Trending in Aotearoa: #WakaJumping We have an article about it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka-jump…

Museums have long held stolen and smuggled human remains from colonized countries as ‘artefacts’. Hana Pera Aoake explains how an indigenous-led program in New Zealand/Aotearoa has become a world leader in repatriation, and in bringing ancestors home. newint.org/features/2023/…

We've now made 500,000 pages of Australia's biodiversity heritage freely accessible on @biodivlibrary! Thank you to our 42 Australian contributing organisations & to the Atlas of Living Aust for funding this critical work. Peruse the collection: biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/bhl…

Got my hands on an early copy of Lissa Mitchell’s book. Too late for the Te Papa staff #1Lib1Ref session but just in time for some Wikidata fun on the weekend.

Rainy Evening at Shinobazu Pond, Tokyo, by Kasamatsu Shirō, 1938 #shinhanga

Yozakura in Rain, by Yoshida Hiroshi, 1935 Other Hiroshi's works: masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/paintings/ukiy… #shinhanga

Wanted dead or alive – Our Natural History interns’ work with Wellington lizards blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2023/05/24/wan… via @te_papa

Taika Waititi to Hollywood: “Stop asking us what to do, how to fix things alright? ….You f*cking broke it, you fix it” 🙌🏼

The LSE Library and the @UniofYork library released a Wikidata Thesis Toolkit. They are hoping to grow a community of practice amongst UK HE institutions who are interested in developing Wikidata work. wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:…

Open access to heritage images is becoming increasingly difficult in Italy. A new decree establishes fees for the production and publication of digital reproductions of cultural heritage held by the state, including that in the public domain. diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/05/ope…

Siobhan Thanks Siobhan! I love connecting people and their work on Wikidata. And I’m really keen to see what connecting people from the NZ thesis project to their work in the UK might reveal! E.g. Do we have strong links with particular institutions in particular subjects?

GLAM-WIKI LSE Library University of York Mike Dickison Siobhan Stanford University Libraries Tagging the amazing @AWhitTwit here for the Hopkins Marine Lab theses.

Omi, Lake Biwa, Ishiyama Temple, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1853-1856 All printings of Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces: masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/paintings/ukiy… #ukiyoe

The most amazing presentation on BHL by BHL Australia manager Nicole Kearney. She explains how important historic #biodiversity literature is & how she & her colleagues are making it discoverable & linkable via DOIs youtu.be/YxTKc1dE56M #HighlyRecommended #LinkEverything

As part of my obligations to the Wiki editing community & to Wikimedia Foundation who so generously funded my attendance at #SPNHC2023 I've written this report on my experiences at the conference. docs.google.com/document/d/1Xa…

Ooh! This article "Modeling and Querying Awards in #Wikidata" by @cthoyt could keep me busy of months filling gaps in #OzLit! Lots of sample #SPARQL queries included. Wikimedia Australia Wikimedia Aotearoa cthoyt.com/2023/06/08/wik…

Dad recorded all of his log books and they were kept by @niwa_nz You can request to see them as they are public records.

Maybe we should start with his dive logs?

Hello Fresh Nz replaced broccoli with my hated vegetable silver beet (shudder). And I was just saying how I liked not having food waste. Well I do now because they can’t make me eat that. Yuck!

I've moved to Bluesky. Follow me on bsky.app/profile/vleach…