This thread is to decide what should glammr.us' hero image 💪😎 be? Hero image can also be our favicon and patreon's profile pic. Discuss.
The 📼 ⏰No Time to Wait 4 ⏰📼conference is happening NOW. Symposium focuses on open media, open standards, and digital audiovisual preservation.
Live stream of the conference at https://youtu.be/cjJZ0cjtaz8 and collaborative notes are at http://bit.ly/nttw4notes.
The conference's twitter account, @nttwconf, is very active. Follow the live tweets at the conference's hashtag #nttw4 on the bird site.
The conference program is at http://bit.ly/nttw4program
@joshuatj UPDATE: The upgrade and migration worked seamlessly 🎉. We're now at the latest stable release 2.7.2 and hosted by masto.host. Toot 🍍 me if you notice any issues.
Thank you @mastohost
Hello fellow glammr.us tooters, we are conducting some long overdue instance upgrading and server migration in a day or two. Expect some intermittent downtime.
If there's anything urgent, toot me at my digipres.club account @joshuatj
If you're interested in open media, open standards, digital audiovisual preservation, then you might want to check out the livestream of No Time to Wait 3: Rough Consensus and Running Archives symposium happening right now.
More info at https://mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait3
Catch the livestream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mthecCNRM
Digitization is the not panacea though.
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"Why isn't library science in Brazil at a place where digitizing existing materials is as important as going out and collecting stuff?”
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https://www.wired.com/story/brazil-museum-fire-digital-archives
The Delicate Art of Being an Archivist: An Open Letter to Alice Dreger | librarylibby https://www.librarylibby.com/single-post/2018/07/31/The-Delicate-Art-of-Being-an-Archivist-An-Open-Letter-to-Alice-Dreger
Whoa, This is FUN! Must-try for those doing advocacy #digipres #filmpreservation #GLAM #GLAMMR
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NEW GAME! Why do groups of people act smart, dumb, kind, cruel? An interactive guide to networks & humans:
THE WISDOM and/or MADNESS of CROWDS
😐 https://ncase.me/crowds 😐
source tweet: https://t.co/oRAQh7dSFt
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“The movies we collect are intimate, first-hand visual records of work and play, of traditions and spontaneous acts…and they activate memories, crucial knowledge and expertise that too often goes unrecognized.”
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Love articles like this where it let us take a peek at the behind the scenes processes.
"Developing a Membership Model, or: How to review everything you've ever done and who you talked to along the way" http://nzzl.us/meCKsdX via @nuzzel
Hey fediverse and beyond, anyone knows any good way to archive and display WhatsApp messages? #digipres #whatsapppres #socmedpres
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If there's a moral to the story it is look after those backups – and the systems needed to run them. You never know when they might be needed.
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NASA dusts off FORTRAN manual, revives 20-year-old data on Ganymede • The Register - The Register http://nzzl.us/al2Sqn1 via @nuzzel
I would say it's similar in the other GLAMMR professions...
On the Mass Extinction of Museum Professionals & Why Trustees Should be Worried - Medium http://nzzl.us/ouJ76Cb via @nuzzel
My #SEAPAVAA22 slides on Punching Above Your Weight: Levaraging Online Resources is finally up!
https://www.slideshare.net/joshuatj/punching-above-your-weight-leveraging-online-resources-seapavaa22-95924680
This is so so so exciting! Optical-Strokes-Recognition?
"Artificial Intelligence Is Opening the Vatican Secret Archives - The Atlantic" http://nzzl.us/ErodXcL via @nuzzel@twitter.com
“This is the earliest moving image of an orchestra where you can hear them play.” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/arts/music/new-york-philharmonic-archives.html