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Virtual Heritage

@virtualheritage

Museum professional turned Software Manager tweeting on museums, heritage, digital media, tech, open info/data and combinations of them all.

 Gothenburg, Sweden
Joined March 2010
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Europeana@Europeanaeu16 Mar 2022
"As a public collection we believe in making access to collections data-free and open, and now have further evidence that we will maximise impact by doing so." Learn how the Natural History Museum in London saw the economic value of digitising collections. bit.ly/3i9tnOU
Digitiser Robyn Crowther scanning drawers of Carabidae beetles in the London Natural History Museum, as part of its digitisation process

ALT Digitiser Robyn Crowther scanning drawers of Carabidae beetles in the London Natural History Museum, as part of its digitisation process

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@yadvashem16 Mar 2022
The Jewish holiday of Purim begins tonight Explore our online exhibition, which features original artifacts and photographs of European Jews celebrating the holiday before, during, and after the Holocaust Learn more: ow.ly/87zr50IeSx4
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Hearing, unbelievably, that public libraries are open in #Ukraine and serving the public as makeshift shelters, places of information and support. Some are even maintaining children's activities & IT support for the elderly. These people are incredible #StandWithUkraine
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Not sure how to tell you this friends, but the Ukrainian Librarians are at it again. Day 6 of the invasion, they have ANNOUNCED THE LAUNCH OF A NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY. More on their FB facebook.com/ula.org.ua/ #StandWithUkraine #Nails
Українська бібліотечна асоціація/Ukrainian Library Association

Українська бібліотечна асоціація/Ukrainian Library Association

Українська бібліотечна асоціація/Ukrainian Library Association. 23,883 followers · 1,118 talking about this. Незалежна всеукраїнська громадська організація, яка об'єднує фахівців та прихильників...

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Yad Vashem
@yadvashem24 Feb 2022
#OTD 24 Feb. 1942, Jewish refugee ship the Struma was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine off of the Turkish coast, resulting in the loss of almost 800 passengers & crew. There was only 1 survivor. Explore our new online exhibition of the Struma tragedy: ow.ly/EiFE50HXssi
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Hasan Bakhshi@hasanbakhshi9 Feb 2019
Heritage attractions and immersive experiences: “We assumed that more visual experiences would need less narrative, but the opposite is actually true. Visitors saw information as important regardless of the mode of delivery.” theconversation.com/tourist-… via @ConversationUK
Tourist attractions are being transformed by immersive experiences – some lessons from Scotland

Tourist attractions are being transformed by immersive experiences – some lessons from Scotland

Want to travel to 1314 and see Robert the Bruce slaying an English knight? Why step this way, madam.

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Open Culture
@openculture3 Jun 2017
The Met Restores Colors of an Ancient Egyptian Temple, With Projection Mapping Technology goo.gl/enqW0T
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Talking Pyramids💬@Bennu12 Mar 2017
Explore the collection of Language Tools on Pyramid Texts Online: bit.ly/2mdwrtK #hieroglyphs #Egyptian #language #dictionary
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museweb@museweb10 Feb 2017
Nod to museums "collecting" online culture and the fragile nature of digital, featuring @sebchan @textfiles #museweb bit.ly/2lwwXmP
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We're releasing an entire English version of the Talmud free under a @creativecommons license! Learn more here: bit.ly/2lk6kSc
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open past@OpenAccessArch29 Jan 2017
ArchSeries: an R package for transparent estimation of chronological frequency distributions #EAAVilnius2016 youtu.be/Wp88QhPXKeQ?a
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Archaeology in Iraq@AinIraq27 Jan 2017
⭕ #Iraq/i authorities find more than 100 plundered #Assyrian artefacts hidden in an #ISIS leader’s house in #Mosul telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01…
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Iconem@iconem20 Jan 2017
Sad news for the #syrianheritage. Daesh just destroyed 2 major monuments of #palmyra according to @SANAEnOfficial middleeasteye.net/news/islam…
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5 years later, the victory against SOPA reminds us that securing a free and open Internet depends on us. medium.com/@stayfree/the-day…
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Kicking off #CopyrightWeek 2017! The public domain and 5 things not covered by copyright goo.gl/ipQhOo
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TF 🌊@EthereumFDN10 Jan 2017
Public Domain Project Calls on EU to Abandon Piracy Filter Proposals dlvr.it/N4VvXV
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What Can Virtual Reality Bring To Art? huffingtonpost.co.uk/jessy-j… #vr
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melissa terras@melissaterras13 Dec 2016
"Digitally reconstructing the Great Parchment Book: 3D recovery of fire-damaged historical documents" academic.oup.com/dsh/article…
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museweb@museweb4 Jan 2017
Just posted! Free #Storytelling toolkit for editing, collecting, distributing audio/video. #bHereMainSt #museweb bit.ly/2hSt9ND
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We've added more MuseumNext presentations from our recent New York conference to our website museumnext.com/insight/
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