A bit like a bit that’s a bit like a sesame seed

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May 31, 2022

Climbing Mount Indigestible

I previously introduced the work I’d done with the Rupert Shepherd at the National Gallery on a publication…

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May 31, 2022

Catalogues to TEI to HTML at the National Gallery

Last week, Rupert Shepherd and I (but very much more Rupert than I) gave a paper at the CIDOC 2021(sic) conference in Talinn — or in our cases, with much regret, in our home offices. The subject was a project that Rupert has been driving for a…

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May 12, 2019

Drunk in the dark on the high-wire

This is the start of a new series of posts on the themes of…

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Apr 11, 2019

How (cookie) consent management works

This is episode six of the Great Cookie Conundrum series, and we’re getting down to business. We’ve seen a few good and bad implementations in previous posts, but if you looking at using a cookie control/management tool on your website, what do you need to look…

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Mar 11, 2019

Judgement day

In episode five of the Great Cookie Conundrum series I get opinionated. “Oh at last!” you cry. It’s a quick trip of a variety of bad…

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Mar 11, 2019

Giving back control

In the fourth post in the Great Cookie Conundrum series we’ll get explicit about what you need to do to make your site one of the good guys, and what’s more to make it legal.

In previous posts we looked at how the use of cookies and related tech is affected by GDPR…

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Mar 4, 2019

Technologists and ethos

Recently Koven Smith blogged a thought-provoking article that he’d contributed to Museum about the seeming absence of ethical concerns from too many decisions about the use of technology in museums. “At museums”, he wrote, “technologists once built solutions largely from scratch; now…