Jonas Heide Smith
@jonassmith.dk
Let’s think about cultural heritage and how to do digital in museums. Head of Digital at SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark). #openglam
Personal web: https://jonassmith.dk
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Jonas Heide Smith
@jonassmith.dk
· Nov 18
Hi friends, I'm an open cultural heritage enthusiast/evangelist who tends to talk about open access, copyright, digital museums and all things #openglam 🤗
Working on new world map view for the museum's online collection (AKA open.smk.dk/en/) 🗺️
Moving from Google Maps to @openstreetmap.bsky.social while we're at it.
#musetech
Moving from Google Maps to @openstreetmap.bsky.social while we're at it.
#musetech
November 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Working on new world map view for the museum's online collection (AKA open.smk.dk/en/) 🗺️
Moving from Google Maps to @openstreetmap.bsky.social while we're at it.
#musetech
Moving from Google Maps to @openstreetmap.bsky.social while we're at it.
#musetech
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Hi5 was an early social platform, launched in 2003. Americans mostly ignored it. Big in Latin America & Southeast Asia with tens of millions of users at its peak, today it’s mostly social games & dating.
Check out your favorite websites with the #WaybackMachine: web.archive.org
🧵
#Wayback1T
Check out your favorite websites with the #WaybackMachine: web.archive.org
🧵
#Wayback1T
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hi5 was an early social platform, launched in 2003. Americans mostly ignored it. Big in Latin America & Southeast Asia with tens of millions of users at its peak, today it’s mostly social games & dating.
Check out your favorite websites with the #WaybackMachine: web.archive.org
🧵
#Wayback1T
Check out your favorite websites with the #WaybackMachine: web.archive.org
🧵
#Wayback1T
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Love these. What reads as “lighting” is largely attributable to the different photographic designs and constraints of the period. Uncorrected aberrations, uncoated lenses w/reduced contrast and veiling flare, lower-contrast film, inconsistent lens element arrangement, glowing highlights wide open…
petition to return to black-and-white portraits with 1930s lighting for all faculty photos from now on
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Love these. What reads as “lighting” is largely attributable to the different photographic designs and constraints of the period. Uncorrected aberrations, uncoated lenses w/reduced contrast and veiling flare, lower-contrast film, inconsistent lens element arrangement, glowing highlights wide open…
Open access art: At SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst we just redesigned our themes/collections of artworks on our online collection to make them more useful. 👉 open.smk.dk/en/themes
Next up: Transparent display of AI-generated metadata.
#openglam #musetech
Next up: Transparent display of AI-generated metadata.
#openglam #musetech
November 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Open access art: At SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst we just redesigned our themes/collections of artworks on our online collection to make them more useful. 👉 open.smk.dk/en/themes
Next up: Transparent display of AI-generated metadata.
#openglam #musetech
Next up: Transparent display of AI-generated metadata.
#openglam #musetech
Strange light effect while trying to straighten out new apartment last night 🔦
October 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Strange light effect while trying to straighten out new apartment last night 🔦
Strange light effect while trying to straighten out new apartment last night
October 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Strange light effect while trying to straighten out new apartment last night
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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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To say this is a problem is a gigantic understatement. We live in the golden age of AI slop. Hopefully we will soon gain the right control the algorithms that control our online life in order to filter out AI slop to a large degree.
October 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
New apartment loading…
October 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
New apartment loading…
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Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee
Why I gave the world wide web away for free
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Canoers hovering above above the merman sculpture in Copenhagen Harbor
September 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Canoers hovering above above the merman sculpture in Copenhagen Harbor
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Med et anspændt forhold til USA bør Danmark styrke sin evne til at forsvare sig selv og arbejde for at blive mindre afhængig af Microsoft, mener to forskere.
Endnu et europæisk militær dropper Microsoft: Eksperter har klar anbefaling til Danmark | Version2
Med et anspændt forhold til USA bør Danmark styrke sin evne til at forsvare sig selv og arbejde for at blive mindre afhængig af Microsoft. Sådan lyder opfordringen fra to forskere, efter Østrigs…
www.version2.dk
September 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Med et anspændt forhold til USA bør Danmark styrke sin evne til at forsvare sig selv og arbejde for at blive mindre afhængig af Microsoft, mener to forskere.
AI over-correction
September 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
AI over-correction
Uhyggeligt #chatkontrol
Sidder Peter Hummelgaard på sit ministerkontor og radikaliserer sig selv?
Med en ny europæisk chatkontrol skal staten have ret til at overvåge alle borgere i jagten på kriminelle. Peter Hummelgaard er foregangsmand i noget, der minder om en radikalisering af statskontrol, s...
politiken.dk
September 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Uhyggeligt #chatkontrol
We're rethinking on-site digital for SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst.
The future is bring-your-own-device based, QR based and extremely data-driven.
We can't wait to get started and there's even a blogpost (!)
#musetech
The future is bring-your-own-device based, QR based and extremely data-driven.
We can't wait to get started and there's even a blogpost (!)
#musetech
Building a digital museum guide that guests may actually want
We believe that our upcoming digital service will create an inclusive, personal and altogether useful companion for the SMK guest. But on...
write.as
September 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
We're rethinking on-site digital for SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst.
The future is bring-your-own-device based, QR based and extremely data-driven.
We can't wait to get started and there's even a blogpost (!)
#musetech
The future is bring-your-own-device based, QR based and extremely data-driven.
We can't wait to get started and there's even a blogpost (!)
#musetech
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Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI.
🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...
🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...
Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books
It’s a trippy time to have a library card.
www.404media.co
September 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI.
🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...
🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...
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Everything is going fine, Google claims.
Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’
One Google exec recently said the web is “thriving.”
www.theverge.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Everything is going fine, Google claims.
Sudden surge in US web visitors on open.smk.dk = AI scrapers messing around...
September 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Sudden surge in US web visitors on open.smk.dk = AI scrapers messing around...
Long live Wikipedia
Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
www.theverge.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Long live Wikipedia
Probably the dinner I’m most happy about not having been invited to
Tech leaders take turns flattering Trump at White House dinner
“Thank you for being such a pro-business and pro-innovation president.”
www.theverge.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Probably the dinner I’m most happy about not having been invited to
Big tech is way too big
Google fined $3.5 billion by EU for ad tech abuse
The EU and the US want a Google ad tech breakup.
www.theverge.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Big tech is way too big
Do androids dream of electric paint? 🤖
For the next SMK Fridays event on 12 September (where we'll open our new Surrealism exhibition) we're asking machines to dream about the museum collection.
In Copenhagen? Drop by! 🤗
👉 www.smk.dk/en/event/smk...
For the next SMK Fridays event on 12 September (where we'll open our new Surrealism exhibition) we're asking machines to dream about the museum collection.
In Copenhagen? Drop by! 🤗
👉 www.smk.dk/en/event/smk...
September 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Do androids dream of electric paint? 🤖
For the next SMK Fridays event on 12 September (where we'll open our new Surrealism exhibition) we're asking machines to dream about the museum collection.
In Copenhagen? Drop by! 🤗
👉 www.smk.dk/en/event/smk...
For the next SMK Fridays event on 12 September (where we'll open our new Surrealism exhibition) we're asking machines to dream about the museum collection.
In Copenhagen? Drop by! 🤗
👉 www.smk.dk/en/event/smk...