April 26, 2024 by Gary Price
Copim: A community working to build a fairer, more open future for scholarly books has just announced the launch of three experimental book publishing pilot projects. 1) Launch of Experimental Book Publishing Pilot Project ‘Servpub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’ The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce […]
April 16, 2024 by Gary Price
From the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today will underwrite a new permanent exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh on how the Nile River shaped ancient Egyptians’ ideas of […]
April 13, 2024 by Gary Price
From a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Post: A new state-of-the-art digitization center at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, Maryland, is allowing the agency to provide greater public access to the country’s most important historical federal government records faster than ever before. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, Representative Steny […]
March 31, 2024 by Gary Price
From Planetizen: Washington, D.C. recently launched a generative AI tool trained on 2,000 open data sets, reports Jonathan Andrews for Cities Today. The beta version of DC Compass, a chatbot similar to ChatGPT, is now accessible to city staff and residents to ask data-oriented civic questions and generate maps at a keystroke. The city worked with Esri, […]
January 30, 2024 by Gary Price
From the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland UMD-LinkUp, a collaboration between the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, LinkUp Job Market Data, and Outrigger Group, introduced the world’s first tool for mapping the creation of jobs requiring artificial intelligence skills: UMD-LinkUp AI Maps. AI Maps leverages LinkUp’s […]
January 23, 2024 by Gary Price
From a FEMA Announcement: The Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR) is an award-winning, free, national online source for sophisticated climate data down to the neighborhood level. ClimRR provides easy access to climate data to integrate future conditions into Hazard Mitigation Plans, land use plans, infrastructure design, and FEMA’s Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT). ClimRR data is available […]
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January 23, 2024 by Gary Price
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) BHL Technical Development: Year in Review Boston Library Consortium, NISO Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Announce Membership Agreement EBSCO EBSCO Information Services CEO Tim Collins to Retire on June 30, 2024 DataCite Meet Maria Gould, DataCite’s New Product Director Google Chrome Browser Adds Three New Generative […]
January 16, 2024 by Gary Price
AI North Carolina Dept. of Public Instruction Releases: “Generative AI Implementation Recommendations and Considerations for PK-13 Public Schools” Maps Surveying the Bird’s-Eye View (via Folger Shakespeare Library) Laboratories The 4D Research Lab: 3DModelling And Virtual Reconstruction for Research and Education (via Europeana Pro) Open Science Open Science Indicators (OSIs) : New Year, New Dataset (via […]
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January 15, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Record: The British Library — the national library of the United Kingdom and an archive of millions of books and manuscripts — began restoring access to its online catalog on Monday following a ransomware attack last October. [Clip] The online system, for now, will be the only way to see the rarest books, […]
January 7, 2024 by Gary Price
The interview with Dr. Hayden appears in the Winter 2024 (Vol. XL, No. 2 ) issue of Issues in Science and Technology. From the Description: Carla Hayden is the first woman and the first African American to lead the Library of Congress. In addition to preserving millions of books, newspapers, films, photographs, audio recordings, maps, […]