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 ›
International Workshop on Archives 2026. From Innovation to Practice: Applying Emerging Technologies in Archives and Records Management. Read more ›
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more... - ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox 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 ›
In an exclusive interview, the enigmatic collector and philanthropist discusses Anselm Kiefer’s inverted pyramid, oxygen molecules billions of years old—and why he has invented a completely new library categorisation system Read more ›
Today is the 30th anniversary of Quake I would type more but I'm busy playing Quake 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 ›
Attempting to boost growth, efficiency, and sovereign tech proved too difficult. The next leader will face the same challenges... and temptations 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 ›
How the crossword conquered America. 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 ›
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 ›
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — pgEdge, the leading open source enterprise Postgres company, has announced pgEdge ColdFront, a transparent data tiering solution for PostgreSQL. Unlike other alternatives, ColdFront’s cold tier is fully writable: UPDATE and DELETE work on archived rows through the same SQL the application already uses, with no code changes and no rehydration required. Older … The post appeared first on . 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 ›
Technology is automating much of what information management professionals have traditionally done: classifying, tagging, labeling, maintaining. That's not a threat if we're willing to evolve. The ability to absorb change, identify new opportunities, and play the human in the loop is going to define who thrives and who gets left behind. Read more ›
The Dolores Library District Board voted Dauer said the assessment is not subject to CORA, citing Colorado Supreme Court case “City of Colorado Springs v. White.” The landmark case in 1998 dealt wit... Read more ›
If you've been reading us for a while, you'll know that I have an inordinate fondness for the early days of this here World Wide Web. I have become disenchanted with social media, the infinite scroll, and not just Web 3.0, but even Web 2.0. React.js and other frameworks. Gimmie that good old HTML re Read more ›