Mastodawn

Saw an article today about the Virtual War Memorial and remembered that way back in 2008 at the National Archives we hacked together Google Maps and Tumblr to enable people to upload images and stories about WWI service people. In the 6 months following the site's launch there were more than 1,000 of these 'scrapbook' posts.

The NAA later rebuilt the site, and a couple of years ago they completely removed it. You can find bits on the Internet Archive & Trove, but I don't know how many of the posts were saved...

I wrote about creating the site here: https://discontents.com.au/local-heroes/index.html #GLAM #archives #crowdSourcing

Local heroes

discontents

Tim Sherratt 4h ago

Oh yeah, with all the Trove nonsense in the last few months, the idea of submitting the GLAM Workbench for the Eureka Prize for research software flew out the window...

Tim Sherratt 5h ago

Pamela Fox 1d ago

Have fun this weekend with a little citizen science, join the city nature challenge!
If you observe any flora/fauna that's *not* a human/dog/cat, upload your pic to iNaturalist, ID it, and help ID other pics:

https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/

(It's fun! It's basically my only hobby right now, lol)

City Nature Challenge

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Tim Sherratt 5h ago

Webrecorder 10h ago

Want to dive deeper into web archiving? Check out our brand new Resources page which includes helpful guides, reference materials, presentations, and more! https://webrecorder.net/resources

Read more on our blog https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-04-16-our-new-resources-page-for-web-archivists/ and tell us what else you’d like to see in this evolving hub

Resources • Webrecorder

Information, terminology, and resources for archiving and preserving the web.

Webrecorder

Tim Sherratt 5h ago

Kathleen Fitzpatrick 7h ago

The number of vicious insults and outright lies in this “statement” is mind-boggling. https://www.neh.gov/news/update-neh-funding-priorities-and-agencys-recent-implementation-trump-administration-executive

An Update on NEH Funding Priorities and the Agency’s Recent Implementation of Trump Administration Executive Orders

National Endowment for the Humanities

Tim Sherratt 1d ago

provbot 1d ago

Sheet 293 S2283 – A CLASS TRAM No.245 METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY COLOURS SIMPSON STREET SHUNT; TRAMWAY SLIDE - TRAM - A CLASS TRAMS METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY COLOURS; M McLEOD – part of VPRS12907, Photographic Collection: Photographic Prints and Slides:Tramways. https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/15F792CF-F8BB-11E9-AE98-FDBC1A37652B

Public Record Office Victoria Collection | PROV

Tim Sherratt 2d ago

Jens Bemme 2d ago

"How do you connect Wikidata and other projects? Tell us!
We are inviting Wikimedians to share how they use Wikidata in other Wikimedia projects! Do you have a project, workflow, tool, or idea that connects Wikidata with Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, or another #WikidataAndSisterProjects? We’d love to hear your session idea on the Talk page until [now!] April 30th. After which, we’ll review the submissions and create the event schedule", @wikimediaDE. 📝 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_and_Sister_Projects#Sessions

Event:Wikidata and Sister Projects - Wikidata

Tim Sherratt 2d ago

Managed to get a picture of a native bee visiting our backyard – identified as *Callomelitta picta* thanks to iNaturalist: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/271370956 #bees

Painted Callomelitta (Callomelitta picta)

Painted Callomelitta in April 2025 by wragge

iNaturalist Australia

Tim Sherratt 2d ago

Moby Dick 2d ago

Utter confusion exists among the historians

Tim Sherratt 2d ago

Mia 2d ago

TIL that I ❤️ the Crab Museum: 'There are no binaries in nature, and biology, like all sciences, should never be taken for granted or assumed to be "self-explanatory". Even worse, it should never be used to justify weaponised culture war issues. This ruling is an abuse of science.

...there is immense variation between individuals within a biological sex. Biological sex itself (not just gender) is a spectrum – and it really shouldn't be a big deal.'

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2025/04/small-museums-respond-to-uk-supreme-court-gender-ruling/

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