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Want to work on ethical human-centered AI and Archives? Interested in the Colored Conventions and what the nineteenth century teaches us? Apply! Please share! @digblk.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social #blackademics

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I'm excited to share, 📚 "The Public Interest Corpus: An Update and Opportunities for Co-Development"📚! We have a kickoff event in early March, and plan to engage with many stakeholders over the next 12 months. Please reach out if you'd like to learn more! publicinterestcorpus.org/the-public-i...

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We're hiring at the @digblk.bsky.social! Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote! Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Yesterday, Clarivate announced that they will, "phase-out perpetual purchases of digital collections, print, and digital books for libraries". This is deeply troubling. Looking at Clarivate Earnings Calls, this was being signaled as recently as November 2024. clarivate.com/news/clariva...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Created a high-quality dataset that others can rely on? Nominate it for the Best Dataset prize! We're recognising datasets with clear documentation, adherence to FAIR principles, and significant contributions to research. #CDCSPrizes edin.ac/3j3e1fr

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I submitted the following piece as an afterword for “Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organizations” (UCL Press June 2025) last Fall. I think it holds up! open.substack.com/pub/thomaspa...

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Who are the best historians writing about the present moment?

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

My take in @willoremus.com ‘s latest on DeepSeek and how poor regulation is just as bad as no regulation. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

What are y'alls favorite weird acronyms? Mine is probs FADGI. I imagine a stylish dude whenever I read it. 😎

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

I'm hard pressed to find a better opening to a record than Arcade Fire's Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

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I’ve recently started a role as Public Interest AI Strategist, working to develop a “public-interest AI training commons for books”. If that’s of interest please do reach out! www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/05/d...

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The 2nd Cir has fully rejected the dubious claims brought by major record labels against Vimeo over music in user videos, a case that the DMCA safe harbors were designed to block. A child born the year this suit was filed can legally drive a car today. project-disco.org/intellectual...

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We've expanded our DOT program internationally! We are teaming up with the UK AHRC and the BRAID program to bring you BDOT. If a US humanities scholar/team wishes to collaborate with colleagues in the UK to study AI from a humanities perspective, check this out.

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Just hit 3 pay walls in a row trying to read about the fires in LA.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

While the conversation around digital sovereignty took off theoretically over the past ten years, no country has shifted its practice to create, adopt, fund, and sustain open technologies at a national level.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

What are y’all looking forward to in 2025? I got a new coffeemaker I’m pretty pumped about tbh.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

This was not the Christmas Eve reading I wanted, but it sure is an instructive story. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to get this new dataset on Data Foundry over the finish line before the break: the Scottish Book Trade Index, which includes names, trades and addresses of people involved in printing in Scotland up to 1850. doi.org/10.34812/p9y...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

I really like the way the National Library of Luxembourg BnL has pre-made starter, dev, sample, OCR, machine learning etc downloads of their digitised newspapers https://data.bnl.lu/data/historical-newspapers/ #newspapers #CollectionsAsData

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_. You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers. muse.jhu.edu/book/123276

submitted 79 days ago • 17 comments