Notices by thisisaaronland (thisisaaronland@orthis.social)

“Gate accounts don’t publish anything at regular intervals (yet) but if you send them a private message with the text “nearby” they will reply with the list of galleries, exhibitions and public art that are within walking distance of that gate’s waiting area. The nearby functionality is derived from the SFO Museum Wayfinding system so each item listed also contains a link showing how to get there from the gate you’re “talking” to. “ – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2024/11/12/activitypub/

@evan @OldManToast there is a whole body of work from the before times about and around the idea of “social objects” / sadly those efforts mostly sputtered out for reasons best saved for tears-in-beers hour / but in the meantime it remains a conversation worth revisiting

@evan that object has not been published to the collection website yet / despite some perfectly reasonable “wait, but if…” questions / it does suggest that it should be possible to make a web finger-style query to an accession number though

@evan we also haven’t automated AP account creation when an object is published yet / all the AP stuff has been left to “bake” for a while to see how it holds up and to make room for other things / but I hope to spend some more time with it soon

@evan I am working on it / it’s not a technology problem – https://aaronland.info/weblog/2022/06/17/expectations/#usf-049

@evan @Edent the spec, such as it is, says the value / being everything after “=“ / can be anything including I suppose a whole other machine tag

@Edent @evan the “path_hierarchy” tokenizer makes it much easier to implement general purpose compound query and wildcard machine tag indexing and searching in open/elastic search these days / postgres etc still has the “left most index” problem to support all the possibilities unless something has changed recently – https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-opensearch/blob/ee737f8b52501a9fbb69bb48de39f0586c1b36af/schema/2.x/mappings.spelunker.json#L62

@Edent @evan neither approach solves the interpreting values question which still needs to happen in code and convention / the long-really-long version is here – https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2010/04/14/structure/#mw2010

@evan tell:me=more

@evan paging @simon to the courtesy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyrd conference phone

have you ever wanted / a "simpler and dumber geojson.io" but for geoparquet files / I did, so now it has started to exist – https://github.com/sfomuseum/go-geoparquet-show

@ricmac @laurenshof @evan I am working on it / the challenge is not technical (we could do it yesterday) so much as organizational (and not limited to sfo museum) / and then further complicated by concerns over who has the authority to speak on behalf of those works particularly in the case of living artists / and if you think that museums should proactively work to facilitate those voices on behalf of artists and their estates / then we agree – https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2022/06/17/expectations/#usf-049

@jessamyn @anildash there is a whole other side-car (clown-car?) discussion about whether or not a limit on the number of photos in a gallery is meaningful / but the motivation behind the “galleries” project at flickr was to explicitly try and push back against the fetishization and dysfunction of the “explore” and “interestingness” algorithms / and demonstrate to people that their understanding of the site was better than robot-eyes or math / https://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/09/14/galleries-unleash-your-inner-curator/ and https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2010/04/05/milkshake/#buckets

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" – https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf

I have a question for activitypub peoples: When writing and delivering posts by “hand” 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

"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." – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2024/03/12/activitypub/

@evan see also: https://aaronland.info/weblog/2017/10/17/things/#nacis

@lmorchard @evan @simon @luis_in_brief it seems as though there is a need for a privatesquare-style client that double-posts first to a local archive and then on to a specific instance / the fact that very few people have the interest or the bandwidth to manage their own archives or tooling explains a lot about where we are though/ fun fact: at this point you enter colliding-identifiers territory which, in the case of privatesquare, gave birth to “artisanal integers” – https://github.com/straup/privatesquare