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Librarian/Archivist interested in digital culture and preservation
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ICYMI: "highlighting the newfound ability to search inside digitized books and manuscripts effortlessly and extract Syriac and Arabic texts." digitalorientalist.com/2024/12/17/r...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

submitted 24 days ago • 45 comments

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

submitted 31 days ago • 893 comments

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

submitted 31 days ago • 69 comments

Scans for the memories: why old games magazines are a vital source of cultural history – and nostalgia www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that Deepseek R1 was released three days /before/ Stargate means these guys stood in front of Trump and said they needed half a trillion dollars while they knew R1 was open source and trained for $5M. Beautiful.

submitted 34 days ago • 414 comments

If you (or a kid) would like to show your support for fixing copyright law, you can get EFF’s new member shirt. Kids sizes in our store. Eff.org/steamboat.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

🌍💻 RightsStatements.org provides standardized rights statements to clarify the legal status of online collections, facilitating reuse. At CNI, interim steering group members discuss finding a new organizational home after the original consortia disbanded. Watch at:

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Robert Binkley's 1936 "Manual on Methods of Reproducing Research Materials" is relevant to modern issues about technology, scholarly publishing, and digital preservation. I'm really enjoying this online edition. pbinkley.github.io/rcb-manual/ #scholarlycommunication #digitalpreservation #libraries

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

The overlap between those who believe AGI is near and those advocating for expanded H1-B programs to bolster labor pools is an interesting cross section

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments