- Use AI to make the world better
- Use the smallest AI that works
- Don't depend on corporate AI
- Evaluate & create data sets
- Be open and transparent

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRA1o11pODoJ0FmFc8dRj-xNZRUs7lsxzDACkiYt6d-Bdfql1ujw3gGpSedTQnXDG0MrRg3_WAl1GQS/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.p1
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2024/Contents/AvoinGLAM_report
#AI4LAM #MuseTech

Are AI bots overwhelming digital collections?
A new GLAM-E Lab report shows how scrapers for AI training datasets are putting real strain on the infrastructures of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. Technical bottlenecks, ethical dilemmas, and escalating costs—open culture is under pressure.
Read the full analysis:
https://www.glamelab.org/products/are-ai-bots-knocking-cultural-heritage-offline/
#DigitalHeritage #GLAM #WebScraping #OpenAccess #CulturalData #MuseTech #DigitalHumanities #GLAMlab

@jonaspelzer @mia I'm not sure what the German #MuseTech scene is like or where they might chat but you could try asking the Europeana Tech mailing list for pointers.

Reading 'What can we learn from the failure of digital projects?' by @biglittlethings.bsky.social https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/opinion/2025/05/what-can-we-learn-from-the-failure-of-digital-projects/

This quote stood out: 'Shifting from “digital as project” to “digital as organisational change” is essential for long-term success'

#MuseTech #AI4LAM