For the second year, the Sovereign Tech Agency and the United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies are convening open source maintainers in New York for a maintain-a-thon: bringing together the experts building and maintaining critical digital infrastructure. The showed across projects, communities, and borders. While every project is different, participants discovered that many of the challenges they face in the open source ecosystem are shared. They learned from each other's... Read more ›
A sudden shutdown of the PreHos electronic patient care record platform is forcing about 22 of Ontario’s paramedic services to rapidly switch vendors or revert to paper documentation, Sault Ste. Marie officials say Read more ›
This paper presents a robust methodology for the systematic digitization and encoding of the Al-Mawrid Arabic-English dictionary, transforming it from a legacy print resource into a standardized computational lexicon. Addressing a significant gap in Arabic lexical infrastructure, the study adopts a dual-standard framing that aligns the ISO Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) with the Text Encoding Initiative TEI Lex-0 guidelines. By applying an edito... Read more ›
NEW RESOURCES The Decoder: Website “In the Weights” shows whether AI models know who you are. “Those ‘weights’ are billions of numerical values where AI models encode their knowledge. If you show […] Read more ›
Is there a lower cost way to retain BIM and project records without keeping legacy systems running? How can Digital Preservation cut construction IT costs? Read more ›
Seven summer reads from Western alumni, faculty and staff include IsThis a Cry for Help? by Emily Austin and My Person by Tea Mutonji. Read more ›
Often when I use the term RSS feeds it will link to this page. In the coming weeks and months I’m going to talk a lot about RSS feeds. I want to be clear, that it is a short hand for RSS, Atom and RDF. It makes the writing flow better, and it gives me […] Read more ›
The EU's Tech Sovereignty Package puts open source at the center of Europe's sovereignty agenda. But by narrowing the strategy to code and leaving non-code Digital Commons and data out of scope, it risks building on incomplete foundations. Read more ›
Mongoterm is a terminal-based user interface (TUI) for interacting with MongoDB directly from the command line. - Fuse441/mongoterm Read more ›
Our 2024-2025 remote metadata program saw wonderful interns and volunteers last year. Read more ›
Short-form video is difficult to study at scale because meaning emerges through audiovisual elements, language, and participatory, algorithmic and trend-based platform dynamics. Manual annotation of these layers is laborious at scale and difficult to standardize. We demonstrate how multimodal large language models (LLMs) can help address this bottleneck by annotating a set of 77 theory-driven structural variables derived from narratology, rhetor... Read more ›
Remember the old web directories (Yahoo, DMOZ)? They were a great way to find your way around, and thanks to the usual nostalgia cycle there are some new examples. Here are a couple I’ve run into: 1) Early Web Links: “Before the internet went corporate, it was weird, wonderful, and deeply personal. People built websites […] Read more ›
Potential tiebreakers hinge on margins. Playoff seedings shift. A one-point loss might upend brackets. H3: Season FIFA... H3: Any pre-game events? Yes. Pep rallies, student walk-throughs, senior ceremonies. H3: Where to get tickets? Online... Read more ›
June 15, 2026—The United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) recently announced a hearing for presidential nominations, including the confirmation hearing for Bradford P. Wilson’s appointment as Archivist of the United States. The hearing will take place on . read more Read more ›
Aidan Gomez spoke to AFP the day after a G7 meeting in Evian, eastern France, where he and other AI luminaries including OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei were invited to join leaders of the world's top industrial nations. Without tech built on home soil, "your data, your productivity, your critical industries, your ability to defend yourself, it will be what others allow," Gomez said. Vivatech has been overshadowed by European tech sovereignty concerns, after Anthropic withdre... Read more ›
"Collaboration. Serendipity. Diversity. These are the qualities that come to mind when I think about this year’s OCLC quilt and the community that created it." Learn about the OCLC Quilter's contribution to this year's silent auction at #ALAAC26 in Kate James's #HangingTogether post. Read more ›
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