David Newbury

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David Newbury is the Senior Director, Public Technologies at Getty, where he works with cultural heritage professionals, researchers, scientists, and technologists to find common solutions to the technical and scholarly problems. He is also the former president of MCN, on the executive committee of IIIF, and one of the originators of Linked Art.
Websitehttps://www.davidnewbury.com
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-8860
Excited to finally announce we are collaborating with scientists to create a 3D bioprinted liver with an award from ARPA-H https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9970

Before you ask a diffusion model to barf up a banner image for your article, please consider searching one of the many existing sources of fine & free media:
• Public Domain Image Archive
• Openverse
• Wellcome Collection Image Archive
• Digital Bodleian
• Getty Open Content Program
• Wikimedia Commons

#publicdomain #substack

#PennedPossibilities 936 — Tell us about something that disgusts your MC.

Current WIP: both MCs quietly despise stupid rich people and take a vindictive glee in separating them from their wealth and privilege. Also, Jum detests violence: Tabitha detests patriarchy. (As patriarchal systems are inherently violent, Jum follows Tabitha's lead on this subject: in return, Tabitha mostly takes care of murdering their enemies so Jum doesn't have to.)

It is done! 🚀 Today I’m publishing the first full, formal open source release of liiive — my web-based, real-time collaborative annotation environment for #IIIF image collections.

liiive enables users to view and annotate IIIF images together in real time — with shared cursors, synchronized drawing tools, and exportable, standards-compatible annotations.

As of today, the repository contains everything you need to run your own fully self-hosted instance:

https://github.com/rsimon/liiive

A big thank you to the University of Graz Department of Digital Humanities and the DHInfra.at initiative — this release wouldn’t have been possible without their support.

And now? it’s up to you!

Clone the repo. Deploy your own instance. Start annotating.

Most importantly: tell us how it goes. If something breaks, open an issue on GitHub. If something feels unclear, confusing, or slow — we want to know. Your feedback will shape where liiive goes next.

@workergnome & Lily Pregill (#getty_museum) speaking on the Getty Provenance Index at @cni ; integrates Linked Art and @IIIF #CNIfall25 https://bit.ly/48Ow6Hh

I am really interested in the linked.art initiative, but I’m finding it hard to wrap my head around it. What strikes me as particularly odd:

* The types-of-types pattern, which creates JSON structures that are very unlike usual JSON properties.
* The AATization of everything, including things like language tags, for which perfectly fine native RDF patterns exist.

Has anyone worked with it? Are there good Getting Started guides? #LinkedArt #CulturalHeritage

Wrote my first blog post in a long time, as I start to unpack my time at Knight Foundation. Thinking about where arts+tech could go, and the funding models might get us there. This one is about the (relative) futility of funding "innovation" in the arts. https://kovenjsmith.com/post/2025-10-17-innovation-funds/ #musetech #arts #artstech #glam #philanthropy
Innovation is not infrastructure

The survival of the arts depends on technology, but not in the way most funders think. The sector’s real challenge isn’t innovation; it’s infrastructure. You wouldn't know this to look at what work gets funded, though.

Koven J. Smith
A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now
Made it to Lisbon for #DH2025–looking forward to a lovely week of reconnecting and meeting new folk.

New in the DANS Data Station SSH: Getty AAT keywords now available – 74,000+ structured terms to improve discoverability and description of heritage and cultural history datasets.

Developed in the SHOCC-NL project.
🔗 https://ssh.datastations.nl/dataverse/root
📄 https://zenodo.org/records/15487726

#FAIRdata #metadata #humanities