Why are archives important? So many reasons - & lots begin with E!
For evidence. For education. For exploration. For enjoyment. For emotions. For everyone.
This year we're also celebrating a vital reason beginning with J:
For justice.
#InternationalArchivesDay #IAD #IAD2026 #ArchivesForJustice
Saw a Roman aqueduct today..was quite impressed 😮😉
The astonishing C1st AD Pont du Gard in Provence, built to provide Roman Nimes with water as part of a 30 mile network. No mortar used - and still standing 1900 years later
Incredible engineering
📷 My own, today
Do you know of studies that actually evaluate use of LLMs in the public sector or other kinds of knowledge work? Teknologirådet in Norway just published a report evaluating their own use of LLMs, based on careful logs from 35 cases. teknologiradet.no/publication/...
Please obey the rules. Yesterday a pilot was overstimulated on a digestive biscuit and did a barrel roll on the way to Alicante. Thank you.
Am already regretting my decision to go with an uncomplimentary phrase about the software developer (which it actually accepted). Only because it's 30 characters long though.
Many thanks to the @dhlabexeter.bsky.social intern, Evelyn, for all her hard work digitising our collections!
Teknologirådet har gjennom 35 case dokumentert og vurdert bruk av KI i vårt eget arbeid med teknologivurdering, blant annet til kartlegging av eksperter og aktører, horisontskanning, utvikling av scen...
teknologiradet.no
The Universe could not possibly work like that, he thought, cannot possibly. That, he thought to himself, would be as absurd as... he terminated that line of thinking. Most of the really absurd things he could think of had already happened.
