flo1h ago
"Sched­uled for com­ple­tion next year, the cas­tle will pre­sum­ably — as long as the skills of its builders prove equal to those of their fore­bears — still be stand­ing in the 29th cen­tu­ry."

How To Build a 13th-Century Castle, Using Only Authentic Medieval Tools & Techniques

https://www.openculture.com/2022/03/how-to-build-a-13th-century-castle-using-only-authentic-medieval-tools-techniques.html

#OpenCulture #Archaeology #Experiment #ExperimentalArchaeology #Castle
How To Build a 13th-Century Castle, Using Only Authentic Medieval Tools & Techniques

It's the rare Englishman who will readily defer to a Frenchman — except, of course, in the field of castle-building. This was true after the Norman Conquest of 1066, which introduced French castles to Britain, and it remains so today, especially under the demands of period accuracy.

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hpkomic 👻5d ago

Nice chunky update on the #zine page I am creating, a combination of resources and my own zines. I am open to suggestions if you have them: https://hpkomics.com/zines/

#amWriting #zines #openCulture

Zines - hpkomics.com

David shares a collection of zine publications he has worked on, but also assembles some zine history and zine resources for the curious.

hpkomics.com
Xavier MarecaMar 20

The conversation around AI often swings between panic and misconception.
AI doesn’t “replace” creativity, responsibility, or human judgment. It automates patterns, not meaning.
In every field — from art to engineering — humans remain the ones who interpret, validate, and give direction.
AI is a tool. The human layer is the system.

#AI #FediTech #FutureOfWork #Ethics #DigitalHumanities #HumanInTheLoop #OpenCulture

William Weber BerruttiMar 18

It's important to use licenses on the works we do, because that communicates clearly how we want our work to be used and shared. And these sites can help us select them:

Choose a License: https://choosealicense.com/

Joinup Licensing Assistant: https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/solution/licensing-assistant/find-and-compare-software-licenses

Various Licenses and Comments about Them: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

#Licensing #FreeCulture #OpenCulture

Choose an open source license

Non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project

Choose a License
nixMar 15

The #30DayFossChallenge is coming up again soon. Stay tuned here: http://foss.nullarch.com/

I'm hoping to be posting more about it this year than last.

#foss #opensource #openculture #freeculture #circulareconomy

Henrik SundströmMar 9

Love this.

https://www.openculture.com/2019/07/happy-birthday-played-on-the-piano-with-16-increasing-levels-of-complexity.html

#music #piano #complexity #openculture #nahresol

The Piano Played with 16 Increasing Levels of Complexity: From Easy to Very Complex

Remember the feeling of accomplishment as a child, picking out a simple tune after your first piano lesson? Then the day you begin to play with both hands? So grown up. Eventually you start using more than two fingers.

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Martín StéreoMar 2

¡Hola mundo libre! 🌎 🎹

Somos un proyecto musical online que cree en la cultura compartida. Transmitimos desde las montañas de Medellín, Colombia 🇨🇴 bajo filosofía #Copyleft.

Aquí no hay muros: la música es para descargar, compartir y transformar. 🚀

Escúchanos aquí: https://tunein.com/radio/Martin-Stereo-s346066/

#Presentacion #NuevoEnMastodon #MusicaLibre #OpenCulture #Medellin #Colombia #Artivismo #CopyleftMusic

Martin Stereo, Colombia | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn

Martin Stereo - Apoyamos, promocionamos y difundimos completamente sin ánimo de lucro la música en el género Copyleft y a sus artistas independientes.

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Walled CultureFeb 25
Common Corpus, an open training set for AI, goes global – and so should support for it

As many of the AI stories on Walled Culture attest, one of the most contentious areas in the latest stage of AI development concerns the sourcing of training data. To create high-quality large language models (LLMs) massive quantities of training data are required. In the current genAI stampede, many companies are simply scraping everything they can off the Internet. Quite how that will work […]

#aiAlliance #commonCorpus #curation #euAiAct #financeCommons #france #gdpr #github #legalCommons #llms #multilingual #openCulture #openGovernment #openScience #openSource #openWeb #pdf #permissiveLicensing #pleias #publicDomain #scraping #tokens #toxicity #wikimedia #youtube https://walledculture.org/common-corpus-an-open-training-set-for-ai-goes-global-and-so-should-support-for-it/
Jonas Heide SmithFeb 18
More open: On National Gallery of Denmark's online collection 'SMK Open' (https://open.smk.dk/en) we're swapping out Google Maps for @openstreetmap to show artwork locations. 🗺️
#openaccess #openculture #openstreetmap #musetech #dkmuseum
internetarchiveFeb 17

The recording from our Public Domain Day virtual event is now available!

🕵️ Investigate THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING COPYRIGHT to learn which works entered the public domain—and why copyright is more complicated than it looks.

Watch the full recording ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/the-case-of-the-disappearing-copyright

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #OpenCulture @AuthorsAlliance