Never forget that the U.S. can always find money for war, but not for education, health care, or to help those in need. This is 100% a choice. And it is 100% the wrong one. www.csis.org/analysis/37-...
A conference slide asking "What is Digital Preservaton?" The slide answers with a definition from the DPC: "The series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary." The slide annotates this definition: "managed activities": Multiple copies, Format normalization, Virus checks, Fixity checks, Metadata, Cybersecurity, Digitization, Web archiving, Policy "continued access": The overall goal is long-term access. "digital materials": Any digital file: websites, emails, photos, spreadsheets, etc. "as long as necessary": The digital lifecycle can include deaccessioning.
I really love this annotated definition of #digipres that Natasha Fisher (digital archivist at arquives.ca) gave at #c4l26.
In fact, I'm so fond of it that I've printed it out and put it on the bulletin board by my desk!
Care to elaborate?
"Χ§Χ°ΧΧ¨" I love it!
teaching about morphology today which meant making my linguistics students scream the word PHILAFUCKINGDELPHIA at me in unison to show how we can predict where the FUCKING goes based on which syllable is stressed
Apply to join my team by 3/16!
Be the Library of Virginia's born-digital collections coordinator, leading planning and management of electronic gov/manuscript records. We're looking for a techie archivist type who can help improve access to our born-digital wonders.
$78k-$88k in Richmond VA.
there are two kinds of historians: historians who need to stop reading and write, and historians who need to stop writing and read
a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair
David Attenborough [whispering]:
βAs the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not manβs role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.β
5. There are criticisms of LLMs that are much more plausible. They are built on a large scale expropriation of the intellectual commons. Demonstrably true! They involve a radical and extremely worrying derangement of power relations in favor of a tiny number of men with weird beliefs. Also true imo.
Someone on Code4Lib prompted me to create an additional meme
Someone on Code4Lib prompted me to create an additional meme
Less "don't really like" and more "don't really get or appreciate"
cc @amandalicastro.bsky.social
Slide-show slide with the following text: - What knowledge or skills are lost when we use Al to perform our own work and support the work of others? - In what ways are we undermining the capacity to engage in scholarship and conversations about cultural heritage? - How does Al usage contradict our institutional missions and values? - What legacy are we leaving for future library and archives workers, stewards, and patrons?
Amazing talk at #c4l26 by Yaleβs Summer Shetenhelm on the ethics of AI within libraries
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I bring a sort of "[Why does digitization have to involve creating more metadata?]" vibe to [the digitization breakout group] that [some library workers] don't really like](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:szwpkr7x7t7ujs2adzmsywxp/bafkreihwnjlcohdv3jtaunur7zreokdeetaurhn34gcoxgjg4eqeriyy3m@jpeg)
Meme in the "I bring a sort of '___' vibe" template, with the following text: I bring a sort of "[Why does digitization have to involve creating more metadata?]" vibe to [the digitization breakout group] that [some library workers] don't really like
Iβll say this for geocentrismβit may be wrong, but it makes it much easier to reason about the sky
Glad to have my mental pronunciation confirmed
A prime example of enshittification is the decreasing value of Boolean searching. If there are no results for the thing I am searching for, the site gives me sort-of-relevant results anyway because it wants me to stay on the site, to buy something, to keep my eyeballs on its products.
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
"LLMs strip provenance from knowledge. Systematically, architecturally and by design. And in so doing, AI systems are creating a form of knowledge network decay that degrades the knowledge infrastructures that human civilization rely upon." [β¦]
cataloging in the 21st century
how about machine yearning for once.
I'm told that the East Coast of the US (including Boston) will experience a rare event, the selenelion when the rising sun and the setting moon will be visible at the same time, at around 6 AM Tuesday March 3.
www.wcvb.com/article/rare...
At Cornell, librarians are investigating how vendors are tracking patrons and putting that information library catalog to better inform them. π #code4lib #c4l26
A number of pages and sites removed recently from .gov sites now have archives viewable at govarchive.us - just substitute "govarchive.us" for "gov" in the URL that doesn't seem to work any more, and see what you find! https://govarchive.us/ #c4l26
20 years of creating digital surrogates at the independently run, community focused queer archives in Canada- bit rot, human error/malice, natural disaster, viruses, and all the managed activities that work to preserve them against the tide of time and change #c4l26 #code4lib
arquives.ca
Nightingale explicates the Black press as infrastructure (a robust system with redundancies, distribution) and explains how digitization has the potential to support or obscure that infrastructure. π #code4lib #c4l26
Reminding myself as well as others to a) consider the source and b) not circulate unconfirmed news
"When a 65-year-old tree in Parkerβs front yard died of oak wilt, he cut the trunk into βwood cookiesβ + transformed them into playable records, each encoded with migratory birdsong... The project emerged from Parkerβs recognition that his grief for the tree echoed the loss of his father to cancer"
