The Coalition for Networked Information’s (CNI) Spring 2024 Membership Meeting consisted of plenaries and project briefings which are posted and publicly available through their site. These meetings feature various members’ semi-formal presentations on initiatives, projects, and research – both theoretical and practical, such as: “Opening Collections of Marginalized Voices through Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing,” Michael Levine-Clark, ...

Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of NISO, writes for The Scholarly Kitchen, “AI Will Lead Us to Need More Garbage-subtraction.” Amid a flurry of recent articles in LIS journals and higher education blogs on concerns about generative AI and large language models (LLMs) being trained on non-transparent, highly biased swaths of data culled from across the ...

On World Digital Preservation Day (November 2), the Digital Preservation Coalition released the 2023 edition of the “Global ‘Bit List’ of Endangered Digital Species” – an open, community-created resource listing the most at-risk digital materials. The list this year consists of 87 entries, with new entries including “First Nations Secret/Sacred Cultural Material.” From the post ...

In recent years, JSTOR Labs launched Constellate Lab, a modern successor of JSTOR Data for Research, to enable computational analysis of historical newspapers, scholarly journals, and other documents within the JSTOR corpora. With tutorials including analysis with Python notebooks and datasets builders, Constellate focuses on data pedagogy to sharpen and enhance ones data skills. Dr. ...

DCS#19 of The Data Sitters Club, a project that applies “digital humanities computational text analysis tools and methods” to a popular book series from the 1990s, looks at the corpus of works that make up the collection. The author of this chapter, “Shelley and the Bad Corpus,” Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford University), worked with Prof. Shelley ...

A recent piece in Nightingale “Touching Data: Conducting a Survey With Paper and Thread” explores using physical data methods to collect survey results. This process also resulted instant visualization of the results. While this survey was not on a humanities specific topic, this method could provide interesting new ways to engage patrons with humanities data questions. ...

Elisabetta Rocchetti and Tommaso Locatelli (both University of Milan) have authored a post on the ISLAB at Università degli Studi di Milano’s Tales from the ISLab blog, “John2Vec, or embedding Dewey’s philosophy.” This post describes using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), in this case, word2vec, on the massive text corpus of the writings of philosopher ...

Fight for the Future, a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists, published a statement about the ongoing lawsuit against the Internet Archive’s digital library. Oral arguments are scheduled for March 20, 2023 in this suit brought by four major publishers. The post quotes Lia Holland (they/she), Campaigns and Communications Director at Fight for the Future: ...