Cultural Digital #227
Games, publishing, and lots more.
Hello
I usually do my best to try and group the links in this email into a few nice, orderly categories but this week I’ve failed.
There’s a bunch of things to do with the publishing industry, but otherwise a whole load of other stuff. It’s good stuff though. And some games, because we all like games.
4 new games and experiments from Google Arts & Culture to inspire your summer. One has you matching AI-generated music to the correct artwork. There’s a special edition of One Minute Guides with the Cleveland Museum of Art. And I’ll let you discover the others.
Publishing
No one buys books. Elle Griffin on "everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ". Included here cos there's a lot about Amazon (but mostly because the stats in here are fascinating).
Break up with your X. "Without naming names, let’s look at the engagement that major publishing industry accounts are truly getting from their followers on X."
Survey Results: Audiences and Generative AI and the Comic Book Industry The AMT team with some “first-person research through the generation of an AI comic and a survey conducted on unsuspecting comic book customers”.
Rebind "records original commentary and then uses AI to distribute that commentary into interactive conversations with readers in our e-reading web experience."
Other
Introducing our new website. Trish Thomas breaks down some aspects of the new website for the (newly named) London Museum. And here's some more about how it's using AI to power content relationships.
User Research: UK Gallery, Library, Archive and Museum (GLAM) Digital Collections Infrastructure. This report is "a user consultation to identify researchers' needs and requirements, helping to define what should be included in a future UK digital collections infrastructure".
The GLAM-E Lab "works directly with GLAM institutions to develop open access solutions accessible to the wider community of Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums".
Data in art and culture a chat between Hannah Redler-Hawes (Director, Data as Culture art programme and Associate Curator) and Dr Denis Newman-Griffis (University of Sheffield).
Futurespaces “Futurespaces is a community charting the future of experience design” and it has a museums strand.
HD Consulting › Attract Connect Engage "is a brand new, easy-to-use tool from Helen Dunnett Consulting that helps you clarify your exact CRM/ticketing requirements, matches you with system supplier".
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