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Evan Prodromou

I loved this postcard of our bison herd at the SFO Airport Museum but I wish it had an ActivityPub ID

A postcard with a herd of bison
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OldManToast

@evan this is the second time you've mentioned this concept. For me, a basic low tier user of mastodon, can you explain what you mean by this?

Evan Prodromou

@OldManToast @thisisaaronland did an amazing project coding ActivityPub identities for the entire collection of the SFO Airport Museum. Blog post here: millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/

Mills Field, a SFO Museum websiteHolding Hands with the "Fediverse" – ActivityPub at SFO MuseumSFO Museum has joined the “Fediverse”. We have begun to operate a series of automated “bot” accounts that are published using the ActivityPub protocols which can be subscribed to from any client, like Mastodon, that supports those standards. These are automated, low-frequency, accounts and they currently only support a limited set of interactions: Accounts can be followed or unfollowed, individual posts can be “liked”, “boosted” or replied to but those replies will not be answered (yet) or published on the SFO Museum websites. To get started we’ve created three “groups” of accounts: Things which have happened recently involving the SFO Museum Aviation Collection; Things which have happened in the terminals (new and old) and; Things from the collection which are related to flights in and out of SFO.
Sep 29, 2024, 03:38 PM·Public·Phanpy
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Evan Prodromou

@OldManToast @thisisaaronland the joke is that as we stand in 2024, I am one of the few people on the planet who look at an inanimate object and say, "That thing should be on the Fediverse." So when I get a chance to do it, *and that thing is actually on the Fediverse*, it is wonderful.

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Evan Prodromou

@OldManToast @thisisaaronland unfortunately I haven't gotten good at finding the IDs. I think @onview posts them regularly, but otherwise I don't know how to find them. Others have shown some to me, though.

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thisisaaronland

@evan @OldManToast @onview as mentioned for objects on display “it’s complicated” for museum-reasons no one outside the museum hula hoop should ever have to think about / for objects on the collection website the IDs and addresses are included in the metadata section / aliases for accession numbers are forthcoming which will not solve but ameliorate the first problem / meanwhile my kingdom for a mailto:-style URI scheme for AP addresses…

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thisisaaronland

@evan @OldManToast there is a whole body of work from the before times about and around the idea of “social objects” / sadly those efforts mostly sputtered out for reasons best saved for tears-in-beers hour / but in the meantime it remains a conversation worth revisiting

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Evan Prodromou

@thisisaaronland @OldManToast I really like the work @tomcoates did at Thington with putting objects on Twitter. I hope we get a chance to do similar projects at @swf .

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OldManToast

@evan @thisisaaronland I think I remember seeing something about this before, I'll have to read up on it. On a much smaller scale, I do think the fediverse needs something that helps collectors organize, display and share their collections of choice. Looking forward to reading the blog article to learn more about the goals and implementation

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