James Grimster

Our cross sector Collections platform has prebuilt pipelines for Modes, Adlib, Mimsy, CALM, EMu, MuseumPlus, HBSMR, AtoM as well as XML and CSV

We have a final festive flourish to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the MA website! Every day for the next 24 days we'll be releasing a new hi-res majolica artwork onto the blog - that's a bit fancier than your average advent calendar, eh?! 🎄🗓️🎄 themintonarchive.org.uk/10au-the-majol…

Discover historic objects, photographs and documents cared for by museums and #Archives in the Black Country #ArchivesWM @SocietyCountry blackcountryhistory.org

We may be closed but you can still view items from our collections from the comfort of your own home. We've got almost 40,000 items held in our collections and are working on photographing them and adding them to our online collections website: collection.tamworthcastle.co.uk #Heritage

@Annemarieward @Kate4BelleVue Put your site on a free CloudFlare plan cloudflare.com/en-gb/plans/ - then add a WAF rule on wp-comments-post.php to managed-challenge bots and maybe outside of UK traffic.

@Kate4BelleVue Thank you Kate, that means a lot.

🚨 ALERT: Our Website Under Attack! 🚨 In the last two weeks, we've seen over 500 spam comments flood our website—an unusual surge, on the explainer page about the right to recovery bill - coinciding with the critical timing of the Right to Recovery Bill #OorBill being debated by ministers in the Scottish Parliament. This timing is more than coincidental, and we believe these deliberate scams are attempting to undermine our advocacy. We need your help! If you have insights into where these spams may be coming from or advice on effectively blocking them, please reach out. Your support in keeping our website secure and accessible for everyone is crucial to our mission. Let’s make sure these tactics don’t overshadow the real conversation about recovery and our right to treatment. Here is the page they are deliberately attacking facesandvoicesofrecoveryuk.org/the-right-to-r…

In your travels from Shrewsbury to London @JBuckleyLabour , have you experienced the dangerous levels of overcrowding at Euston, with the changes to the departure boards into advertising and the new screens crushing the crowds together? @LouHaigh ? @NetworkRailEUS

@CStanleyDirect hello, you are aware that systems are down right now on the website; backend servers connections failed?

Had a lovely evening catching up with friends and colleagues in that London at the launch of the new Museums Data Service, an exciting new platform for the sector.

Twenty years working with archives and I still spell hierarchy wrong all the time.

@JBuckleyLabour Congratulations Julia

It’s a warm summer’s evening here in #shrewsbury , the garden has lots of flowers. There are no bees, hoverflies, wasps, butterflies or anything. Frankly, a bit scary. If this lack of pollinators is country wide, next year will be the same and UK food production will crash.

@dPreservation @Preservica Thanks Jon. Here we are using Preservica's excellent ContentAPI , complete with Search Within to create render display packages of folders. We use Archives Card login to onboard users into the session, and access levels to Access Copy assets is controlled through CALM metadata.

Very impressive example of combining @Preservica #DigitalPreservation into a complete solution for organisational record keeping.

Finally live after many months of hard work is West Sussex Record Office; with @ARAUK_IE Archives Card sign in, PAYG @Preservica access, shop with events ticket sales, and search room booking with document orders & CALM record SEO. wsro.org.uk

@WestSussexRO Working on wsro.org.uk has been a fantastic project - features ARA Archives Card login facility too!

@PeterReavill @shroppiemon @ShropArchives All is well. We’ve a lot of HLF funded sites decades old and we are working on digital preservation techniques for archiving them, challenging as they are dynamic, but we’ve found a way to maintain access, whilst stored in the archive.

@ojleaf @shroppiemon @ShropArchives Hope all is well in orange leaf land.

@ShropArchives hello is this a permanent thing?

@shroppiemon @PeterReavill @ShropArchives Fear not friends, human error means that the domain is waiting to be renewed, the legacy of credit cards and councils! All will still be available, but we will be aiming to create an accessible archive of it so it doesn’t have to rely on domain renewals in the future.

@PeterReavill @ShropArchives @ojleaf I’ve got most of the easily obtainable books , it’s the older expensive blighters I need now, but Shroppieoomon did buy me these so she canna mind too much

Installing an ANPR noise camera in #shrewsbury town centre could be a real moneyspinner for @ShropCouncil @ShrewsburyTC

If the Guildhall in #Shrewsbury is no longer to be used by the Uni, SCC can use it, and no longer need to build addition offices for the Council as part of Riverside development? Perhaps Riverside could be used for subsidised social rental accom rather than private landlords?

Hello @IKEAUK : would it be possible for you to redirect telephone callers of old number to your new Customer Services number, rather than just have a message reading out the new number which is 1 digit different from ours? 😃

@NickPoole1 You are asking if your wife is right?

My wife believes she has single-handedly turned me into a viable adult human being. I contend that I was one already and have remained so, despite her best efforts. Twitter, who is right?

Well, it seems WooCommerce 8.6.0 is a bit FUBAR on some custom themes, products only show headings, no details or anything else. Cue frantic debugging.