"It is hard to overstate how completely out of touch the #museum sector seems to be with what contemporary technologies make possible, how those possibilities are changing people's expectations and where those expectations now intersect with the museum sector itself. More and more, I find myself asking: What is the functional equivalent of ordering cat litter on the beach for museums?" โ https://aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf
@thisisaaronland This is so good for a museum fan (who vaguely remembers the Pen even!) thanks for sharing, even if it clearly represents some pent up frustration.
I have finally written up the notes from the talk I gave to a #museum studies class at usf recently / this one is long even by standards and covers a lot of ground / it is titled "talking about the pen without talking about the pen" โ https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf
โโฆone of things that makes a technology like ActivityPub interesting is that it provides a working implementation for the means by which that information, in all the curatorial files in all the museums, might be distributed. Crucially, it provides the means to do so without the Faustian bargains that we've seen the earlier social media platforms extract in exchange for reach and access.โ
I have a question for activitypub peoples: When writing and delivering posts by โhandโ and not using a client what is the syntax for ensuring clients receiving those posts recognize and treat inline AP addresses as such. For an example, see the image in this post - https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/112300613398209589
@thisismissem@misty if you have a few spare cycles would you see whether you can spot the problem between these two posts described here โ https://github.com/sfomuseum/go-activitypub/issues/3#issuecomment-2070656900 / basically everything works as expected when I mention this account but does not when I mention a museum object account which suggests there is a bug somewhere in the go-activitypub code / which would be fineโฆ if only I could see it / cc @hugh@evan
"Importantly, these means (ActvityPub) can serve as a kind of vehicle by which we are able to guarantee that the objects in our collection, which by virtue of their inclusion we argue means they are worthy of repeated consideration, can enjoy a kind of repeat visitation. Even if that revisitation is virtual it fosters the practice of seeing, and re-seeing, the objects in our collections more than once." โ https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2024/03/12/activitypub/
"If you are starting to wonder whether we are going to create individual ActivityPub accounts for each and every object in the SFO Museum Aviation Collection the answer is quite simply: Yes, but weโve started with aircraft tail numbers to [get a feel for things]. If you are starting to wonder whether there is anything we wonโt create an ActivityPub account for (galleries, individual exhibitions, gates at the airportโฆ) the answer is: Probably not." โ https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2024/03/12/activitypub/
did you know that in 2011 sfo museum mounted an exhibtion / of little airplane liquor bottles and swizzle sticks and other beverage service related objects from its collection / now you do โ https://collection.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/1159160315/
I have a commute these days / which really has nothing to recommend it / except for the occasional flock of pelicans flying up from the south bay and crossing the highway at brisbane