Another neat result: Library visits have declined for a decade, potentially undermining their roles in community building. We find that print holdings stimulate visits, while ebook holdings depress them. Growth in ebook holdings accounts for ~1/3 of the decline in visits.

What a fun exhibit ! the 'original' objects in the paintings of Van Gogh museumtijdschrift.nl/artikelen/rece…

Mark your calendars: CfP 15 October "Sustainability: Environment – Community – Data" Digital Humanities Online Conference 8-10 March 2023 dhnb.eu/conferences/dh…

This painting is 600 years old. And that mirror in the background is barely ten centimetres across, yet it contains a reflection of the entire room. Including the artist at work, one of the greatest painters who ever lived, a man called Jan van Eyck...

Precies 205 jaar geleden overleed Jacob Matroos Beeldsnijder. Hij is de enige (tot nu toe bekende) persoon van kleur die in de Oude Kerk Amsterdam is begraven. Vanavond werd hij met mooie woorden en - met op de achtergrond het feestgedruis van de Wallen - een spontane stilte herdacht

If you’re curious how IIIF as an organization functions, this is a really great diagram—and a good visualization of exactly how much human work goes into making an organization like IIIF successful.

Professional photographs increase demand for an Airbnb listing by 9%. What makes professional 📸 better? This paper uses machine learning to find the advantage is mostly about the composition of the photo: especially the rule of thirds & balanced colors. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The CIDOC AGM will take place online on the 27th October at 17:00h CEST! Our members will have the chance to meet our upcoming new Board and hear about our plans for CIDOC 2023 to take place on 24 to 28 September 2023 in Mexico. cidoc.mini.icom.museum/message-from-t…

Looking very much forward to sharing the #CitizenHeriage experience #CitizenScience

LinkedData verbindt kennis voor hergebruik in domeinen in de eigen semantische mediawiki’s. Van Enterprise architectuur uit de #NORA tot #openstandaarden. Hoe ? Meld je aan voor de lifestream op 28 okt. 11 uur met Joris Dirks semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fa… Digitale Overheid Het Kadaster

CitizenHeritage presented as a best practice in Erasmus University Rotterdam roundtabale on citizen science - digitalmeetsculture.net/article/citize… #citizenheritage #citizenscience Trilce Navarrete Frederik Truyen @web2learn_eu Mariana Ziku Marco Rendina (meet me on @mrendina.bsky.social)

Today we had our first Annual General Assembly fully online. Clear digital formation example: high attendance, from *almost* all continents (time zone challenge), great synergies ! And the usual ‘your mic is muted’. Look so forward a new term at ICOM.CIDOC

Asking people to be innovative can make them dissatisfied. When you ask people at your firm “what could we do differently?” they think of all the things that you are doing wrong & the how they could be better. People end up becoming less happy with your organization as a result!

I'd argue that Google Scholar plays a critical role in modern research. It is free, and it absolutely crushes every other scholarly search engine, including specialized ones 👇 Though it is a bit scary that it seems to be a tiny team & it exists only by the charity of Google...

There are six stories of professional failure. The narratives we share about failure aren't accurate, they serve our emotional needs. So we tell Fables, Documentaries, Greek Tragedies, Modern Tragedies, Tragicomedies & Absurdist tales to justify ourselves journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/am…

A valuable resource the conference archive online

CitizenHeritage: A new participatory practice - digitalmeetsculture.net/article/citize… #citizenheritage #citizenscience Trilce Navarrete Frederik Truyen @web2learn_eu Mariana Ziku Marco Rendina (meet me on @mrendina.bsky.social) @photoconsortium

Join the CitizenHeritage Multiplier event on 24 March, hosted by Trilce Navarrete of ESHCC. We will organise a mini symposium to present the theory behind things and some update of the project results. More info on our website bit.ly/3Z0cfOw