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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, […]
From a SPARC Europe Announcement: A new SPARC Europe report focuses on the state of Open Education (OE) and Open Educational Resources (OER) across European higher education institutions in 2023. Supported by the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL), this report draws on a survey conducted between November 2023 and January 2024. SPARC Europe follows […]
Vermont: “Final Reading: Senate Advances Bill To Counter ‘Attacks’ on Libraries”; Washington State Passes Bill to Protect Libraries, as Other States Target Them; & More Headlines
Data Files, Libraries, News, Preservation, Scholarly Communications
|Crowdsourcing Crowdsourced Data Provides Accurate Biodiversity Picture to Aid Conservation Efforts (via eLife) Scholarly Communications Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) Celebrates Fourth Anniversary Texas Montgomery County, Texas Directs Citizen Board to Review, and Potentially Remove, Library Books (The Texas Tribune) Vermont Final Reading: Senate Advances Bill To Counter ‘Attacks’ on Libraries (via VT Digger) Washington […]
New Data: Association of American Publishers (AAP) Reports Overall Publishing Industry Up 0.4% For Calendar Year 2023, and Down 2.5% for Month of December
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Journal Articles, News, Publishing, Reports
|From the Association of American Publishers: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report for December 2023 reflecting reported revenue for Trade (Consumer Books), Religious Presses, Higher Education Course Materials, and Professional Publishing. Total revenues across all categories for December 2023 were down 2.5% as compared to December 2022, coming in at […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) ChatGPT “Contamination”: Estimating the Prevalence of LLMs in the Scholarly Literature (preprint via arXiv) Why Large Language Models Like ChatGPT Treat Black- and White-Sounding Names Differently (Stanford HAI) Library Publishing Coalition Announcing the New LPC Board Members and Bylaws Update Linked Data An Introduction to Library Linked Data (via OCLC Next) Western […]
A University Librarian Asks: How Do We Rescue the Past?; Preview Upcoming Improvements to PubMed Central; & More Headlines
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, News, Podcasts, Publishing
|Artificial Intelligence (AI) The Tech Industry Can’t Agree On What Open-Source AI Means. That’s a Problem (via MIT Technology Review) Arts New Data: Arts & Cultural Sector Hit All-Time High in 2022 Value Added to U.S. Economy (via National Endowment for the Arts, US Bureau of Economic Analysis) Librarians A University Librarian Asks: How Do […]
New Report From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL): “Publicly Shared Data: A Gap Analysis of Researcher Actions and Institutional Support throughout the Data Life Cycle”
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
|From the Association of Research Libraries: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released Publicly Shared Data: A Gap Analysis of Researcher Actions and Institutional Support throughout the Data Life Cycle, a report from the Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative. ARL and six academic institutions involved in the Data Curation Network (DCN) were awarded […]
From the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF): The EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by ECMWF, has provided new tools to make it easier for users to explore how the climate has been changing and how it could change in the future. They include the Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas, which enables data from a […]
Cyndee Landrum Appointed Acting Director at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries
|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From IMLS: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Deputy Director for Library Services Cyndee Landrum as Acting Director, effective March 21, 2024. Ms. Landrum will assume the Acting Director role following the end of current Director Crosby Kemper’s four-year […]
The article linked below was recently published by the Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR). Title How is ChatGPT’s Behavior Changing Over Time? Authors Lingjiao Chen Stanford University Matei Zahari UC Berkeley James Zou Stanford University Source Harvard Data Science Review (2024) DOI: 10.1162/99608f92.5317da47 Abstract GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are the two most widely used large language […]