#games #Chess #GLAM #museums #FIDE

"As part of its 2024 centenary celebrations, FIDE has unveiled an online museum tracing chess history from ancient times to modern tournaments. The Open Chess Museum endorsed by FIDE aims to become the world’s largest repository of chess artifacts, showcasing valuable items from every corner of the world and every era of chess history."

https://www.fide.com/fide-launches-first-digital-museum-dedicated-to-chess-history/

#AAFRennes2025 Présentation du Label Culture libre de @Wikimedia_Fr pour les #GLAM à deux voix : X.Cailleau de Wiki et M.Tenèze des AD 84. Ce label a pour but de favoriser l'ouverture des contenus culturels. https://www.wikimedia.fr/label-culture-libre/ #OpenGLAM #OpenContent

My battle with the National Library of Australia over access to the #Trove API has been used as a case study in a paper on digital archives as infrastructure by @LeuLeu & @macgraveur. It was presented yesterday at the forum de l’Association des archivistes Français. https://aldonzel.github.io/intervention-forum-AAF25/ (in French) #GLAM

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

Aussies please boost.

I am a postgrad student in Information and Library Science looking for part-time library work in the Sydney area*. It could be a casual, temp, contract, perm, or potentially a volunteer role. I have a background in tech and am pivoting careers. Please reach out if you think I can help!

*I'm in Northwestern Sydney near the metro and trains

"If you can afford it, go to every single library conference you can manage. They can open doors." #LIS #GLAM #Libraries #LibraryJobs

http://hiringlibrarians.com/2025/03/26/unfortunately-this-whole-field-requires-access-to-serious-financial-resources-that-i-do-not-have/

By popular demand, UMaine's Digital Curation graduate program is once again offering two summer courses on metadata. This is your chance to learn more about how standards for describing files can improve access to libraries, archives, laboratories, and businesses—no prereqs. https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu

Aufruf zur Teilnahme: #umfrage

Das Studienangebot #Kulturmanagement der #UniBasel und das Institut für Kulturpolitik der Universität #UniHildesheim suchen Antworten auf die Frage, wie Kulturorganisationen auf gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen und (neue) Anforderungen reagieren. Welche Bedingungen sind hilfreich, welche Hürden gibt es, welche Fähigkeiten werden wichtiger?

Die (anonyme) Teilnahme ist bis 15. April 2025 möglich. 

https://sosci.scicore.unibas.ch/umfragekulturinstitutionen/

The American Alliance of Museums website includes links to various scripts and templates that can be used to reach out to members of Congress and urge them to save the IMLS.

https://www.aam-us.org/2025/03/17/urgent-act-now-to-save-imls/

Technical debt is a pervasive and unacknowledged disease in so many fields I find myself in, and the bill has come due.

Just in time for funding cuts and layoffs. Ofc.

"I had more applicants for the latest search, but most were looking for an archives position rather than a teaching-focused position" #LIS #GLAM #Libraries #LibraryJobs

http://hiringlibrarians.com/2025/03/24/institutional-practices-sometimes-overrule-what-i-think-is-best/

The Conversation: Museums have tons of data, and AI could make it more accessible − but standardizing and organizing it across fields won’t be easy. “AI tools can do amazing things, such as make 3D models of digitized versions of the items in museum collections, but only if there’s enough well-organized data about that item available. To see how AI can help museum collections, my team […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/24/the-conversation-museums-have-tons-of-data-and-ai-could-make-it-more-accessible-%e2%88%92-but-standardizing-and-organizing-it-across-fields-wont-be-easy/

Many thanks to the Australian Historical Association for sharing their concerns about changes to the National Library of Australia's API policy and the suspension of my API keys which, they say, "marks a troubling restriction to the work of researchers in Australia and overseas". https://theaha.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AHA-Statement-on-New-Restrictions-to-Trove.pdf #Trove #histodons @histodons #GLAM

Nope, now it's not so easy because the gatekeepers at the NLA want you to seek permission before downloading the content of newspaper articles via the API. The #Trove Newspaper and Gazette Harvester is widely used and cited in research literature, but I can't use or maintain it because my API keys were cancelled. The NLA's policy is damaging research.

Via Michael, Hendrik, and Valentin Werner. 2024. “Digital Press Archives for Media and Communication History Research: From ‘reading rooms’ to Virtual Research Environments”. Studies in Communication Sciences 24 (3): 285–301. https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2024.03.4050. #GLAM #histodons #digitalhumanities

"anything that is out of left field but demands a specific answer and that I have not been given time to reflect on, pre-interview" #LIS #GLAM #Libraries #LibraryJobs

http://hiringlibrarians.com/2025/03/23/im-not-sure-why-were-treating-interviews-like-pop-quizzesdont-you-want-me-to-be-appropriately-address-your-question/

California State Library: Groundwork Announces Grants to 87 Cultural Heritage Organizations Across the State. This link goes to a PDF file. “The 87 organizations – from Alpine County in the north to San Diego County in the south — are receiving support ranging from environmental monitoring equipment, protective storage containers, map cases, disaster planning consultation, and disaster […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/22/california-state-library-groundwork-announces-grants-to-87-cultural-heritage-organizations-across-the-state/

#art #museums #GLAM #CulturalHeritage #Czechia

'"The Ministry of Culture is supporting the digitization of close to one hundred historical collections in museums and heritage sites around the country. Thanks to the subsidy, unique online museum collections are now available on the eSbirky.cz website."'

https://english.radio.cz/close-100-digitised-art-collections-czechia-now-available-online-8846217