How should libraries respond to the deluge of AI-generated book submissions, sometimes dozens at a time? My Tuesday talk for the MLA considered:

- An outright ban
- Restriction to a specific "AI shelf"
- A required % of human authorship
- Restriction to certain genres (fiction yes/medical advice no)
- Community vetting

What would you do?

'The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology' includes a chapter by Ana Cristina Martins that "delves into the rich history of archaeological collecting, the creation and development of archaeological museums, and museums with significant archaeological collections."

https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/58978

@histodons @archaeodons
@museum

Can AI erase the tedium of managing digital collections without also erasing what makes them distinctive? Find out in this recording of last month's webinar with Sara and Ben Brumfield of FromThePage, who explore the good, bad, and ugly of AI in archives.

https://digitalcuration.umaine.edu/teleconferences/dig_brumfield_teleconf_2025.html

The #Trump administration says it will soon resume #collections on *defaulted* #StudentLoans for the first time in 5 years, raising questions & anxieties for millions of borrowers across the country.

#law #economy #PersonalFinances #students #education #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/23/nx-s1-5372332/student-loans-default-collection

Ein Lektürehinweis zum #TagDerProvenienzforschung: #WerkstattGeschichte 77/2018 "umstrittene objekte", der Thementeil hg. v. Felix Brahm & Bettina Brockmeyer mit Beiträgen der beiden sowie von Felix Schürmann & Holger Stoecker:

https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/umstrittene-objekte/

Unter allen, die heute boosten, verlosen wir ein Exemplar des Hefts!

@histodons @historikerinnen @museum @culturalheritage

Can you trust AI with your archives? On April 2 at 5pm EDT, UMaine's Digital Curation program hosts a webinar with Sara and Ben Brumfield on blending human crowdsourcing with AI's scale and speed. Join us for a discussion of practical uses and thorny ethics!

https://blog.still-water.net/should-you-let-ai-manage-your-collection

#DPC members! Join us this Friday for an engaging Audiovisual Special Interest Group (AVSIG) session featuring one of our newest DPC members, RTÉ Archives.

Presentation by Adrienne Warburton (RTÉ Archives) on mass digitization of audio and audiovisual assets and RTÉ's #digitalpreservation work
Friday March 28th, 2-3pm UTC
Online members-only event
Register now: https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/475/-/audio-visual-special-interest-group

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)

https://pixelfed.org

Heute vor 5 Jahren begann in Deutschland der 1. #Corona-#Lockdown. Wie #Museen damit umgegangen sind, welche Sammlungs- und digitalen Aktivitäten sie z.B. entfaltet haben, hat seinerzeit unsere #Expokritik-Redaktion beobachtet:

Sebastian Kühn, Andreas Ludwig, Pavla Šimková & Lotte Thaa, Corona im #Museum, #WerkstattGeschichte 84/2021, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/monogamie/

@museum @histodons @historikerinnen @archivistodon @histstm

There's a new issue of Práticas da História, the Journal on Theory, Historiography, and Uses of the Past!

It includes the dossier "Collaborative practices: rethinking narratives and musealization processes", coordinated by Rita Juliana Soares Poloni, Diego Lemos Ribeiro, and Elizabete Mendonça.

Available in #OpenAccess: https://praticasdahistoria.pt/issue/view/1964

@histodons
@museum

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

The book 'Collections, Exhibitions and Museums in Portugal and Its Empire', initially conceived by Foteini Vlachou, was published by Routledge, edited by Filipa Lowndes Vicente and Leonor de Oliveira, who continued the project after Foteini’s death.

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/book-foteini-vlachou/

@histodons
@histodon

“Wiener Digital Collections: Thousands of pages documenting Nazi persecution digitised for unprecedented online access”

https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2025/01/27/wiener-digital-collections-thousands-of-documents-of-nazi-horrors-digitised-for-unprecedented-online-access/

@histodons @historikerinnen

Flickr 2024 Year In Review.

Nifty. I strongly advocate Flickr for anyone serious about photography.

https://www.flickr.com/year-in-review/2024/

5 Lesser-Known Java Collections Features

#collections #java

https://javabulletin.substack.com/p/5-lesser-known-java-collections-features?utm_medium=erik.in&utm_source=mastodon

Still missing #GooglePlus's #Collections :(

Die Barcamp Pitches für Art History Loves Wiki sind vorbei und der Sessionplan steht!
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art_History_Loves_Wiki/Programm

Für die meisten Sessions ist auch eine online Teilnahme möglich

#ALW2025 #Wikidata #Wikibase #collections #wikimedia_commons #Barcamp @kunstgeschichte @pippich @schelbertgeorg