Linkpost: the shameful conclusion of the Rodin saga
https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/la-trahison-du-verdict-sur-les-scans
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Linkpost: Tresigallo listening room
We (unofficially) collaborated on this immersive listening room, check out the explainer article, including the 3D model: https://adrianofarina.it/projects/2026/09/tresigallo/ All the critical parts use Open Source software
BCC Arte & Cultura second edition launch
This morning at the MUDEC in Milan, they presented the new edition of BCC Arte & Cultura, for which we digitized tens of artworks, and created a 3D gallery: here is the official report
Media appearance: Innovazione Pubblica
After we went to SmartExpo in Rho, they wrote about us in the InnovazionePubblica Substack: https://innovazionepubblica.substack.com/p/immergiti-in-un-mondo-di-cultura?r=5gfls9
Linkpost: brilliant 3D webgame
This has been making the rounds of all the popular link aggregators, and it is truly brilliant: https://messenger.abeto.co/ This is truly a reference of everything we're striving for, it's just that we also want to support VR headsets. One of the creators has a talk explaining how they work:
Linkpost: EU Report calls on Member States to accelerate Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
From June 2025: The European Commission has published the report “The Future of Europe’s Past – Why Member States must do more to advance digitisation for Cultural Heritage”. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/eu-report-calls-member-states-accelerate-digitisation-cultural-heritage Direct link to the report: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/8d2435d7-31fe-11f0-8a44-01aa75ed71a1 If you or your organization need help with you Cultural Heritage digitisation efforts, you know where to find us!
Linkpost: Beautiful Public Data
A collection of data, artefacts, and visualisations from American public institutions https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com
Linkpost: on the Vitruvian puzzle debacle
Linkpost: Europeana 2025 videos
A must watch for anyone in the cultural heritage sector
Linkpost: Botticelli v Warhol – 2025 Cultural Heritage Conference in Florence
IP Kat (which is very much the blog to follow on legal news regarding so called intellectual property) published a 2 part guest post summarizing this conference in Florence: Day 1 Day 2
Linkpost: IIIF 3D spec released
Read more in Thomas Flynn's newsletter: https://nebulousflynn.substack.com/p/interoperable-accesible-portable?publication_id=2123354&post_id=166050797&isFreemail=true&r=1r7u5&triedRedirect=true
Linkpost: 10 years of pomological watercolors
10 years ago, Parker Higgins called for the publishing of a collection of pomological watercolors, click through for the details (but this is pretty famous in my corner of the internet): https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors What struck me while reading the 10-year-anniversary post was this quote: Through a handful of FOIA requests I’d learned that the images had […]
Weird pseudoscience on YouTube Shorts – a debunking
Debunking a YouTube video on the Alhambra
New Creative Commons initiative for Cultural Heritage
Creative Commons just launched the new TAROCH initiative, which is closely aligned with our goals. Go read the founding declaration: https://creativecommons.org/2024/11/01/creative-commons-launches-taroch-coalition-for-open-access-to-cultural-heritage/
Unsurprising legal case on commercial use of cultural heritage
This case https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/10/bologna-court-of-appeal-confirms-that.html is consistent with the Italian legislation. We hold that no image right should hold in perpetuity, and we really don't understand which principle the Italian legislation is upholding. The simplest interpretation is that they think that they will create profits for cultural heritage institutions, which certainly could use funding. It doesn't seem […]
AI Linkpost
Short collection of links about AI, and especially local AI
AI Linkpost – 2024-02-06
Local AI Apple open-sourced this interesting local AI for instruction-based image editing. https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile https://github.com/apple/ml-ferret General AI news https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/17/24041518/generative-ai-copyright-violation-fair-training-label-certification: Nonprofit group Fairly Trained plans to certify AI models that ask permission to use copyrighted material. https://moritzgiessmann.de/blog/posts/using-ai-for-accessibility/ https://www.theuxda.com/blog/ux-case-study-ai-powered-spatial-banking-for-apple-vision-pro https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/01/what-do-threads-mastodon-and-hospital-records-have-in-common/ Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home: Hacker News Thread Mixtral 8x7B: A […]
Immersive Web Linkpost – 2024-02-05
https://oniri.space/oniri/homestay_demo/ https://www.brinkxr.com/
Local AI Linkpost
Links to models that you can run yourself. They call them Open Source, which is not exactly accurate, their licenses are more restrictive, but in practice you can used them, even for commercial applications, and you can poke around them quite a bit. We should probably write a tutorial on how to run these models […]
Linkpost: webdev edition
A couple of useful links from and about the web
Tiny linkpost: spatial computing annex
In yesterday's post I neglected to link to a couple of really interesting and accessible essays on spatial interactions, both by Maggie Appleton. In Historical Trails there are wonderful examples on how chronological information can be shifted to a spatial representation, allowing for better and faster retrieval, and more generally for matching the semantics of […]